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Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame... by UncleMeat on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:52AM (#47297804)
You can try it. Parents should try what they want and there is a huge amount of "you must do it this way or else" material that just produces unnecessary stress.

My observation is that there is limited research showing that this actually works and that the amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby for these cues makes the already extremely difficult task of caring for a baby just more difficult, even if it did work.

Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame... by em-bee on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:34AM (#47298157)
the amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby [...] makes [...] caring for a baby just more difficult

you learn a lot more about your baby than just elimination cues by observing it. i'd argue that that effort is not difficult at all and has a lot of other benefits. see attachment parenting.

you are right about "you must do it this way or else" producing unnecessary stress though.

Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame... by UncleMeat on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:02PM (#47300043)
It is true that you can learn a lot by observing babies. Observing them constantly so that you don't fail to miss these cues is a bigger task.