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Your Personal Guide to Developing Nappy Free Confidence
Here's How To Get The Most Out Of Your
Part Time Nappy Free Experience
Welcome!
With
Part Time Nappy Free, you have a self-paced, structured yet
flexible 'guide' to gaining EC confidence that you can read and review at your
leisure. Incorporating the suggested activities into your daily life over time
will help you to achieve nappy free confidence as you learn WITH your baby, and
have fun as you enhance your connection.
To guide you as you get started on your unique EC journey, there are ten
modules, each with three simple activities to incorporate into your usual day -
whenever they suit you. These guided activities will give you a simple structure
to follow as you gain experience in being part time nappy free, and thus develop
your nappy-free confidence.
You can also access the 'bonus' guides for additional tips. The modules are
updated, so do check back for improvements.
The first five modules are best followed in sequence. The final five can be done
at any time, in any order, as they cover helpful concepts, activities or
information and resources that are useful overall support for your journey.
First of all, your approach to
practicing EC is important, so..
Set Your Approach To Positive:
Remember the 7 Secrets!
The 7 Secrets To Developing Nappy Free Confidence provide a broad
understanding of how EC works as an idea. They highlight those attitudes,
approaches and strategies which will ensure you are heading in the right
direction.
"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."
Amelia Earhart
The 10
Modules Cover the Following...
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Turn On Your EC Senses
Focus: - Observation Skills and Considering Cues
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The Thrill Of The Catch
Focus: - Positions to help your baby to 'go' in; catching wees and
poos by simple timing strategies.
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Tinkle Time
Focus: - Anticipating baby's need to go to the toilet and more
timing options
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We've Got One!
Focus: - Spotting Signs from baby that indicate a need to go.
 Check
your Compass
Focus: - Cultural reminder of how we are re discovering this
ancient
knowledge, and don't have a cultural legacy to draw upon, which would make
it easier.
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Nappy Free Adventures
Focus: - Subtle Signs you can pick up by doing some simple
activities with your baby nappy free - safely.
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Let's Get Connected
Focus: Bonding Activities for fun and connecting with your baby,
which will help your EC awareness.
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Building Nappy Free Confidence
Focus: - Extending Yourself by going outside the home with your
baby nappy-free - simple, safe strategies.
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Finding Your Comfort Zone
Focus: -
Balance is very important when practicing EC -
three aspects of finding balance are covered.
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Moving Ever Forwards...
Focus: - Explaining EC to others, finding or building support
for EC, managing criticism.
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Taking it to the next level - Going Nappy Free?
Focus: - How do you take the plunge and go Nappy Free -
at any particular age? What can you do to take the mental leap to commit to
a truly 'nappy free' lifestyle?
Each
Module will have the same elements to help you to work
through them easily...
'Imagine':
A mental primer to help you to get in the 'zone'
for a positive approach.
Key Ideas:
The main points covered in each module.
What to Expect:
An outline of how you might feel while you are at that stage of learning
with your baby, how your baby may be responding, but emphasising the
individuality of each parent - baby team.
Frame Your Mind:
Your mind-set or approach is very important to keeping positive and going in
the right direction with EC. It can be easy to become overwhelmed and lose
confidence over a stage that is really common and a normal part of the
process. The Frame Your Mind paragraph offers a suggested way of approaching
each module.
What to DO.
Your Activities With Baby:
I'll highlight three specific tasks for you to do with your baby
- with suggestions like what to look for, steps to help you learn a skill,
or tips to consider experimenting with.
A Suggested Affirmation:
A suggested affirmation or visualisation to help you focus, remember or gain
a feeling of experience or confidence as you go through the activities in
the course. Have a go, or write your own to make them even more powerful.
"The power of imagination makes us
infinite." John Muir
Your Mini Goals:
Re-phrasing of suggested activities as mini-goals; action oriented and
simple to read, remember and practise.
Learning More:
There will be links to more information or extra resources on the Internet
that complement what you are learning and practicing with your baby. You can
explore further those aspects that intrigue you.
Your Changing Table Guide
to Nappy Free Confidence
A downloadable Reminder sheet, the "Changing Table Guides" summarise
each
module
in an A4 poster to inspire you to action each time
you change a nappy.
Your Baby Watching Guides
A downloadable aid to 'Sign Spotting', the 'Baby Watching Guides' help you to
notice more about what your baby is telling you in a simple strategy.
and more is in development...
What You Will NOT See in Part Time Nappy Free:
Ages to begin or end each module.
Time-frames to stay on each module.
Deadlines for 'completing' activities.
This is a personal journey of discovery and experience you are on with
another human being - your baby. You are a team, and babies live without time!
All the activities are suggestions for you to try out with your baby, to give
you various experiences to help you learn about EC with your baby.
Arbitrary pressures are not part of the process of EC - it is a fluid, dynamic,
individual process that does not respond to regimentation and pressure - they
are sure ways to burnout - either you, or annoying your baby into a potty pause. EC is a benign approach to toilet learning, centred on
responding to the baby's needs.
That isn't to say consistency isn't important - as it is to keep the lines of
communication open. It does not matter how long you work on each module with
your baby, or how many times you do each activity, the more the merrier.
So long as the lines of communication stay open, you are building your
connection of love and trust with your baby, so they become secure and
independent as they grow. Take your time and enjoy the ride, use back-up as
needed. EC is a mind-set as much as a way of life.
Your
primary 'goal' is to strive to maintain or enhance your connection with
your baby, as your nappy-free confidence grows.
Think of Part Time Nappy Free as a compass
to help guide you through the cultural vacuum of practicing EC in which you
probably exist, as you gain personal experience to make this lost knowledge your
own once again. I know I found myself in a cultural EC vacuum - I only found ONE
person who was practicing EC in my state - and she was living about an hour and
a half away from me! Meanwhile, I was saying to myself "This is AWESOME
- why
doesn't everyone at least KNOW about it as an option, so they can have a go now
and then?" A near total loss of knowledge in the community was the reason.
You can help rediscover this lost
knowledge for yourself with your own baby.
Practicing
Elimination Communication
As you practice in the coming days, weeks and months you will gain lots of
personal experiences and intrinsic knowledge specific to your lifestyle, and
your unique relationship with your baby. Think of each day as an opportunity to
practice observing, practice responding in time, practice anticipating baby's
needs. All of it is simply PRACTICE.
What does practice mean? I'd select these interpretations to apply to the
practice of elimination communication, and going part time nappy free:
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A condition arrived at by experience or exercise.
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The exercise or pursuit of something.
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To perform or do usually.
In time, this practice will inevitably result in new skills and in a gradual
reduction in nappies used, a general improvement in your communication and
understanding of your baby as they progress in their baby, imperfect way from
totally dependent in-arms supported pottying to independent, self-initiated use
of a toilet place. There is definitely no straight line in this process from
start to finish. It is more like rambling up a twisting turning path on a
hill - the goal is to move
ever forward, knowing they will get there with your help. There will be
stages of standing still in there as well, some moving backwards and then
forwards again in the journey that are a normal part of EC learning.
"The journey not the arrival matters." T. S. Eliot
Tribal Baby supports
and reflects the Philosophies of Elimination Communication as developed
by
Diaperfreebaby.org, an international EC support organisation:
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The Seven Philosophies
of Practicing Elimination Communication supported by the Tribal Baby
Part Time Nappy Free online course:
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Babies are aware of their
elimination needs from birth and communicate about
those needs through various vocal and bodily signals. Within the
first few months of life, babies have the ability to consciously
release their bladders and bowels. By taking them to appropriate
elimination places during infancy, we enable them to maintain a
connection with their bodily sensations and learn from an early
age what to do when they experience those sensations.
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Elimination Communication should
always be gentle, non-coercive, and based on babies'
interests and needs. Communication is the most
important aspect of Elimination Communication, and should be the
focus.
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Elimination Communication is
begun in infancy - starting as early as
possible is recommended. After one year, Elimination
Communication principles can be applied to toilet learning.
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Elimination Communication can be
done using diapers all of the time, some of the time, or not at
all. By reducing the number of diapers used, Elimination
Communication provides a more environmentally-sound
option than conventional cloth or disposable diapering.
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Prompt loving attention to our
babies' needs promotes strong baby-parent bonds,
fulfilling natural human instincts. The bond of trust built
through feeding and comforting is strengthened when caregivers
respond to the baby's elimination needs. Elimination
Communication helps strengthen communication with our babies and
is consistent with Attachment Parenting practices.
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Have Fun Connecting,
Charndra
P.S. I hope you enjoy practicing EC with your
baby; it is a great way to learn to communicate with a tiny human. Take your
time, be always relaxed, smile and keep practicing; let your baby show you the
way to your instincts.
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