HOW TO PEE STANDING UP WITHOUT A DEVICE

Though lots of the many FUDs on the market today are great, of course the easier, cheaper and more convenient thing for a woman to do is to learn how to empty your bladder in a standing position without any aparatus. In a thorough yet concise manner, this video teaches just that.

SOME HELPFUL BLADDER VIDEOS

It's amazing how simple things can improve your health and solve problems you thought might require drugs or surgery.

Here are two bladder retraining therapy videos, one for women with incontinence problems, and one for women with urinary retention.

THE INCONTINENT DISABLED FINALLY HAVE A VOICE

Prior to the internet and social media, the only time you heard about incontinence in mainstream media was on a telathon, or maybe some shock jock was making fun of it. Now, those who have continence problems finally have a voice. Below are some of the favourite youtube channels I've discovered so far.

First, Luda Gogolushko, a young woman in a wheelchair, talks about wearing diapers in situations where she might not find an accessible bathroom. Follow her links for other videos on this topic.

Next, Andrea Lausell, a young woman with spina bifida, talks about the bladder leakage that comes with this disability. Also follow her links for similar videos.

Next, there's Olivia Robbin, a young woman who has dealt with overactive bladder and bed-wetting all her life.

Then, there's Back In Diapers, a young woman who has become fully bladder incontinent.

LITTLE BABY, BIG POOP, WONDERFUL MAMA

The reasons I love this video:

- the mother isn't afraid to acknowledge what her little one has done;
- she is playful about it, using the word "poopeys";
- she's looking at things from the baby's perspective by asking if the baby feels better;
- she goes to change the baby right away, practicing good hygene and not making the baby sit in it's own waste;
- she doesn't get annoyed or make the baby feel ashamed

SOME GREAT WISDOM AND A MESSAGE SO MANY NEED TO HEAR

Another great edifying post referencing an area of life until recently I hadn't heard discussed in Christian culture.

MAYBE NOT QUITE THE BOTTOM, BUT...

Virtually all toileting issues, in children and into adulthood, are caused by the way we approach baby's elimination needs in the West. Parents put a special garment on a newborn baby, tell them it's OK to wet and soil it, then two to seven years later flip a switch and tell them they have to start performing their functions in the toilet. All the while, the newborn is aware, has control of and is trying to communicate her need to relieve herself somewhere other than her pants, but we in the West have been taught to ignore this particular message from our little ones.

Eventually, the baby learns Mom and Dad aren't going to meet this need and develops a sort of Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to wetting and dirtying her diaper. It's not pleasant, but it's preferable to letting Mommy and Daddy know I have to go, especially since I know my peeing and pooping is a bad thing because they always get my diaper changes over with as quickly as possible and act disgusted. In fact, when I have to poop, I'll only do as much as I have to, get Mommy to change me, do some more later, get Mom to change me again, and finish off my load still later.

Then, parents start toilet training this child.

Most parents mess up potty training by making the child use the toilet, even when she says she doesn't need to relieve herself. This causes children to not develop proper awareness of their elimination needs, to say nothing of the fact they don't gain any level of comfort with elimination being a normal part of life. This problem is only further aggravated when the child starts school and is hardly allowed to go to the bathroom during the day at all.

Therefore, all parents should practice elimination communication, to whatever degree fits their lifestyle. Elimination communication will teach your child to eliminate when they need to, make them comfortable with the act of going to the bathroom and eliminate health problems that can lead to toileting issues in the future, due to the fact constipation (meaning unexcreeted poop in the rectum) can press against the bladder or enter the urinary opening in girls, causing daytime accidents, bed-wetting, leaks, and of course urinary tract infections.

If you are not going to do elimination communication, then at least have an open attitude about bodily functions, from the birth of your child onward if possible. Talk to your baby about what they've done in their diaper. Don't always rush through diaper changes.

Likewise, take your baby into the bathroom with you. Talk about what you're doing in the toilet, by which I don't mean you need to provide graphic descriptions, but at least acknowledge the particular function you are performing or need to perform.

SCREW YOU, STEVE HODGES

Another post motivated for a similar reason to yesterday's post.

Steve Hodges, author of "It's No Accident" clearly either has no clue or is willingly not disclosing the facts about elimination communication in his aforementioned book.

First, for the nine billionth time, elimination communication is not toilet training. It is responding to the natural, human need a baby attempts to communicate to her caregivers from birth, that is, the need to eliminate prompted by the desire not to wet or soil herself, i.e. use a diaper.

Elimination communication is not "nuts", but actually makes perfect sense and is actually the thing that will help prevent the childhood constepation Hodges says cause so many toileting issues in children. Through being made to poop and pee in a diaper, a baby learns elimination is a shameful, in the sense of evil, thing and will tend to only release as much poop into her diaper as she needs to at any given time. Incidentally, this is the reason for what Jamie Glowacki talks about, children having three poopy diapers in one day and then having one big poop a day during and after toilet training.

Also, think about what the baby is being asked to poop into. It's a small garment which severely restricts her stomach, legs and any other area covered by or near the diaper. Just imagine what trying to push a full load into a diaper would be like, even if you hadn't gotten the message that moving your bowels was a bad thing, the results of which must be dealt with using only the barest amount of acknowledgement.

Though of course diet is a factor, we see the above-mentioned reasons for early childhood constipation are much bigger factors.

Also, for only about the seven billionth time for repetition of this line, have XSteve Hodges or any of these other people who dismiss ec as nuts ever lived anyywhere in the huge percentage of the world that practices natural infant hygine or even bothered to do a proper amount of research on this subject.

As to some of Hodge's snide remarks: Firstly, toilet training is not a major life decision. It is simply deciding to put one's poop and pee in an acceptible place, one that is not one's pants. For the nine billionth and first time, elimination communication is simply responding to the signals the newborn or infant is using to tell her mother she has to relieve herself and would like very much not to do it in her pants.

Second, responding to this natural instinct can not at all be compared with a two year old running into traffic, as not wetting or soiling oneself is a primal instinct and traffic, not being a primal part of human existence, must be learned to be avoided.