You can save money by going diaper-free, but I promise you that you will end up spending much, much more in psychiatric bills both for you and your baby at a later time. I believe that this emphasis on early toilet training will create a child who is fixated on "the anal", what Sigmund Freud called obsessive compulsive disorder. Children are programmed inherently, neurologically to develop speech, walking, crawling and toilet-training. We, as caretakers, can encourage them in their endeavors. However, if we become wrapped up in when they accomplish those milestones, we really deprive the child of their accomplishment, because it will be our ego that is at stake. I think this is essentially a destructive path for the child and the parent.

As I have said, you might save a few dollars on diapers, but you will create a very fixated, tense home life. And how do you plan to take care of the night time sleeping hours? Children are not neurologically equipped to get up at night to answer "the call of nature." I think you are going to create a very dependent child, who is going to be dependent on the parent for cues in development, rather than responding to his/her own inner neurological triggers.

Now, in 1975, I used a diaper service. They brought the clean cotton diapers to me and I found this to be a very nice option. I was surprised to find out that my daughter didn't know about pullup cloth plastic pants for her toddler. This is a nice option for toddlers and parents.

Remember that the author who wrote about this, Ingrid Bauer, originally observed this behavior in India and Africa, where the mothers carry their babies around with them all day long. Very different from what is culturally observed in the Western world.