Question
My son is already over five months old, and our whole family has been Troubled (concerned) about his potty training issues. We don’t know how to make him urinate smoothly when we help him with it. He often cries in pain when we try to change his diaper, but if we don’t, he often wets his pants or the bed. We rarely manage to successfully help him defecate. What methods can we use to train him?
Answer
Training a baby for defecation is not an easy task. This month, parents should continue to train the baby for defecation but pay attention to the difference between urination and defecation. When a baby is about to have a bowel movement, they usually show different expressions from their usual ones, at which point parents can predict that the baby is about to defecate. For babies who have bowel movements smoothly and effortlessly, parents may find it difficult to grasp the timing of defecation, sometimes even discovering that the baby has already defecated only after smelling the odor. If you can master the baby’s defecation time or observe that the baby has a special expression, combined with being close to the time of defecation, this is when you can hold the baby for a bowel movement.