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To not have changed the sheet?

36 replies

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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Lightbulbon · 31/05/2016 11:06

Chill out.

You are over reacting

MagicMojito · 31/05/2016 11:14

I realise how disgusting low maintenance I have become when reading threads like this Grin
It wouldn't even occur to me to change the sheets under these circumstances. I also do the "whack a towel over it" on vomit/poo/wee up on our end of the bed too. Life's too short to sweat the gross stuff Wink

imcrackingup · 31/05/2016 11:18

When DD1 was about 2 weeks old the HV/midwife (can't remember which) found me changing the bottom sheet on my bed in the morning as I'd put DD on my bed whilst I got dressed and she'd leaked poo out of her nappy...
The MW/HV told me off! She told me next time to put an old towel over it - as a new mum you should be resting and have enough to do without worrying about a tiny amount of poo on a sheet...
To this day I am still a bit Shock - I don't think I could actually sleep on poo marked sheet covered with a towel ...but I think it was just her way of making me think about what was important...
A tiny splash of wee on a sheet ... really not worth worrying about...

VioletBam · 01/06/2016 00:45

cracking surely she meant to put a towel on the bed before changing the baby? not to cover up poo with a towel.

DuvetDayEveryday · 01/06/2016 00:49

We do sleep our four year old and he often wets through his pull up. I tend to wake up, notice, and then roll over and go back to sleep until morning. He's not bothered and we're barely bothered other than trying to avoid the wet patch.

We may be slatternly but sleep is sacred.

DuvetDayEveryday · 01/06/2016 00:50

*co sleep

imcrackingup · 01/06/2016 09:33

No violet she did mean sleep on it - told me I shouldn't have bothered to change the sheets...
To be fair it wasn't a huge amount -it was a nappy leg leak that had seeped through a baby grow -so a mark rather than actual poo -if you know what I mean
(and I had a waterproof mattress protector after someone told me about their waters going in bed!)

Princesspeach1980 · 01/06/2016 09:44

My puppy threw up on the end of my bed at 2am last week. I baby wiped and went back to sleep. If I'd changed the bed at that time, I would have been wide awake by the time I'd finished. I'd did change the bedding in the morning though.

pearlylum · 01/06/2016 13:46

My puppy threw up on the end of my bed at 2am last week

That's grim.

I don't allow animals in the bedroom.

BillBrysonsBeard · 01/06/2016 14:30

This wouldn't even be in my radar, it's a bit of wee!

Beneficent · 02/06/2016 18:32

I am quite an anxious person tbh, maybe borderline ocd. Standards are now much lower than they used to be. I used to wipe up spots of dribble and change my sheets every 1/2 days Confused crazy I know.
But I'm slowly becoming more realistic. I had a difficult birth as well but still hobbled around cleaning everyday when my ds was a newborn.

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