Comments on: 7 Months of Infant Potty Training

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:07:22 +0000

When #1 was arching her back it helped to play “peak=a=boo” or read books. I also started to hide under my hands longer to “hide” from her. hiding from her worked the most as she would usually stop arching her back waiting for me, and then would go potty. As she got older and wanted off before she went potty, I would sometimes do activity books tell her stories that I made up about her.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:17:29 +0000

I’ve had issues with Amanda arching her back and trying to scoot off the potty or crying. Sometimes she doesn’t have to go but other times she does. She seem to resist the interruption of play. I still make her sit for a while and take her off when she quiets down for a minute.

I was great to read your story. We’ve been EC’ing since Amanda was six weeks old. She’s almost one year. She is diaper-free when she’s awake, but we still use cloth diapers for naps and disposables at bedtime. When we go out, we use pull-on waterproof pants from the EC Store.

We occasionally have puddles but no dirty accidents.

By: renee - 21st Century Parenting

renee - 21st Century Parenting — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:00:37 +0000

Thank you for a thorough account of your experience. (I know it was written some time ago, but…) We just recently started with our DD. It’s so amazing that they KNOW! People just don’t give babies enough credit.

I have started a parenting blog, and would love your feedback. We also started a Squidoo mini-site on Infant Potty Training. Please feel free to share your thoughts on that as well! thanks!

cheers,
renee

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:52:18 +0000

This has been a great experience for me and my daughter. At 15 months she said “Daddy going Potty” while daddy was in the other room going potty. After this I knew she was ready to be diaper free. By 19 months she was totally potty trained for day time except naps. After 19 months we had very few “accidents” during the day. They mainly occurred while DD was at play and would forget to remind us/ we remind her. By 24 months DD would tell us when she had to use the restroom and now she runs into the potty without any assistance from us.

I started using cloth at night at 19 months as well hoping it would help, but she didn’t become fully trained/ graduated until 29 months. Her success at night occurred gradually over the course of 2 months. I started to notice that her diaper became less saturated and by the end of 29 months she woke with dry diapers. After a week of dry diapers we told her she didn’t need them any more and she hasn’t worn one since.

My greatest encouragement to someone trying to EC is to keep trying and realize what your real goal is. If you have days or weeks where things seem to be going bad or you stop trying to take the baby potty. Start over and try again. They will get it, and it will mean less diapers washed/ thrown away.