These Parents Started Potty Training When Their Baby Was 3 Days Old
By Mélodie CapronnierPublished on ShareSend by e-mail I certify that I do not send unwanted e-mailsAs soon as their baby is born, parents have started learning cleanliness. They talk about their method, which saved them from using many nappies!As for potty training, each child has their own pace and the age at which they are ready to start. Margaret and Roger Thompson, a couple living in Yuma, Arizona (USA), started teaching their son Zander when he was only 3 days old, as soon as they got out of the maternity ward. For this, they used the method of natural infant hygiene.
Natural infant hygiene, how does it work?
Margaret Thompson heard about this method long before she was a mom, she tells Mercury Press. "I discovered natural infant hygiene when I was working as a tourist guide in Laos, where diapers are very expensive. A man I worked with offered to meet his family. His baby was not wearing a diaper, and he seemed to have his own cues to say he wanted to go to the bathroom," she recalled. When she got pregnant, she remembered this potty training technique, inquired and decided to try it with her baby.
Video of the day:During the first days of the baby, it's up to parents to learn to recognize the signals that their baby sends when he relieves himself. If they can anticipate them, then they put him on the potty instead of him in his diaper. In Zander's case, Margaret and Robert managed to establish communication around five weeks. "We started the process gently, so we left him sometimes without a diaper, sometimes with cloth diapers. We held him over the potty several times a day and nights [...]. We were doing growling noises so that he learns to recognize a sound for when he has to pee or poo. At five weeks old, he started to growl himself to let us know that he needed to relieve himself", says his mother .
"It was great, it was like the first conversation we had with our child, a technique of communication. We were both very happy," says Margaret. Note that this method is not intended to teach your child cleanliness as quickly as possible, but to teach him to communicate little by little and, on the parents' side, to listen to his needs. (in every sense of the term). Thus, Zander could wear underwear instead of diapers at the age of 1 year and did not defecate at night at 20 months.
An economical and ecological method
Margaret says that natural infant hygiene has made it possible to use far fewer nappies than for other babies. She estimates that she managed to save nearly $2,500 (about 2,216 euros). An economic and ecological advantage, therefore: "We never had to throw away baby clothes or diapers. Zander never had red bottoms or things like that. For us, financially, it was the best decision. With this money that we saved by not buying diapers, we were able to buy books, take trips and set aside for Zander's possible needs," she explains.
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