EC Hilarity

[puddinhed]

This morning Oscar pooped in his potty around 7 as he does most days. Sometimes he has another one mid-morning, but usually not. I was making Scott's smoothie around 8 and Oscar was in his cage. He stopped playing and stood up and started getting whiny. I had to go to the bathroom so I scooped him up on the way. Now when I go, I'll usually put him

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[fusty_cabbages]

I know I can handle being a mom because I just read this story while eating curry and I'm completely unphased.

I'm really curious to know more about how EC is working for you though. Have you used any resources (books, video, websites, etc) or just been doing it on your own?

I told Jon about EC because he's so nervous about diapers as a first-time dad, and he's really keen on the idea.

[puddinhed]

Oh! You are pregnant? Congrats! I have a book on EC that I read when I first got pregnant, but I don't recall much of the content so maybe I should look back at it to see if it has a troubleshooting section! My friend here whose daughter is a little younger than O is also doing it so we encourage each other and talk about how it's going, but mostly I'm on my own with it. I don't think it's in any way realistic for us to go without diapers at all, but we save some. . . More some days than others. It was super easy til he was 7 months old and started teething and got an attitude about it. Sometimes he just will not cooperate. And it's fine, but I feel bad when he's been ok with it for a few days and then suddenly we have a screaming protest and I'm like, whoa, no need for a tantrum there, we don't have to do this!
The book I have is Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer. I'm a member of the eliminationcomm community on LJ but it's not especially active.

[puddinhed]

Youtube has videos, too. I watched a couple in the very beginning for help with how to hold a nb on the toilet. We started at 3 days old.

[fusty_cabbages]

Yep just hit third trimester! Baby is due mid-November. Reading back through your posts I have to say you're doing everything I hope to be doing with this little one. Some EC, mostly cloth diapers, baby wearing, breast feeding, some kind of safe/sane cosleeping. I love that you're not a total sancti-mommy about it either.

Here's some unsolicited recommendations!

[puddinhed]

Haha, sancti-mommy. Hadn't heard that one before.

For our cloth diapers, I have 8 Tiny Tush Elite diapers. I use the outer shells with diaper service diapers (small prefolds folded into thirds and laid down the middle work great). I love having the diaper service. At this point I could buy a bunch of prefolds and wash them myself but. . . I'm lazy I guess? In the beginning, with a newborn, having them dropped off and picked up was awesome. I definitely wouldn't have been able to keep up with washing them

Re: Here's some unsolicited recommendations!

[puddinhed]

PS, Snappi cloth diaper closure things seem to be all the rage but I hated them.