My Elimination Communication JourneyClick here to see the EC Table of Contents
I stumbled upon elimination communication long before I started my natural motherhood journey. I picked up a book that talked about how a Mom parents her children. One of things she did was to infant potty train them. I was shocked! I had never heard of such a thing. Then I was doubtful. Surely this Mom couldn't possibly think her infant baby can go to the bathroom like everyone else?!? She did think that. What's more she practiced it with three of her children. To top it all off, she highly recommended it to everyone reading her book and thought we'd be able to do it as well.
Those Cazy HippiesI considered her batty for the next few years until I heard about it again online. One mother was talking about how she practiced elimination communication part-time. I got curious and searched it out online. I found out that mother I read about so long ago wasn't batty after all! She was just the pioneer (the book was published in he 70's) to me. The more I read up about it, the more convinced I became that EC made perfectly good sense!There's Rhyme and Then There's ReasonEC sounded good, like a good rhyme. You listen to it once and maybe a second time. Next thing you know, you're humming the melody yourself. You might even try to pick the tune out on a keyboard or other instrument if you get the chance....Then you're hit with the reason. My mind couldn't wrap itself around the concept of carrying around a baby without a diaper! So, for the next six years as I had baby after baby, I STILL didn't apply the knowledge I had. I kept getting hung up on visions of discolored carpet patches all over my house. I'd think about trying it with the next baby I had and then I'd chicken out. With one child I got close enough to catch my baby beginning to poop and rushed to the bathroom with my baby. We were there for a while and eventually it became to long because I heard a commotion in another part of the house! I quickly realized my toddler had capitalized on my absence. I used that as my excuse to pass up EC'ing another baby. "It took too long,", I thought. "I can't do this", I said to myself. "I have other little people to take care of", I reasoned. And that was the end of that...until I got pregnant with my sixth baby.
The Final ShowdownThis time I had had enough. I was tired of being scared all the time. Not to mention that by now I was looking like the odd man out in my circle of friends. It seemed like everyone else was practicing elimination communication and I wanted to practice elimination communication myself! I was deeper into my natural motherhood journey and had heard my fill of wonderful stories of diaper free babies. I knew I wanted to do it. I knew I was fed up with disposables and I KNEW I was fed up with traditional potty training (actually I was fed up with changing the dirty diapers of a 2 year old child). So this year I decided to "make it" and not "break it"!So, I decided to create a blog to document our experiences *ahem* and as quiet as it's kept, keep me accountable.
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