5 year old soaking through pjs every night!

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Anonymous wrote:I had a 7yo heavy sleeper who was still waking up with heavy overnight diapers size 6, despite limiting fluids, etc. The few times she didn't have a diaper, she'd soak the sheets and not wake up. Only once recently did she wake up dry w/o a diaper.

After many discussions with spouse, we decided to do away with the diapers. I was skeptical and wanted to do an alarm, but he wanted to try it. We did a dream pee at 11. Lots of stripping off top layer of sheets in the middle of the night or morning, and lots of laundry.

After lots of sleep disruption over several weeks, we started to see that she was staying dry sometimes. After several months, we finally stopped the dream pee. A year and a half later, she's always dry at night.

I don't know if the no-diaper intervention helped hasten things, or whether she was outgrowing it anyway. Just our anecdote.

^^That is solid parenting. Do the hard work!

I disagree. This seems like stupid parenting to me. Why literally lose sleep over something you cannot fix? I mean if you had said it was 2 weeks and then she was good, that's one thing, but a year and a half?? That is crazy talk.

Well I for one would rather do the hard work instead of having an elementary aged child in diapers for longer than absolutely necessary.

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Night trained my never once dry/waking up with a very full diaper 3.5 yr old. Didn't think it was possible, or that he was ready but people on here told me to take away the diapers and give it a try. Took 2 weeks with many accidents and lots of sheet changes, but after that he was fully night trained, holds it all night. I definitely believe diapers can be a crutch.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a 7yo heavy sleeper who was still waking up with heavy overnight diapers size 6, despite limiting fluids, etc. The few times she didn't have a diaper, she'd soak the sheets and not wake up. Only once recently did she wake up dry w/o a diaper.

After many discussions with spouse, we decided to do away with the diapers. I was skeptical and wanted to do an alarm, but he wanted to try it. We did a dream pee at 11. Lots of stripping off top layer of sheets in the middle of the night or morning, and lots of laundry.

After lots of sleep disruption over several weeks, we started to see that she was staying dry sometimes. After several months, we finally stopped the dream pee. A year and a half later, she's always dry at night.

I don't know if the no-diaper intervention helped hasten things, or whether she was outgrowing it anyway. Just our anecdote.

^^That is solid parenting. Do the hard work!

I disagree. This seems like stupid parenting to me. Why literally lose sleep over something you cannot fix? I mean if you had said it was 2 weeks and then she was good, that's one thing, but a year and a half?? That is crazy talk.

"Stupid" PP here. To clarify, it was several months (maybe 6 mos; can't recall given the fog of that time) before she started waking up dry frequently enough for us to risk stopping the dream pees.

Over the next few months, she had occasional accidents; typically when schedule was disrupted, etc. Usually the accidents were small and didn't soak through the sheets, just wet underwear.

These tapered off and now it's a year and a half later and she's been dry for a while with no accidents. The last one I recall was late spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Pull ups are not for overnight use--they are for potty training and meant to catch a small accident and teach kids how to pull them up and down. You need diapers. Try buggies overnights.

Shut up mom of toddler who doesn't know what she's talking about.

Actually only 20 percent of five year olds and ten percent of six year olds are not night trained and there are many medical opinions that pull ups delay night training. Are you sure you are not just being lazy op?

Hey, clueless...if a 5 year old is wetting the bed, it's most likely from an immature bladder, which isn't uncommon. And this was known LONG before pullups were ever invented

OP, I'd size up the goodnights. And this will pass. I had a kid who wet the bed till about this age-then all of a sudden, she was dry. I used pullups, mattress protector and NO shame. She just had to mature.

Maybe your child was one of that ten percent. Maybe not. With 7 year olds in pull ups we will never know.

Stop. Most pediatricians are telling parents to wait until 7 before any intervention. At 7, DH and I have been discussing bed wetting alarms but now child is dry 3-4/nights a week so we are going to wait a few more weeks to see if there is continued improvement. If not, we will give a bed wetting alarm a try - a few friends have been successful with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Pull ups are not for overnight use--they are for potty training and meant to catch a small accident and teach kids how to pull them up and down. You need diapers. Try buggies overnights.

Shut up mom of toddler who doesn't know what she's talking about.

Actually only 20 percent of five year olds and ten percent of six year olds are not night trained and there are many medical opinions that pull ups delay night training. Are you sure you are not just being lazy op?

Hey, clueless...if a 5 year old is wetting the bed, it's most likely from an immature bladder, which isn't uncommon. And this was known LONG before pullups were ever invented

OP, I'd size up the goodnights. And this will pass. I had a kid who wet the bed till about this age-then all of a sudden, she was dry. I used pullups, mattress protector and NO shame. She just had to mature.

Maybe your child was one of that ten percent. Maybe not. With 7 year olds in pull ups we will never know.

Stop. Most pediatricians are telling parents to wait until 7 before any intervention. At 7, DH and I have been discussing bed wetting alarms but now child is dry 3-4/nights a week so we are going to wait a few more weeks to see if there is continued improvement. If not, we will give a bed wetting alarm a try - a few friends have been successful with that.

I am CERTAIN your pediatrician means medical intervention. Not parenting intervention.

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My DD turned 7 a few months ago and still regularly wets the bed. She’ll have 2-3 nights dry and then an accident. Our (shared with other apartments) laundry is down the hall so we can’t just throw it in and leave it so that’s hard too.

At her 7 yr appointment I told the pediatrician she was still wetting the bed and asked if I should remove pull-ups etc. The pediatrician said it’s only a problem if it (a) introduces stress in the home / is a source of fighting (b) makes the child feel shamed or (c) causes irritation / physical discomfort. I asked about sleepovers (none yet, but some friends are interested) and she said there are one-time medications she could take. I’m tempted to push it more aggressively but our pediatrician is definitely against pushing it. She says I’m not going to change a deep sleeper’s body and I’m just going to create work for myself and stress for our family.

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Pp here: pediatrician said to remove pull-ups when she can do 2 weeks dry. The most we ever got was 6 days. Good nights work for her.