SO the clock goes off, I slowly awaken, as does my 5 yr old who as per usual has crept into my bed. My bed I have had for only 3 months, the bed I paid over $500 for, my precious soft sided waterbed with the magic fingers box spring.
So Frankie murmurs: “I wet my bed”.
At first I think he must have wet HIS bed, and got in with me after.
WRONG!
My ass is totally soaked, the center of the bed is drenched - this kid has the bladder of a camel!
SO I srceam “Arraaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhh!!!”
And so my day begins.
Its 7:37Am, the kids just left for the bus, and instead of a shower, I get to take my pissy bed apart before I leave for work. I have to unzip the top, remove the foam rubber matress pad which is soaked right through, and then try to remove as much of the urine as possible. I will soak it in ‘febreeze’ and hope for the best.
Mine’s been great, but I won’t gloat. Sorry to hear about your bed. FWIW, I find that the first pee-incident doesn’t usually linger too bad…it’s when you get to #4 or 5 that it really starts getting rank. Is is nice enough out to let it air in the sun? That could help.
Thatwould be a grand idea tater, except its a waterbed, and I would have to pump out all the water first…
And its cold and drizzly today
I told him he is not allowed to sleep with me anymore. He was getting to old anyway, and he is a bed hog. He never wets the bed, so this was a real shock.
At least he didn’t fall asleep on the couch and roll over a wedge of brie, smooshing it deep, deep into the fabric. MisterTot isn’t allowed to eat in the living room anymore…
At least misterTot didn’t shove that Brie into the microwave to “briefly heat it up”, only to forget about it. Can you guess what 4 minutes of 1200 Watt Gamma Rays do to a Brie?
Yup, it will explode and stink up the entire house for three weeks.
I’m so glad I don’t live in a student house anymore - damn idiot roommates
Zette, the ‘magic fingers’ is what keeps me sane! There is a motor attached to the box spring, and like in the old cheezy motel rooms (think 70’s) I go to bed, turn on the timer, and my bed vibrates for up to 55 minutes.
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Its a good bed.
A funny aside. When I saw the title, before reading the thread, I had assumed some cute guy kelli had brought home had a bit of an incontinence problem.
Well, it seemed funny.
I can’t help but wonder, since he doesn’t wet his own bed normally, if sleeping on the waterbed somehow triggered his little bladder.
Distantly related:
Back in college, my freshman year roommate (we’ll call him Jay, since that was his name), had a friend who, as all red-blooded college men, really enjoyed drinking and sleeping with women. He had a problem however, in that he would drink so much that when he went home with the girls he would pass out and then wet their bed!! The strangest part was that he was usually not at all embarrassed about it. He seemed positively proud when he would tell us about it on Sunday mornings. Needless to say, Mr. Wet-the-Bed always needed a new date each weekend.
semi related - how common is bed wetting at that age?
My only experience was with my son. At the age of two, he announced he needed to use the “potty” , and had a grand total of like 5 accidents (just pee) and only during the day and only for the next week. Never again. Not once. Now, I knew this was NOT the normal toilet training experience, but when my brother’s two daughters were still having semi frequent bed wetting episodes up to age 8, I was alarmed.
Ages 5-7 the body is growing faster than the bladder. It is not extremely uncommon for children to have bed wetting and other accidents during this time. Also if a child is a very deep sleeper they might not be able to arouse themselves. Put those two together and sometimes get a constant bedwetter. If it was an extremely abnormal thing then the Huggies people wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of marketing a disposable undergarment for that age group.
Well, one really should not make it an issue to the kid when a kid wets the bed. You could inform him that if he ever does that again that he can’t sleep in the bed.
Otherwise try your hardware store for some products to get rid of urinary pet stains to clean your bed with.
Actually, the magic fingers box spring is near impossible to find now, I inherited this one from my Nanny when they put her in the home last year. She has had it about 15 years, but is just like new. It took a while to gether the cash to replace the matress unit as the ticking was worn right through.
