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Found Poo In.....

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BabiesEverywhere · 19/09/2007 14:29

....the Giant Potty !!!

We EC (not potty training)our 13 month old daughter and recently she has been objecting to sit down to do poos and not signaling to tell me one is on it's way...luckily her 'poo face' is cue enough.

So I have been catching poo in a small plastic bowl or standing her on the toilet seat upstairs...luckily she only does one poo every two days and always to date at home, so no real hassle.

She is often naked on the bottom half at home and she was playing in the living room, whilst I made lunch in the kitchen.

I came back into the room, I could smell the poo looked everywhere but couldn't see it anywhere (we are lucky that despite being naked a lot we haven't had poo on the carpet yet)...

...I gave up, went to move the potty and found it in there !!!

I am so pleased. She had gone to the potty done her business, got up again and gone off to play all without feeling the need to tell me

I do know this is properly a one poo wonder, never to be repeated but wow?.I?m so impressed with her. Makes me wonder if the wee I found in the potty yesterday that I don?t remember her doing was another solo mission as such.

I promise that this isn?t a bragging post, I believe all NT children would do the same if introduced to a potty earlier enough (like our grandparents did), I just wanted to share my joy at a new development.

Somehow despite talking with other ECing parents who?s children do this type of thing, I never expected my DD to become independent on a potty at this time.

Saying that I remember saying that I would never let her be naked at home or wear pants outside the house and yet I keep changing my mind on what I am comfortable with and I am continuously amazed with what are our little children are capable of .

Thank you for reading this far

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horsemadgal · 19/09/2007 19:27

Wow, well done.
Can she have a word with my almost 4 year old please!!

BabiesEverywhere · 19/09/2007 23:24

Thanks

Providing the word is 'cat' that will be fine ;)

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morningpaper · 23/09/2007 15:43

hehe glad you are still getting on all right on your Big Toilet Adventure!

My 23 month old has been in pants now for nearly a month and is completely dry. Exactly the same time as her sister. Nappies just got drier and drier and she kept asking for the toilet more and more often until we decided to just put her in pants.

So far she has been dry at night too for the last few weeks but I am still putting her in a nappy at night until there is definitely no chance of having to change the sheets (basically this is an exercise in laziness for me).

She's been fine at nursery too in pants - one accident on the first day (she goes 2 days a week) but none since then. I'm so pleased that I (hopefully!) won't have to buy nappies again.

I know that it's possible that both of my dd's might have been dry at this age anyway, but I do think it's the softly-softly early introduction of potties that has made the difference. The main advantage for me is the cost savings (not having to buy nappies!) and no-hassle (have probably only changed 2 or 3 shitty nappies since she was 6 months old) and also the no-stress of it all - none of that carrying a potty around town or pestering "do you need a wee darling DO YOU?" that I hear so often. I'm glad it seems to have worked for dd2 just as easily as it did for dd1.

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BabiesEverywhere · 26/09/2007 11:32

I agree it is the lack of pooey nappies is a number one advantage

My DD was ill recently and we had a poo in a pair of trainer pants and I was so 'I have to clean this up ???' Not that I care that it is poo but just that I'm so use to them going straight into the toilet.

Big yeah to your little graduates I hope my daughter gets there in her own sweet time.

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