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Nappy Free Baby: Elimination Communication.

Sleep Sharing: Sleeping with baby safely with you in bed.

Breastfeeding: Future proofing and nurturing.

Baby - led introduction of solids: Skip purees, self feeding is fun!

Hypnosis for birth: Using knowledge, relaxation and practise.

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This section is about our journey re-learning the knowledge our society lost through use of nappy technology and a changing of social norms. It's not natural for a baby to wear a nappy. Nappies often cause skin rashes, and they can be used much less often practicing EC. Our baby was nappy-free at home from 3 months, practising in regular underwear by 14 months. From 24/7 nappies to nappy-free. You can do it with your baby too, it is gradual and cool!

We are now EC'ing with our Baby Jett.

I've used Hypbirth twice now - Baby Jett was 9 pounds 10!

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Here's me, Charndra, 3 year old Maven and my newborn baby, Jett at just two days old...

 Baby Jett is here! 

A baby brother for Maven arrived July 28th, 2008. At Canberra Birth Centre, 5.13am, home that night at 4.30!

Here is Jett in his purple sling at a few days old. He is a good size at 4.350kg, or 9 pounds 10 ounces when he arrived!

Here is Maven, Jett and I. Maven and Jett are quite different in hair, eye colour and skin tone, but share the same chin dimple and look quite similar as well.

Maven is caring of Jett, empties his potty and gets dry cloths (flannels) and soothes him. It is lovely.

Here is Jett having a wee on his top-hat potty at about 10 days old I guess. 

He has his first cast on to correct the talipes of his left foot (which will take 7 casts, at the moment weekly, then treatment until he is three years old) 

Talipes - An EC challenge? 

It seems not - his cast is set at the classic EC position, so no problems there. He is a trouper and already dislikes nappies, which he seldom wears, (we use cloths and EcaPants and japanese prefolds at the moment, disposables on some outings) and is giving good eye contact (Giving me the 'eye' - and he has the sweetest little eyes) when he needs to go or making noises and being more active when he needs to go. Just as amazing to do the second time around...plenty of wet things to wash of course, but lots of catches too!

New Tribal Baby on the way!

Here I am at 36 weeks, and Maven rubbing his baby brother!

Talking on 96.5 Radio in Queensland, Australia

I talked to Tanya Gordon on a radio show in Queensland at the end of April, as a result of the article in "That's Life".

"Baby Toilet Training
If you're a new mum, this interview will change your world. It's the best kept secret on teaching your baby to go to the toilet on cue... from birth!
If you missed the interview, you can listen to it now by clicking the link below."

http://www.96five.com/audio/Baby_Toilet_Training.mp3

I am happy with how it went, it was actually a lot of fun, and hope it inspires a few people to give it a go!
I had a 15 minute chat with her. This is the snippet. Although we talked about how it isn't 'toilet training', people simply have no other frame of reference for understanding it, hence the title "Baby Toilet Training".

"Parenting Resource of the Month" at The Natural Child Project 

We are very excited to have been named as "Parenting Resource of the Month" and reviewed on the www.naturalchild.org site for April, 2007. That wonderful gentle parenting resource has been so inspirational and supportive to me. The review can be read at Parenting Resource of the Month

"The Parenting Resource of the Month honours web sites and other resources that provide critical information and encouragement to parents, and which help to promote loving and trusting relationships within the family as a means to a saner and more trusting world"

"That's Life!" Issue 16 April 18, 2007

I had a lovely chat with reporter Katie Brown, of Yoga Babes

She wrote a lovely positive article about our EC experiences for the magazine, which was 'sensationalised' just a little bit by the editors, I am still chuckling over it!! Although positive, it conveyed a false impression of EC being as as simple as removing a nappy and going 'sss'. If only it were that easy, everyone would still be doing it!! EC takes a little more teamwork than that, but is so worth an investment of time and love for the joys it brings.