Over the half the world’s babies are potty trained by 1 year old (Pediatrics Magazine). Looking at the statistics made me want to at least try: Initially, I was armed with little more than Bauer’s book and the belief (or more simply, the hope) that maybe I could do this.
born and bred woman I didn’t have much in the way of help for getting started. If they don’t, they will at least try.Īs a U.S. Eventually they will learn to tighten those muscles when they hear the verbal cue. The idea is that the baby learns to associate this sound with the use of their “elimination” muscles. Mothers (or father, grandparents, village elders) than respond to the babies cue by holding them over a receptacle (toilet, bowl, dirt floor) and making a hissing, or shushing noise (hence the title of this post).
is that the mother in Mongolia has learned from her mother who learned from her mother who learned from her mother, how to read her babies “cue”. The only difference between a mother in Mongolia and a mother in L.A. She argues that just as babies communicate when they are scared, tired, or hungry they also (from birth) know when they have too pee or poop and they give us a verbal and/or physical cue.
In many cultures around the world, mothers still know how to understand and respond to their infants elimination needs to keep them clean and content.”īauer presents a picture that makes sense to me–babies are born with the innate need to be held, to feed and to eliminate after feeding. “Throughout most of human existence, parents have cared for their babies hygienically without relying on diapers. Yet, Bauer, claimed that what she was proposing was far from new and even possible for Western mothers who live in carpeted areas with friends and family who would not appreciate their babies peeing on their floors. I must admit that the picture on the front cover did nothing to dissuade me from the belief that this was a hoax, an impossible task set up only for hippy-mommas who pranced around naked all day with their babies in golden fields of barley.
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