Hi, this is Janet Landsbury. Welcome to Unruffold. Today I'm welcoming pediatric

urologists Steve Hodges to the show. He's an MD, he's associate professor of

pediatric urology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and many of the

common issues that parents ask about. I'm going to be asking him today.

Potty training, constipation issues, bed wetting, accidents, refusal to use

the potty, preschool requirements and more. His website is bed wettinganaccidents.com

and it's an invaluable resource for parents, medical professionals, therapists

and teachers and their original materials, respect, children's feelings and

intelligence and are grounded in rigorous scientific research. I'm really

looking forward to hearing from Dr. Hodges on all these important issues.

Hello Dr. Hodges, thank you so much for being here. Oh, thanks for having me. Thanks for knowing.

Well, I know you have a very busy day, so I really appreciate your time and I

have of course a zillion questions I would love to ask you because the topics

that you have expertise in are of very great concern to so many the parents I

work with. There's so many common questions that I would like us to try to cover,

but I thought I'd like to start with you telling us a little bit about your

very unique perspective on bowel and bladder and all things potty issues and

how you came to it. Yeah, so this is an interesting story. I could talk about it

for a long time, but I'll try to put it into a short synopsis. Or early on when I

trained, I learned the traditional teachings regarding what we call dysfunctional

elimination or bowel bladder dysfunction, which is that kids get constipated. They

have a dysfunction in their pelvic floor and it causes accidents. The treatment

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