MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING

[Anonymous]

Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.

Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.

[Anonymous]

We find that just the size 8 works for us.

[Anonymous]

DS wet bed until puberty. Pediatrician was not alarmed. I had a brother who also had accidents for a long time. It can run in the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.

Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.

It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.

Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.

It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.

In what world is waking a child up from a deep sleep for no other reason that for them to use the bathroom before they're producing the anti-diurectic hormone a 'good-idea'?

Bedwetting is developmental. Yes, even in a 9 year old. If you're waking up a child that's not producing ADH yet, you're training YOURSELF to manage their bathroom needs, and nothing more. Just because it worked for your husband, doesn't mean it's 'right'.

[Anonymous]

It’s completely fine for kids to still have protection at night in case of an accident at this age.

[Anonymous]

You should see a GI doctor, not the pediatrician if they're not supporting any kind of intervention. There is a medication, something like Desmopressin that can help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.

Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.

It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.

In what world is waking a child up from a deep sleep for no other reason that for them to use the bathroom before they're producing the anti-diurectic hormone a 'good-idea'?

Bedwetting is developmental. Yes, even in a 9 year old. If you're waking up a child that's not producing ADH yet, you're training YOURSELF to manage their bathroom needs, and nothing more. Just because it worked for your husband, doesn't mean it's 'right'.

Keep buying diapers in most of the world this is how it works. Doing laundry constantly and throwing away diapers is wasteful.

[Anonymous]

My 8 YO still wets the bed every single night and I've given up on trying to make him stop. Doctor says it's normal and he has anxiety so the alarm won't work for us. We bought 3 waterproof blankets off Amazon to alternate and sposies to add to his pullup. I'm still washing a lot of sheets and pj's, but we're all happier now that we're not stressing over it.

[Anonymous]

It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?

Did they mind having the pull-ups that long?

[Anonymous]

My daughter wet her bed on and off until age 11. We tried one of those bed-wetting alarms which helped. Eventually, she grew out of it. She is 14 now and hasn't had a problem in 3 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?

Did they mind having the pull-ups that long?

They hated wetting the bed so they preferred to wear a pull up. They didn’t tell their friends but weren’t embarrassed around mom and dad.

[Anonymous]

Ever have a problem with pull-ups causing rash or skin irritation?