A 11-month-old who gags herself AND how to introduce the concept of potty training
The PedsDocTalk Podcast
Dr. Mona Amin
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona I answer two questions.
1. Julie, a mom of a 11-month old, who has questions on what to do when her daughter enjoys gagging herself with her hands
2. Jolene, a mom of a 19-month old, who wants to know if there are certain things she should be doing to start the potty training process or "planting the seed'
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona where each week I answer your questions. |
| 0:05.1 | To leave a message call 954-526-2641 and I may pick your question for a future episode. |
| 0:13.4 | Let's get to our first caller. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi Dr. Mona, my name is Julie and my question for you is I have a 11 and a half month old |
| 0:25.9 | and she has a new found obsession it seems like of trying to gag herself almost and we try to |
| 0:35.9 | replace it with a pacifier but then she's also getting to the age where we would like to we |
| 0:40.4 | her off of her pacifier but she just loves sticking her fingers as far back into her mouth as |
| 0:46.0 | they will go until she's gagging. I wasn't sure if you've seen that before and if you have any |
| 0:50.8 | recommendations on kind of how to manage any of that. Thank you. Hi Julie thank you so much for |
| 0:58.5 | this question. First off I agree kids do some pretty weird things okay. Gagging is part of them |
| 1:04.7 | where you as a parent will say why would you even do that like of course you're gonna gag or maybe |
| 1:09.6 | even vomit but gagging is something that they like to do it's a form of self-exploration you know |
| 1:15.5 | they want to know well if I put my finger down my throat or put this down my throat what's going to |
| 1:20.0 | happen so they look at it as fun and look at it as curiosity right they want to see cause and |
| 1:26.6 | effect and they it's just something for them to do. So first look at it as that right that this |
| 1:32.0 | is a curiosity thing and cause and effect thing so you can better understand where they are coming |
| 1:36.8 | from. My first tip is to ignore the behavior so I want you to not make any facial expressions or |
| 1:44.4 | get upset when they are gagging themselves. I know this can be very hard but sometimes when we |
| 1:49.5 | react you know we make faces or go no no no they do it more it got them attention so you really |
| 1:55.9 | want to make sure that you almost act like you don't care even though you do and you're just |
| 1:59.7 | watching to see what they do. If they keep doing it even after ignoring it just say for a few days |
| 2:05.0 | I would even try five days of really really every caretaker ignoring it then what you can do is |
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