My 4 Year-old Is Wetting the Bed. What Should I Do to Help Her Stop?

I would not take her to the Dr. yet. I think I read that most kids do not stay dry at night until the ages of 5-7. Some stay dry earlier, some like me stay wet a lot longer! LOL. I stopped around Highschool along with my brother and sister - it was in our family! My daughter will be 6 in Nov. and I haven't even given it a thought to put her in underwear. She wears pull ups at night and she soaks them everynight. She is a very heavy sleeper. When she gets up in the morning she takes it off, puts it in the garbage and puts on underwear. No wet sheets, no wet clothes. If buying diapers is getting to you, One Step Ahead has resusable night time underwear. We have it and we use them at times, but I noticed they don't work best for soakers, like my daughter.

Hang in there, this is very normal!
M.

Hi!

I also think this is normal...remember that is easier to control solids, than liquids =) my 5 year old son wears regular underwear to sleep since he was 3 with no problems, the only time he wets the bed is when the night is a little bit cold. My 3 year old still uses pull ups at night... sometimes he wakes up dry... sometimes wet... just give your daughter time..if she is a heavy sleeper is gonna take more time..maybe she is dreaming she goes to the bathroom!! but she is sooo sleep she doesn't realize she's in bed (I remember I had that problem)

Limit her fluids around dinnertime and before bed. When you get ready to sleep, wake her to go potty one last time. Use the pull ups until she is back to be dry to save you all headaches. If after a few months and no change, check in with the dr. My son is now on medication for bedwetting and it is getting better.

D.,
I know exactly what you're going through. My son wet the bed until he was six and then we found the "Potty Pager". Go ahead and google it. It works for boys and girls. We had been dealing with it for years and thinking that our son was going to go to college still having wet nights, but after just two weeks with the Potty Pager he was sleeping through the night and staying DRY!!! He's eight now and has had only one accident since then. It's a fabulous product and worth the money and it works!
She'll have to wear two pairs of undies and the pager goes between them - it's about the size of an actual pager. You can even put a pull-up over the undies so that you don't have change the sheets-only the underwear. The pager begins to vibrate when it feels moisture and wakes them up. I know your thinking by then it's too late - the accident has already happened, but over time it trains your child to wake up before she has to pee. I was very sceptical at first, but it worked for us in just over 2 weeks. Before that, I could throw my son across the room and he wouldn't wake up, but now he gets up if he has to use the bathroom and still sleeps very soundly.
Be sure to approach the whole procedure with kindness. Tell your daughter that you found something that might help her to be able to not wear pull-ups anymore and ask her if she would like to try it. My son was willing to try because he was tired of saying no to sleep-overs. He would never go because he was too embarrassed to have to wear a pull-up in front of his friends.
Good luck to you and your sweet girl.