Thursday, November 06, 2008
Maybe I'll start calling him Spot.
I'm going to start laying down newspaper for Alex to sleep on if he can't get his bowels under control!!! If I put him in a diaper at night he gets lazy and pees and poops in it.....even in the morning when he is awake!! In which case he's usually kneeling in bed at some funky angle and the diaper leaks everywhere. That's even in the super heavy duty Nighttime diapers! If I put him in underwear he still sometimes lets loose and pees all over. Either way I have washed his sheets pretty much everyday for the past few weeks. I'm tired of it. Maybe a catheter is a good idea!! When I was in the hospital for my back surgery that catheter saved my life!! Anybody know how to insert a catheter in a 3 year-old? Ew, that's gross. Maybe I will have to find some other solution.
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Now, I'm not claiming to be any Dr. Phil or anything like that, but do you make him help you clean it up? Not necessarily say, "there you go, clean up your own mess," but actually make him help you to see what consequence his behavior has? I don't know, just an idea I think I've heard some where....good luck with that! Thank heavens for washing machines..right?!
Yeah, the kid LOVES to help me put stuff in the washing machine. Good idea, but I doubt it'll work for my kid. Poor kid has a major rash on his bum from sleeping in his own pee last night! Maybe that'll teach him.
Stories like that make me happy to keep shelling out the $$ for Clark's diapers!
Well, I hometeach a family whose oldest had spinabifida so although she is now 5, they do know how to cath a 3 year old.
But maybe the better advice would be what we got from a urologist when Libby was peeing the bed. He said it is often because the child falls into too deep of a sleep and is unaware of it. He had three pieces of advice
1. During the daytime make them pee on a very regular schedule. Every two hours, no exceptions.
2. No water for 2 hours before bed time.
3. This one is the hard one. For three months we had to wake her up two hours after she had gone to sleep. We didn't take her to the bathroom, but we had to wake her up enough that she could answer questions and remember them in the morning. This is the time of deepest sleep and it is really hard to wake the kid up.
The idea is to teach them to have their mind in charge of their body. It was painful for everyone involved, but it helped Libby get in control of her body.
Thanks for the info Lee! We will try those techniques. In one way it will be easier for us (kids go to bed so early that we're still awake after he's been asleep 2 hours) and it will be harder (kids go to bed so early that dinner is sometimes far less than 2 hours before bed when he drinks milk). But I think we can make it work. I think he really is trying so I'm trying not to be too harsh.
Ewww....I'm so sorry. This too shall pass. I know it's hell while you're going through it, but one day you'll look back on it and laugh. (Or not.) Best of luck to you. I don't have any awesome advice for you, but I sure wish I did. Sorry.
Cassi had a hard time learning to go through the night. We limited drinks before bed...potty right before bed...and every once in a while I would take her to the bathroom just before I got in bed...usually a couple hours after she had fallen asleep...luckily she always went right back to sleep great. I have also heard that it is an actual medicle thing, escpecially with boys, having a hard time waking when they have to go potty at night.
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