Elimination Communication: a practical way to raise children from birth with minimal or zero diapers

This is the trailer to a film, "Nappy Free" about elimination communication, which is a simple, practical and time-tested way to raise children from birth with minimal or zero diapers.

"Nappy" is the word for diapers in Australia, the country where the film maker lives.

Elimination communication really works.

People who love cleanliness delight in it.

The practice is good for babies' health and the environment; and once mastered (not difficult), easier than diapers.

This practice empowers children as cooperative beings, which the next generation needs to survive at all, as well as to thrive.

The diaper industry is very profitable. Whose idea was it?



This film was made by one of my most respected friends. I receive no benefit from recommending this dvd.

That is also nappy in England, I think ! (didn't know diaper...)

I know a friend who trained the babies even sooner, or almost. I mean not 100%, but she used sign language more than I have seen in elimination communication.

She gives the little one hand-signs, not only sounds.
So, after a moment, the baby makes the sign with the hands, to tell "I want you to change my nappy", and then "I want you to free me so that I cannot be wet"!

and then communication includes signing for many things.
Easy, same as you talk, then you ALSO (not instead) speak with your hands.
Then the baby will repeat the sign much sooner than the words.

She has also seen her son teach a little friend when he was a little older.... (and I mean before the age he could speak)

Yes, it is really simple.

It is clear that babies really want this.

I talked a lot with the woman who made the movie and she made that very clear.

And who would not want to be free of sitting in their pee and poo, often for hours?

Babies' skin is very sensitive and skin absorbs whatever is in contact with it, so being diaper free means that the babies will not reabsorb what their sweet bodies had excreted. This can only benefit them.

Diapers are a big industry - return customers for several years is what they want, but do the babies?

I think not.

Plus, washing diapers is a big dirty job from which we can free ourselves.

It is possible for them to wear diapers when in a social situation where this is called for.

I used what I learned about EC to help get my child out of diapers. She started at about 16mo, out of diapers completely by 19mo. We also cloth diapered, so she was unimpressed with diapers anyhow and wanted out.

YES, more people are becomming aware of this.
There is a small movement in USA about this, primarily
with David Wolfe who does a natural foods webste and has
a book on his website about this.

My last two children both potty-trained before three months of age, which appears to be the magic age--before they lift their legs to help in the diaper-changing process and are thus diaper-trained. Both of them totally wanted to be potty-trained until they reached 9-10 months of age. Then they just got too busy and preferred to soil their diapers. Since it wasn't about forcing them to potty-train, I just allowed them to diaper-train at that time. One of my gals stayed potty-trained whenever we visited the grandparents, but the other just forgot everything she knew. She's age two now, and it's clear that she doesn't remember anything about potty-training before as she relearns the process.

The diaper industry is very profitable but I do think it was an idea that parents embraced wholeheartedly. My grandmothers both recalled their own experiences using cloth on large families as a real burden and wished they had a simple solution like disposables.

Disposables are less simple for me as we have to carry any trash we make to the dump, so one really notices heavy stinky diaper trash bags. Of course they are expensive and unsustainable piles of trash too.

I have tried ec and am comfortable saying that some kids take to it quite well and others get it much more slowly. Very much worth a try, especially with one baby at a time. With twins it's hard.

It was one of the best things that we did with our baby. We used a combo of cloth and disposable diapers, and we also sat her on a baby potty regularly early on. We incorporated the "psss" sound and the hand sign for bathroom, and I took a lot of advice from the Go Diaper Free podcast and website.

My daughter had a stubborn yeast infection that wouldn't go away with any kind of diaper on. So we said bye to all diapers when she was 15 months old, and it worked for us. She was used to the toilet by then and had just begun signing "potty" occasionally. She had lots of wet accidents over the next several months, especially when she was busy learning a different skill. But out of the messes that need to be cleaned up, I realized I'd much rather clean some pee off the floor rather than poop smooshed in a diaper. Of course, the saving of money has been really helpful, too.

I did this too!

My eldest was 16 months old when my youngest was born and already starting to be out of her cloth nappies. So when I sat her on the toilet, I hovered my newborn over the toilet too. It didn't take long for her to get the hint. Take her a short while after a feed, whenever her older sister went, just before I went to sleep while she was asleep etc. I think we only had less than 10 dirty nappies after she was 3 weeks old, ever, including night times! Incredible really when I look back, I don't know why more don't do it, who would want to be sat in all that shit. So easy if you're with your babies all the time anyway.

Cloth nappies were super easy too. Eldest out of nappies completely day and night by 18 months!

My youngest is 7 now and obviously doesn't remember a thing about it.