Good morning all this BEAUTIFUL thunderstormy Sunday morning! I love this weather. So day 6 huh? For some reason it seems like I have been doing this forever, yet at the other hand I can't believe how much progress Jude has made from before we started and 6 days later. Before I go into how his EC day went, I want to reiterate that EC is NOT conventional potty training. Again there is no rigidity, no definite, set in stone way on elimination and accident are not a punishment! I have learned that each day is different and to expect it to be the same every time is impossible. Like every human, we can not control the events in our daily lives; we should not expect a baby to do the same. We should, however, give more credit to the little ones in our lives. Many doctors, psychologists, specialists will say how amazing a baby develops in utero and all the amazing things a baby learns in his/her first year of life. If a babies brain can direct them to move a left arm and right and vice versa to crawl, couldn't the brain send the same signals to aid in elimination AWAY from the body? There are still going to be those nay sayers out there ready to tell you, you are living in a fairy tale world, but stick with it. Find encouragement from others to help push you through.
With that said...Day 6. Lately Jude has changed his pooping schedule. He has no gone exactly right after breakfast. The bonding time on the toilet is still great. Although now that Jude has learned that things go in the toilet he wants to put everything in it...including a broom. hahaha. We still get to play and read but it is hard to figure out why things happen the way they do. Jude eventually went but not on the toilet. He did recognize that he went by making a little whine. I just looked at him and said " uh uh, did you go poo poo" and that was that. No frustration, no voice raising, just cleaned it up ( always have a bottle of vinegar water handy) and moved on. It is great that Jude is learning body awareness when it comes to urinating. He is able to look down and see the stream. I cue him when he is peeing and he is starting to make the associating with peeing and pshhhhhhhhh pshphspshh. We spent a couple of hours at the pool yesterday with a swim diaper on then he fell asleep. He slept for about a 2 hours and did not eliminate once. After he awoke from his nap I put him in the bath to rinse him off from the chlorine and the water on. The running water triggered him and he started peeing. He looked down to watch it as I sat there and cued him. The rest of the day was spent diaper free. He peed once in his high chair ( i took the fabric off so now it is just plastic) and whined because he was wet and he peed in his walker while I was washing the car and again whined. It is a great feeling to know that he is no longer comfortable sitting in his own urine/feces. The key here is to change the baby immediately or to remove them from the wet area. As soon as I did, he was good. We tried night-time eliminating but it didn't go so well. His mattress has a waterproof lining and so we put a sheet over it and laid him down. He did pee a couple hours later but he didn't realize he was wet so I decided to put a diaper on and change frequently throughout the night. I am thinking that night-time EC might take a little more time but that is OK for now. I am enjoying all the things Jude is learning now and how amazing his little brain and body is!
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