L on Peanut: Late to the EC game

L · 2022-12-02T19:14Z

My 7mo crawls to me and climbs on me to “notify” me to change her diaper - this has been absolutely wonderful. But how do you get your baby to start signaling/notifying you BEFORE they go rather than AFTER? What should my next steps be? I’ve tried doing EC when she was a newborn-2mo, but to be honest, never figured out her pre-elimination signals. I’ve also been doing sign language with her, since she was a newborn, but she doesn’t sign back or seem to understand as of yet. TLDR: I’m wanting to start EC, but how do I get my 7mo to signal me BEFORE she goes rather than AFTER?