Help with Bed Wetting

Just a suggestion, maybe you should give him milk instead of water as his last drink since water, & juice seem to go through the body quicker. Then maybe right before you go to bed take him and hopefully you'll catch it...

i have an 8 year old girl who still wets everynight. latly though it hasnt been as bad, what i did was quit buying her pull ups. i noticed that she would wet in the pullups every night no matter what. i even caught her wetting in them once in a while before she was asleep. so i quit buying them, because i think part of the problem was that she knew she could wet them and it was ok. since i never yell at her for wetting. it also runs in my family. and she too was potty trained at 23 months. so since i quit buying them she only wets about 2 maybe 3 times a week. and although i now have to wash her sheets all the time. shes much more proud of herself when she doesnt wet. and anotherthing i did differntly latly was instead of telling her to "wake up" and go pee, i told her that EVERY time she wakes up at night, to go the bathroom, even if she doesnt need to. wether she wakes up to roll over, get a water or sneek in my room. lol, whatever the reason, to go anyways. and re-wording it like that helped. now i hear her at night roll over or sit up, and shell go to the bathroom. so maybe try that, it seems to be helping so far. and good luck. ill chak back back to see what happens !

I would just get the overnight pants for kids, they don't look like diapers and they will help him keep the bed dry. He might just have an overactive bladder and you might want to talk to his doctor about any concerns that you have. He will eventually get out of this and beable to sleep throughout the night without any accidents.

i have the exact same problem with my 7 yr old...unfortunately no one else in the past in my family did this. all i can say is to buy Good Nites and explain to him why he has to wear them. (my son puts one on now without questioning it.) i took him to the doctor before school started and the doctor said that there is really nothing they can do, she said that he just needs to grow out of it. sorry i couldn't help more, but i do know what you are going through.

Sorry, I'm not going to be any help with this one!! My 6 year old son does the same thing. He wears the "Goodnight" pull-up things, and of course hates them! I've been thinking about getting an alarm for him (Leaps and Bounds has one) but I'm not even sure that would work. He sleeps SO hard!! (He was also potty trained really early- 22 months and he was done! My 4 year old son wasn't potty trained until last year and he never wets the bed now. I wonder if that has something to do with it?!)

Anyway, good luck, and I'll be checking back to see what other advice you get- maybe I could use it as well! :-)

Bed wetting in potty trained children is sometimes related to stress see if there is anything bothering him like something at school like a teacher that left or a kid in his class something in his life that changed that could be the trigger try and help him talk out his problems and stresses even the "small" ones they may be big to him.

My daughter is 11 and still has this problem, it is common....talk to your
> son's dr. about medication. She takes Imipramine and it has been a
> lifesaver!! She goes to sleepovers, has friends sleep over and NO problem!!!
> It is a little green pill and she just slips it into a baggie and puts it
> with her toothbrush and stuff.
>
> Really has been a LIFESAVER for us.

My son doesent wet the bed but I did...until I was ten! I found out that I had a smaller bladder than normal. This was nothing to be alarmed about but eventually I trained myself to wake up to use the bathroom during the night. His bladder night be small or maybe even overactive. To this day I can wake up in the early hours of the morning to use the restroom! I think all he needs is time.

Have you read much about allergies? Is This Your Child? by Doris Rapp is good. She is a pediatric allergist. She talks about bed-wetting in her book. She says some children are allergic to, say, pollen and they react with wheezing, while other children react with bladder spasms. Some children who drink juices like apple, orange, pineapple, etc. or even milk may bed=wet. You can try taking these away one at a time and see if that helps. Or maybe it is in the air, like dust, mold or pollen. Allergic reactions can cause alot of problems with kids.
Worth a try I thought. You might check out her book or other allergy books.
Best wishes.

Well this may sound a tad bit cruel but this is what I did... My son is also 7 and up until last year he was still wetting the bed quite frequently. I told him I wasn't mad about him doing it and he wasn't in trouble but if he didn't stop that I was going to have to get him some big kid diapers like the goodnights, he was so mortified at the thought of wearing diapers again he has yet to have another accident. He always makes sure he goes before bed and he even wakes up and goes in the middle of the night. It really did work I dont know why it worked but it did.

Im sure this may not help you, but there are several possibilities for this,, yes it is hereditary and I know that because I was also a bed wetter until my teens.. sorry,, but that is the way it was and believe me, if I could have controlled it I would have.. So while you should certainly have him checked by a dr.. for medical problems, you should keep that in mind and help him through it any way you can.. Produts, such as pull ups are available today , unlike when I was a child. I had a brother who did the same as me.. Hope this helps.. Good Luck,, and please don't let him feel too bad about something that he cannot control.. Love him and help him however you can.
We, my brother and I finally did outgrow it but took quite some time so hang in there..

First let me say that I'm so glad to hear that you are your kids' mom! A proud domestic engineer!

You may want to investigate a little book called "There's A Miracle In Your Mouth" by the late Pastor John Osteen. It can apply to any situation! Even breaking a generational curse of bedwetting!

My son had this problem up until last year. He will be 8 next month. I was very upset about it. I worried he wouldn't be able to go to sleep overs. Mornings took a lot more time because he had to shower before going to school. I took him to the dr who advised me to just wait until he grew out of it and not make a big deal over it. When he would go to visit his dad, he would get spanked anytime he had an accident. Which was exactly what the doctor said NOT to do. (Once I discovered this fact I refused overnight visits.)

My son was so freaked out about staying anywhere other than home that we couldn't go visit friends and family out of town. The first time we stayed at my fiance' house overnight he in tears. As I was trying to calm him down, my fiances' youngest daughter walked in and asked what the problem was. I told her sometimes he wets the bed and he's afraid to stay anywhere. She asked him if he wet the bed. He nodded yes and then she told him bluntly that it didn't matter. She said "Sheets are washable and so are you. You'll sleep with me and if there's an accident we'll fix it."

That was the beginning of everything changing. My fiance had been a bedwetter until age 10 and both his daughters had a well. Since he had been punished for it as a child, he knew how that felt and stated that there would be no punishment for something the child cannot control. Then he bought him sleeping bags. The kid kind that were fun like spiderman, x-men, etc. He bought the kind that are soft on the inside but plastic on the outside so when he did have an accident it didn't leak through the sleeping bag. Then it was a household attitude change. If he had an accident we were to treat it like no big deal. Change clothes, sleeping bags, etc. and just in general not get upset about it. Dry mornings were rewarded with high fives, dances, anything fun - from the whole family including his girls who really helped.

Sleep overs were handled by him taking his sleeping bag, a good night, and me discussing the problem with the mom. We would pack a change of night clothes and have him keep them close by so he could change in the event of an accident in the middle of the night. All the moms I dealt with were very supportive and understanding.

I do believe some of it was stress related because once he stopped going for overnight visitation the frequence decreased. Once I learned not to be upset about it either he seemed to do a lot better. The positive reinforcement made a big difference. We hardly ever have accidents anymore. He still takes his sleeping bags for sleepovers but we've long since abandoned the good nights.

Hope this helps.

We have a bedwetter in our family that is your sons age. Her mother was also a bedwetter. We sought help from doctors, counsellors, friends, etc. The one thing that worked for my sister was for her to practice strenghtening exercises while she pee'd in the potty.
We're working with her daughter with the same thing and it's working. The accidents are fewer and further between.
I would suggest that you have him start to pee, then have him stop peeing and hold it for say a couple of seconds, then start peeing again and stop again, starting and stopping until he is through. This builds the muscles in that area that will help him hold his pee at night and will also make him wake up when he starts to wet the bed.
It's kind of like womens Kegel exercises, but he can stop the flow with those muscles also.
Good luck. I know it can be frustrating. With practice and time, he'll get past it.