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Toilet Posture


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Toilet Posture



• Pooping in a squatting posture is easier. Human beings were designed to squat while pooping.

• Squatting straightens the rectum, letting poop fall out easily. By contrast, sitting upright is like trying to poop uphill. With the rectum bent, poop has a tougher exit.





Anorectal Angle



• What is more, toilets are too tall for children. With their feet dangling, kids often clench their inner thighs and can’t relax

• If your child is on the smaller side, make sure he sits on a kid-sized toilet seat, either a flip down seat or one that you place on the rim.

• When kids sit on an adult-sized toilet, they clench their pelvic-floor muscles to keep from falling in.

• We cannot see them doing it, and they may not even know they are doing it, but I assure you, they are!


- Normal sitting posture on toilet takes 2 minutes and 10 seconds to poo versus 51 seconds in a squatting posture


• Always wipe from the front to the back, new paper for every wipe

• Mouth and lips relaxed, no breath holding. Breathe in and make belly button big. Breathe out and tighten the pelvic floor muscle as you push to poo” The same muscle that will contract when you blow a balloon





Footstool





Wipe From Front to Back



Antoinette Jansen van Vuuren



Suite 13, Netcare Pretoria East Hospital, Cnr Garsfontein Road & Netcare Ave, Pretoria East