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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is just a response to the older bedwetters. I wet the bed until I was 12. I was really concerned when I had children it would be the same for them so I asked a pediatrician about it when mine were younger and it's a chemical imbalance that works itself out when you hit puberty. It was an inconvenience for me and luckily my children were not bedwetters. Please be kind to your children my parents made me feel like trash about it. I was not allowed to drink anything after 5pm and when I wet the bed which was every night I could not get up. I just had to lay in the wet bed and clothes all night. Very damaging psychologically.[/quote]

I'm so sorry. I also wet the bed until I was 11 or 12, and my parents were actually really cool about it. I can't imagine if they had done that.  I'm also apprehensive about whether my kids will have this issue (they're still very young).

To the parents dealing with this, I also just outgrew it. I don't have any allergies, and bribing me certainly would not have worked. I was a 9, 10, 11 year old girl invited to sleepovers- no one wanted to not wet the bed more than me.  All I can tell you, as someone who went through it, is to let your child know that you are willing to talk about it and to assist them in seeking a reasonable medical evaluation, but bear in mind that it may just be a matter of time.  While your child can of course be responsible for cleaning up during the night and doing their own laundry (which I had to do anyway) don't try to punish or shame them out of it.[/quote]

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