MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING

[Anonymous]

I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

Did you wear protection at night until it stopped?

[Anonymous]

Same here but he just turned 11. We use a combination of the meds and pull ups while traveling bc he often leaks through the pull up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same here but he just turned 11. We use a combination of the meds and pull ups while traveling bc he often leaks through the pull up.

Have you tried changing him during the night so he doesn’t leak?

[Anonymous]

I wet the bed until I turned 10, there was nothing I could do about it, but my parents never made me feel guilty and that was the best support I could have got. My daughter is 4 and not dry yet, and I just remind her that it's nothing she is doing wrong and am always patient with her

[Anonymous]

My son outgrew it shortly after his 10th birthday. We didn’t do anything special such as alarms or limiting liquids. One day he woke up dry and that was it. Pediatrician had also assured us it was normal but I was worried. It all worked out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

Did you wear protection at night until it stopped?

No, my mom had a rubber sheet then sheet then rubber sheet and another on top so she could strip one quickly. I don’t think they had pull-ups in the 1980s. As babies we had cloth diapers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

Did you wear protection at night until it stopped?

No, my mom had a rubber sheet then sheet then rubber sheet and another on top so she could strip one quickly. I don’t think they had pull-ups in the 1980s. As babies we had cloth diapers.

I was born in 1990, and I stopped when I was 12, they used to be pain white and way more noticeable than what my 5 year old wears at night.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Same here but he just turned 11. We use a combination of the meds and pull ups while traveling bc he often leaks through the pull up.

Have you tried changing him during the night so he doesn’t leak?

Changing an 11 year old? Wtf are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It isn’t unusual. Most aren’t, but plenty are.

I worked at boys sleepaway camp. A handful of boys ages 8-11 every year would consistently struggle with this.

I’ve babysat for several kids around this age who were in the same situation. My only suggestion is if they want to read or play a game in bed before they actually go to sleep that you remind them they should try getting up and using the bathroom a second time.

There is also a medicine that can help, DDAVP. It isn’t a long term solution, but might keep the dry for sleepovers or a summer camp.

Medication doesn’t always work the same for every child and I personally would avoid it until they are much older and they’ve had an opportunity to outgrow it naturally. That’s just my opinion.

We used the medication when he slept at someone else’s house and it worked. He outgrew it naturally. It was symptomatic relief until the child outgrows it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

Did you wear protection at night until it stopped?

No, my mom had a rubber sheet then sheet then rubber sheet and another on top so she could strip one quickly. I don’t think they had pull-ups in the 1980s. As babies we had cloth diapers.

I was born in 1990, and I stopped when I was 12, they used to be pain white and way more noticeable than what my 5 year old wears at night.

Mine doesn’t care if anyone sees it. We’ve never made a big deal about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wet the bed as a child until I had my tonsils and adenoids surgically out. It was a sleep apnea thing as mentioned by PP. It’s worth looking into. I quit wetting the bed the next week and it had been every night.

Did you wear protection at night until it stopped?

No, my mom had a rubber sheet then sheet then rubber sheet and another on top so she could strip one quickly. I don’t think they had pull-ups in the 1980s. As babies we had cloth diapers.

I was born in 1990, and I stopped when I was 12, they used to be pain white and way more noticeable than what my 5 year old wears at night.

At least you know it’s not his fault and just something that takes time to outgrow. We just had regular Pampers when I was a kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same here but he just turned 11. We use a combination of the meds and pull ups while traveling bc he often leaks through the pull up.

Have you tried changing him during the night so he doesn’t leak?

Changing an 11 year old? Wtf are you talking about?

Check on him before you go to bed. If he’s already wet and you think he might leak you should either wake him up and have him change it or just do it yourself. It’s your child, better than having to wash the bed in the morning. The other option would be to switch to a diaper that can last all night.

[Anonymous]

The diaper we are using on him are great and they worked for us at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same here but he just turned 11. We use a combination of the meds and pull ups while traveling bc he often leaks through the pull up.

Have you tried changing him during the night so he doesn’t leak?

Changing an 11 year old? Wtf are you talking about?

Check on him before you go to bed. If he’s already wet and you think he might leak you should either wake him up and have him change it or just do it yourself. It’s your child, better than having to wash the bed in the morning. The other option would be to switch to a diaper that can last all night.

You don’t change an 11 year old’s diaper. An 11 year old doesn’t wear diapers. They wear pull ups at night if they wet the bed and can change them themselves. There should be no changing of an 11 year old. Bizarre. And you shouldn’t wake them up when they are asleep.