A pediatric urologist explains how the bladder and the brain communicate to wake you up when you need to ‘go’ – and how that communication might break down.
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Doing a ‘just in case’ wee too often, making a lifetime habit of it, can kick off a vicious cycle. You can end up training your bladder to ‘think’ it needs to go when it’s only slightly full.
Vanuatu has banned them outright, while many Chinese families use just one every 24 hours. So why are Australians still sending millions of dirty nappies to landfill every single day?
Opening the minds of worried new parents to other ways of raising children may assuage fears that if they fail to ‘do the right thing,’ their children will be doomed.
The serious science of toilet humour.
An increasing number of parents are choosing to toilet train their children from birth, without using nappies. But how effective is this?
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Senior Clinical Lecturer in Child Psychiatry, University of Aberdeen
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Professor Emerita of Anthropology, African Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Urology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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