“How the world potty trains”

@Taja Is there a specific method your MIL taught you? I tried to start early on (definitely following an EC trend) but I felt like I didn’t have clear methods or guidance, and my baby was always pooping during feeds lol. I gave that up super quickly and didn’t even think about it again until my baby showed signs of walking. I would have approached it way differently if I had known about methods used in the Kenyan example (I can’t recall the community the method was attributed to but they used songs to condition the babies to pee on command IIRC).

The 4 easy catches when doing EC are 1.waking 2.diaper changes 3.when they are pooping 4. ‘In and out’ so when you get them out of the car seat / jumper / bath etc. the idea is it will take a while for you to actually catch anything but if you keep offering and being consistent your baby will know they will get the opportunity to use a potty and not their nappy and wait. This would only be part time EC as full time you wouldn’t really have a nappy at all. There is a book ‘godiaperfree’ and a podcast by Andrea Olsen and she’s amazing x

@Annie💜🌻🍄 yes! I read the go diaper free book too! Highly recommend! It worked great for us too.

I saw this too! So fun, I have done EC with both kids and I really recommend it for anyone who thinks they don't want to wait. It worked great for me 👍👍 there is a learning curve but well worth it.

When I took a family holiday to Vietnam my daughter was 18m and was the only toddler that age in the area that was still in nappies all the other toddlers around 18m were in undies already. Aunties were telling me she’s too “old” to be in nappies so they helped me pee and poo her and after 6w I came back she was 19.5m and FULLY trained. I feel the western world puts a lot of emphasis on “when they’re ready” and diaper companies making money out of pull-ups and advertising their diapers but in developing countries they’re all out of diapers by 18m. Big eye opener for me. EC is a recent “trend” but to be exact it’s actually going backwards to generations before to how babies were trained centuries ago. They were more in tune w their babies’ signals and schedules and worked around that

In 1957 93% of babies were potty trained in the western world by 18months. Currently half of the world’s babies are out of nappies by 12 months. It’s wild that our babies are still in nappies at 3 years old now. It’s convenience for parents and money making for diaper companies

@Kellie The Kenyan and Vietnamese examples in the article were my favorite! How did your aunties help you to potty train your baby in 6w? You’re totally right, the EC trend draws on wisdom from thousands of years. I wasn’t trying to imply that it was new, just that it’s trendy in the US and that I hopped on the trend without fully knowing what I was doing and I failed x). Would love to know what methods y’all used :)

Same! How they do it?