You may remember several months ago my saying that I wanted to try Infant Potty Training once Benjamin got here.  Or, perhaps, you don't remember this.  Either way is okay.  I did promise to keep this blog updated on what I learn and how our progress goes, if we do indeed utilize it.

So, this is the update.

I decided at the start that I didn't want to actually hold my son over a potty until he had good head-balance.  Benjamin is now three months old and doesn't quite have the strength in his neck to hold his head steady; he's still a bit of a bobble-head.  However, there's more to this Diaper Free Babying than steady-head.  There's the whole communication part of it, too.  So, that's where we're beginning, until I feel comfortable with his neck strength.  I mean, I don't want to have to worry about his head toppling over while I'm trying to balance his little bottom over the toilet, aiming his elimination into the water, ya know?

Anyway, here's what we're doing right now.  Of the two "eliminations," I can only (so far) pick up on his cues of when he's having a bowel movement; I have no idea what his cues are when he urinates.  But for BM's, he kind of blank-eyed stares, sometimes he'll hold eye-contact and chit chat, but he always grunts.  So, what we're doing, all of us, is repeating back to him his grunting, followed by the words "Go poop?"  The hope is that we're teaching him that he can communicate to us what he's doing, which will hopefully lead naturally into his ability to communicate to us that he has to go and we should take him to the potty.  By grunting at him and saying, "Go poop?" we're attempting to give words that we use as well as sounds that he already orates to help him to be aware of this bodily function of his.

So far, when we grunt and say, "Go poop?" at him, he makes eye-contact and grins.  It seems like a positive sign to me, like he knows that we're talking to him about his pooping. 

Here's hoping it works!  I'd love nothing more than to have him potty trained by his first birthday!  Wouldn't that be dreamy?

Blessings!  ♥Christi