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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.[/quote]

Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is [i]absolutely[/i] for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.

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It's absolutely more common in boys and it runs in families. My father and brother were bedwetters, as was one of my sons. Both my father and brother stopped when they hit puberty. My son stopped with the help of an alarm at age 8.

FWIW, my brother was an incredibly deep sleeper (also sleepwalked occasionally). He was a big kid (not heavy but tall and strong), and I remember my parents trying to wake him once and my mother saying to my father, "my god, if we ever had a house fire we'd never get him out of here." My DS2 was also a super heavy sleeper. When he first started using the bedwetting alarm, he slept right thru it. Loud enough to wake the dead and vibrating hard enough to shake him, and I went in and he was sleeping. It was pretty amazing actually. [/quote]

I was also told by my dr that the chances of your child wetting the bed increases if one or both parents wet their bed growing up.  I believe I was day/night trained at around 3 and my daughter is 8 and is nowhere close to being dry at night.[/quote]

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