So. tired. of buying night Pull-ups...

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Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Goodnight are leaking, and your only concern is dealing with wet beds, you need to consider moving up to youth/adult size overnight diapers, OP. They simply hold way more pee than a Goodnight or similar pull up would.

I'd ask your pedi for recommendations.

This. Pullups aren't meant to be used multiple times a night, every night.

If he's peeing as much as it sounds, you need to go shopping for an actual night specific diaper.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

My daughter is the same. Alarms (even vibrating ones) do not wake her. We restrict food and drink after dinner. She pees before bed. I guess I'm a crappy mom because I gave up waking her in the middle of the night after about 6 months because I just couldn't stand not having a full night's sleep anymore, so there's that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

Yes, I'm the PP who used a diaper with the alarm. Regular underwear under the diaper to ensure the sensor gets wet and the kid gets a wet feeling.

I do think it helps if your kid really wants it to work, because the hauling out of bed night after night is a PITA. I would just tell my kid, "the alarm is working, it woke us up!" Even if the "us" didn't actually include him lol.

[Anonymous]

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Yes, I'm the PP who used a diaper with the alarm. Regular underwear under the diaper to ensure the sensor gets wet and the kid gets a wet feeling.

I do think it helps if your kid really wants it to work, because the hauling out of bed night after night is a PITA. I would just tell my kid, "the alarm is working, it woke us up!" Even if the "us" didn't actually include him lol.

Ah, gotcha! Not sure why, but I totally skipped over the part where they need to wear normal underwear underneath. That makes perfect sense!

Truthfully, DS isn't at all motivated at the moment. He wakes up sopping wet, and is more interested in goofing off and playing with his brother before he even is bothered about changing out of his wet pull-up. We have to remind him every morning to take it off and change into undies.

Did you all have good success with a particular brand/kind of diaper/pull-up? DS is wearing Goodnites right now, but they generally leak through 3-4 times a week as it stands right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

My daughter is the same. Alarms (even vibrating ones) do not wake her. We restrict food and drink after dinner. She pees before bed. I guess I'm a crappy mom because I gave up waking her in the middle of the night after about 6 months because I just couldn't stand not having a full night's sleep anymore, so there's that.

You are not a crappy mom. She's not ready. She'll get there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, I'm the PP who used a diaper with the alarm. Regular underwear under the diaper to ensure the sensor gets wet and the kid gets a wet feeling.

I do think it helps if your kid really wants it to work, because the hauling out of bed night after night is a PITA. I would just tell my kid, "the alarm is working, it woke us up!" Even if the "us" didn't actually include him lol.

Ah, gotcha! Not sure why, but I totally skipped over the part where they need to wear normal underwear underneath. That makes perfect sense!

Truthfully, DS isn't at all motivated at the moment. He wakes up sopping wet, and is more interested in goofing off and playing with his brother before he even is bothered about changing out of his wet pull-up. We have to remind him every morning to take it off and change into undies.

Did you all have good success with a particular brand/kind of diaper/pull-up? DS is wearing Goodnites right now, but they generally leak through 3-4 times a week as it stands right now.

I'm sorry, I don't remember brands of anything, because my DS is now 19.

You might wait a few months and see if your DS develops a little more interest and then try again. My son was motivated because he wanted to go on sleepovers but wouldn't go because of concern about wetting.

[Anonymous]

Remind him that even if his pull up is wet when he wakes up, he needs to get up to use the bathroom. Ours would do an additional pee in the morning since “it’s already wet!”. It seems like a small thing but helped turn a corner.

[Anonymous]

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My daughter is the same. Alarms (even vibrating ones) do not wake her. We restrict food and drink after dinner. She pees before bed. I guess I'm a crappy mom because I gave up waking her in the middle of the night after about 6 months because I just couldn't stand not having a full night's sleep anymore, so there's that.

Oh that doesn't even register on the scale of bad mom-ness. Please dont worry.

Want to hear 'bad mom'?

My kid that wears diapers (only at night) woke up early yesterday morning (like 2AM) needing to pee so badly he was about to wet himself. DH and I were so out of it thought that we simply yelled up at him to just go in his diaper, and we'll worry about it in the morning.

[Anonymous]

My 6yo boy still pees about half the nights. I switched to cloth pull ups because he would soak through Goodnites, even when I added a Sposie booster. Super Undies are holding his pee most nights. Washing them is easy. We got the extra strength ones because, heavy wetter.

https://superundies.com/

I am also thinking about trying TheraPee.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to toilet train for nighttime, did you just skip that part of the process?

WTF are you talking about? I did nothing to toilet train my kids at night. We toilet trained them, and then they naturally stopped peeing at night. Which is what happens as most bodies mature a bit. For some kids, it's takes a long time. There is no "training", only mitigation straegies. The kid is asleep. It's not a conscious choice that they are making. Shame does not fix it! Surprise!

You don’t shame them you teach them just like you do during the daytime.

Please tell me how you teach a child to wake up to pee. It it quite literally a biological feedback thing that you can not TRAIN. It has to mature. You can try to help (waking them up, limiting liquids) but I am going to assume by 7 years old these parents have tried QUITE A FEW THINGS. Time is often the best thing here. And it sucks and it's hard. But teaching a kid who is ASLEEP and is not making a choice is pretty silly in my book. Like, how did you teach your kids to stop having nightmares?

Bed wetting alarm. That's how you train te brain to make the connection. It's not expensive and works wonders.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

You need to jump out of bed as soon as the alarm ring and bring your kid to the bathroom. My kid would just have stayed asleep and kept peeing if I didn't force up to get up as soon as it rang. We did it for a few days and that was it. Now he wakes up and uses the bathroom at night when he wants to peel. The "brain is not mature" argument is just a load of crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to toilet train for nighttime, did you just skip that part of the process?

Nope, parents think that's what they're doing, but it's a chemical change that happens, and hasn't happened for this kid yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What have you tried, OP? Maybe people will stop being rude if you explain what you have tried so far (e.g. bed wetting alarm, commando for one week, etc.)?

Sorry, wasn't in the best mental state as I just finished literally wringing pee out of sheets and PJ's prior to making this thread.

Regarding what we've tried so far. I'd like to think we've tried just about everything, except for medication (which I'm not willing to do, at this point). We've tried:

1.) Limiting/eliminating drinks before bedtime

2.) Multiple bathroom trips before laying down

3.) Waking him in the night to go pee (disaster, never again).

4.) Two different bedwetting alarms (also a disaster, woke up everyone in the house, save for DS)

At this point, I'm honestly just desperate to find some kind of a night pull-up/diaper option that won't leak, and will let us all get a full nights sleep for once, without me having to deal with pee sheets every other morning.

OP, I'm the previous poster whose kid took 2 weeks for the alarm to work. My kid also slept through the alarm--I had to go wake him up every time, get him up, and change him into dry things. The alarm actually never woke him, only the rest of us. But somehow the action of getting up and changing whenever he got wet did something. After about a week, we starting having nights when the alarm didn't go off. So it might work for your kid, too, but you have to give it some time.

I'll repeat: the alarm, which was attached to his shirt and loud enough to wake the dead and also vibrated so hard the bed shook, never woke my son. I had to go in and shake him/ shout and physically lift him up to get him up.

Really sounds like my boy we can/have done a full cleaning of the house, including running the vacuum and had DS not so much as stir while he's asleep.

I'd be willing to give the alarms another try. Last attempt we tried for about 4 weeks, before giving up.

Have you tried the alarms WITH a diaper? A PP mentioned this working, and it sounds like something I think we could get on board with.

You need to jump out of bed as soon as the alarm ring and bring your kid to the bathroom. My kid would just have stayed asleep and kept peeing if I didn't force up to get up as soon as it rang. We did it for a few days and that was it. Now he wakes up and uses the bathroom at night when he wants to peel. The "brain is not mature" argument is just a load of crap.

So, this is pretty strong evidence that it's a brain difference, because that's not a description of how a typical kid sleeps.

Typically, at some point, kids just stop producing urine at night. Typically, kids get easier to rouse. So, a kid whose body still produces pee at night, and who doesn't rouse to loud noises has a brain immaturity.

[Anonymous]

Same here, OP. My second grader is 8 and still needs them. Rarely has a dry pull-up, and just can’t seem to wake up to pee.