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3.5 yo still not wee trained, could there be a physical problem?!

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Nutkins24 · 04/09/2018 15:55

My 3.5 yo dd has been trained for poos reliably for about 1year. Wees were fine for about the 1st 6 weeks but since that time she has basically regressed to constant wetting. She will take herself to the potty at home with no pants on, but that is basically the only time. She had 1st day at nursery this morning and I warned them that she wasn’t reliable and unsurprisingly when I picked her up she’d wet all the spare clothes I’d left, so 2 accidents in 3 hours. When she has pants/clothes on she is happy to just wee in them and stay in wet clothes. She just doesn’t seem to care. Over the year I have tried everything from sticker charts/bribing with sweets/ getting cross/ ignoring and letting her stay in wet trousers/putting her back in nappies and starting over. Literally nothing has worked to date and I’m at the end of my tether. Nursery assistant seemed surprised that she was quite so unreliable and has said they can prompt but I get the impression that they really expect them to be trained at this age. It’s made me feel awful about it all over again. I’m not sure what has gone so wrong. They asked me if she drank lots of water as it ‘came out in a bit of a flood’. The thing is she doesn’t drink a lot at all and I struggle to get her to have drinks. When she does have a normal sized drink I know she will be wetting shortly after. I’m now wondering if she has some sort of physical problem, a tiny or weak bladder or something? She is intelligent, articulate, very physically able in most ways so no developmental delays apparent. On the other hand I do wonder if this is just extreme laziness on her part. She gets very involved in whichever activities she’s doing at the time and I wonder if she simply can’t be bothered to pause and go to the loo. But if that’s the problem I’m not sure how we address it. Any advice or anyone had similar problem with a child of this age?

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sleepismysuperpower1 · 04/09/2018 18:57

perhaps the GP or pharmacist can help? they will be able to let you know if she has a weak bladder etc. good luck!

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