Comments on: Bedwetting

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:28:18 +0000

Girls do it to. My 5 yo is wet 4 or 5 mornings a week. I switched to reuseable bedwetter pants from Motherease. They have made her much more comfortable with it all. Doctor has found nothing wrong and they don’t really want to do anything before age 7. At that age they seem to want to go with alarm systems like Potty Pager or one of those. On summer vacation we used Underjams.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:32:14 +0000

We haven’t had to deal with sleepovers yet. I’m not eager for that rite of passage. While we were at my mom’s house over the summer we had puddle pads. I think if/when we visit the US to see family I’ll probably have my mom pick up some more puddle pads to have at her house.

I’m curious about what others have done?

By: Breanna

Breanna — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:27:28 +0000

How do you handle it if your kids sleep overnight with family or friends?

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:38 +0000

Oh we struggled with this for so long with my now 6 yo son. He was fully trained in the day by the age of 2 1/2 but could not go all night without very heavy diapers. His bedtime is 830, he is a very heavy sleeper and he loves his milk! We tried night time training at age 4, 5 and were finally successful at age 6.

His last liquid was dinnertime and we sleep late so we’d take him at midnight. And he’d still wet every night! So we started taking him in the middle of the night too and even then sometimes, he’d wet. It was so hard to be encouraging at 3 or 4am with wet sheets and pjs to change! I later read that it wasn’t very effective to take them while they were asleep. So we began waking him up and making him walk to the bathroom himself. And we’d talk to him so he’d be more conscious. Finally, he had gotten the hang of it and is now able to wake himself up to go. YAY!

For a short time after this breakthrough, we had to deal with a hypersensitivity to the urge to “go”. At bedtime, he would go two or three times before settling into bed and we’d have two or three night time wakings where he’d call out to say he had to go and then be too scared to go back to sleep because it’s dark and everyone else was asleep. Thankfully, we are growing out of this phase too.

Hang in there moms!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:06 +0000

My 7 yo DS still wets the bed. He is an extremely hard sleeper. He wears pull-ups, but I always take him potty before I go to bed, around 10:30. He NEVER fully wakes and will not remember if I’ve taken him. Most mornings he is dry, but occasionally he’ll wet, even if I’ve taken him to the bathroom. I do get tired of the extra laundry, but I feel for him. Really the only reason I take him to the bathroom before I go to bed is for his self-esteem. He gets pretty bummed that he still wets the bed but his 5 yo sister and 3 yo brother can stay dry. Thankfully it is no longer a big deal around here. We finally figured out that we can’t fight it, so we just go with it!