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No One Told Us

Episode 20: Potty Learning and Supporting Your Child's Pelvic Floor Health with Quiara Smith

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 20: Potty Learning and Supporting Your Child’s Pelvic Floor Health with Quiara Smith, Pediatric Occupational Therapist of @alohaintegrativetherapy Join Rachael and guest Quiara Smith as they dive into this much-requested topic and discuss common issues parents face when potty learning- like constipation, poop withholding, bed wetting and more! They also cover Pediatric Pelvic Health Occupational Therapy and how it differs from other forms of OT for children. Learn what parents can expect from the therapy process and some common pediatric pelvic floor issues that parents might not be aware of and how can OT help address them! Find out if there really is a "perfect age" for potty learning and how to approach potty learning with neurodivergent children. Learn all the signs for readiness for potty learning, the best foods and hydrational supports for your child’s digestion- plus so much more! Quiara Smith has been practicing as an Occupational Therapist for over 13 years in both California and Hawaii, working in various settings and with infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with various medical conditions and diagnoses. Realizing the social, emotional, and psychological challenges that pelvic floor dysfunction and toileting difference places on children and families, Quiara decided to narrow her private practice to exclusively treating children and adolescents with pelvic floor dysfunction and toileting challenges. In 2017, Quiara opened the very first boutique private Pediatric Pelvic Health Occupational Therapy practice of its kind in the United States. She is an expert and pioneer in the field of Pediatric Pelvic Health Occupational Therapy. Quiara has created potty training courses for parents and caregivers, and has also created courses for healthcare providers focused on her holistic and integrative approach to pediatric pelvic floor dysfunction and toileting differences. Quiara is a national and international presenter and speaker on this specialty area of pediatric pelvic health OT practice.  Quiara’s online self-paced potty learning course offered through Tinyhood linked here. Quiara’s 1:1 pediatric pelvic health parent coaching virtually and in person at her Santa Rosa, CA clinic website here.  Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website For more on biologically normal infant sleep and a holistic approach to getting more sleep, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow on instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years,

0:05.0

but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:24.5

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:28.0

Thanks, Canva.

0:33.3

Welcome to the No One Told Us podcast today.

0:35.6

I'm so excited to talk with Kiara Smith, who is a practicing occupational therapist, and she's been practicing for over 13 years in both California and Hawaii, working in various settings with infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with various medical conditions and diagnoses. Realizing the social, emotional, and psychological challenges that pelvic

0:55.4

floor dysfunction and toileting differences place on children and families, Pia R decided to

0:59.9

narrow her private practice to exclusively treating children and adolescents with pelvic

1:04.0

floor dysfunction and toileting challenges. Kiar, thank you so much for joining us today.

1:08.8

I'm so excited to talk about this because this is a topic that I get so many questions about over on my Instagram page, Hey, Sleepy Baby, but I feel like there's also so many people in the parenting space that are giving really out of pocket advice about body training. So I'm always really hesitant to answer those types of questions. And I'm so glad that you're coming on the podcast

1:28.2

today to kind of clear some things up, teach us about pelvic floor, dysfunction,

1:32.8

potty learning, all of these things. And I'm just really excited for you to be here. Thank you so

1:36.5

much. Thank you so much for having me, Rachel. I am so thrilled to be here in conversation with you.

1:42.7

So tell us a little bit about, I know you mentioned

1:45.5

that you kind of noticed that there was a need for this type of specialties, but what got you

1:50.5

interested in starting to share this information on Instagram? That's a great question. So with my

1:55.9

background as a pediatric occupational therapist, I have the training with child development and also pelvic

2:02.9

health, but the everyday parent has no idea. And they shouldn't because it's not something that is

2:10.2

spoken about or there's not that many resources with a focused approach to pelvic health and

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