6 year old and pullups
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Anonymous
| My 6 year old pajamas are a little bit wet sometimes, it almost like a damp (and it is pee). Should he back in pullups ? Does a little bit damp count as a accident? I am not sure if pull ups will be a waste of mone since its not a lot of pee |
Anonymous
| Yes ain’t no shame in the game |
Anonymous
| I wouldn't personally. He'll probably adjust back soon. If he isn't uncomfortable I don't think it is a big deal, he'll figure it out shortly. |
Anonymous
Yes there are sometimes parents of 1st+ grade kids who are discussing pull-ups on DCUM. Tell him it's A-OK and totally normal and you know a lot of kids who wear pull ups to bed. |
Anonymous
| If it’s just a little bit, he is probably starting to pee and then inhibiting it because he realizes he shouldn’t. This is the normal way kids learn not to wet the bed. I wouldn’t put him back in pull-ups if you want him to continue to learn to hold it. One of my kids was very early to nighttime train and he did the same thing for a while after he was diaper free, maybe around age 3 or 4. He would get up and change his underwear and go back to bed. He never wet the bed, just had a few drops on his underwear, so I didn’t even consider putting a diaper on him. |
Anonymous
| No Don’t do it. Pull ups wick away the moisture so it’s harder to feel the moisture. He might pee more back in pull ups. |
Anonymous
Doesn't matter if he's asleep |
Anonymous
| Get some training underwear for nighttime, extra padding down there. |
Anonymous
| We walk/carry our 5 year old to the bathroom before we go to bed at like 11:30. It's helped him stay dry. He still wears pull ups though. No physical problem and ped said boys can be late and up to 8 is normal. |
Anonymous
| This was happening to our 6 year old sometimes, not long after he stopped wearing a pull up at night. We didn’t put him back in one because we didn’t want him to not feel the wetness. When he wore pull ups he would just pee in them whole half asleep because it was easier than getting out of bed. Once he stopped wearing pull ups, he knew he had to get up to pee to avoid a big puddle. That was maybe 5 months ago and the dampness happens rarely now. I’d rather deal with a very occasional bedwetting during very deep sleep, or slight dampness in the morning, than go back to buying pull ups and be stuck in that holding pattern again. |
Anonymous
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Is he getting his sheets wet, or just damp pjs.
I think that washing pj pants some extra nights, or training underwear (great suggestion!) is cheaper than pull ups, so while I think there is no shame in pull ups, I would probably not use them for this. |
Anonymous
| I dont think i would use them for this. It doesn't seem to be a big deal. But I have an 8 year old who soaks the bed every single night and yes he still wears pull ups. Damp pajamas that arent waking him and dont result in changing the sheets doesn't seem like an issue. |
Anonymous
Does he mind having pull-ups? Is he good about taking care of them as soon as he wakes up in the morning? |
Anonymous
| The reason he pees at night is because his body is not yet producing the necessary hormones to hold his urine that long or wake when body triggers the need to empty his bladder. |
Anonymous
He is not fully emptying his bladder if his pajamas are slightly damp. He is learning not to pee at night. It’s either a wacky coincidence that the introduction of disposable diapers coincided with the progressive increase in nighttime and daytime potty training age, or the convenience of diapers has delayed potty training. Kids don’t have to be rushed to potty train, but just know that in 1950, 90% were daytime trained by 18 mo. So clearly, most of the 3 and 4 year olds still in pull-ups today could have been out of diapers in different circumstances. https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2019/1015/p468.html |