This sounds amazing, but how does it work if you have to go back to work by the time the child is 6 months old? I don`t know of any daycare centres that have the time or resouces to facilitate this kind of early trainig....sigh...

Good luck to all of you and your potty adventurers!

okay, mostly his pee goes down as long as he is sitting back against the potty so it can hang down.
as far as getting started...u can start from birth! babies dont want to soil themselves, its only natural!
i agree w/cory even if u can just catch the morning pee it helps for future training. i am spreading the word about this!
im lucky im a sahm so i have time to devote to this. good luck!

no, I am clueless. I must have more information!!!!! It is time. My little one is 16 months.

I am with you HP, but I diapered three kids and really they have no issues. But to the other end, we are thinking about having another one and this is really something I would like to do with the next one. To me it would be more of a deeper connection with the baby. But then I am so close to my girls it would hard to imagine we could be any closer.

Ok, I'm torn...LOL

We didn't do EC with Sam because by the time I learned about it he was too old--we tried to begin late but he wanted nothing to do with that potty and really resented being directed toward it. He now does a lot of naked time and we're working on him getting to the potty on his own, but mostly I just clean up after him. In this way he is learning his own body signals.

I think EC is more respectful of the child. Diapering can suppress a baby's natural connection to his own body. I think that a baby who's been encouraged to respond to his own signals from birth becomes a person who doesn't have to learn that later on. Eseentially, diapering suppresses a person's natural instincts and then they have to be retrained just when they've gotten used to using diapers. I am really, really bummed we didn't start EC from the very beginning. That's the only thing I'd do different from Sam's babyhood.

He hates diapers, hates getting them changed. I think he hates being immobilized, put on his back, that sort of thing. I try to change him standing up. I don't put his night time diaper on until after her goes to sleep then put on diaper and PJ's. He likes his freedom, he likes his boy bits (!). Of course, I like my clean carpet so it's hard to find a balance, but we seem to be working it out.

I can't see how EC would be for the paren'ts convenience. It's not something that sounds particularly convenient in the beginning, though it's great later on when the kids don't need to learn to use the potty. I think diapering is what is conveninet for us when they're tiny.