Warning: More about John's pee than you want to know

(Title copied from Amy.)

On Monday, I decided to start changing John's diaper in the bathroom instead of on his changing table. It seemed like a good first step in connecting the bathroom with the bodily functions which our society expects to happen therein.

Well, it appears John has already made that connection. Out of the first seven changes in the bathroom over a course of two and a half days, he went #1 or #2 within thirty seconds of me taking off his diaper during all seven of them. By the fourth time, I began to believe this behavior was statistically significant, since he normally doesn't "go" between diaper changes, so Wednesday afternoon I bought six more pairs of training underwear.

We've established a sort of routine: I take him to the bathroom with me whenever I need to go (which is frequent, being a pregnant nursing mamma) and about 20 minutes after a meal. If we're going to go out, I put a diaper on him. He isn't comfortable sitting on the potty seat yet, so I just stand him in the bathtub and wash it out afterwards.

Today, we had two wet diapers (last night's diaper and a diaper we had him in for an outing), a wet pair of training pants, and a dry pair that had stayed dry for a 5.5 hour time period which included two mini naps! Since trainers are so much smaller than diapers, this is equivalent to cutting my laundry to a third compared with a regular day!

Will it keep going? I hope so! With the weather warming up (though today it was 45 degrees!) I won't be needing to put layers on him, making the bathroom trips easier than before. I try to make bathroom time fun since diaper changes were generally quite fun, involving singing, dancing, tickling, rhyming, and kisses. We have bathroom only toys and I always sit in there with him. Now that I've established a routine (unlike Thursday when I was just figuring this out and made many many trips to the bathroom) it doesn't really take any more time than diapering would.