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Hello and welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today's topic is very

specific, really important if it's something that you're going through or something that you might

be having trouble with and a little bit hard to talk about and it's poop. So we're talking about

issues that go beyond the typical experience of body training. We're talking about children who

really withhold stool purposefully, children who soil constantly, that's endcoprisis, where there

are just so many accidents and so many problems that it's becoming prohibitive for school,

for camp, for day-to-day family experiences. And that's when people call on Dr. Frederick Dom

who is a professor of pediatrics and a clinical scholar at the School of Medicine at SUNY

Stony Brook in New York. He's also been a professor at Yale NYU and Cornell. He's on the medical

advisory board of the pull-through network and organization for families of children with

fecal incontinence. He's very focused and passionate about helping families get through those

difficult experiences when poop is the center of the conversation. And let me tell you some of the

strategies and some of the conversation feels kind of counterintuitive if you're not dealing with

a child who's withholding or has endcoprisis. And that's because Dr. Dom is dealing with

trying to solve a problem that is so hard for other physicians and for families and for

psychologists. And so his approach is pretty radical and helpful. And I wanted families to get

to hear from him in case you're experiencing this kind of difficulty. When kids have problems

with their digestion, when kids have problems with their bowel movements, when kids have discomfort

in their bodies, it's near impossible to separate behavior from that discomfort or social

interactions or confidence or academics. So this is definitely something to grab a hold of if it's

something you're struggling with. And it was a really interesting conversation with Dr. Dom in

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