Toilet training is working. Or at least EC is. I've been told not to call it toilet training because people get their knickers in a twist over that.
Regardless, it is useful. First thing every morning after she wakes we place her on her Thomas the Tank Engine toilet seat (very odd choice of marketing there) and she does the full set of excretions with a very smiley face when we tell her how proud of her she is.
The best part is having fewer dirty nappies to change. If I time it well, we get to her before she has to go. And she knows now that when she's on the loo that now is the best time to go. You can see her putting effort into it. Her belly wrinkles and she taps her right foot sometimes – so cute!
The next best thing is that cleaning a baby's bottom after using the loo is soooo much easier than cleaning one after going in a nappy.
All in all I claim this experiment to have worked. We'll have to wait and see if there's any surprising long-term side effects. But for now, having the wee one understand there's and time and place for producing waste can only be a good thing.
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