EC 201

As I mentioned in my first post about Elimination Communication, it can be a part-time thing. In fact, it can be a very part-time thing, as in once a week sitting your baby on the potty. In everything I've read, babies are totally fine with going between the potty and a diaper. Ezra on the other hand, has decided he'd much rather go in the potty, and especially at night.
We had a rough 4-5 days in a row of Ezra waking up every 45 minutes at night. And, it wasn't just the wake up and nurse and go back to sleep type of waking up. It was "hello guys, I'm awake!" type of waking up. It was rough, and we were both exhausted. Ryan was gracious enough to take Ezra out in the living room one of the mornings to play (at about 3 a.m.), but Ezra was still really squirmy (as he is when he has to go to the bathroom) and wouldn't play. Finally Ryan put him on the potty, and he went right away...and then was ready to go back to sleep.
Hmm...was this issue? Did he just have to go to the bathroom every time he woke up? But, rather than putting him on the potty, I was filling him up with more liquids and then trying to make him hold it longer? Oops.
Sure enough the next night we decided to put him on the potty whenever he woke up, and he'd go right away and then go back to sleep for a long chunk (since now he was able to relieve himself, he didn't need to wake up so frequently). The past few nights he has only woken up once/night to go to the bathroom (and wakes up dry!), and 1-2 times to nurse, so it's pretty easy. We've switched from having him wear pj's to just putting him in his leg warmers with a pre-fold for easy on and off diapering at night. I'm totally in love with the leg warmers...aren't they adorable?