I was hoping someone can help me with my daughters bed wetting problem. She's 7 and up until the last 4 months she has been constantly wetting her bed. I stop giving her fluids at 7pm and she uses the restroom before bed time. She's a VERY HEAVY sleeper! Up until the last 2 months,I've needed to wake her every night around 1:30am,if not, then she'll have an accident.
Nothing dramatic has taken place for it to trigger this reaction. Luckily,I've been VERY patient, but I'm tired of getting up and having to constantly wash her linens. I've never had a bed wetting issue with any of my other children. I don't want to get her big girl diapers because I'm sure she'll feel humiliated! So hopefully your response doesn't include diapers for her. Does anyone have any suggestions? THANKS!
HI, A.!
Happy Mother's Day!!!
I read in one book that if you give 1 teaspoon honey before night, that kids will not pee in the bed. So i tryed on my kids ( 2,5 and 5 y.o.) it works!
Good luck!
Best wishes,
V..
A.,
I know what you are going through, my 7 year old son is having the same problem. In fact, I even brought it up with his Peditrician at his last office visit. She recommended a bed wetting alarm, which I had never heard of before. It's an alarm that goes off if is senses any moisture and gets them to wake up and go to the bathroom. I was skeptical because my son is a very heavy sleeper, but thought I would give it a try. She told me to go to www.bedwettingstore.com to order one. I ordered the one with an alarm that vibrates as well (not cheap, about $90), but one week into this and he's already waking up dry. He's so proud of himself, and actually seems to be sleeping better, because he's not waking up completely soaked. I'm hoping that in a couple of weeks he won't need it any more. The concept for this device is to re-train the brain to either wake up when it gets the urge to urinate, or tighten the muscles. At first he was waking up, now he starting to be get through the night dry. As long as your daughter has good bladder control throughout the day, something like this could help her - it's definately worth trying.
DonnaM
hi A., bedwetting can be very frustrating. i myself was a bedwetter for a very long time up until about the age of nine or ten. my son also had this problem. what i did with him was get up in the middle of the night and get him up even if it was difficult because he to is a heavy sleeper. i did that for months and eventually he stopped wetting the bed and gets up on his own now. if only it was that easy for everyone. anyways for me my mother had to take me to the doctor and he prescribed a little green pillto me and i took that for quite awhile. but it worked. i wish i could remember the name of it. i would reccomend taking her to the docotr and seeing what can be done about it. ecspecially since it seems like you are doing everything that you need to be doing to get her to stop. as for the diapers dont do that my grandma made me wear pullups for a very long time whenever i spent the night at her house andit was humiliating. it definately made my self esteem drop. i say keep doing what you are doing even though iit is tiring and take her in to the docotr and see what they can do for her as well. im sure it will come out on the good end of things. good luck.
Her bladder just might not be able to hold it all in all night long. It might scare you but some kids do not ever grow out of this until they are over 10. Especually heavy sleepers. They are so asleep and relaxed that they just do not realize that they have to go. Mostly try not to make it like she is doing something wrong. And try not to embarise her. This could be devistating to her self esteem. Also you can put an alarm clock in her bedroom to wake her up once in the middle of the night so she can go to the bathroom. And keep an extra set of sheets close to her bed. That way she can change them if she needs to. And not have to search for them.
A.,
STOP doing her laundry for her! You are still having to deal with this problem because you have NOT made it affect HER yet.
When she has to start getting up and changing her OWN sheets in the middle of the night and put them into the washer and pull them out in the morning, then she will start to get the idea. It's slow to sink in sometimes with children, but it DOES eventually. Until they learn that the whole world does not revolve around them and that there are other people in the world, they don't understand.
At night before you go to bed, you give her a change of sheets and whatever else is necessary, underware, clean nightshirt etc... and put them beside her bed on the floor or on the dresser in her room, whatever and tell her that when it happens again, SHE is to handle it, and if she doesn't she will have to live with it untill it bothers her enough to get up and deal with it. It WILL bother her enough eventually.Then she will deal with it and change her behaviour.
Try it, I did with both my kids, who are now D-R-Y thru the night and all of us are sleeping better for it!
Katharine
Hi A., I am so sorry you are stressed with your daughter, I too know that stress my two sons now ages 12, 13 also wet the bed. There is a medication you can seek thru the doctor on bedwetting. It is a nasal spray you give your child, I do not recommend you have that done. Sometimes bedwetting ,It is caused my emotional imbalance or a small bladder . I do not mean emotinal in a bad sense of the word. It could be anything nervously in her life. Even being upset with dogs. I talked to a therapist and she once told me it could be from dreams. eg" she sees a dog in her dream she goes pee pee and in the dream in the pants now you have a wet bed". Understand.. She will grow out of it you just need patients. So just don't be upset just let it go and she wil one day stop wetting her bed.. She is just as embarrassed as you are frustrated. I taught the boys with a smile how to wash their beds(not as a chore but as help to you) and make them. Try it, less stress on you. especialy you have 4 other beds to make. My boys both wet till age 9.. hope this helps you
hugs and smiles
V.
Take your child to the pediatrician. She should have gone years ago for this problem.
One of my friends used an over the counter pill called L-Lysine. After 3 days her son did not wet the bed anymore. After 2 months she took him off of it and within 3 days he was wetting the bed so she put him back on it. She had him on it for 2 years and then took him off and he is fine. He is now 24. Hope that helps. I also like the honey idea someone gave I am going to give that one to another friend of mine that is also having this problem with her 7 1/2 yr old son.
Hi A.,
I too have been battling with this problem but mine is going on 14 now and we tried everything (nothing to drink after 7 and then 6:30 pm, waking up a couple times a night - which doctors have said is detrimental to sound restful sleep) short of buying the potty pager (which I feel is a waste of money). My son has a bladder size problem and has been on medication for several years now. At first, the dosage did not work and now he is on a combo of two different kinds (one to stop bedwetting and the other to enlarge the bladder capacity). We are stopping the bladder enlargement med now - doctor said it has done it's job). He still is wet occasionally but at least it's not every night or several times a night now.
And yes, the diapers are humiliating for the kids. I've only used them a couple times when he was somewhere other than home and couldn't afford the embarrassment around friends.
I can refer you to my doctor if you like. Write me off board - ____@____.com if you like.
Hope you have a blessed Mother's Day!
