Getting Rid of Pull Ups

Hi S.,
I am going through the same thing with my almost 4 year old. He does fine for a couple of nights but then he goes 3 days of wetting the bed. I am sick of laundry,too. What I have started doing is waking him up in the middle of the night to make him go potty. I don't set an alarm or anything but if I wake up I get him up. He always gets up and goes potty and then back to bed. If I don't wake up throughout the night and make him go he wets the bed. Also, I stop all liquids after 7. If he wants a drink I make sure he gets it before then. Good luck.
Chris

I have a daughter who just turned 5 last week. We are in the same situation. She has been fully potty trained since age 3, but can't make it through the night either. Any advice you receive, if you could pass it along, that would be great! Thank you!

I have had this problem with my 4 year old, for a short time. No liquid beverages 3 hours before bedtime, and make sure that your son uses the lavatory before lying down for the night, and waking up your son around 3 or 4 hours after he has fallen asleep, nightly. After about a week or less, hopefully, he will be able to not wet the bed, and get up on his own early in the morning. Don't forget to give a cheer to your child each morning for not wetting the bed, always. Do you have a night light in your son's bedroom at night, maybe he is afraid to get up at night when he has to potty?

S.,
What time does he go to bed and what time do you stop giving him drinks at night? I would just suggest making the cut off for drinks a bit earlier. I have triplets that will be 5 on Friday. I had them all potty trained day and night. Logan decided after 3 or 4 months of being potty trained that he wasnt anymore (this was last summer). He is now peeing and pooping in his underware during the day and cannot go all night without a pull up (goodnights). But since your little man is totally potty trained I would say just cut off his liquids for the night a little earlier and see how that works.

My younger brother went through the same thing growing up. He was wetting the bed on a nightly basis until he was 9 or 10. My mom tried EVERYTHING! She stopped liquids after dinner, got him up in the middle of the night, even got him a prescription that made him a lighter sleeper, but nothing worked. Putting a pull-up or diaper on him just made him more upset because he felt like a baby. She eventually just kept the mattress in a plastic zipper pouch and invested in 4-5 sets of sheets that she changed every day. Finally, one day, it just stopped. Completely. I know that she was extremely frustrated, but so was he. I really don't have any advice, just be patient. Give him lots of hugs and tell him that you'll keep working on it together.

I am in the same situation. My daughter will be 5 in July. Sometimes she makes it through the night and sometimes she doesnt. My ex husband has this in his family. He actually wet the bed on occasion into his preteens. My daughter's cousins were put on medications to control it as it seems to be hereditary and out of their control since they are such hard sleepers. I will keep an eye on your post to see if I can learn with you. I am concerned that there is not light at the end of the tunnel.