I was in the kitchen and I heard some crying from the living room. I ran in to find Goldie, just turned 2, sitting on the potty. Her face was bright red and she was shaking. Whatever she was pushing out was super painful. She was all alone and had gotten very frightened. Usually, she’ll just wonder over to the potty all by herself and calls me over when she’s finished. But, this time it was scary and it had hurt. I helped her finish, then cleaned her up. Unfortunately, she was still constipated the next day and the SAME exact thing happened. It was a bad combination of me not being there and of it hurting, and then it was all over but the crying. Read the rest of this entry
Tag Archives: Elimination Communication
A First World Reality Check Today: When My Washing Machine Broke
You know when you load the washing machine up so much and you think, ‘Oh, I really shouldn’t put so much in… but maybe I can just squeeze one more thing…‘. That was me today, and today was the day that our washing machine crapped itself (well, it didn’t, luckily, but I thought it did, more on that later). I think that every single last cloth diaper was dirty, and that was the reason for my enormous load. It was really dumb of me to load it up so much, and I even mentioned to Art in passing that I was being really brave to fill the washing machine up so high. Because… a few days ago, it had been acting funny. I threw a load in early in the morning, went out for three or four hours and when I came home, the machine was still spinning… ‘That’s odd‘, I thought… ‘The machine has been stuck on the spin cycle for hours!’. I manually turned the nob to OFF, and put my very spun (nearly dry) cloth diapers in the dryer. Read the rest of this entry
Elimination Communication: Building Trust From the Start
We’ve found our elimination communication (EC) sweet spot in the bathroom sink. I love taking Goldie there because we can see each other in the mirror. At five months, Goldie has been getting pretty good at holding things until I take her. Read the rest of this entry
100% Cloth = 100% Possible: How to Have an Eco Friendly Baby Butt
When I was pregnant with Margo, three years ago, I stumbled across this sort of disgusting ‘history of the disposable diaper‘. The timeline talks about a study funded by Pampers, encouraging parents to delay potty training until the age of 2. Read the rest of this entry