Guest guest Posted November 13, 2001 Report Share Posted November 13, 2001 Deb, Thanks for the link. My husband and I are trying to follow attachement parenting toilet training of our three-year old son and didn't know about this site by Dr. Sears. I am pregnant with our second and have been researching IPT. I found a with website resources that explained this very well. The term infant potty training is really inaccurate. The is titled elimination communication. This describes much better what is actually going on than potty training. I have included the website as well as an explanation from that site below. Hope this explains it to everyone. --Audrey. From http://seafish.freeyellow.com/index.html : " Well, its a way of not putting your kids in diapers. When a baby is born it signals its needs to eliminate just like it signals its needs to eat, be held and to sleep. It is a normal part of mammal behaviour to keep the nest clean - otherwise diseases may have a place to grow. I don't know when European peoples started putting kids in diapers, but communicating with children about elimination is the norm in most of the world - China, Africa and Japan. Unfortunately this is probably changing as western culture spreads. Elimination communication involves a combination of noticing your baby's cues, keeping track of how recently the baby eliminated and when the most and least frequent times are. When the baby cues, you take the babe to the best spot for you (we've use the sink, grass, a Baby Bjorn potty, assorted shrubbery.....) and hold babe under the thighs in a squat. Easy as that! " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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