EC Update

We tap our head when it is time for Cap to go to the potty. We started this may be a month or so ago. The sign for toilet is way to difficult for a 10 month old so I created one to replace it. We have really started to make a big deal about going potty and asking if he needs to go. Even getting excited when he goes even though he has been doing this for some time now. We think it has helped the screaming during the whole 60 seconds he has to lay on his back while I take off and put back on his diaper. ( the kid does not like to stop) Our main goal, however, was that he could sign to us when he needs to go instead of me trying to time it right every day.

He started using his sign immediately, but like all the other signs he knows so far, sometimes potty doesn't mean potty:) 95 percent of the time he would sign potty, we would take him even though we didn't think he needed to go. Some times he would go, other times he wouldn't. We wanted him to know that when he signs for it, we will take him. In the last 24 hours, he has signed every time he needed to go! This is HUGE! I am not counting on this being "it", you know, the big break through. But it is still big news for us. He would stop whatever it was he was doing, look at me, tap his head (sometimes say "oh"), and then I would put him on the pot and he would go. Crazy!!! One time he did it, and I really didn't think he needed to go (I was just wanting to finish what I was doing) and sure enough, right in his pants once he knew I wasn't taking him.

To say we are sold on EC is an understatement. We have seen the benefits since Cap was 4 weeks old. Anyone else reading this have their own EC experience? Have any questions or interest trying it out?

Well, no pic right now. Just a brief update!