I am an airhead

[SKay]

Just venting over a frustrating day.

Today was supposed to be DS's speech/language evaluation. I picked him up about 10 minutes early from school and went over to the hospital. As I pull into my parking space, I remember the order for tests from DS's doc that I was supposed to bring (they told me the tests could not be done without it). Of course I did not have it with me. Then we set out to find the speech/OT dept. We got totally lost. Finally someone walked us through the hospital to the correct place. Since we were 20 minutes late and since I didn't have the order for tests, we had to reschedule. It was hard talking to the woman behind the window because the waiting room was so noisy I couldn't hear her. DS has trouble understanding and following directions, and I'm sure these people were thinking, "Yeah, lady, it's easy to see where he gets it from!!" Anyway, I then had to try to find my way through the hospital again to the parking garage (I had parked at the wrong parking garage). So I feel like I wasted 1 1/2 hours (except I did get some exercise doing all that walking and I do know my way around there and know where to go the next time).

Then there's DD. I really need to check her over more carefully before she goes to school. She has a little cough so I put one of those patches on her chest at night. She hates it so much that I was sure she would take it off this morning. Nope she's still wearing it. Also, she still wets her bed at night so I have resorted to having her wear training pants with plastic pants over them. She woke up during the night last night totally drenched. DH helped her change; then I guess she was fine after that because this morning when she was getting out of the van at school (I had to make her change her shoes first; they were on the wrong feet) I noticed that she still had the plastic pants on. I figured no one would notice. A few hours later, I get a call from the school nurse, saying that DD had fallen in the bathroom and hurt her butt. So I figure the nurse and/or the teacher did see the plastic pants. (She is fine, and no one mentioned the pants.)

Well, that's my day. Sometimes I feel like the stupidest mother there is! ;D

PS If anyone has any ideas on the nighttime training, I'll be glad to take advice. I'm tired of changing sheets every night and am about ready to go back to putting Pull Ups on her.

[Linda]

Hey you can't have my title ;D ;D ;D ;D Your day sounds like something that could happen to anyone!!! I get lost so easily!!! With me when I have a million things on my mind I turn into a total airhead. You had your share today!!

As far as your dd wetting...some kids just do until they outgrow it. It is hereditary. Go back to the pull ups....less headaches!!

[SKay]

Well, you'll just have to defend your title. I'm in contention! ;D (Actually, you don't seem like an airhead to me!)

[Linda]

skay said:

Well, you'll just have to defend your title. I'm in contention! ;D (Actually, you don't seem like an airhead to me!)

Give me 5 or 6 hours of sleep(too little).....I am an airhead ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Kaiti]

Sorry Skay, when I first say the title, I thought it was LINDA ;D ;D ;D ;D

We all have those days. In the past year with having to in and out of hospitals for my FIL and Mike's grandpop, I've been discombobulated trying to find my way around

As far as the training pants, I thought for Mikey we'd have to pull him out of Pre-k. He was doing great from the time he was 2-3, then he just didn't feel like going like a big boy and constantly had accidents.

It's nothing you did, don't blame yourself. When she's ready, she's ready.....unless she's being lazy and not wanting to get out of bed.

Is she scared of the dark? we always keep the bathroom lit by the mirror light so that they can see to get there. That seemed to help Mikey........I think he was scared of the dark, so we've been doing that ever since.

Good luck. And BTW I could share that title too ;D

[finnmom]

Skay, dont feel too bad... I´am a airhead too

I hate the hospital´s, seem´s like there is no logic there, all those sign´s this and that way, and those long corridores

About the training... I´d say give her some time, 4 is not too bad yet, some kid´s do take longer than other´s. How is she doing during day time? Day time wetting is much bigger problem than bed wetting.... I dont know Sorry

[SKay]

linda said:

Give me 5 or 6 hours of sleep(too little).....I am an airhead ;D ;D ;D ;D

Well, I'm usually pretty tired, too. Maybe I can blame chronic sleep deprivation!

I read not to worry about bed-wetting unless it's happening around age 6. I'm just trying to help her along a little, but it doesn't seem to be working. Besides making her use the bathroom before she goes to bed, we tried limiting liquids at night. Once, she didn't have anything to drink after supper, and she still wet the bed. She doesn't get out of bed for anything at night. If she falls out of bed, or if her leg hurts (as it did last night--too much walking at the hospital!) she just cries until we hear her. We still keep a baby monitor in her room for that reason. So I guess until she will get out of bed herself or she can hold it all night, we'll be in this position. She does well during the day. Thanks for the replies.