It's nearly 11pm and my DD(6) just shat the bed...

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I just need a rant. It's late, I'm exhausted but up ordering groceries for DD's party on Saturday, and she comes downstairs to tell me she's wet the bed. Except in fact she's shat the bed and it's trudged all over the carpet now.
I couldn't even move her into the top bunk like I normally would because her friend 'cannonballed' onto it over the weekend and broke the slats.
So child washed, new load of washing in, carpets scrubbed, sheets replaced. Sigh.
Meanwhile my ex is harassing me about when will my solicitor get back to him (even though it took him 6 months to reply last time!). And stupidly I'm hosting the party even though it's his weekend.

Please come and tell me your horror stories and remind me that it's not all bad. I love them really. I just never signed up to do this alone.

Poo in the wrong place is never ever easy, am so glad mine are well past that kind of thing now. You sound like you dealt with it really well. From one abused single parent to another, I salute you!
Oh and just ignore him, don’t give him the privilege of room in your head.

Huge sympathy from me, what a nightmare.

It’s a LOT harder to keep from seeming exasperated or defeated by something like that when it’s already late, you’re wiped out and there’s no other adult to share the load.

Well done for getting it all cleaned up

Oh poor you!

Oh and my horror story was that on DS’s birthday one year he got so worked up at bedtime about anxiety around the new school term (which started the next day) that he was sick.

He ran from bed into the bathroom and vomited literally all of his birthday dinner not into the loo but into the tiny handbasin, blocking the drain. I spent part of that night and lots of the following day cleaning as much spaghetti bolognese vomit out of the basin as I could by hand, and pouring boiling kettles down it and wearily watching the basin fill up with spag bol tinted sick soup.

You poor thing.

My DS' both came down with a sickness bug a few years ago. Ds1 decided not to vomit all over his bed so I wouldn't have to wash his bedding in the middle of the night. Instead he leant over the side (top bunk). Got it on ds2s sheets, the bed frame, the carpet and in a toy box that had been left out

Oh poor you, op, we’ve all been there! My ds was top of the vomit league, rather than a poo doer. Over his younger years he has vommed into a brand new pair of shoes I had yet to wear (and never did). Vommed all over me as I flung the quilt back for him to get in, as he ‘felt poorly’ in the night, hurled over the entire en-suite, literally everywhere - except the toilet, which remained spotless, vomited down the back of his poor Dads hair during a wriggly road journey in Wales - never got the smell out of the car, was sick all over the School sign outside his Infants school and the winner... on a log flume at a water park... yes, we all had to leave the pool and yes, I still burn with shame 20 years later☹️
Bless him, he drives for a living now - but is still an appalling passenger, goes green at just the thought of someone else driving!
They do, eventually grow out of it! Mostly😃

You ladies are all so super lovely. Thank you for the encouragement and stories (laughed out loud at 'vommed').

It does help to remember that other single parents are doing it too, and we are all amazing!
StrawberryJam yes, I really do need to not give him the headspace. I ignored his texts all day and I'm sure it wound him up. He 'trained' me to jump when he demanded something and it's so hard to get out of that habit.

Sorry, op, forgot to say ... your ex is a git - ignore him!
You’re doing just fine as you are 🍷

bornonasunday yes, he is a git! I needed reminding actually
Why doesn't she ever do it at his house though??! LOL.

This was me a few weeks ago with my almost four year old DD. Poo everywhere her bed, walls, tha landing safety gate, the carpet, her hair.And soft toys.
Then her almost six year old brother wet the bed then my two year old was sick in my bed he co sleeps in,
At midnight I had stripped and remade three double beds and put the second lot of washing on after washing them and settling them.

It is so hard.
Sending much solidarity.
And sod the ex. 💐

Oh my god, stophugging that's insane.
On the slight plus side I have a new vax carpet cleaner that is deeply satisfying to use.