Maggie Bailey
Dear Mom and Dad, I am the mother of 5 grown daughters. My middle child, developed the same problem at age 3, after being potty trained. Since this condition began to happen at the same time I had given birth to my 4th little girl, I attributted it to the wrong reason,jealousy. NOT SO, as I found out years later, after following everyones suggestions to the problem. My heart would break as I would watch her fall to her knees, while playing outside, at her hesitency to spend the night at her friends house, because she still wet the bed. My daughters problem was prolonged, due to a move across country and the need to find new doctors. I won't keep you in suspense any longer. It is a very common fact, that little girls can have a very narrow and compressed uretha tube (please excuse any mis-spelled words= she is now 30 and I may not remember them). Please take her to your doctor and suggest it to him, if he doesn't give you an answer. The first thing our Pediatrician did was to have her tube strechted-a very easy procedure- done in out-patient services. Hopefully it will correct it. The first time was not successful for us, nor the 2nd time!( The move came before the 2 attempt.) The new doctor had us put her on a drug called "Tofrinel" (which later info learned would cause me not to advise it), as the 2nd attempt failed to correct it. This was used to break a deep sleep pattern, in which the brain , due to the sleep depth, was not hearing the body tell it that it had to go to the bathroom! We had to awake her each night at midnight and take her potty (now in 3rd grade, the 2nd surgery had been done in the 1st grade). Most nights not even that would wake her. Then in the 4th grade, she needed an ER. appendectomy! It was then, speaking to this DR. that he told me to get her off the Meds. because it would cause her to be an insomniac by the time she was 21. We did and also allowed the 3rd streching of her uretha tube. This time it worked! So, please see your physisian and have the tube checked out. It is very common in little girls, some can out grow it on their own, some need help. I wish I would have been more persuant of the cause at the time, but I then had five little girls. I wish I could take back the heartache, but all I can due now is help you and yours not go through it. Please consider this possibility. This may not be her fault! Sincerely Maggie Bailey AZ=USA