Your 4-year-old tells you she saw some red stuff on the toilet paper when she wiped her bum. Your 4-week-old has blackish-red specks and mucus in her poop. Your 8-year-old wants to know why the water in the toilet looks pink after he pooped. Your 14-year-old says he's having blood in his poop but he feels fine. Your 6-year-old has had a stomach bug and now has some red stuff mixed in with his poop.
No matter how old your child is and even if you
After your baby is about 3 weeks old and you know she is gaining weight well, her poop frequency may start to change. This is often alarming for parents because their infant goes from having a bowel movement every time he eats to skipping a day or two between them.
Most babies this age are fussy intermittently anyway and parents associate this change in bowel habits to the fussiness so they e-mail or call me for advice.
I've got some good
Most kids finish up potty training by about 3 years of age. Nighttime dryness may take much longer to achieve, but daytime accidents should be few and far between.
This week I saw a 6-year-old girl in the office who had been having daytime urine accidents on a regular basis for a couple of years. Her family had moved into a new house just before the accidents started and she had started attending a new preschool, too. Her parents assumed
Every fall I have several children between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who come in because they are peeing all the time. The parents report the child will feel like he has to go every 10 or 15 minutes all day long and often will only have a little bit of urine each time. The typical child will still be sleeping all night but will start going very frequently as soon as he wakens and not stop until bedtime. It can be very disruptive to the
Once your child has moved beyond the earliest time of food introduction, the next hurdle in the world of poop is potty training. Potty training is a time when children learn to hold in their poop at times and release it at others, so it's no small wonder that sometimes this process goes awry.
A variety of things can go wrong when a child is learning to poop on the potty. Some children may like the power of withholding stool because it so
Once your child has moved beyond the earliest time of food introduction, the next hurdle in the world of poop is potty training. Potty training is a time when children learn to hold in their poop at times and release it at others, so it's no small wonder that sometimes this process goes awry.
A variety of things can go wrong when a child is learning to poop on the potty. Some children may like the power of withholding stool because it so
