Willie it really sounds like your daughter is going to be healthy and happy, but we stress over things more when they are small like - six because we are scared of the future.

She well understood you and she will make the change.

Normal kids pee in the pool by the way, and as for the poop well how often have we heard of e coli contamination on our food (lettuce, broccoli seed sprouts, undercooked hamburger. People need to get a grip - that is why they put chorine in pools anyway.

And it sounds like it was a busy two days for her. Even now all three of my family have to pace themselves. Their energy is in short supply - you have a big day one day and they all crash around here the next.

Willie I wrote another blog and left the to willie on the bottom, please forgive me, for about that time I was about to change it things started happening around here.

Hi Willie;
I think that they feel like they are going to have a bowel movement most of the time down there anyway. I think they have constant pressure, to the point that they may ignore it, and miss their cues when they really do need to go. Suddenly there is actually a BM and they are just as surprised as everyone else. The pool may have relaxed her enough to loosen her up, but she probably thought it would result in nothing as usual, and then by the time she was actually having a bowel movement it was too late.

I don't think the medical people have anything that helps the lower colon - spastic colon, I think they call it. Plus BM cycles from loose to hard to loose. Most of the time for my son it was always hard. They try to go, strain to go, and nothing. I'd be careful that they don't learn to just sit and strain, that straining can result in hemoroids on down the road at a young age. It is best to teach them in the very beginning not to strain, if it don't come it don't come. They live with a lot of pain, I think.

My son even now that he is 25 knows were all the bathrooms are every where he goes. If I send him to Lowes he spends half of his time in the bathroom. I don't know if it is nerves or what at this point, but he has got good at reading his body function cues. He has learned.

Your daughter is only six, and you said she has been doing very well. It may not happen again because she may have learned from this experience not to take such a chance of relaxing so much the next time. She sounds very high functioning. Have you been able to talk to her about this?

Also something I never understood was the pee. Later when my son was trained and much older, we would be going down the road and he was suddenly say he needed to go and go bad. We could go from peaceful alright with the world to urgent got to go right now! I've had to stop on the side of the road many of a time. So, either he did not communicate it earlier or he didn't get the signal from his brain to his bladder untill it was urgent.

We did discuss this, that perhaps he should pay attention when he was a little need before it gets to be a big need.

Then he would pee on himself sometimes at school a very rare event but it did happen several times. The school would call me to bring fresh clothes.

When he was 15 and during a big cross country move he started peeing on himself all that summer. Not a lot, just little constant tinkles. But he was changing his pants and underwear a lot, and were he changed them smell strong of urine. By the time that school started though he had quite --- thank God. But I now know all of that was seizure activity.

Benedetta

Summer was always a time for me to catch my son up for all the missed stuff at school, he got lost in a crowd of other kids. (chalk in the veins - here too)

Summer: We read series of books and relaxed doing it, We worked on math, and worked more on better diet(eating from the garden/lots of salmon patties)- not much flour or sugar though I did not know it was a problem at the time only thought maybe, but I was reading Rimland, Atkins, Ketonic diet and all that at the time.

Best of all summer time was less stressful and he was always less sick. We bought an above ground pool and taught him to swim (more vit D).
We bought both the kids a well trained old mare and more vit D and improved balance.

There was a time that I thought my son would never ever be potty trained.

There was time that I thought my son would never talk.

There was a time when my son had unrecognized type seizures, and I thought perhaps there was to much brain injury. One ped even wrote in the medical records when he was 12 years old that he would probably have to be institutionlized.

There was time when the schools tried to put him in the worse of behavorial classes (I did not see it myself ever - Most times I think the schools are looking for a couple of students to fill in a quota of class size - You know they have two potential murderers and they need four more students to be with them. But anyway my son was always in special ed classes sometimes never being mainstreames in any other classes.

Now he has gone to a community college and passed all his classes for electronics, He has taken other classes he was interested in like law enforcement, psychology, writing (of all things!)

He drives.

Yesterday at age 25 he took his first day trip, alone, 75 miles away, to his home town, to his best friend's wedding (another miracle), and danced with the bride !
Yes, it made the whole family nervous all day long; worried grandparents, sister, aunts and parents.

The day before he was helped by his father and I to pull "His" first troubled calf. It did not end well, but he took it like a man!