The Go Diaper Free Podcast
Summary: Andrea Olson, MA, of Go Diaper Free, shares all of her Elimination Communication and Infant Potty Training tips, tricks, explanations, how-to's, and tutorials so you can have a diaper-free baby (free from dependence upon diapers), ages 0-18 months (plus resources for potty training toddlers over 18 months old). New parents who practice natural parenting or Attachment Parenting, who are crunchy or mainstream, city or country, who want to stop changing diapers at an earlier age will discover how to start, maintain, and troubleshoot an EC practice with any baby or young toddler, whether part-time, full-time, or just occasionally. If you follow Andrea's guidance and the support of the Go Diaper Free online community, your baby can be out of diapers by 6-20 months. How-to's, interviews, and background information, plus individual episodes on naked time, diaper-free time, observation, how to know when baby needs to pee, how to potty a baby, potty training while traveling, ECing while shopping, nighttime EC, part-time Elimination Communication, cloth diapering, diapers as tools, when to ditch the diapers, re-setting for potty resistance, achieving potty independence, when to potty train, what to teach when toilet training, EC potty pause solutions, refusing to sit on the potty, and not signaling, plus new research and instruction on Late Start EC, graduating EC, and correcting problems caused by uninformed EC activities (like reversing peeing-on-the-floor habits, or stopping potty pauses), and more. With this podcast and involvement with the community at Go Diaper Free, you will discover how to integrate going diaper-free into your busy lifestyle as a new parent…10-15 minutes at a time. It's no longer "diaper-free before 3"…now you can stop using diapers like 1/2 of the world…by about 12-18 months old!
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Resource Recommendation Getting EC Back on Track: a minicourse that walks you through observation, logging, and getting back on the EC wagon. So many parents completely fall off the EC wagon during months 8-14 when baby is becoming mobile, and mom and dad are getting back to "normal" life and work. This is 100% normal!…
Pottying your baby in the night hours can be very hard, especially with sudden resistance after months of doing it without a hitch. Today's episode covers Nighttime EC in-depth, along with how to do it, what you'll need to do if things go poorly, and what I've done with my own babies. Download the…
Where have we been over the centuries regarding diapers? When did they hit the scene? And how have they affected potty training, our environment, our children, and us as parents? EC educator Andrea Olson answers these questions and more in this brief, 12 minute history of diapers. Download the MP3 here. Please leave your comments…
A potty pause in Elimination Communication is similar to a potty strike in potty training. Neither are fun. But in EC, potty pauses can have a deeper purpose. You see...
Book Author Laurie Boucke Last time on the Go Diaper Free Podcast I shared the first part of my interview with author Laurie Boucke, the woman whom I consider to be the absolute trailblazer in bringing infant potty training to the Western culture back in the late 70's and onward. Laurie has been an EC mentor…
Book Author Laurie Boucke I am absolutely honored to have a guest on the show for the next few episodes of my EC Podcast. Today I'll be sharing part 1 of a wonderful interview with Author and EC trailblazer Laurie Boucke. Laurie was first to write about EC back in 1979 after discovering it…
Doing cold weather EC? Tricky...so much that sometimes parents just pause their practice til it's warm again, or don't start til spring hits. I'm posting this podcast episode now that it's finally 18 degrees outside here in Asheville, NC (when I recorded this episode in December it was still a warm 50 degrees!). Wherever in…
Running errands with our babies. Does it make you worry? Now consider this: Running errands with our diaper-free babies. Have I pushed your anxiety level up a few notches? Not to worry moms and dads! Doing EC while shopping does not have to be terrible, or terrifying. In fact, just as with travel + EC, shopping…
'Tis the season for traveling...and this means traveling with our babies and making EC during the holidays easier for you. ECing while traveling away from home, whether domestically or internationally, doesn't have to be difficult. In fact, it can often go much more smoothly than EC at home does! Take a listen to this episode for 15 wonderful…
Now that we've learned which 4 things lead to potty time, in this session we're going to learn how to potty your baby. Again, The 4 Roads to Potty Time are: Baby's Signals (covered in Episode 8) Baby's Natural Timing (covered in Episode 10) Generic (Common) Timing (covered in Episode 12), and Your Intuition (covered…
Baby Isadora, a few days old, in her big brother's homebirth shirt. My Birth Story: An Almost Unassisted Birth listen to the audio podcast here: or read the full story below: 1) early September 2013 I gather the 3 books out there on unassisted birth and read up...or rather try to. Completely unimpressed. There is…
We had our daughter Isadora on September 24, 2013, at 4:14am. Weighing in at 8lb even and a short 18 3/4" long, she's a beaut! I'm preparing a series of instructions/storytelling on starting EC from birth...so stay tuned for that. The day before going into labor, I recorded this episode #15 of the Go Diaper…
This week's show is Part 4 of 4 of our series "When does baby need to pee?" In past sessions, we've discussed the other 3 Roads to Potty Time: 1. Baby's Signals 2. Baby's Natural Timing or Rhythm 3. Generic or Common Timing and this is the final piece to the puzzle: 4. Your Intuition…
As I've said many times before, it's so important to understand all 4 of what I call "Roads to Potty Time." This episode covers the 3rd way to know it's time to offer the potty to your baby. Generic (or common) Timing. Most babies hold their pee in various situations, so pottying them before or after…
Sometimes we just need to share our stories! Today I share my entire EC journey with my son, Kaiva, from beginning to end. Since Kaiva turned 3 years old, I thought it must be a good time to share our whole infant potty training story, beginning to end. I hope that my journey ECing Kaiva…
