We did it! Our first WHOLE day in the same diaper!

Now, I have to admit - when I first read about this EC (EC stands for Elimination Communication), I really had my doubts.  It made so much sense and it really did click with me, but I honestly never in a million years thought it would work THIS good.  I figured I would catch the potty's when he first wakes up, and probably after he eats... the in betweens were going to be tough and if i missed them, no big deal.  Well today we finally made it through the entire day in the SAME diaper.  I actually did change one diaper first thing this morning but it was my fault completely.  As I have stated before, I don't do EC at night purely because I am too lazy :) (when Wes wakes up at night, he is barely awake... he nurses and falls right back to sleep.  I worry if I undo his swaddler blanket, undo his jammies, take off his diaper A) he's going to cry, and B) its going to wake him up enough he won't go right back to sleep!) So this morning when we woke up, I changed his diaper of course.  Within minutes he had pee'd in it.  Now my mistake was thinking since we had been lying in bed snuggling for a while this morning, that he had already gone potty and wouldn't need to go.  Well - I was obviously wrong!  so I changed that one right away, and preceded to catch EVERY single potty's alllll day INCLUDING a poop!  This EC thing truly does work - at 3 months old my son knows when to go potty.  It is now my job to catch those communications and signs he gives me he has to go.  Obviously he cannot get up on his own and go to the toilet - that's my job.  But it is obvious that Wes knows what his job is!  There was even one time today I thought he might have to go potty, and we sat there for a few minutes without anything... then there were a few tiny drops of pee.  To me, that was a sure sign he was trying to go but just didn't have too!  At this point, if we miss a potty it truly is my fault - for not picking up on the signs that he has to go.  He knows how to communicate with me that he has to go, and he also knows how to hold it until he gets on the potty to go.  Do you realize how much money we are going to save in diapers alone?  My goodness this is going to be AMAZING.  I can really see how using cloth diapers using this method would be the way to go - you really want them to be able to feel the wetness so they learn the difference.  With the new technology of diapers, it wicks away the moisture so much they can't even feel it.  I wish we had better access to laundry all the time and I would do cloth in a heartbeat.  But then again, If I could catch every potty every day, I would never have to do laundry HAHA!  Now I do realize that it is impossible... but we are getting close.  It is going to be so much less confusing for Wes to learn to go potty in the toilet by starting this so early - instead of training him to go whenever he feels like it in his pants and then trying to re-train him later to use the toilet.  Now I just have to hope at my sons first sleep over, he doesn't go to the kitchen pull out a plastic bowl and go potty in the bowl haha! (for those of you that may have not read my early posts on this yet - I am currently using just a plastic bowl for our potty because he can't sit up on his own yet... it is easier to hold between my legs and support Wes over the top).  My wonderful, endearing husband of mine did inform me today I am teaching him bad habits tho... the man who thinks the whole world is his toilet is worried when I let him go potty on the ground outside that he will think its OK to that anywhere.  Jake was helping my dad do hay all day so Wes and I hung out in the barn with the boys this afternoon.  When he had to go, I just held him in between my legs and let him go on the ground... why not? all the rest of the boys do!