When to start infant potty training
Elimination Communication | Early Potty Training *4 Easy Steps!
hey guys I'm Monica and today I'm going
to be talking to you about how I was
able to successfully get both my kids
out of diapers by the time they were 15
month old I post videos twice a week so
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my foot's little one the first thing I'm
going to talk to you guys about is how
this method was like nothing that I've
ever heard of I wanted to have kind of
the most eco-friendly like sustainable
method of ice cream so it's kind of
googling and researching eco-friendly
diapering solutions as I was doing this
like well you don't you try this
business and then it was like well it's
really want to be friendly why don't you
try easy and then it kind of leads to an
article about beauty and I was like you
see what's that and it's elimination
communication this method where you put
babies on the potty basically from the
time they're born and I was like that
sounds a little crazy what is this but
it was like that else wasn't cool and so
I just kind of dove in like read as much
as I could about it I'm so pregnant at
this point I'm like it's going to be a
new parent and I was like so excited to
start probably changing my paevey after
researching with clinics so it just
clicks with me and just like made all
the sense in the world when you think
about potty training animals and humans
are not kind of designed to soil
themselves this is something that we
have to learn and animals just in
general let's go away from themselves
the way the we do with Hyper's is they
unlearn that instinct and then they've
learned to go on themselves when they
first use a diaper and they poop on
themselves and our new particularly
super mats are like fussing they're
prone I like it this thing off me they
don't like it at all and then we kind of
start to get used to it and then by the
temperature or three they like start to
like it and I mean they really like and
if they don't have their diaper on don't
have fur a diaper actually when they
need to go and they like have a special
sauce that they want to go behind the
couch or whatever it is and they've at
this point they've learned okay this is
I'm comfortable doing it and then they
have to unlearn that but this method
they don't ever get set to that comfort
level going into the diaper and they
keep that natural and seem to go away
from themselves when you look at
traditional
high training methods you know it says
you have to wait until early use
eighteen months old even think about
hobby training issues wait later and
Sydney says that the methods being used
if you're talking about using rewards
and punishments like sticker cards for
every time you go or like they're
getting in trouble or together and
reprimanded for having accidents or
whatever that's not what that's not what
this method is about being is actually
from births can release obviously they
can read otherwise you want to preserve
about this but they actually can control
that release they can relax the muscle
what they can't do is close the muscle
off because their little system is just
too immature and they're not able to
close off so they can't stop themselves
from going on themself but you know if
they've not gotten to that tipping point
and you offer them the potties they can
actually release and they actually can
do this consciously from books the first
time you Tory think oh my god this is
like how did I not know this
but it's really cool too and so they're
actually able to do this and if you
start from the time they're born they're
never going to lose that and it's going
to be so much easier for them to finally
eventually get potty independence
they're learning how to go potty just
like they learn how to talk like you
don't expect them to beisbol to complete
sentences back to you from Dateline you
just speak to them and then over time
they learn the language and that's the
thing with Cuddy training you just you
show them what to do and you show them
where the potty goes and then eventually
over time you learn so a way that I kind
of think of it is whenever you first
have a baby you know when that baby is
hungry and you might not know what day
one but you know after a few weeks you
learn your baby you know when your baby
is hungry you look for signs you look
for like the routing or either sucking
on their fingers and you know and so
it's kind of the same thing like you
know that they have to eat you see them
when you know they have to go to the
potty you offer them the potty this
isn't a message that you know I made up
or that's like a new thing that and like
a lot of times in our culture it's like
oh this is it's like this New Age weird
you know like potty training or like
whatever like that it's like this weird
thing but really it's sex inspection is
how everything was done before we had
neighbors we haven't had diapers forever
and there's a lot of babies in the world
right now that still don't use diapers
and so how are those bees what was
happening with them or they just like
pooping all over the floor and seeing
all over the place you know they were
and so and apologist kind of serves
these cultures and found that some
mothers you know they would wear the
babies and they're not pooping and
peeing on them they would just they
would know somehow it was easier to go
and then I would just like take them to
this there's a gated place for them to
go and they would go put it back on and
get back to work and I was like well how
how are they doing this
well basically some people wrote some
books about it and they kind of broke it
down into the four main principles or
four main tools that you can use and so
those tools are what I'm going to share
with you so our first tool that we're
going to be talking about is signals so
what this is is basically watching your
baby for signs that they need to go and
for little ones this could be anything
from like getting really quickly and
firming around or sometimes you don't go
kick their feet or still look to the
left or they'll kind of stare off into
space or whatever it is or poop it's a
little bit more obvious you know they
make the poop face you all know the poop
face if you do have kids you all know
the poop face if you don't have kids
you've seen it on other kids if you know
the poop face and that's basically the
signal that you watch for and when you
see the signal you basically just offer
the potty you get them potty - yeah and
so it's kind of a silly little word but
basically you're a potty opportunity and
that's basically like the thing that
you're going to be doing with easy is
just offering them the chance to use the
restroom there's no like oh you did it
here's the sticker or oh you're so you
miss it's not like that it's like you
think they need to go you offer them the
potty like if you think they need to eat
you offer them some oh that's tool if
one tool number two kind of goes in
conjunction with tool number one and
that is Hughes for the first kind of
couple weeks or a week or so you just
want to get like a blanket and you put
the baby on a blanket we don't get a
flake you want to get like a pee pad or
a towel and you just observe them and
you watch for what they do so you try to
find those signals they see what they do
when they go and when you see them going
you use the second tool which is Q and
so CCMP you're going to use it a
specific Q and then if you didn't poop
you're going to use another Q now the
cues to be whatever you want but
obviously you the ones that I learn and
that for P is just
and just do this whenever you see them
go or you are giving them out the
opportunity to clean and then for poop
it's going to be 2 spoon or whatever
variations of that you want to do this
kind of a different sound so that when
they're pooping or when you know they
need to poop
it kind of gives them that signal to the
brain to get them to release so that
they can go now
I guess then you can do help whatever
method you want to use or whatever
signals you want to use so that's number
two so you observe you wash or their
signs or their signals and then you cue
when you see them doing it and you cue
when you're giving them that opportunity
to go when they're over the potty and
then the third thing you're going to use
which I use the time is timing and this
really for me it would just be the
easiest one for me to kind of implement
as far as like knowing when they needed
to go and timing is going to be
different for every kid because the kids
they don't you know they don't read the
book they're not watching this video
babies they just kind of go 180 to go
but timing wise in general when they
first wake up that's when I was always
able to catch a pee or poop or pee and
poop and with the newborns they're
pooping you know five times a day so
when they wake up you're catching a
piano poop and typically around feeding
time somebody's it's like in the middle
of a nursing session for like for my
kids it was like you know 10 to 15
minutes after feeding that they would
need to go and then it will just kind of
like kind of space out after that and so
like in the morning for my kids it was
like more frequently like every 30
minutes and then you know and the
evening it'd be closer to like every 45
minutes to an hour and then as they get
older times kind of spaced out and then
by the time they're like a year old it's
close to to an hour and then you know 18
months you know it can be like 2 or 3
hours you don't like follow a schedule
per se but you just observe them and you
kind of know kind of learn their rhythms
and then you're able to offer the potty
as you see fit and it's not it's not
that complicated it becomes like a
really natural process and you just kind
of start to know which brings me to the
fourth tool which is intuition and this
is just kind of that knowing feeling
like when you kind of know that they
might need something it's just this kind
of instinct that you get that you're
like oh I think they might need to go
and then you offer them and a lot
you're right they needed to go and so
using these four tools together it makes
it really simple to kind of apply this
natural process and get your babies to
continue doing what they already know
how to do and not forget that process
there's also a specific position that
you can hold the baby end and basically
you're whenever they have their kind of
needs up to their chest like that it
kind of gives it enough not a lot of
pressure but just like enough pressure
and then they hear the signal they have
to go it kind of helps them to be able
to release and go in that moment you can
hold them over the potty like this
sometimes I would sit backwards on the
potty and do this and then sometimes I
would just have a little top hat potty
is that I was sat in my lap and then
just hold the babies over like that and
that was like something that I when
they're newborns you can just kind of
give them up against your stomach and
you can even like when you're pushing
kind of do an exorcism they can kind of
feel that and that can help them to
release as well another thing that I
think is important to remember is that
this is not something that has to be
like an all-or-nothing thing you don't
have to do this all day every day never
buy a diaper or anything like that I use
diapers with my daughter you know there
was so many times where she was in a
diaper like throughout the day I never
used cloth diapers issue but he'll and I
would change her as quickly as I could
but I couldn't like to see on all day
and that was fine it was like when I
have a chance when I have energy when I
had the wherewithal then I would give
her diaper free time and I would also
have a potty and you know we do the
whole thing that wasn't like all day
every day so like if you're working or
if you only have time in the morning or
you only have time in the evening that's
okay you can do this part-time and as
long as they're still going to the potty
going away from themselves and they
learn to make that connection in their
brain and it's going to be a lot easier
for them to reach that potty
independence as long as you're
consistent and you stick with it
I think you'll find that you absolutely
won't regret this I don't know everybody
who's done it you see but the people
that I know you know by the time there
were two it was kind of not a thing
anymore there's their kids just new
cutting of the potty
it's really not like a hard thing or a
crazy thing it sounds crazy absolutely I
thought it sounded crazy it kind of like
crazy into that way and that crazy I
like things that are different and this
just made sense to me and so that's why
I went ahead and did it some different
resources that you can use if you decide
that this is what you want to do there's
a lot of support out there there's
Facebook groups that you can join
talk about easy or you can ask and
answer questions there's books that you
can read which and I'll link up all the
stuff in the description so be sure to
check that out also if you're doing easy
and you have some tips and tricks that I
haven't hit on or that you wanted to
talk about leave it in the comments
below if you have any questions also
leave that below make sure to stay tuned
for part two of this video where I'll go
over commas or hurdles that you can run
into and some tips and tricks that I use
to navigate through those as well as the
gear that I use and to kind of get you
ready and get you confident so that you
too can use this method
