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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. I'm shocked with how many people are being so unsympathetic to what this kid is going through.

Alarms seem almost cruel to me, especially if the child is genuinely just wetting the bed in their sleep. Kids aren't supposed to wake up in the MOTN just to pee, not at that age. That's the entire point of Vasopressin/antidiuretic hormone production.

Let me repeat. It is NORMAL, developmentally, for a child that isn't producing ADH yet to wet in their sleep. Ask your pediatrican, I promise you, anyone that knows what they're talking about will tell you that bedwetting/Enuresis is hormone based, and is NOT something to be concerned about, absent an underlying medical cause.

Leave him alone for goodness sake. He won't wear pull ups in high school. Find something that keeps him dry all night, and let it go. He'll grow out of it once his body is ready.[/quote]

I'm a PP whose kid successfully used an alarm. As I mentioned above, my father was a bedwetter and had plenty of stories of how he was shamed and punished by his father. It was awful. I don't disagree with anything you're saying about normal development. In my house we never treated my DS2's bedwetting as a problem. It was simply a fact of life that we dealt with. Really, it wasn't even a big deal because we didn't have much trouble with leaking

But my DS noticed that his younger sibling didn't wear pullups to bed, and he didn't like that. When he was invited to sleep over at my friend's house with her same-aged kid, my friend and I had to cook up a plan so that my friend would leave a pullup in the bathroom and my DS could go in there and secretly change into it before he went to bed and sneak in there in the morning to take it off, because it was so important to my DS that his friend not know. DS didn't believe me when I said bedwetting was normal, since as far as he could tell nobody he knew was wearing a pullup at night. So I told him we would ask the doctor. The doctor told him it was a normal thing, but we could try an alarm. DS really wanted to try it. So we did. And after several nights it started to work. DS was really happy. ~shrug~[/quote]

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