My Son Is A Bed Wetter!! Help!!

I would just make him wear Goodnights. Otherwise I know that their is a mattress pad that you can buy that has an alarm on it and let's the child know when he needs to go potty.

Here's one I found.
http://www.testsymptomsathome.com/fs...ALMbed_wetters

Just do a search for bed wetter alarms

Sometimes major changes will bring bed wetting, too. Do you think it could be from all the stress and excitement of moving to a new house? Or did he do this before?

Let him wear Goodnights and don't give him any grief over it. I've talked to several doctors and specialists about this (they don't even officially recognize it as bedwetting until 7 or 8 is what I was told). Cody still has issues and he'll be 7 in a month. He wore Goodnights up until about 2 weeks ago when HE decided that he was too old for them. His problem is that he sleeps so deep that he doesn't wake up EVEN if he's wet the bed. We tried everything that you mentioned when he was 5 and it wasn't worth the battle. So we really haven't pushed it until now when he feels like he's ready.

Our new plan of attack ... no drinks after 7pm, of course. We make him go the bathroom before bed, then wake him again when we go to bed. I get up around 1 or 2 myself, so I take him then and Mike takes him when he gets up at 4 or 5ish. Some nights it's really a battle and Mike has a harder time getting him to go. I've had to literally hold him up in front of the toilet, pull down his underwear and kind of aim him in the right direction (and NO! I don't hold it for him ) I just sort of turn his body in the right general direction and hope most of it hits the toilet.

Some nights, he literally sleep walks into the bathroom and I just sit him on the toilet and tell him to aim down. In the last week, he's only wet his bed once, so it's working this time -- but it's a lot of work on all our parts. Of course, when he wakes up dry, we make a huge deal out of it and if he doesn't, we just tell him we'll try again the next night.

Lots of because it's tough on all of you, however you choose to handle it.

Sometimes its possibel that there is a different underlying problem. My brother was a bed wetter until he was 13 or so.....out of desperation, and a suggestion by someone else, my parents took him to a chiropractor. Turns out it helped....a lot. Apparently his back was out of alignment and pressing up against the nerve for his bladder (or something like that)either way....i know it worked.....he went a bunch of times and never wet the bed again

My 8 year old still wets the bed quite often. We've tried waking him up when we go to bed, but he's so deeply asleep we can't wake him up and if we do manage to get him down from the TOP bunk, he's so loopy that you can't get him to understand what he's supposed to do. He'll go several weeks at a time without wetting, but then wet the bed 4 or 5 nights in a row (without waking up).

My sister-in-law used a bed-wetting alarm for my nephew that has a sensor that clips on to his underwear. The funny thing was that it still didn't wake him up. It woke her up and she would run in there and try to wake him up. We haven't tried that yet. I'm waiting to see how things are at his 9 yo check up and maybe I'll talk to the doctor then. I was the same way as a child. My parents actually took me to a urologist who prescribed some sort of medication that kept me from sleeping so deeply. That worked, but I'm not sure I want to go that direction for my son.

I talked to our doctor about that too, Kristen. He said he *really* doesn't like to go that route (of course, the meds might be for different reasons now) . Luckily for us, Cody doesn't like to sleep on the top bunk or we'd have that same issue. For some reason, even deep asleep, I can get Cody to walk to the bathroom, but Mike literally has to carry him. Not sure what the difference is, but there's no way I'd be able to carry him if he didn't go willingly.

The doctor didn't want to go with an alarm or with medications? or either? I honestly don't want to do either of those things. That's the main reason why we haven't done anything yet. We're hoping that he is growing out of it and we don't have to do anything traumatic. Honestly, we have so many other issues with David that I don't want to make a big deal out of this. It's an annoyance, but not that big of an issue for us right now.

Trey is a bed wetter too and he will be 5 in March. I have sucked it up and he is wearing the goodnights. Brittany got night trained right away. I wet the bed till I was 15 so it isn't a issue of pushing him. Go the good nights route and let time and wake up before bed.

He didn't want to go the medication route. He was quite adament about it, which I was a little surprised by. We didn't talk about alarms though. I'm with you on this though ... Cody has so many other things going on that this is really trivial at the moment. However, I do think his cousins (boys, his age) staying over so often is probably what has really prompted him to decide he's done with pull-ups. Hey! Whatever it takes!

Of course, we have the same issue with TJ too. Guess we'll deal with that once Cody is 100% dry for awhile. Seems strange ... Jessi was dry at night when she was a year old. But she was also one of those kids that couldn't stand to be wet. The boys have never cared, which I guess makes it harder to potty train. They were both difficult and late trainers, so I'm really not surprised that we have the night time issues.

Re: My Son Is A Bed Wetter!! Help!!

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