All of my kids came potty trained. All 8 of them. However, we've had our fair share of bed wetting. Bed wetting can be perfectly normal. Some kids don't stop wetting until after age 9. (9 is when urologists start running tests to rule out issues.) I have family members who wet until 11.
But where trauma is concerned it can often be situational and correlate with anxiety, stress and visits. (And I don't care how good of a parent you think you are, your kid will pee on the floor at some point right while you watch.)
Sarah has struggled on and off with wetting since I've known her. It was something she worked on with the previous foster family and she was mostly dry. She wet on and off when she came here and then when her bio parents were really inconsistent and contact was more frequent we had a lot of wetting. She never saw the relationship between the wetting and the phone calls or visits but I sure did.
Then we moved and we were mostly dry again, unless there was a visit coming up or had just happened. But then May hit and the delay and the case and she began wetting daily. Since she had such shame in it she began hiding the pee soaked sheets and pee soaked pull ups. Shoved in drawers, closets, and even the backpack that went to camp. It was maddening! It was fear based and she felt unsafe but it was still maddening!
So the last visit with Sheila was Saturday. Friday night she wet so bad her pull up and sheets were soaked. Saturday (Bio Dad's last visit) was better but also wet. She has been dry since. 4 days in a row.
Coincidence? I think not.
But where trauma is concerned it can often be situational and correlate with anxiety, stress and visits. (And I don't care how good of a parent you think you are, your kid will pee on the floor at some point right while you watch.)
Sarah has struggled on and off with wetting since I've known her. It was something she worked on with the previous foster family and she was mostly dry. She wet on and off when she came here and then when her bio parents were really inconsistent and contact was more frequent we had a lot of wetting. She never saw the relationship between the wetting and the phone calls or visits but I sure did.
Then we moved and we were mostly dry again, unless there was a visit coming up or had just happened. But then May hit and the delay and the case and she began wetting daily. Since she had such shame in it she began hiding the pee soaked sheets and pee soaked pull ups. Shoved in drawers, closets, and even the backpack that went to camp. It was maddening! It was fear based and she felt unsafe but it was still maddening!
So the last visit with Sheila was Saturday. Friday night she wet so bad her pull up and sheets were soaked. Saturday (Bio Dad's last visit) was better but also wet. She has been dry since. 4 days in a row.
Coincidence? I think not.
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