a GREAT day of ECing!

Ya, I changed 2 diapers today... that's right, TWO DIAPERS!  I don't care what anyone says, this ECing thing WORKS.  At the very least it is saving us TONS of diapers!!!

Well, if you include the first one I changed this morning, its techinically 3, but the point is I only missed 2 potty's today!  Every other one I caught in our make-shift baby potty!  It was incredible!

I haven't quit gotten up enough nerve to do this at night yet (after todays success though I just might have to start!) so of course we woke up with a wet diaper.  I changed that first thing this morning about 7.  I caught a couple of potty's until about 9:30 - i missed one.  I changed Wes's diaper then, and caught EVERY SINGLE POTTY until 7:00 tonight! 7!!!!!!!!!!!! There were so many I lost count (no one said this was easy, and it IS a full time job!)  Up until today, the most potty's I caught was 6 - and I was pretty happy about that!  Those were all just at the obvious times (as soon as he wakes up and right after feeding).  Today I caught a few just cuz he had to go!  It is unbelievable how in-tune my son and I are.  at least 3 that I caught today were because I just felt like he had to go! so I put him on the potty, made our special nose, he picked up on my cue and went! 

A lot of testimonies I read said this same thing.  Besides the obvoius times (waking/feeding), you have to learn to pick up on your baby's own cues that they have to go to the bathroom.  A lot of mom's said that a big sign form them would be that they would be holding the baby and feel a warm wet spot, but it wouldn't be wet.  This happened to me twice today.  I took the cue, placed him on his potty and he went!  The 3rd time was just kind of intuitive... I really just thought he had to go, tried it and he went!  Its like MAGIC! 

This is such and incredible way to bond with your baby too... You really do learn to listen to your son without words.  Most mommy's can pick up on your babies cry's, when they hungry, when their tummy hurts etc.  Did you ever think you could pick up when your 8 week old had to go potty??? 

I have to admit, I was slightly skeptical at all of the testimonies I read about this.  I really wasn't convinced it would work this well.  I loved the idea and knew it couldn't hurt and would probably get the potty training done sooner, but I never ever would have expected within basically a week of starting this we would have such success!

I know I will have some bad days, and thats OK.  Even today with the 2 misses, its important not to acknowledge them.  Reward your baby with praise when he does it right and end it there.

The one problem I see with this is when we are out and about... in the car and shopping and stuff.  I haven't quit decided how to tackle this one, but as soon as I do, I will let you all know :)

Now poop is a differen't story!!!  I know they say its pretty normal for newborns not to poop regularly.  Mine just doesn't poop at all!  It's so weird to go from pooping after every feeding to going every 5 days or so.  I've talked to the doctor and it seems this is normal.  He has plenty of potty's (TRUST me, after today it seems like thats all we did was go potty!) and he doesn't seem bothered by it so I probably shouldn't worry.  It just doesn't seem right to me!  For the last month or so, until last week, he had only gone 3 days, but last week he went almost 6 days without pooping. When my milk first came in, I had pumped a ton of colostrum and froze it.  I've read that colostrum is a natural laxitive to move all the meconium out of the baby's system, so I unfroze some, and mixed it with some milk in a bottle throughout the day.  It seemed to work, he pooped the next morning, and the follow morning after that.  That was Tuesday though.  If he doesn't poop by tomorrow morning, I will try this method again.  I have read a lot of remedies, but this to me seemed to be the most natural, and it worked.  Do any of you have other tried and true solutions to this problem????