Washersaurus, A new convert (nearly)
Most new things in life are worth a try, you can always stop if it doesn't suit you or your child. If it does work you'll have to namechange to Kookywashersaursus...LOL Seriously, I would be very interested to see how you get on with two children of differing ages and who picks it up first etc.
scottishmum007, Interestingly ECing is/was the norm for most of the world. The ultimate enviromental friendly way of dealing with babies eliminations, especially when you don't have a lot of money or running water for buying disposables nappies or washing cloth nappies.
In the UK many mums would ECed full or part time, usually just called 'catching the wees', holding the baby over newspaper on the floor, which would be burnt in the fireplace/range. To reduce the amount of handwashed terry nappies, a hard necessary job.
In the 1960 with the invention of the disposal. They were hailed as the best modern invention to free mothers from excessive washing (sod the landfills). At the same time Dr Brazelton (working for Pampers and still does today) stated babies could NOT be trained and that children should be left until 6/7 years old to train themselves
Medical staff embraced his words and even today modern medical staff (see Tori's posts below) are taught the same old advertisment lines. Sadly the earlier advertisment spin is today considered a true fact, despite the lack of medical proof, yet everyone knows that babies have no bladder control (lot of rubbish).
Coupled with an campaign to rubbish real nappies as old fashioned and too difficult for modern mothers to cope with, the sales od disposable nappies have hit an all time high.
All in all a very convincing and sucessful advertising campaign, which is why it makes my blood run cold when I see similar tact being used to advertise Baby Forumla.