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Anonymous wrote:My 5 year old has always been a great, heavy sleeper and wears a Goodnight every night and will have an accident if he falls asleep during rest time (rare for him to fall asleep, but will 100% have an accident if he does). My 2 year old immediately night trained on his own when we potty trained at the beginning of the summer and now he doesn’t wear a pull-up for nap or bedtime. He has always been a terrible, light sleeper.

So if he falls asleep in the car or anywhere he will have an accident? Do you just bring a change of clothes for him just-in-case?

My oldest never falls asleep during car rides, so we’ve never had the issue.

But the point of my post was just that we have done everything the same with both sons and their bodies are different.

Why do people come ask these questions to anonymous strangers on the internet instead of their child's pediatrician?

Anonymous wrote:I asked my family doctor about this, she said the child has to have responsibility to clean up the sheets or you can just wait and they will probably grow out of it

This is why children should see pediatricians and not 75 year old loons.

Mine suddenly stopped at 7. My 5 year old is still in good nights.

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Anonymous wrote:My 5 year old has always been a great, heavy sleeper and wears a Goodnight every night and will have an accident if he falls asleep during rest time (rare for him to fall asleep, but will 100% have an accident if he does). My 2 year old immediately night trained on his own when we potty trained at the beginning of the summer and now he doesn’t wear a pull-up for nap or bedtime. He has always been a terrible, light sleeper.

So if he falls asleep in the car or anywhere he will have an accident? Do you just bring a change of clothes for him just-in-case?

I’m the poster just above this who said my uncle wet the bed.

And yes, this is what happened. My grandmother had to keep him awake when they were riding somewhere (she didn’t drive, so took the bus) because his bladder would release upon him waking up. Every time.

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Anonymous wrote:My 5 year old has always been a great, heavy sleeper and wears a Goodnight every night and will have an accident if he falls asleep during rest time (rare for him to fall asleep, but will 100% have an accident if he does). My 2 year old immediately night trained on his own when we potty trained at the beginning of the summer and now he doesn’t wear a pull-up for nap or bedtime. He has always been a terrible, light sleeper.

So if he falls asleep in the car or anywhere he will have an accident? Do you just bring a change of clothes for him just-in-case?

I had a child who was not night trained until nearly 11. He never had accidents in the car, I think because the rides were not long enough. He slept 10 hours a night and normally woke up wet closer to hour 7 or 8 of his sleep, when he woke up. We never had a car ride where we went that long, never mind one where we went that long without stopping. Since longer car rides involved stopping for breaks, he went to the bathroom at every 2-3 hour long stop. We did have extra clothe with us for a while because he had motion sickness. We stopped carrying back up clothes for him, and us, on plane rides a few years back because that stopped being an issue for some reason.

Kids out grow a lot of these issues, night accidents, or you can use some meds to help, dramamine for the win although he does seem to have out grown the motion sickness. He also knows to tell us when he starts feeling sick again on the rare occasion and we still carry dramamine.

Anonymous wrote:I asked my family doctor about this, she said the child has to have responsibility to clean up the sheets or you can just wait and they will probably grow out of it

Is your family doctor 80? This is such old, outdated, and frankly crazy advice that I’d switch doctors. No telling what else that she is telling you that was standard from the 70s/80s (or earlier).

My son wet the bed until around 7 or so. My uncle wet the bed. His niece wet the bed until her teens. Her nephew wet the bed. It is what it is. No amount of sneer changing will make it stop.

My son wet the bed until shortly after he turned 10. He use pull ups until that time. We also had a waterproof mattress pad cover.

My oldest DS wore pull ups until he was 8. We tried the alarm when the pediatrician offered it as an option, but I don’t think it really helped. My next DS potty trained and night trained at 2.5 and never wet the bed. The 3rd kid is still in pull ups at 8, but they’re not soaked every night so hoping he’ll stop soon too since he was upset when the youngest stopped using them at 4. Apparently DH wet the bed til 7 or 8. Every kid is different and they’ll stop when their body is ready.

Anonymous wrote:My 5 year old has always been a great, heavy sleeper and wears a Goodnight every night and will have an accident if he falls asleep during rest time (rare for him to fall asleep, but will 100% have an accident if he does). My 2 year old immediately night trained on his own when we potty trained at the beginning of the summer and now he doesn’t wear a pull-up for nap or bedtime. He has always been a terrible, light sleeper.

So if he falls asleep in the car or anywhere he will have an accident? Do you just bring a change of clothes for him just-in-case?

My 5 year old has always been a great, heavy sleeper and wears a Goodnight every night and will have an accident if he falls asleep during rest time (rare for him to fall asleep, but will 100% have an accident if he does). My 2 year old immediately night trained on his own when we potty trained at the beginning of the summer and now he doesn’t wear a pull-up for nap or bedtime. He has always been a terrible, light sleeper.

My older DD was like this. She wasn’t dry through the night until 8.5 years. She daytime potty trained at age 3. My younger one absolutely was a challenge to daytime potty train (finally got it around her 4th bday). She also wasn’t wetting the bed. They are 4.5 years apart so I went from buying pull-ups for both of them to not buying for either of them in about a week!

I was getting worried about sleep overs for my older DD and the doctor said there was a medication she could take for sleepovers. But then from age 7.5-8.5 was the pandemic and she wasn’t going to sleepovers so it was a non-issue. Also she only sleeps over at one friend’s house and I don’t think that friend would have cared or teased her.

My DH wet the bed until he was 7 or 8 and his parents made him feel like there was something wrong with him because of it. It had a lasting impact. Please learn more about this and make sure your son knows this is a totally normal way that lots of bodies work.

I had a kid who just could not stay dry during the night, we discussed it with his pediatrician and saw specialists but all the feedback is with no physical problems (he had none) he would outgrow it, it took a painfully long time, until he was 12 and hit puberty but no issues at all since. We did have pills that prevented accidents that we used for sleepovers and such as needed.

Anonymous wrote:Same. My 8 year old is still in diapers! It’s insane. The diaper is soaking wet in the morning, every single day. Meanwhile my five year old has been over a year without a diaper. I don’t know wha to do. When everyone says they grow out of it, one day they just wake up without a wet diaper? I can’t even imagine

Interesting, my 7 year old still urinates overnight but my 4 year old does not