Floorwetter, Not Bedwetter

I noticed my son has also been doing this.He has been potty trained for a while now too this is his second spring so for at least a full year and this is what i noticed he doesnt get up and move fast enough, he yells i gotta go pee and runs to the bathroom. One morning i was tickeling him and he started peeing I felt really bad about it, So now i ask him when i havent seen him in the bathroom for awhile do you have to go , especially before bedtime and upon rising and before going away in the car. good luck

Have you tried putting a potty chair in his room? I dont know if it will help but its worth a shot. When we moved my son(4 1/2) started wetting his bed. We put him back in pull ups. We explained its not to punish him ust to keep his bed clean, and if he woke up and went to the bathroom to pee he could stop wearing them. We did that for about a week and he seems to be doing fine now. I will tell you my husband used to do that on his Grandmas bedroom floor when he was little. They sat him down and asked him to stop, I guess kind of firmly and he did. He was just too lazy to walk downstairs to use the toilet! I am not saying thats the case with your son I am just telling you that it does happen to other people.
Good luck
SZ

I think you are right that he is doing this while he is overly sleepy. When I was really little (about 3?), I remember my brother (about 5?) doing it in his toybox and my mom was upset because she had to keep washing everything inside it. I remember him confiding in me that he "thought" it was the potty, but realized that it was his toybox after the fact. He wasn't doing it on purpose and it was something he eventually outgrew.

I guess you can only take precautions. make sure he doesn't drink any liquid about an hour before bedtime, make sure he tried to go potty before he goes to bed, and keep dim lights on his path from bedroom to bathroom.

At least he is peeing on hard surfaces and not a toy-filled toybox ; ) Good luck!

I would also talk to his doctor. Just to rule out a kidney or bladder issue. With the gap of being potty trained and only an occasional bedwetting to more frequent issues. Also, the stress of being embarrased or something else going on in his little life can trigger bedwetting. Good luck.

Hi S.! I remember my brother going in the cupboard one time because he was sleep walking. He didn't know what he was doing...he was also much older. He said he thought he was in the restroom. I would ask his pediatrician. God Bless the babes! N. L.

We had this problem!!! It seemed like it happened several times within a few months, then again a few times after it hadn't happened for a while, then that was it. I would catch him and try to stop him and I'd move him to the toilet, but he was clearly not fully awake. Eyes were open and he was responding, but not appropriately... clearly still "asleep." It was frustrating, but he's 7 now, and those are some of our funniest family stories! We don't make fun of him (he's my most sensitive about being laughed at), but after making it clear that it wasn't his fault or anything, he does like us to tell the sequence of events to people with the particular way we embellish it.... "when did we install a bubbling fountain in the balcony just above us, dear?" (Reality was that when I heard him peeing I jumped up yelling at him to stop, but in our retelling, hubby and I are sitting on the couch below and had this little conversation about it.) I'll bet you'll soon be at the place where you can laugh about it, too!

My brother went thru a stage like this. And he was, indeed, sleep-walking. My Mom found him downstairs on several occasions, and he had no idea how he got there. She heard him up and about one night, and found him about to pee on his bed, standing like he was at the toilet. She just directed him to the bathroom, gently, being careful not to wake him up. Another time she found him about to pee in the hall closet! So I would say he's probably sleep-walking. Be careful not to wake him during those bouts. Just talk gently to him, redirecting him to where he needs to go, maybe gently steer him with your hands, back to bed, or to the bathroom. I know they have those alarms that goes under a mattress, and it goes off, if the person gets out of bed. You may want to go that route, so that you can be aware of when he may be sleep-walking, then you can make sure he's safe, and going to the bathroom where he needs to be. If it becomes a huge problem, I'd also speak to his pediatrician about it. They will be more help. Good luck with all of this!