I had an aha! moment last week regarding E's waking. He hates being wet. I thought his cloth night time diaper being the kind that wicks wetness away from his body would cause him to not feel wet. I feel a little silly. He is a person and what person wants to lie in their own pee all night? Duh, mama!
So, we've been putting him on his
Baby Bjorn potty right before bed and letting him pee in there instead of his diaper. He's been waking less!! But, now he likes to pee on the floor instead of in the potty, so we need to work on that. On Saturday, we were at an expo at the fairgrounds and he stayed dry almost all day. I took him to the bathroom, took off his diaper and stood him by the toilet while I peed every time I had to go. He would start peeing at the same time! I could not get him to pee in the toilet though. Yes, I cleaned the pee off the floor. Yesterday he took off his diaper right after peeing. And then later he peed on the floor, came and got us to point out his pee to us. We were so proud!
I'm excited to pick up a copy of
The Diaper Free Baby from the library tomorrow for some helpful tips. We had planned on practicing EC from the beginning, but I guess I don't know what happened. I had been putting him on the potty since he was a few months old for some diaper free time and he would go in there once in awhile, but I wasn't too serious about it. Now I am.
