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4-year-old wetting pants
Hi all,
My daughter potty trained last march (when she was 3.25), and it went pretty well, and pretty easily. She's been night trained since May. The last few weeks, she's been having accidents. Just wetting her pants slightly. She has ALWAYS resisted our suggestions to go pee, and so we learned early on to just leave her alone - power struggles were counter productive. She figured it out mostly on her own. She *still* hates it if we suggest she should go pee. She resists it, even if it's been 4 or 5 hours since she last went, and she's about to burst. When we were traveling, (not on the road, but while we were at grandparent's house) it was the worst - she had 4 accidents in 3 days. On the 3rd day, I took things in hand - I figured she was out of her routine, and she didn't know where the bathrooms were as easily, she had Xmas gifts to play with, whatever, but every few hours, I took her pee. She didn't like it much, but grudgingly accepted it. Anyway, we've been home for 5 days, and things are better - only one accident. My husband is annoyed at the situation - she's been trained for so long, and he feels she knows better, and can control it. She DOES have very good bladder control. She can go a LONG time without peeing. For example, she goes pee right before bed, and sometimes waits for a couple of hours after getting up to go pee for the first time (and she's wet the bed exactly once since she was potty trained). When we were traveling, I only insisted she go about every 4 hours. But aside from traveling, she's been wetting her pants 1-3 times per week for the last month. Why now? I've not noticed anything unusual happening. Most of her clothes are easy enough for her to get off herself. Sometimes her accidents happen as she's trying to get her pants down, but sometimes they happen awhile before, and she doesn't say anything. Her accidents are never more than a small amount - never an emptying of her bladder. Anyway, I've told my husband to knock off with the adult expectations, and merely say matter-of-factly "Ok... you had an accident, so now let's clean it up." (it consists of rinsing her pants and underpants and putting them in the laundry), and to drop any judgemental issues. Anyway, can anyone shed light on why this might be happening, so long after she was so completely trained? Cathy Weeks |
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