Jada is such a smart girl

Before Jada was born I did a bunch of research on the way that they potty train their babies in Asia/Africa because I found it really interesting. I have since developed a method that is a mix of the way it is done in the west and how it is done here in china that I feel comfortable with. If you ever come to China and have never heard of the way they potty train their babies you will be really confused when you see all these babies and kids wearing pants that have a big slit from front to back in the crotch of the pants and bare bottoms. You are probably already confused. Essenially they start potty training their babies when they are infants. They observe the times when the baby pees and pooes, then teach the baby to associate a sound made by the parent with peeing and pooing that they use as a cue and offer the baby potty breaks at those times. The split crotch pants are for convienence. They just hold the baby in a sqwat and the baby goes, no messing with pulling down pants. Where their babies go around bare bottomed I been using diapers and we have been taking it slow to start. For the first two weeks I just made a sound everytime I noticed that she was eliminating and observed at what times. The third week when I would change her diaper I used the cue sound to encourage her to empty her bowels before I changed her diaper. Today I started offering potty breaks and I am amazed at how well she has caught on. She pees and poos, as long as she has some, when I make the cue in the toilet. I sit on the toilet and I hold her in a sqwat with her back and head resting against me. When she can sit I will get her a the traditional potty-training potty. I am so thrilled that I just had to share it. I expected it to be a while before I started seeing progress but she has surprised me. We definetly are not going to put her in underware anytime soon, at least not until we have using the potty established for a while and she is not having to many misses, which are inevitable, we are just taking it slow. I probably won't ever use the split crotch pants although she already has some that were given to her as gifts. I am taking a relaxed, slow, no pressure approach. I just offer and if she takes it she does if not she doesn't and the diaper is always there for
back-up. It works for us. It is more about Jada learning other ways to communicate with us and saving her some diaper rash along the way. And between you and me, I kind of dread the struggle of potty training a toddler, this is so much easier.