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PP you are replying to.  Sorry for taking so long to reply.  I decided I had a bunch of things to do this weekend and took the weekend "off" from DCUM for a change.

I agree with the PP's saying that you recommend that if he wakes up, to go to the bathroom to pee.  Just let him know the diapers and pull-ups are to help him transition to being able to sleep without them.  They are there for when he is asleep or too drowsy to go to the bathroom.  If he actually wakes up enough, he should use the bathroom.  We did that with Twin A, told him that it was perfectly normal for different kids to adjust to their bodies at different speeds.  The diapers were to make sure that if he didn't wake up, he wouldn't end up in a wet bed, but the goal was to have his diapers or pull-ups be dry most of the time so he could stop using them.  He was comfortable thinking of them as a training aid, rather than a solution to the problem.

I'm so glad that he slept better.  To me, that suggests that the bed-wetting/pull-ups were a source of anxiety on top of the family issues that caused them to end up with you as their guardian.  So, with all that they've been through, anything you can do to reduce the level of anxiety they are going through, the better they'll adapt to the other things.  I like to think that when there is that much going on, that whatever you can do to make things easier, so that they can learn to adapt to one source of anxiety at a time is a good thing for them.

Good luck![/quote]

Not a problem at all! I hope you had a good weekend! Taking a few days to 'unplug' actually sounds kind of like heaven at the moment.

Absolutely will be talking with him about this the moment I spot a chance when he doesn't seem super anxious about everything. I should have been a bit more specific, but--if I understand right--he's asking about the times where he sort of 'barely' wakes up in the night (or his brother happens to wake him up..) and is kind of in a half-asleep state. I suspect if he really, REALLY made an effort--he probably *could* indeed make it to the bathroom when this happens, but for whatever reason, he really really doesn't want to.

He typically will indeed get up and go (to the bathroom) in the past while he was wearing pull-ups, but we've had times where he's actually woken up his twin brother, and asked him if it was 'OK' or if he would get in trouble, if he just peed in his pull-up. I assume this is where this is coming from, with the 'new' diapers. Which his brother told me this afternoon that he LOVES wearing.

They really do never cease to confuse me. I still love them though! :)[/quote]

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