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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I wet the bed occasionally until I was in 4th grade. I remember going camping with my Junior Girl Scout troop and wetting the sleeping bag, so embarrassing!  I had some kind of treatment by a urologist to enlarge my bladder but I don't know if it worked.   They never tried any bedwetting alarms on me.  I finally stopped doing it.

My younger brother wet the bed until he was at least 12.  He finally stopped doing it.

We were a very happy, emotionally healthy family.

Both my children wet the bed at night until relatively late but not as late as me and my brother.   I want to say my son stopped at age 9 and my daughter at age 7?   It's kind of a blur.

Our pediatrician said it was usually genetic and chemical/hormonal in nature.  There is a chemical or hormone that your body naturally secretes that either stops urination at night or at least allows you to wake when you need to pee, and in some people their body makes less of it until they are older.   Something like that.

She said that there is medication you can give your child for one time events -- like they can take the pill every day for a week at sleep away camp.  Otherwise she recommended just using the pull ups.   She said you can give the alarms a trial for a week or so -- if they are going to work they will work; if not wait and try again in 3 months.   Sometimes they can give a little push to help your child's body learn to figure things out.

I have read that constipation (sometimes undiagnosed) can be a significant contributor to bedwetting.   Even if your child is regularly having BMs, he can still have a back up of stool that is putting pressure on the bladdar -- something that can really only be diagnosed with an xray maybe?   Not sure about that.

Good luck![/quote]

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