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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Do you have any research/ citations to back this up?

Everybody in our household wakes to pee. No one I know habitually  holds pee for 10 hours. Waking to pee might be disruptive for everyone, but so is having to convince a 7 year old night after night to wear pull-ups when she does not want to.

Diapers/ pull ups prevent bedwetting. If  waking to pee can prevent bedwetting and not make her feel like she is a baby(her words, not ours), then its a plausible solution. It's not a worthy battle to have since either DH or myself are usually still awake at 11pm

I understand that waking to pee does not work for everyone, but nothing really does. I disagree that it is disruptive enough to not be considered in the case of a child who refuses to wear diapers/ pull ups. I do agree that if your child does not mind wearing pull ups, then that us the easiest solution.

When my sisters wet the bed they at this age, they did not wear diapers/ pull ups. They had bed protectors that they had to clean everyday. Many times, they had to put their mattresses out in the morning and change clothes in the middle of the night. That's disruptive as well.

Babies who use cloth diapers will frequently wake when those diapers get wet. That's disruptive as well. Yet these kids and their parents were/ are fine.[/quote]

It sounds like you need to enforce your daughter to wear pull ups or get her to help change her sheets in the am rather than you having to wake her every night because she won’t wear something she needs overnight. [/quote]

+1 she either wears pull ups or deals with the consequences the next am. You should not wake her to pee because she refuses to wear something she needs. Ridiculous. [/quote]

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