Another celebrity mom is singing the praises of the process of elimination communication with her infant. Rumer Willis recently talked about using the early potty training method with her 8-month-old daughter, Louetta. But she’s not the only one. Bachelor alum Bekah Martinez also recently shared that she was trying elimination communication with her infant son. The process encourages parents to learn their infant’s bathroom cues to reduce their reliance on diapers, and Rumer called the experience of connection with her daughter "validating."
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Rumer has expressed interest in cloth diapering but is also trying this method.
Appearing on a new podcast called The Village, Rumer shared that she had an interest in trying cloth diapers but hadn’t gotten to it just yet. She then explained that she was trying elimination communication as a potty training method with baby Louetta.
Her partner wrote Louetta a potty song.
"It's incredible. It's so validating," Rumer said. She shared that she and partner Derek Richard Thomas even got her a baby-sized potty, adding, "Derek even has a little potty song he plays for her."
After some coaxing from host Nicole Trunfio, Rumer relented, singing, "Poopin' on the potty … poopin' on the potty … elimination … communication."
Rumer recognizes the privilege she has to be able to try this method.
"It's all about taking your baby's cues," Rumer said of the method. "Mind you, I have the privilege right now that I've gotten to spend every day with her. I haven't had to go back to work, so I totally understand that there are challenges that way."
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She's figured out how to learn her daughter's cues.
She shared that she and Derek noticed Louetta would "make these funny faces and she would start to furrow her brow and her mouth would look like she was sucking on a straw."
She imitates the face before adding, "And then, I would hear her poop and it was super loud. So then we got this little potty and when she would make the face, we would just pull her diaper off and sit her on it."
She calls the process 'delightful.'
"Now if I can catch it, it's so delightful," she said. "Babies have bodily awareness, so they don't want to poop themselves. We train them out of it by putting them in diapers and look, there's no way I can catch all of her pees. They don't make a cue for it, or maybe they do if you're super, super aware.
"But I try to get as many as I can and it's awesome," she added. "I think it's so great."
