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Urinating in bedroom

Jenna

Hi I'm new here and looking for some advice, my son is 6 years old and we have struggled with this for 2 years, when my son was 4 I managed to get him out of pullups but straight away I noticed if he wasn't having accidents during the night he was peeing in his bed during the day, after 2 new beds and mattresses I thought we had finally gotten over it but instead he started doing it during the night again not just in bed but anywhere in his room, he also started eating his mattress then peeing in the hole that he had made, after another new mattress around 3 months ago he has now stopped doing it in his bed but is still doing it in his room. Iv found pee in toy boxes, behind the bed, the floor, his clothes even in a pringles tub, I'm at a loss of what to do has anyone else had this and has any advice that may help? I don't think it will be long before I will have to replace his flooring and bed again.

Thank you Blush 

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  • Hi Jenna

    This sounds really challenging and quite extreme. The only thing I have to offer is that I have had issues myself (as an adult) with going to the bathroom, always when I was living in a shared house and therefore a situation where leaving my room and entering a shared area and also potentially meeting a housemate on the way was to be avoided. So I would pee into a vase or whatever. 

    I wonder whether the eating the mattress was about making a suitable hole to hide the pee too?

    I have no idea if it could be as 'simple' as anxiety over the bathroom and/or the public knowledge that he is maybe (in his mind) doing something that he needs to do secretly? Maybe the fact that because of what he does (which no one can help doing) there's also been disruption to his bedroom/bed and that has made him even more anxious? I always felt like my bed was a safe space, the only place to be alone etc. So it's a very emotive area.

    I'm also thinking about my little anxious rescue dog peeing on our bed when we first got him. It's hard to understand how anxiety translates into behaviours, but there's obviously something about the bedroom for him, his private space?

    I hope you get some help with this. Please let us know how it goes.

  • in reply to Molly

    Thanks for the reply, I hadn't thought of him possibly being anxious about something, hopefully I will have someone to speak with soon who can possibly give me ideas to try or help figure it out in some way as it's getting very difficult to keep up with having to replace things all the time, I will post an update when I can :) 

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  • in reply to Molly

    Thanks for the reply, I hadn't thought of him possibly being anxious about something, hopefully I will have someone to speak with soon who can possibly give me ideas to try or help figure it out in some way as it's getting very difficult to keep up with having to replace things all the time, I will post an update when I can :) 

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