Doing Elimination Communication with an injury or pain can be a daunting task. Taking your baby to the potty can feel overwhelming or impossible when you are hurting, healing, and perhaps limited in your mobility.

Since I am currently healing from an injury (listen to today’s show to find out which body part I’ve broken!), I wanted to talk about this today and offer some helpful tips to get you through this without losing track of your EC practice with your baby. Pssst....If you do NOT have an injury but you DO have low back pain or a very heavy baby, today’s show is also for you!

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Many of you mamas and daddies doing Elimination Communication might be wondering how to take your baby out of diapers by around one year old. What are the steps to have a potty trained 1 year old? How do you wrap up EC by the time baby is walking? And, after you take your baby out of diapers at 1 year old...what do you do next? Like, oh, this is wonderful and all! Yay we’re out of diapers! But what do I do now?

Today I’m going to share why we’re taking Twyla out of diapers at 13 months old, what we’ve been doing, step by step, our challenges and solutions, and what we plan to do, very next.

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Today I’m going to talk about the best potties for elimination communication...and give you up-to-the-moment advice on which potties are the best for each age and stage of toilet learning. Having an EC-specific potty is often the MAGIC KEY to helping baby move forward. Your potty choice can truly make or break your success with EC.

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Today I’ll teach you how to create the perfect elimination communication wardrobe - what kind of clothing is best for elimination communication? Dressing baby appropriately can only help make EC easier! The right clothing can empower babies to “do it myself” instead of peeing in their underwear (or all over the floor).

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Today I’ll share how to begin elimination communication, at each stage and age. We will go through this quickly and simply so you can get a glimpse of what starting EC can look like, and feel way less intimidated to start if you haven’t already (or have only partially begun, or half-assed it so far - you know who you are! 💁‍♀️). I’ve definitely explained how to start elimination communication before, and today it will be a bit different!

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Start EC with your baby today with Andrea’s free Easy Start Guide: https://godiaperfree.com/start