M.O.P. is the short for the Modified O’Regan Protocol.
M.O.P.is adapted from the research of Dr. Sean O’Regan, a paediatric kidney specialist from Ireland, who was on a mission to solve his own son’s bedwetting back in the 1980s
• The holding habit in children is deeply ingrained. When a child is constipated to the point of having accidents, a daily dose of laxative powder will not cut it.
• A key goal with M.O.P. is to make pooping as easy and painless as possible
• Your child should be aiming for that spontaneous poop.
• Your child is working on developing the habit
• Sitting on the toilet for at least 5 minutes, ideally after breakfast and dinner, when the body is most primed to poop.
• Feet planted on a foot stool.
• Before accidents diminish, your child will experience subtle signs of progress, such as:
- fewer stomach-aches
- fewer underwear skid marks
- improved ability to sense the urge to poop
- more spontaneous pooping (other than after an enema)
- less frequent need to pee
- less urgency to pee
If your child has multiple symptoms, do not expect them all to clear up at once:
1. Poop accidents (encopresis) diminish first- within a week nearly all cases resolve within a month.
2. Then daytime pee accidents diminish.
3. Then overnight accidents diminish.
4. The longer the child has been wetting the bed, the longer it takes for the wetting to stop.