![]() ![]() So when I read about baby pottying I was in a great position to run with it.Īnd run with it, we did! For the next six months we had barely a handful of soiled nappies. The only thing I wasn't doing was holding her over a receptacle of some kind. I'd been observing anticipating recognising encouraging responding expecting an open air wee at every change. but, to my eternal shame, it had never occurred to me to hold her over the toilet.įor six whole months, I had encouraged her to soil her nappy, only to take it off moments later.Īnd yet, I'd been using baby pottying techniques without even realising it. I'd used simple cloth nappies from The Beginning and I'd known almost from birth when she was going to 'go'. Intuitively.So Close!Īs it happens, I was almost pottying her intuitively. So we left conventional nappying behind and we haven't look back. There I made the forehead slapping realisation that I should have been using a potty forever. When my first child was born, a friend said to me "as soon as she starts solids, start sitting her on a potty" and that's what I intended to do.īut when the magical day rolled around, she didn't want to sit on the potty because she liked to 'go' standing up. This website explains exactly how to go about it. It's a practice with a strong evolutionary and cultural history and the fact that 'other people on my street' don't do the same is neither here nor there. You can do it from birth and you can make it a normal part of your everyday life.įor four children and seven years (so far). You don't need to confine 'unpleasantness' to a nappy! You can catch it a potty instead. For hours while still strapped to a child's bottom and hundreds of years once removed.Īnd this has become such a cultural norm, that (a) we don't find it utterly repugnant and (b) we don't even realise, that in the space of two generations, we've lost the skills that once kept our children (and our nappies) a whole lot cleaner. They were once used to catch something unpleasant so that it didn't create more mess elsewhere. ![]() ![]() To my mind, nappies represent a good idea that's got way out of hand. Let's start with one of my favourites: The Curse Of Modern Nappies. Scientific thinker Enthusiastic do-er Chaotic non-housekeeper And Solver of Problems you didn't know you had. They come pre-programmed with the best in 85 million years of mammalian natural selection, 55 million years of primate evolution and 50,000 years of 'modern' human development and, in the light of their innate expectations, we subject them to some pretty bizarre stuff. You see, babies are compact little nuggets of evolutionary experience. Especially when it comes to deciding what's best for my own four children. I find the whole concept fascinating, but walking the wire between cultural acceptance and full on monkey mode is always something of a challenge. If you can link an idea to an evolved purpose, I'm sold. This love of evolution isn't just a passing phase.) The fact that 'everyone does it' shouldn't prevent you from questioning your motives and looking for alternative perspectives.Īnd personally, I like the perspective of evolutionary precedent. They glide by as part of our accepted way of life, but some of them. ![]()
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