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[quote=Anonymous]Op, did you ever try to night train the child?  It's not clear from what you said.  Before I went through all kinds of medical interventions, I'd either try removing the pull ups (which may have become a convenient habit for him --as they did for my son) or try the bed wetting alarm.  As for removing the pull ups -- my son had simply never learned to not pee where he was in bed (in his pull ups) b/c there was no downside.  Once we let him experience the downside by putting him in underwear, he learned to drag himself to the bathroom in a week.  When he was learning--and peeing in bed, we got him up, turned on the lights, had him help change the sheets and change clothes and he got the idea that it was a lot of effort to clean up if he peed in bed....with in a few days, he stopped peeing in bed and the pull ups were gone and bed was dry every night.  The pull ups were just giving him an easy way to stay in bed.  (Make sure there is enough light that the child isn't afraid to get up --sometimes it's a fear of the dark that keeps kids in bed when they have to go.)

The next thing to try is the bed alarm.

At this point it's not clear if you son can't wake up or just hasn't had a reason to.[/quote]

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