to think this school nurse is having a laugh

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So, we need to measure how much wee 4yo DD1 does in one wee. I asked the school nurse how to do this and she told me to just get a cheap jug from poundland and ask her to wee in it.

Is she having a laugh? How do you get a four year old, who is nervous around the whole weeing thing anyway, to even wee in a jug, never mind do a normal sized wee?

If the whole wee in jug/potty/plastic bag on loo is proving problematic. If your DD is in pull-ups, weigh pull-up before you put on, (try to gauge when she's had a wee - big glass of water?) and weigh after.

Ask your local surgery for one of their disposable chamber pots. They sit on the toilet then you put the seat down when you rush her to the toilet don't let her look just get her on the toilet and you have caught the wee.

When I joined a new GP practice I was asked to bring in urine samples for myself and DD. Nearer the appointment time I suddenly wondered how I was going to get DD's. So I went in and said that I needed a urine sample for a 4 year old. Receptionist did'nt even ask what it was for or if I was a patient in the surgery. Just gave me a cardboard "cowboy hat" and I put it under the lid. So maybe your practice could help?

we had to do this with dd1 after referral to the enuresis clinic. for two whole months, whiilst we tried to measure and then increase her bladder capacity.

we didn't have much bother, tbh. every time she went for a wee, i held the jug in the toilet and she sat on the loo and peed as normal. it's just wee. you can wash your hands if/ when you get splashed.

with ds1 it was far easier. they didn't bother with peeing in a jug, they just sent him for an ultrasound and did the pg woman bucket of water trick and measured his bladder before and after peeing. much less faff.

dd1 was 5 and ds was 5 or 6.

should add dd1 peed in her pants pretty much every day at this point. she'd come out of school gleefully trailing a placcy bag of wet stuff and wearing the school spares.

she wasn't nervous about the toilet. she still peed in the jug as well as her pants.

imvho, measuring pee is an entire waste of time. i fully understand the whole bladder capacity issue, but the only way they try and build it up is to tell you drink more. and if you've got a child who wets their pants anyway, (and doesn't give a monkeys) then all you are doing is getting more wet pants. there's no increase in bladder capacity or control.

i can see it working for children who try really hard not to wet because they find it uncomfortable, and for those who run to the loo because they are desperate. but for kids who really couldn't care less if they were sitting in a puddle, it makes bugger all difference. it might be an interesting number on a chart, but doesn't solve anything.

it's v common to get you to do it though.