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Teaching your child self-catheterisation
Teaching a child to use a catheter takes time, just like with regular toilet training. Encourage your child to participate in the bladder emptying as soon as possible. Be calm and methodical and do it on your child's terms.
Make ISC occasions fun
How do you teach your child to empty their bladder using ISC? Well, this is a lengthy process, which requires both time and patience. Of course, it also requires the ability to learn new things and a certain nimbleness of the hands and fingers.
It all starts when your child is a baby lying on the changing mat for catheterisation. From that moment, you should try to encourage your child's interest in their own body and especially for those parts of the body that may have reduced feeling. This way, you increase your child's body awareness and teach them to like their body.
Name the body parts; invent word games; allow the child to feel their own body with their own hands. This can make the ISC occasion more fun.
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