So. tired. of buying night Pull-ups...
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OP, my older son is 8 and a half and he has been waking up dry for close to a month now. Of course, we talked to his pediatrician at last year's check up (he's due for another shortly). He had zero concerns.
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It's a bit of a misconception that our bodies are supposed to wake up to pee--I mean, until we're in our. 70s or so that. I'm surprised to hear doctors continue to explain this as "heavy sleepers,." What's actually happening with nighttime bedwetting is that the brain isn't telling the bladder to slow down urine production, which is what is supposed to be happening. It's a developmental delay, and it tends to happen in more frequency with boys with ADHD. OP, what worked for my son was the bedwetting alarm. Take off the pull up, use the alarm. My son didn't wet the bed on the very first night we used it. Literally, it's like a switch was flipped and his brain did what it was supposed to do and sent the right signals down those nerves. He did have a few accidents over the next couple of weeks after that. But I think we used that alarm for 2 or 3 weeks at the most and he was dry at night. Again, heavy sleeping is not the issue. |
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You don’t shame them you teach them just like you do during the daytime. |
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Thank you. My kid is younger than OPs but I am gearing myself up for being in the same boat because I had nighttime accidents into middle school and pediatrician said there's a strong genetic component. My parents night trained me, by the way -- I still had nighttime accidents because my body simply would not wake me up to go. My parents absolutely did shame me -- I got used to stripping the bed and washing the sheets myself, making it back up myself, before going to bed, sometimes while my parents angrily watched over me saying stuff like "see, this is what happens, we should all be asleep". Even these "consequences" did not help me. In fact, I feel pretty confident they made it worse because I think in retrospect I was so anxious about sleeping and using the bathroom at night that this went on for years longer than it would have if my parents had simply been understanding and used a different solution. |
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OP, you do not need to buy one of these marketing gimicks. Again, it's not that they're heavy sleepers, it's just that the brain needs to be trained to send the signal to the bladder to slow it down. For some reason, the alarm lays the pathway for this. YOu can spend $30 for it...not $200 for all that extra garbage. What a scam. |
Anonymous
Don’t knock it until you try it! The online component was really helpful for my kids. It explained why they were wetting the bed and had a reward system where they charted progress and got different video messages depending on how they did the night before. I think it was very validating - especially for my 8 year old daughter - who desperately wanted to be out of pull-ups. My husband often joked it was the best $200 we ever spent and honestly it pays for itself pretty quickly bc pull-ups are so expensive. Mine was also used for 2 friends’ children after my 2 kids so it served its purpose! The alarm might work out well on its own but I am sharing my experience bc we were truly amazed how well and quickly it worked. |
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| Same boat, OP, same boat…just know, you are not alone! |
Anonymous
My kid's $40 bedwetting alarm worked on literally the first night, too, like the PP. |
Anonymous
That’s called bad parenting, do better for your children and nighttime train them the right way. Accidents might still happen but it won’t be every single night and you won’t need pull ups for years on end. |
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NP here We night trained our son. Not saying it works for every kid, but it is not impossible. When my son was almost 3 he still woke up with a very full diaper every morning and had never once woken up dry. He would also poop in his diaper first thing every morning so to poop train him we took away all diapers. He wet the bed almost every night for a week. The second week he wet it less and by the 3rd week he never wet the bed again. We also never limited liquids or woke him to use the bathroom. Now he would wake up right when he wet the bed, had he slept through wetting the bet then maybe he would not have been able to be night trained. I will also say that he never wakes up to use the restroom during the night so he is fully capable of holding it all night. Heck he usually doesn't even pee until a hour after he has been awake. On another note. my 9 yr old nephew just stopped wearing a pull-up to bed and started waking up dry. Want to know what changed? He stopped sleeping on the top bunk. Once he moved to his own room and no longer had to climb down a ladder he suddenly didn't need a diaper anymore. My point- not all bed wetting is "genetic"/impossible to fix sometimes it is situational and kids can be trained. |
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NP Foster parent here.
OP, if you're just looking for something with more absorbancy, and have tried everything else like limiting drinks before bed etc, I'd suggest you give these a try: https://www.amazon.com/NorthShore-AirSupreme-Briefs-X-Small-Pack/dp/B00NI5AXTM?th=1 They cost almost double what the Goodnites do, but have been completely reliable for all 4 of our foster kids that have needed them at night. |
Anonymous
Thank you!! I know it sounds silly to be so worked up over something this small, but this morning I was really frustrated with dealing with wet....*everything* yet again, for the 4th day in a row. Sometimes it feels good just to know there's others out there dealing with this as well. |
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You get that my parents nighttime trained me "right away", right? Like exactly what you are suggesting. And I still had accidents all the time. And as it went on they got frustrated and tried to shame me into not wetting the bed. Which is what happens when people get it in their heads that if a child is wetting the bed past age 3 or 4, it must be a choice they are making and just need to be broken of. When you tell parents "just train them right away and then they won't have accidents, or not that often, and it will be done," you are setting up parents whose kids will continue to have accidents regularly, for year, for failure. You are telling them "oh you must not have done it right." What you don't understand is that your kids trained quickly and easily and there were few accidents. Not all parents have your experience. Stop acting like an expert based on your experience with 1-2 kids. It's tiresome. |
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Appreciate the suggestion! At this point, money is frankly not an object. I'm so over cleaning pee sheets day in and day out, I'm willing to consider literally anything. Will certainty look into these! I'm not familiar with this brand, but..if they work, they work! |
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OP here. I don't have the slightest idea of how to 'train' DS to not do this. Our youngest simply started staying dry at night about 2 months after we finished daytime potty training, and that was the end of that. ODS however, sleeps like the dead, and seems to have zero clue of when he's actually peeing. In fact, we found out he pees multiple times each night still. I'm not sure training is something that would be effective for him. He's just a heavy sleeper, and a heavy wetter. |