Is anybody doung elimination communication?

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

I sort of do with DD - well she leads it. She's seven weeks and she will generally let me know if she needs to wee - if I'm paying attention and I'm fast I'll get the nappy off and then she'll wee in it when I cue her.

She's just weeing in nappies at the moment, and she, quite rightly, won't wear a wet one. We're going through 15/16 every 24hrs which is a PITA with all the washing.

I've tried cueing over a bowl, once, and she didn't seem keen, and didn't wee - it also seemed really awkward to hold her and we both got stressed. What's the best way to do this - seems daft to get her to pee into a clean nappy every time Is she too wee for a potty if I held her?

Also, any advice on what she should wear? She's in babygrows at the moment, and they take ages to get through the poppers. I have tried her in a t-shirt and baby legs, but she's not keen because the tshirt rides up all of the time - maybe a vest and babylegs?. I want to keep her in nappies - I'm not a serious ECer and can't be doing with cleaning up misses. Plus if she's asleep she just goes whenever.

Any advice welcome?

[1789]

I hadn't heard about EC when I potty trained my first at 24 months. It took a couple of weeks to get her totally out of nappies and I didn't really enjoy the whole process (and from what I've seen from friends, she was actually really easy to train and a couple of weeks is nothing).
I read about EC when my second was 10 months old. I started immediately by taking my DD's nappy off first thing in the morning - and not putting it back on. I found this to be the first important lesson - teaching myself to not immediately put a nappy back on. There were accidents for the first couple of weeks and my husband thought I was totally mental with the crawling bare-bottomed baby all over the house (it helps that we have wood floors). But, she is now almost 13 months and we haven't had an accident in weeks. It is actually remarkably easy - you know when your child is hungry or tired and you soon learn to recognise when your child needs the loo. I just hold her over the big loo and it is such a joy not having to clean squashed poo out of her bottom!
For the first couple of months, she wore a disposable nappy when we were out of the house but I kind of felt like this was undermining the whole process so I switched to training pants (which will hold a little bit of wee) so not too embarrassing if there is an accident. I have probably saved in the region of £100 in nappies / wipes over the past month!
At this point, it is still me (and our nanny who is now fully on board despite some initial hesitation) taking DD to the loo rather than DD telling me she needs to go, but I think she will start to figure this out soon.
Now I just need to figure out / have the courage to stop using nappies at night. I think the trick might be not to have anything to drink an hour before bed. I'll keep you posted............
I am aiming for full potty training by 17/18 months. Fingers crossed!
PS - I should also add that having the EC 'project' with my second child has been so much fun. I don't dread potty training at all - I am so excited and pleased every time I read her signals and understands she needs the loo which is so different from my experience with my first child where I found accidents a little frustrating because I thought she was old enough to know better (which I now realise was my fault for not teaching her when she was younger)!

[kernowmissvyghen]

If this thread is being resurrected: yes, we do kind of EC- started at 3 months, took us a few weeks to tune into LO's body language and pick up the cues, but since then we've had all poos in a potty ( or toilet if we're out and about) and the majority of wees. DS starts to fuss, we whip off the nappy, hold him over the potty, and bobs your uncle- really no more trouble than changing him after the event. Still use nappies, but dealing only with (fewer) wet nappies is so much more pleasant!

According to my mum, pretty much everyone in the UK was potty trained like this before disposables became so common, and most babies were out of nappies around 18 months. I don't quite understand how something as revolting as encouraging your child to soil themselves until the age of 2 or 3has become culturally normalised within a few decades- but it's made an awful lot of money for disposable nappy manufacturers, so maybe that has something to do with it...