I am letting my baby potty train herself. When I tell people this,
I get weird looks and comments, such as ‘why would u do that, she is a baby’
and ‘your making her grow up too fast’. My response to this is ‘I would not
like to mess myself so why should I expect her too and I would rather my baby
be potty trained now, than go to school in nappies’
I don’t mean that I don’t let my baby wear nappies, or every time
she needs a wee we run to the potty. I also don’t mean that I have sat my baby
on the potty since the day she was born. No, I mean I understand and read my
baby’s signs and when she needs a poo, I sit her on the potty and that is where
she does her business. We work as a team and we have done since she was able to
hold her own head.
Bay led potty training is
an art; it is an art of following your baby’s natural rhythms. Just like the
way you know if your baby is hungry or tired, scared or bored. It may sound
silly but the first time princess B did a poo on the potty I was one proud mom,
I could not stop boasting how proud I was of my little girl. It is so neat and
clean. And I can admit I don’t get nappy ‘poop explosions’ no stained or marked
cloths, no fights to get her to lay on a changing mat. I will admit, I have
missed her signs, she has pooped her nappy a few times, she has also made a
scene on these occasions, cried and screamed until she was changed and had a
clean bum once more. Like any mom I do not like seeing my baby so upset and if
this means putting her on the potty and letting her self semi-potty train than that
is what I shell so and to all those people with the snared remarks from people
who ask and laughing glances towards what we do in the baby changing area, you don’t
bother me, I am doing what is best for my child and I shall continue to do
this.
