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[quote=Anonymous]In OP's defense, I used to get urgent/loose-ish bowels from doing gymnastics as a kid. (Never actually diarrhea, but I also pooped reliably once a day, so the overall difference/effect may have been the same.) I absolutely loved gymnastics, was not scared of it and grew out of it. Ped always assured my mom that it was just some people's response to hard exercise (probably, in my case, combined with the manual repeated compression of the stomach area when practicing bars; maybe the water has a similar affect?) and nothing to be alarmed about. He pointed out that lots of long distance runners actually wear diapers for this very reason. Obviously, the hygiene issue makes it different and, in my case, I could always make it to the toilet in time. But I would lay off the assumption that this is torture or that her DD hates swimming/is terrified. In my case, the only thing that helped at all -- and it certainly didn't solve the problem -- was not eating for ~2 hours pre-class.[/quote]

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