Baby Potty Training – 5 Benefits of Potty Training Your Baby Early
Although most children are potty trained around 2 or later, there is another option called baby potty training. It has its own benefits, but it may be hard for some families to do. This article will discuss 5 benefits of potty training your baby early.
1. Improves Baby-Bonding: Supporters of this method believe that infant potty training can bring you and your baby closer, though there has been no scientific study on the matter. A kind of communication is formed between the two of you that isn’t usually there since it is necessary to be so closely tuned into your babies needs and signals.
2. More Comfort: Diaper rash is believed to cause an increase in crying and fussing. Since less diapers are used with this technique, your child will experience less troublesome rashes that can occur while wearing diapers.
3. Develops Independence: Diaperless babies are encouraged to crawl to a potty at an early age, which gives them a sense of independence that diapered babies do not experience. Instead the diapered babies are very dependent upon the parent to change their diaper over and over again.
4. Lessen Diaper Waste: Disposable diapers create a substantial amount of waste that ends up in our landfills. While cloth diapers can help decrease this problem, it can create its own problems as it takes quite a bit of energy in order to launder them. It can help the environment considerably as well as your pocket book by choosing baby potty training.
5. Completely Natural: Mothers in Africa and Asia often carry their un-diapered infants around. They are able to do this without being soiled because they have become accustomed to reading the signs of their babies. While the technique of holding your baby away from you before being soiled won’t work for most modern families, the same principles of reading your child’s signs apply.
In this article we looked at 5 reasons to try potty training your baby early. Using fewer to no diapers can improve baby bonding, less irritation will occur, their independence will develop, diaper waste will be greatly diminished and this method some consider to be completely natural.
This idea is greatly debated and is not well documented; if you are considering it you probably have more questions…
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