infant pottying (OT?)
Tracy Oldfield
I know I didn't use the OT: thingy in my subject, but that's cos I
thought everyone might be interested :-) I've just been reading a
forum about toilet-training as per Continuum Concept, ie learning
when your baby's ready to 'go' and putting them on the potty or
toilet, also developing signs and sounds for you both to use when
they need to go. The theory seems to be that even tiny babies
know their bodies well enough to know when they're 'going' so why
not use the toilet rather than a nappy? Also, why train them to use
a nappy when they could be using the potty? Sounds fair enough...
I wondered if anyone has done this, or knows someone who has?
I'm interested, dd2 has struggled with weeing for ages, going
through phases of being fine and then not, and I'm reluctant to risk
the same rigmarole with 'the bump.' What I really need is to see it
in action, I suppose, maybe there could be ipt support groups like
LLL groups? LOL
Anyway, looking forward to seeing what y'all think
Tracy
thought everyone might be interested :-) I've just been reading a
forum about toilet-training as per Continuum Concept, ie learning
when your baby's ready to 'go' and putting them on the potty or
toilet, also developing signs and sounds for you both to use when
they need to go. The theory seems to be that even tiny babies
know their bodies well enough to know when they're 'going' so why
not use the toilet rather than a nappy? Also, why train them to use
a nappy when they could be using the potty? Sounds fair enough...
I wondered if anyone has done this, or knows someone who has?
I'm interested, dd2 has struggled with weeing for ages, going
through phases of being fine and then not, and I'm reluctant to risk
the same rigmarole with 'the bump.' What I really need is to see it
in action, I suppose, maybe there could be ipt support groups like
LLL groups? LOL
Anyway, looking forward to seeing what y'all think
Tracy
Sarah
Elimination Training
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Sarah
Tracy Oldfield wrote:
I know I didn't use the OT: thingy in my subject, but that's cos I
thought everyone might be interested :-) I've just been reading a
forum about toilet-training as per Continuum Concept, ie learning
when your baby's ready to 'go' and putting them on the potty or
toilet, also developing signs and sounds for you both to use when
they need to go.
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In a message dated 4/5/01 6:53:58 PM, tracy.oldfield@... writes:
<< I wondered if anyone has done this, or knows someone who has? >>
Well...
Not a current story, but in college I had a boyfriend who had grown up (until
he was 12 or 13) in India, and was the middle of five children. He said his
mom used to sit and put her feet together sideways (like toe-to-toe,
heel-to-heel, he showed me, but they don't wear real shoes and their feet are
way natural and flexible) to make a little potty seat of sorts, and would do
this at the in-ground toilet (theirs is just a hole) when the babies were
bigger, or just wherever (on cloth or paper?) when they were tinier, when she
knew they needed to go, and they would go there. Sitting on part of their
mom, with their mom holding them. WAY less scary than our plastic or wooden
potty seats.
He said babies didn't wear diapers when they were first walking, just wore
long shirts (kurtas, in his terminology--the long white shirts with buttons
at the top front) and the moms knew when they had to go.
That would been the 1950's (for him), early 60's (for his brothers).
<< I wondered if anyone has done this, or knows someone who has? >>
Well...
Not a current story, but in college I had a boyfriend who had grown up (until
he was 12 or 13) in India, and was the middle of five children. He said his
mom used to sit and put her feet together sideways (like toe-to-toe,
heel-to-heel, he showed me, but they don't wear real shoes and their feet are
way natural and flexible) to make a little potty seat of sorts, and would do
this at the in-ground toilet (theirs is just a hole) when the babies were
bigger, or just wherever (on cloth or paper?) when they were tinier, when she
knew they needed to go, and they would go there. Sitting on part of their
mom, with their mom holding them. WAY less scary than our plastic or wooden
potty seats.
He said babies didn't wear diapers when they were first walking, just wore
long shirts (kurtas, in his terminology--the long white shirts with buttons
at the top front) and the moms knew when they had to go.
That would been the 1950's (for him), early 60's (for his brothers).