I am at my whit's end---6yo still wetting bed

[redhen]

I still dont understand how the pull-ups are preventing him from wetting the bed?(she said he never ever wets with a pull-up on..)
Why would this be? Any ideas?

 

[EweSheep]

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I woudl love to know too!

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

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I dont know why. But my daughter does the same thing. If she wears a pull up, she will only wet the bed maybe once a week. But if she is not wearing one she wets the bed every night. Maybe it keeps them warmer so the cold air dont make them pee. Thats what Im beginning to think. My daughter tosses and turns while sleeping and kicks the covers off alot.

My daughter is 8 and wets the bed. She was completely potty trained day and night from 2 until she went to 1st grade. then the bed wetting started back up again.

 

[LarryPQ]

Some kids just bedwet---in my family it is genetic. I was really lucky and stopped at 7. My sister stopped at 13. My dad was REALLY worried about it --they had me on meds at 5 years old--- until my Mom fessed up & told him all 5 of her brothers and sisters were bed wetters until 14 or 15. It just took them a while for the right muscle to mature.

Training helps---My older son (4) pees 1 a week or so. We make sure to:

-Make him pee before bed.
-Get up to pee when we go to bed.
-Get up to pee as soon as I get up (4 am or so).
-If Daddy comes home late, Daddy takes him into the bathroom too.

ALSO, I noticed the bedwetting spiked when we put him in a bunk bed. Definately a touch of laziness as well.

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

You might want to try and have them wear the old school plastic training pants to bed and see if that will help. We just used them to help train our 3 yr old to use the potty and not pee in the bed. It worked had him trained in three weeks...lol He couldnt stand to hear or feel the plastic..... My two cents....

 

[EweSheep]

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Tried that one too, and failed LOL!

 

[BirdBrain]

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Michael Landon was a bedwetter and made a movie about it that I saw years and years ago. You might be able to dig it up from somewhere.

Bedwetting is hereditary and I was one. I think I finally quite when I was 10 or 11. I have a 9 yo DS who is a bedwetter. My brother did not wet the bed but one of his daughters does. It is wierd how it skips around. My pediatrician said to just limit fluids before bed and wash the sheets. My son developed a rash from the Goodnights so he just sleeps in his undies and we wash him and the sheets every morning. He can strip and make his own bed, so all that is left is for me to throw them in the washer. He spends 5 minutes in the shower and it is no big deal. Occasionally I make his bed and he is so greatful when I do. I just tell him that chances are he won't go to college wetting his bed and that he will grow out of it. I think it really helps him to know that I had the same issue and I outgrew it.

Just simpathize with your little guy and help him be responsible for himself. He can probably strip the be and carry the wet stuff to the laundry. One thing I found that really helped with how far the pee migrated in the bed was to put a bath towel down on the bed before the sheet. Kinda kept things localized.

 

[EweSheep]

Or those hospital bed mats...those things are great to have around!

 

[TipsyDog]

I agree with everyone that bedwetting is common and runs in families. It isn't in my family, but my brother had this problem and it turned out he was a juvenile diabetic. It's a warning sign of sugar in children. I'd have any medical reason ruled out first.

 

[Boyd]

I have a 13 year old FD that still does it time to time.