It's Not Your Fault!: Strategies for Solving Toilet Training and Bedwetting Problems

by Joseph Barone

Overview

Millions of children over the age of five wet their beds every night. Many parents think they must be doing something wrong when their five-year-old is still in diapers while their friends’ children are perfectly trained by eighteen months of age. This undoubtedly is a very embarrassing and frustrating problem for both the parent and child, and can interfere with family dynamics and a child’s ability to enjoy ordinary social situations.  

It’s Not Your Fault! offers evidence-based strategies for parents who need assistance with toilet training and helping their child with urinary control issues. Dr. Joseph Barone, M.D., provides proven techniques that bring bedwetting to a happy conclusion. Frequently, parents are misguided by bad advice from friends, TV talk shows, the Internet, or parenting books. With many years of clinical experience, Dr. Barone shares valuable, practical information for parents to guide them through the basics of toilet training and bedwetting, and presents management plans to resolve any difficulties that occur. A comprehensive guide, this book covers everything parents need to know about normal toilet training and bedwetting, as well as step-by-step solutions based on testing and research in a real-world setting to help children suffering from delayed toilet training, bed wetting, and daytime urinary wetting.

It’s Not Your Fault! provides hope and guidance to those desperate to help their children overcome urinary control and toilet training problems. Dr. Barone sets parents on a course that makes things better for both themselves and their children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813573755
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	02/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	927 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

JOSEPH BARONE, M.D. is chief of Pediatric Urology at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and medical director at the Pediatric Continence Center at The Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

About Me

About This Book

1.      Toilet Training Ingredients

Understanding your child’s urinary system

The journey of a drop of water

The kidneys

How much water should my child drink?

The ureters

The bladder

How to determine your child’s proper bladder size

The urinary stopper muscle

Review of the basics

2.      Toilet Training

What You Need to Know to Successfully Toilet Train Your Child

Why is development important for toilet training?

The evidence behind breastfeeding and development

Evidence-based potty training information

The history of potty training

Why are children potty training so late?

Parent- versus child-directed method of toilet training

What is the ideal time to toilet train your child?

How to spot signs of toilet training readiness

The most important thing to know about toilet training

How to Toilet Train Your Child

The basic equipment of toilet training

Daytime potty training

Nighttime potty training

What to do when things go wrong

3.      Bedwetting

How to stop bedwetting and become a bedwetting slayer

How common is bedwetting?

Can bedwetting be treated?

Why do some parents wait so long to treat bedwetting?

How long does it take to outgrow bedwetting?

Bedwetting fact and fiction

Bedwetting alarms

How does the alarm work?

Types of alarms

Bedwetting companies

Before you begin to use the alarm

My secret method for stopping bedwetting

Is your child a zombie?

Wake up your zombie

Give your zombie a code word

4.      Daytime Wetting Problems

Basics of day wetting

How common are daytime potty training problems?

Urinary frequency and urgency

Lazy bladder in children

Giggle incontinence

Daytime potty problems could mean toilet training is incomplete

How to stop daytime potty problems in your child

A timed voiding strategy that works

5.      Medications

Introduction to medications for potty training problems

Nighttime control medications

DDAVP®

Imipramine

Medications for daytime potty problems

Anti-cholinergic

Ditropan®

Detrol and Vesicare®

Oxytrol®

Alpha-blockers

Flomax®

Antibiotics

Ritalin®

Anti-inflammatories

6.      Tests and X-Rays

Urine analysis

Urine culture

Ultrasound

Biofeedback

Uroflow

VCUG

Urodynamics

7.      Bonus Expert Interviews

Dona Schneider, PhD

Eileen Creenan, RN

Patricia Whitley-Williams, MD

8.      Alternative Treatments

Are there good alternatives?

Acupuncture

Enemas

Hypnosis

Chiropractic

9.      Common Questions from Parents

Toilet training

Daytime wetting

Bedwetting

Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

"A practical, informative and easy-to-read guide which demystifies bedwetting and offers tools to help both parents and children overcome this stressful and embarrassing condition."

— Murali K. Ankem, MD, FACS, ULP Urology, Chairman of Urology, Louisville School of Medicine

“Dr. Barone takes on a subject that has befuddled pediatricians and parents for years. He does this in a straight forward fashion that parents can understand and easily apply to their children’s problems.”

— John P. Gearhart, MD, FAAP, FACS, Robert D. Jeffs Professor of Pediatric Urology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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