Okay, I’m about to write about something so crazy sounding, you will find it hard to believe. I did too when a friend of mine told me about it. But here we go:
You can train your baby to tell you when they have to use the washroom, right from the first weeks after birth. It’s a process called "elimination communication", where the parents learn to recognise the baby’s signals of having to defecate. By using this technique, you don’t have to use many diapers, or any at all. It takes a lot of time to learn obviously, and you have to be with your baby most of the time too.
Here’s a FAQ that might help explain this process to you.
A friend of a friend knows a couple that does this with their baby, and it works well for them. They take their baby to the potty when he tells them that he has to go (by crying, moaning). The parents also learn to time how long it will generally take milk and food to digest.
Judy, it’s something for you to look into, I guess. Imagine being in the mall, and then taking your month old baby into the washroom stall to pee? I wonder what other people would think?
I guess you'd save a tone of $ though, from the cost of diapers!
