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AIBU?

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To not have changed the sheet?

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Beneficent · 31/05/2016 02:02

Just changed my ds's nappy on a change mat at the end of my bed. He rolled off of the change mat as usual - but before I'd had a chance to wipe - so a smallish spot of pee was left on the sheet. It's 2 in the morning and I'm shattered as usual. As he co-sleeps and I want to get him back to bed asap I sprayed with some disinfectant and vigorously wiped then dried with a fan heater. I feel like a complete tramp! AIBU to not change the sheet???

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Magstermay · 31/05/2016 02:04

Small spot of wee will be dry before you can change it YANBU. If you left a poonami, definitely a tramp

Ineedmorelemonpledge · 31/05/2016 02:05

Yanbu - get some sleep!!!

I've just woken on the sofa (broken leg) and come up to bedroom to find all my ironing in piles on the bed - I forgot about it earlier.

Am seriously contemplating sleeping on it!

Champagneformyrealfriends · 31/05/2016 02:06

YANBU! I know people who have slept with their dc poo on the bottom sheet (not me!). I've slept when she's wee'd on it once too. I think I just rubbed it with a baby wipe

WiddlinDiddlin · 31/05/2016 02:06

Is it where your face is going to go?

No.

It's fine then.

YANACT...

If it was POO obviously you'd be taken out back and shot for not immediately incinerating mattress, sheets, carpet, partner, entire house..

Its a tiny droplet of wee. You've probably added more wee to the mattress after a good sneeze. Relax!

SalemSaberhagen · 31/05/2016 02:12

Certainly not, just go back to sleep!

I may or may not have put a towel over sick right by my head when my cosleeping DD was a baby because she had gone back to sleep and I didn't want to wake her!

GingerMerkin · 31/05/2016 02:24

Can't think of anything nicer than cuddling up to a DC with or without a small pee mark. Go back to sleep and enjoy.

Iknownuffink · 31/05/2016 02:36

Go back to sleep and snuggle up with your child.

Original poster

Beneficent · 31/05/2016 02:43

Thanks all for your replies. I realised that I was probably overreacting by worrying about it and then creating a mumsnet account (longtime lurker) to publicly freak out about it. I usually wash everything straight away which is probably why I'm always tired and therefore more anxious and paranoid! But we're mums, not stepford wives after all! Have a great night!

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FoxesSitOnBoxes · 31/05/2016 02:52

Get some sleep OP! Night night (our bed also probably has a bit of wee on it)

enterYourPassword · 31/05/2016 03:41

Not unreasonable.

As for "if it was poo", I think it depends how much!

I've slept on a towel on top of puke when our boy threw up for the umpteenth time in our bed and DH and I were too tired to care.

VioletBam · 31/05/2016 05:25

Fan heaters? Vigorous scrubbing? It's a spot of baby pee...not the piss of a drunken and diseased man.

Me624 · 31/05/2016 05:56

I'm amazed you'd even think of changing it in the middle of the night admittedly my standards have dropped somewhat since having a DC of my own. DS (12 weeks) has peed or brought up milk on the bed more times than I can count and it's sometimes days before it gets changed

Adnerb95 · 31/05/2016 06:23

Relax- you and DS will survive a spot of wee!

Sofabitch · 31/05/2016 06:36

To be honest if at the end of the bed and after a good scrub with baby wipe at that time i doubt I'd even change a poo sheet. Towels cover a multitude of sins for a few hours.

NavyAndWhite · 31/05/2016 06:38

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pearlylum · 31/05/2016 06:58

While a small spot of baby pee wouldn't worry me, I'd have given it a quick wipe with a tissue or something, I do find it odd that the OP
" sprayed with some disinfectant and vigorously wiped then dried with a fan heater" then find time to have a conversation on Mumsnet.
It would have been quicker to change the sheet?

NannyPlumsRuleofThumb · 31/05/2016 07:05

You sound very anxious OP. It's wee not nuclear waste.

lornathewizzard · 31/05/2016 07:17

Be kind to yourself OP. Anxiety is a bitch.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 31/05/2016 07:37

In the exhaustion of toddlers/babies and night waking - I may have put a large, folded bath towel over the wee patch of a toddler's wet bed in the middle of the night, rather than change the sheets. It's the exhaustion that does it- it's bone-crushing. As long as they're changed in the morning, it's fine imo.

Kariana · 31/05/2016 07:48

I sprayed with some disinfectant and vigorously wiped then dried with a fan heater.

Sheesh we'd have been lucky if I'd even wiped it with a baby wipe at the time. It's a tiny spot of wee, life is too short, sleep is too precious and babies do far worse directly onto your clothes/skin/hair all the time.

JacquesHammer · 31/05/2016 10:39

Christ I'm not even sure I would have changed the day after for a "spot of pee"

ImperialBlether · 31/05/2016 10:41

It's a spot of baby pee...not the piss of a drunken and diseased man.

Ivegotyourgoat · 31/05/2016 10:45

To be honest a wouldn't even bother changing it at all for a bit of baby wee.

I've had wee and sick on my bed from baby ds and unless it's loads I'd only change it when I usually would have.

avocadosweet · 31/05/2016 10:58

I've put a towel over baby sick and baby wee many a time. Probably baby poo too tbh. We have a waterproof sheet on the bed so it's not soaking in. If it was body fluids from a child or adult I'd change it asap though.

SolomanDaisy · 31/05/2016 11:01

Disinfectant and a fan heater sound a bit much for 2 am! It would probably have been as quick to change the sheet. I wouldn't have bothered doing either and certainly wouldn't have lost any sleep over it. Are you feeling anxious generally?

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