An Introduction to Elimination Communication

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An Introduction to Elimination Communication

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Elimination Communication (EC) is one of those stranger aspects of natural motherhood, at least to most American mothers. Women have been doing it for centuries in other countries and think nothing of it. They look at our way of dealing with baby waste as strange.

When you think about it, why teach a child to be comfortable with their own waste sticking to their bottoms just to teach them years later that they shouldn't get comfortable with waste on their bottoms?

This is the basic, logical thinking that natural mothers use when deciding to EC.

I can understand why people use diapers, but there is another way.

What Exactly Do You Do?

To begin EC'ing your child you need to:

take your baby to the bathroom.
Hold them over the toilet, or another suitable receptacle
let them eliminate there instead of in their diaper.

You will have to pay close attention to your baby to be able to figure out when your baby needs to go to the bathroom.

This is why elimination communication is so popular with attachment parents. Attached parents are already paying more attention to their babies by keeping them close. This in turn helps them to know their baby's "cues".

Cues are the behaviors or sounds your baby makes to communicate the discomfort they are experiencing when their bladder or rectum is full.

EC'ing mothers understand the way their infants "tell" them they need to go to the bathroom. They respond by doing the one thing their babies can't do - get to the bathroom!

Babies are aware of their elimination needs. They know when they have to go. Mothers practicing EC just respond to that need quickly and help their babies do what we all do.

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