9 year old still bedwetting every night

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Anonymous wrote:My son was a bedwetter and used pull ups until he was 10 and then like magic he outgrew it. We didn’t do any alarms or anything. At one point I would wake him around midnight to go to the bathroom when I was going to bed but that got old fast and we stopped. It wasn’t worth it. I sympathize with you. We had a wet pull up and wet bedding every night. I got disposable and washable pee pads to lay on top of the sheets which really helped - we wouldn’t have to change the sheets then, only remove the pee pad. One day he will grow out of it! Hang in there.

OP here, thank you! Before this post I hadn’t heard about anyone else with a child with this issue beyond 5-6. I appreciate it. Great idea about the disposable pad on the bed.

What’s his attitude towards it? Does it bother him a lot that he still has accidents?

Honestly, no it doesn’t seem to bother him that he has a soaked diaper most mornings. I thought it might since his 5-year-old brother has been dry for a long time. But it doesn’t bother him. He’s a very deep sleeper so I’m doubtful the alarm would work for him.

If he does happen to wake up during the night will he make an attempt to get up and try the bathroom? He might not even feel uncomfortable with a wet diaper because they do such a good job keeping the wetness away from the skin.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone go through a bedwetting phase as a child? How did your parents handle it? How long did it take you to outgrow it?

I had problems with it until i was 14, my parents let me decide how to handle it so i decided to use goodnites.

Does your kids have the same issue?
I thought they just came out 10 years ago the most..

I had to look it up. They came out in 1994 but they didn’t look the same as they do now.

They were white and I believe they were way more noticeable then they are now, I’m 30 I was a bed wetter till I was 10, so it’s normal that my 6 year old does it.

My brother had these when he was growing up. Parents never made a big deal about it. He eventually just stopped on his own.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone go through a bedwetting phase as a child? How did your parents handle it? How long did it take you to outgrow it?

I had problems with it until i was 14, my parents let me decide how to handle it so i decided to use goodnites.

Does your kids have the same issue?
I thought they just came out 10 years ago the most..

I had to look it up. They came out in 1994 but they didn’t look the same as they do now.

They were white and I believe they were way more noticeable then they are now, I’m 30 I was a bed wetter till I was 10, so it’s normal that my 6 year old does it.

Did you have those when you were having accidents? My brother wet the bed until about the 5th grade. I shared a room with him and remember he had something called Drypers.

Yes, I did but most of them time I just wear them when I was Away.

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Just make sure his blood sugar okay and not onset of diabetes.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone with kids wearing nighttime pull-ups ever had them wear them for a long car trip?

We typically prefer to drive in the daytime, so no. But we did go on an overnight trip with some family just before the pandemic that ended up being a night drive.

DS wore a pull-up, although he was STRONGLY opposed to it, as he had 2 older cousins in the car with him. I remember that trip, because DS... who, up until that point in time hadn't had a SINGLE night where he had woken up dry... was dry all the way through that trip, except for the last 15 minutes or so when we were almost to the condo we were staying at.

(also that trip, we partially got partly hit by a hurricane, and spent the last day and a half of our 'vacation' without power)

Oh wow, I’m sure he felt better about having to wear the pull-ups after he really needed them.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I think you're getting good advice here. My son is now 14 but was wet nightly until 11-12. We saw Dr. Kalloo at Children's who suggested dietary changes (constipation is often the culprit, and even if they poop every day they can be constipated). It's exhausting and lots of laundry, but he WILL outgrow it. The very best thing you can do is just ensure he's not embarrassed. We used to "double make" the bed with 2 sets of waterproof mattress covers/fitted sheets, so when he leaked (which was most nights) we just took the wet layer off and he could go back to sleep quickly. The alarm didn't work - he slept through it so it was too late. Stay patient and hang in there. This too shall pass.

OP here- thank you very much, really appreciate this advice and reassurance.

Have you had any more success with DS at night?

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I was expected to wear diapers to bed as I was a nightly bedwetter, often 2-3 times a night. I was allowed to stop wearing a nightime diaper when I entered high school. My quality of sleep became awful as I’d wake up to nightly floods, every night, and had to deal with soaked sheets, blankets, pillows, etc. I always lived with a plastic mattress cover. I had actually grown pretty secure about wearing diapers so put myself back in them after the nightime messes. Of course my family knew I was a diaper wearing bedwetter and most of my extended family. Whenever we visited family or friends I always had my designated plastic protected bed. I always had doctors telling me I’d outgrow it. Medications and alarms had no affect. Too bad I never had a urodynamic study done as a teen because when I finally had a urologist suggest one it was discovered I had a neurogenic bladder and as the dr. Put it my bladder reacts like an infants in that my brain and bladder don’t communicate correctly and any hope of waking up dry was totally out of my control. This also explained why I struggled a lot during the daytime also. I’ve stayed in my thick overnight diapers, and chose to use quality disposable diapers during the daytime 16 years ago. My stress level and concern about wetting my pants and having to change during the day, all but disappeared. Now I just deal with remembering when my diaper has reached its limit, and change. At night I will sometimes leak when I wet too much for my cloth overnight diaper. Other than that those minor issues are just part of the routine.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the responses, I appreciate it. Especially after reading on multiple medical websites that it is “normal up until age 7” and how 95% of kids are dry at night by age 6.

I suppose I’ll keep the urology appointment in January just in case we need to rule out an underlying structural problem or condition.

My son is 75 lb and used the large GoodNites and sometimes it soaks through those! He is not overweight at all, just tall and takes after my husband who has a football player type build.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the responses, I appreciate it. Especially after reading on multiple medical websites that it is “normal up until age 7” and how 95% of kids are dry at night by age 6.

I suppose I’ll keep the urology appointment in January just in case we need to rule out an underlying structural problem or condition.

My son is 75 lb and used the large GoodNites and sometimes it soaks through those! He is not overweight at all, just tall and takes after my husband who has a football player type build.

How old is he now?