Welcome to a brand new year of life with your baby. We are glad to welcome you to DiaperFreeBaby.org if you are new to this organization, and thank you for being a part of our community if you have been here before. We are looking forward to another exciting year of supporting families in the practice of elimination communication. Last year we initiated our membership drive, which provides a way for everyone to help support our mission at DiaperFreeBaby. This year, we are proud to support our own Christine Gross-Loh, our Infant Pottying Today editor who has just had a new baby and published a book, The Diaper Free Baby. Read a review of that book right here in this newsletter. Christine has been traveling around with her family promoting her book, and will undoubtedly have new insights for us. Look for an article on Traveling and EC in a future issue!

Meanwhile, in this issue, we bring you Angie Donnelson's sweet account of learning about and beginning to practice EC as well as some answers to your questions and some more useful tips. My article about Part-time EC will hopefully inspire you to get started if you are considering EC, and shed some light on the part-time approach in general. Christine's book has so much more on that subject, I can't help mentioning it again!

Finally, we hope you will send responses to our survey to us at Infant Pottying Today. Send your comments, questions, and creative submissions to the Publications department.

We look forward to hearing from you!