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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some kids neuro growth happens later than others. Likely his brain is just not waking him up when he needs to pee. Use pull ups to limit cleanup and embarrassment, check with MD on annual exam. Don’t make it your son’s fault, don’t embarrass him over something he cannot control yet. [/quote]

This. I wish people would accept this instead of suggesting the usual bullsh*t stuff of limiting liquids and [b]waking to pee[/b] which do not work. Your kid will grow out of it eventually without intervention.[/quote]

Waking to be works for my 7 year old 100% of the time. She would rather do that than wear diapers/pull ups(pull ups/diapers are actually an easier solution for us).  I am not sure how these work-arounds suggest that we do not accept that she has cannot control this yet.

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Waking to pee is disruptive for everyone. And it’s a type of intervention. Sometimes even if I woke my son to pee, his pull up was still wet in the am and his overall sleep was interrupted by the waking to pee. And then your child is relying on an external force (you) to wake up instead of his/her body being developmentally ready to hold their pee all night. It’s not a good habit to get in to.[/quote]

Some people wake to pee for their whole lives.

Uninterrupted nighttime sleep is actually a fairly modern expectation. Back when most people lived in small homes with only one or two rooms, and family beds were common, it was normal for people to go to bed when it get dark (no electricity), wake in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, sometimes even eat and/or have sex, and then go back to sleep until dawn.

And many people still basically subscribe to this pattern. I don’t usually, but after having a baby and losing bladder capacity for a while, I got into the habit of waking to pee every night at 1 or 2am. After the early days of night feeds, I found this not disruptive at all (just get up and pee, no turning on lights, sometimes I barely opened my eyes). And it was essential because my weak pelvic floor meant that if I woke in the morning with a totally full bladder, there was a good chance I’d pee myself before I made it to the bathroom. Eventually my body recovered and it wasn’t necessary anymore, but I still wake to pee sometimes at night and it doesn’t disrupt my sleep. Sometimes I can’t even remember if I did it or just dreamed it.[/quote]

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