The Symptoms

As a parent, it's hard to determine when some thing is serious.  There is a fine line between whats normal and when something is serious, but no one prepares or tells you how to distinguish the difference. 

Ellee was hard to break of of the nighttime wetting when she started potty training a year and a half ago.  All of a sudden a few weeks ago, she started doing it again, but also started sleepwalking (which her dad and uncles have the tendency to do). We discussed the issue of her increased thirst, but decided to do no liquids after a certain hour.  Do you know how hard it is to tell a small child that they can't have something to drink when you can hear the desperation in their voice that they are seriously thirsty?

On Saturday night, I was watching tv in bed and heard her get up to go to the bathroom.  After about 5 minutes the light was still on so I went to check on her.  She had found a cap to my contact lens case and was trying to drink out of it because she was so thirsty.  She made at least 3 trips in the first 4 hours that she went to bed.

On Sunday she was very crabby and whiny.  We went to Josh's mom and dad's house because they wanted to give her a birthday present.  When the girls were in the other room, we talked about how many times she got up last night.  Josh put his foot down and wanted to limit her drinks all day long.  I honestly didn't mean to get defensive about it, but I told him that I'm not comfortable with that because I didn't want her to get dehydrated, let her drink as much during the day when she has enough time to get it out of her system before bed.  Hearing his dad say that he agreed with me was assuring, but I was getting very loud with Josh and he finally told me that we could do it my way.  We left the girls with grandma and grandpa to go get Ellee's birthday present.  At lunch we agreed to see the doctor this week to have her checked out.