Title: Baby Potty Training: How to Try Elimination Communication With an Infant
Headings: How to Potty Train Your Baby
How to Potty Train Your Baby
If you've decided to try potty training your baby, give your infant — and yourself — the best chance at success by following a few simple steps.
How young can you start potty training your baby?
Should you potty train your baby or is it best to wait until he's a toddler?
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How to try elimination communication with your baby

Content: He's giving you clues you can use to introduce an alternate option (the toilet!). On the other hand, if your baby was born with a poker face and keeps a topsy turvy schedule, potty training will be a huge challenge. Should you potty train your baby or is it best to wait until he's a toddler? Proponents of early potty training might claim that toilet training a baby is potentially less frustrating than potty training a toddler, simply because the teaching is taking place before the "terrible twos" or the "tricky threes." Continue Reading Below
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However, early potty training success depends a lot on your commitment to keeping up the schedule and your baby's innate temperament. If a baby's really not interested in learning to potty train, there's not much you can do except wait for the toddler years. How to try elimination communication with your baby
He can't tell you when he needs to go and you won't be able to tell him what you want him to do. Instead, you'll have to pick up on his cues that he needs to pee or poop and act on them — which is why potty training a baby is often referred to as elimination communication. And because a toddler has been peeing and pooping in a diaper for at least a year before he begins potty training, much of what he's learning is how to ditch those diapers, whereas a baby who rarely or never wears a diaper is starting from a completely different point. Follow these tips if you're trying to potty train your baby: