Hey everyone, meet Cooper! He is my 3rd of 5 babies and he turned 7 years not too long ago. (though in this photo he was almost 4 - time flies) Coops was born unassisted, Wonder Woman-style standing up in the bathtub...daddy catching him as he quickly emerged. A super sweet 75 minute labor, followed by a peaceful, colic-free babyhood and an easygoing EC experience - until the end. We always joked that Coop *always* looked high...he was such a chill baby. 🥳 So Cooper hardly ever pooped his diaper backup - we started EC at birth with him - but our challenge lay in preschool (13 months). I hadn’t yet invented TinyUps - my pull up cloth training pant covers avail @tinyundies - so I sent him in a disposable and worked with them to potty him at school. I was also pregnant with my 4th, terrible nausea 24/7, and we were remodelling our newly purchased farmhouse - so I didn’t take him out of awake-time diapers 100% until 17 months old. ☝️ HOLD UP! I know, still early!, but to be honest, this delay ended up causing resistance and confusion. In retrospect I should have taken him out of them at 12 months but I SIMPLY DID NOT HAVE THE TOOLS - and didn’t think it would have made that big a difference. 🤷‍♀️ No worries tho! He’d pooped in the toilet regularly + was a happy babe, so I can’t complain. And I created TinyUps because of all of this. 🙌 💕(Cooper is now a self-confident little bugger - so chill and empathic and relates so well with all beings. Very musical, excellent listener, and full of kisses and cuddles!!!) 💡The moral: EARLIER to cloth trainers or undies (daytime) is typically better, like after baby is walking - it prevents confusion, makes you more present, and things usually work out a lot more smoothly with EC wrapup. 💁‍♀️ I did it differently with my next youngest, Branson, which you’ll see in a few days! 💛 📕 Start EC easily with my popular book, Go Diaper Free - godiaperfree.com/thebook + link in Insty bio. xx Andrea at godiaperfree.com #eliminationcommunication #babypotty #pottytricks #pottytrained without #pottytraining #pottytrainingtips #diaperfree #diaperfreebaby #naturalinfanthygiene #infantpottytraining #unassistedbirth #freebirth