Portable Pediatrician, Second Edition: A Practicing Pediatrician's Guide to Your Child's Growth, Development, Health, and Behavior From Birth to A by Laura W. Nathanson

Author:Laura W. Nathanson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780061983634
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2009-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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HINTS FOR POTTY USE

Don’t get a potty with a penis guard. They inevitably bump and scrape and hurt.

Once the basic task has been learned, make a game of peeing in other receptacles, such as a bucket or specimen cup, or outdoors, behind a tree. Children can become very fixated on the idea that the potty is the one and only right place.

Beware constipation; it can make peeing as well as pooping difficult, because the hard stool presses on the bladder.

Make sure that when the adult toilet is used the child has a smaller inset seat so he doesn’t feel at risk of submersion. And make sure that there is a place for him to rest his feet so that they don’t dangle. He’s got to have them braced so that he can push out the stool.

Fear of pooping can arise from the splash the stool makes in the adult toilet. A solution is to start with or return to the potty.

Teach a little girl to wipe in front first so as not to carry germs from rectum to vagina and urethra. However, be sympathetic: until about age five or six, her arms are too short to accomplish this feat. You’ll have to help out and be philosophical about hygiene.

Beware toilet cleanser ads on TV. Would YOU sit down bare bottomed on something that had a monster inside it?

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