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We have tried medication, and we have tried bed wedding alarms. Nothing has worked for us and our situation we have used good nights and under jams and we have had a little success with them. He is always leaking through them. He is a very skinny kid he only weighs 54 pounds tall and thin. We have been using pamper swaddling size 8 they actually fit him. He uses it for long trips and bedwetting.

I’m sorry, I’m sure this is tough on everyone. But there is nothing you can “do” to make this stop. He just has to grow out of it. As a parent, the best thing you can do is make it as least embarrassing as possible and manage the wetness as best you can. I’m sure he already feels ashamed and getting more shame from him parents will just make it feel worse. He cannot help it. Puberty nearly always stops it. I promise, there is an end.

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We have tried medication, and we have tried bed wedding alarms. Nothing has worked for us and our situation we have used good nights and under jams and we have had a little success with them. He is always leaking through them. He is a very skinny kid he only weighs 54 pounds tall and thin. We have been using pamper swaddling size 8 they actually fit him. He uses it for long trips and bedwetting.

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Anonymous wrote:It isn’t unusual. Most aren’t, but plenty are.

I worked at boys sleepaway camp. A handful of boys ages 8-11 every year would consistently struggle with this.

I’ve babysat for several kids around this age who were in the same situation. My only suggestion is if they want to read or play a game in bed before they actually go to sleep that you remind them they should try getting up and using the bathroom a second time.

There is also a medicine that can help, DDAVP. It isn’t a long term solution, but might keep the dry for sleepovers or a summer camp.

Medication doesn’t always work the same for every child and I personally would avoid it until they are much older and they’ve had an opportunity to outgrow it naturally. That’s just my opinion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It isn’t unusual. Most aren’t, but plenty are.

I worked at boys sleepaway camp. A handful of boys ages 8-11 every year would consistently struggle with this.

I’ve babysat for several kids around this age who were in the same situation. My only suggestion is if they want to read or play a game in bed before they actually go to sleep that you remind them they should try getting up and using the bathroom a second time.

There is also a medicine that can help, DDAVP. It isn’t a long term solution, but might keep the dry for sleepovers or a summer camp.

Anonymous wrote:It isn’t unusual. Most aren’t, but plenty are.

I worked at boys sleepaway camp. A handful of boys ages 8-11 every year would consistently struggle with this.

I’ve babysat for several kids around this age who were in the same situation. My only suggestion is if they want to read or play a game in bed before they actually go to sleep that you remind them they should try getting up and using the bathroom a second time.

It isn’t unusual. Most aren’t, but plenty are.

I worked at boys sleepaway camp. A handful of boys ages 8-11 every year would consistently struggle with this.

For some kids the only thing you can do is be patient and wait it out. Do you know if he ever wakes up during the night?

My niece wet the bed until she was 10. It’s genetic. She grew out of it.

I think most kids now just use pull-ups until they eventually outgrow it. It’s very common and not at all a big deal.

Same with our 8-year-old. Heavy sleeper. We were about to go the alarm route (summer overnight camp was coming) and decided to ditch the pull-ups for 2 weeks first to collect some data — how often was he actually peeing, when did it happen, etc. We alternated sheets and mattress protectors on his bed and had changes of clothes ready to go.

First few nights we were up 2-3 times. Then once. By night 7 he had stopped bed wetting. I think he had one incident since then. It’s been over a year.

I know it’s developmental but in his case the absorbency of the pull-ups was preventing whatever switch needed to flip in his brain from activating.

I’d try committing to going without pull-ups for awhile. Yes, it’s a huge hassle! But worst case, you get good data. Best case, the switch flips and the bed wetting stops.

Anonymous wrote:This is TOTALLY NORMAL. Just calm down. My sister and her husband wet the bed until 12. Since some of it is genetic so did their oldest.

It is anointing, but normal. Don’t disrupt your kids sleep with an alarm.

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This is TOTALLY NORMAL. Just calm down. My sister and her husband wet the bed until 12. Since some of it is genetic so did their oldest.

It is anointing, but normal. Don’t disrupt your kids sleep with an alarm.

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we have used alarms for him nothings at all. we have had him to the doctors. he has a clean bill of health. we ended up just using his brother size 7 diapers on him.

My twin sons outgrew it around 10. We didn’t do anything to speed things up. They are identical which lends credence, however slight, to the genetics theory. They were also late walkers fwiw.

Try a Bedwetting alarm. Our pediatrician kept telling us he would outgrow it but we wanted to try the alarm before sleep away camp over the summer (age 9.5). It worked very quickly, he stopped wetting after 10 nights of the alarm and no relapses so far.