Morning Business

I'm so incredibly proud of my bouncing baby boy!  He has completely grasped what the purpose of his little plastic potty is.  Every morning, right after we wake up, and every evening before we brush our teeth and go mellow out to go to sleep, we head into the bathroom and have a sit-down on our little potty.  He knows just what it's for, and even though he may have been wearing a diaper immediately before being sat down, he does his business in his potty instead of in that diaper!

He's super happy about it, too.  Potty time is all about smiles and giggling!

So, we're catching almost 100% of his morning poops and pees, and same for the pre-bedtime business.  (The only time we've missed in the morning since we started really focussing on this catch was one morning when LittleJohn woke up earlier than normal, and I tried to convince him to go back to sleep instead of taking him straight to the potty.)  It's a real confidence-booster for me, and I know it's good for him, too.

This is one of the things The Diaper-Free Baby: The Natural Toilet Training Alternative mentioned, as did Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene : focus on catching the easy ones to boost your confidence in the process.  Though Daddy has been resistant since the outset to the ECing and cloth diapering, he is coming around largely due to the success we're having with the morning business.  When I trotted the baby out in his new cloth "Eca-Pants" diapers, Daddy looked at me sideways, but when I demonstrated for him how they're designed to be used in conjunction with potty use (they un-velcro at the waist and fold back so baby can easily be sat down on the potty, and then they easily fold back up when you're done,) he just nodded and complimented LittleJohn on his stylish new pants.

Now what I have to focus on is to figure out how to tell when he needs to use the potty through the daytime.  I'm great at knowing right away when he needs to be changed, but I need to refine my observation skills and figure out what his signals are before he needs to go.