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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intense exercise, including swimming and running, has been known to get all systems moving.  I know adults who have had fecal incontinence during a race, for example.

The question others have raised, some not so nicely, is why you continue to put your child in such an intensive situation that it's leading to this level of incontinence.  If she's now had this same intense "survival" class three years in a row and still can't swim, it sounds like you need to find a different type of lesson.

The solution is not a large swim diaper.  The solution is to stop doing this class.  That seems like a no-brainer.[/quote]

I really don't want to sound heartless and I completely understand your responses, but as I just said above I really don't believe she is terrified or that these lessons are traumatic.  I now wish I had not brought up the survival class detail, but I thought it would was relevant as to why we had her in this class at age 1.5.   I think PP's point about intense exercise causing systems to move is probably spot-on.  We've already seen that with DD - she also poops every single time we go to a trampoline park or bouncy house place, and usually when playing in the yard and riding bikes.  She's a frequent pooper anyway - like 2-4 times/day at a minimum.  So maybe this is just a result of an intense 30 min. swim session.  I swear, I'm not torturing my child or placing her in near-drowning situations.  We moved to the South, though, where almost every home has a private pool in the back yard and it's imperative that she develop strong swimming skills as a safety precaution.  [/quote]

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