Please don't make fun. Bed wetting?

JaysensMom

This is my second pregnancy and I've been waking up in the middle of the night to go potty for about a week. I usually get up 3 times a night at least. This morning I woke up and thought it was so odd I had only gotten up once last night and slept the whole night. My pants felt cool and I noticed I peed myself! I was mortified. I haven't peed the bed since I was a little kid. I'm so upset about it. I think I must've just been in a heavy sleep. Has this happened to anyone before? Honestly? I'm just so embarrassed I don't know how it happened.

vvbaby2015

This has not happened to me but can understand why you would be upset/embarrassed/ disturbed. Hugs! Chalk it up to pregnancy problems. Im sure now you will be up peeing all the time!

emslade982

Definitely a pregnancy thing! Hugs! No need to be embarrassed.

queen_frostine

Honestly, I wet the bed fairly regularly until I was around 12... and a few times even older during special circumstances, usually when I was sick. It happens. If you haven't started kegels already, you can try that. The idea that bodily control is some kind of virtue is crazy - we're going to lose control of our bodies in all sorts of ways. This may not be one that people talk about a lot, but it seems to be fairly common at least later in pregnancy. Thanks for sharing with us so that your "embarrassment" can help others feel more normal during this time when our bodies go all out of whack.

TKaiser91

I haven't peed the bed...yet...but I have peed myself multiple times when I'm "praying to the porcelain gods"! It's embarrassing and DH has been there a few times for it so it was almost more embarrassing those times but I just chalk it up to one of those pregnancy symptoms nobody talks about and try to laugh it off later lol

JaysensMom

Thanks ladies! I was so embarrassed. It was terrible. Thankfully it hadn't creeped up to my husband so he didn't know. I will let that secret die with me someday lol I'm not working today so I'm washing the sheets and scrubbing the mattress lol

I hope my embarrassing story will help others not be so embarrassed later if it happens to them. I was a little worried at first at what others would say but I'm glad I got it off my chest. Lol you ladies are very supportive and I'm so thankful for that!

Shrmoss01

I would chalk it up to second pregnancy... Sometimes you jus don't have as much "control"... I didn't pee the bed but our first night home with my son I damn sure peed my pants trying to change his diaper before I went to the bathroom... There was nothing I could do but laugh my ass off... My husband tried to reenact my face for a week and now it's one of my favorite baby stories to tell... Sometimes you just have to find the funny in a situation! we have slept with a mattress cover ever since.. I'm unpredictable ; ))

JaysensMom

I'm definitely tempted to buy a mattress cover now @Shrmoss01 lol

seeley257

Aw yay pregnancy?! My doc advises pelvic floor exercises. Both within and outside of pregnancy.
The good news is they're easy to do. The bad news is it can take a few months for a real difference.

JaysensMom

Can I just Google pelvic floor exercises? If be willing to give it a shot @seeley257

seeley257

Sure. I've also copied and pasted some from the NHS below. I'm trying to do these 2-3 times a day (ok it's once a day atm as I keep forgetting!), you can just do them at your desk at work, or watching TV etc.

It'll help incontinence as well as help labour and recovery after.

How to do pelvic floor exercises:
- close up your anus as if you're trying to prevent a bowel movement
- at the same time, draw in your vagina as if you're gripping a tampon, and your urethra as if to stop the flow of urine
- at first, do this exercise quickly, tightening and releasing the muscles immediately
- then do it slowly, holding the contractions for as long as you can before you relax: try to count to 10
try to do three sets of eight squeezes every day: to help you remember, you could do a set at each meal

Shrmoss01

Totally worth it! I figured even if it's not me you never know when spit-up or any other crazyness will happen with kids

mrstrax

I would definitely talk with your doc about it at the next appt. since it wasn't an "I sneezed" type incident. It's probably just a normal pregnancy thing but loss of bladder control can also be cause by hormone problems - vets actually prescribe estrogen to aging dogs that lose bladder control. Not to compare you to a dog obviously

The pelvic floor exercises are a great thing to work on in the mean time.

wingsfan2015

I almost wet the bed during my last pregnancy - I dreamt I got up to go to the restroom and was still asleep in bed. I woke up and was about to pee...

I think it could happen to anyone hun, try not to let it bother you.

Hugs!

itsbee

I totally think I almost did last night!! I was dreaming that I was in the bathroom and had to go but couldn't.. Eventually I woke up and ran to the bathroom. Thank God I didn't go in my dream or I probably would have woken up wet this morning too!!

haiku16

I've been waking up late at night having to go very badly, and ten minutes ago accidentally peed on the couch while my boyfriend and I were watching tv

JaysensMom

At least it happens more than we think @haiku16