Anonymous
Post 01/05/2024 09:24     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Ever have a problem with pull-ups causing rash or skin irritation?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 21:12     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?


Did they mind having the pull-ups that long?


They hated wetting the bed so they preferred to wear a pull up. They didn’t tell their friends but weren’t embarrassed around mom and dad.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 17:48     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
My daughter wet her bed on and off until age 11. We tried one of those bed-wetting alarms which helped. Eventually, she grew out of it. She is 14 now and hasn't had a problem in 3 years.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 17:34     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?


Did they mind having the pull-ups that long?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 16:28     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
It may be genetic but it may also be sleep apnea. I have two kids with sleep apnea. DS wore a pull up to bed until he was 9.5. He stopped a month after his tonsils and adenoids were removed. DD wet the bed until she was 8. Their Dad also wet the bed until age 10 and has sleep apnea. Does your child snore? May be worth getting his sleep investigated?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 15:39     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
My 8 YO still wets the bed every single night and I've given up on trying to make him stop. Doctor says it's normal and he has anxiety so the alarm won't work for us. We bought 3 waterproof blankets off Amazon to alternate and sposies to add to his pullup. I'm still washing a lot of sheets and pj's, but we're all happier now that we're not stressing over it.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2024 14:39     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.


Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.




It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.


In what world is waking a child up from a deep sleep for no other reason that for them to use the bathroom before they're producing the anti-diurectic hormone a 'good-idea'?

Bedwetting is developmental. Yes, even in a 9 year old. If you're waking up a child that's not producing ADH yet, you're training YOURSELF to manage their bathroom needs, and nothing more. Just because it worked for your husband, doesn't mean it's 'right'.


Keep buying diapers in most of the world this is how it works. Doing laundry constantly and throwing away diapers is wasteful.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2024 13:06     Subject: Re:MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
You should see a GI doctor, not the pediatrician if they're not supporting any kind of intervention. There is a medication, something like Desmopressin that can help.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2024 11:37     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
It’s completely fine for kids to still have protection at night in case of an accident at this age.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2024 00:35     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.


Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.




It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.


In what world is waking a child up from a deep sleep for no other reason that for them to use the bathroom before they're producing the anti-diurectic hormone a 'good-idea'?

Bedwetting is developmental. Yes, even in a 9 year old. If you're waking up a child that's not producing ADH yet, you're training YOURSELF to manage their bathroom needs, and nothing more. Just because it worked for your husband, doesn't mean it's 'right'.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 20:45     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.


Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.




It's less wasteful and expensive than pull-ups. Also allows the child to become independent faster. Americans are so lazy and wasteful. The majority of them do whatever is convenient not necessarily healthy. This is probably the only country that has kids in pull-ups and diapers for this long.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 16:42     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
DS wet bed until puberty. Pediatrician was not alarmed. I had a brother who also had accidents for a long time. It can run in the family.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 16:36     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
We find that just the size 8 works for us.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 15:58     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Anonymous wrote:Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.


Omg no. Disruptive for everyone in the household. Horrible idea.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2024 11:23     Subject: MY 9 YEAR OLD SON STILL BEDWETTING
Op. There is something you can do. Wake him up at 5:30 am every morning and have him use the bathroom. I have been doing this with my 7-year-old son. I wanted to try a bed-wetting alarm or just use pull-ups and dh who grew up in a developing country suggested we wake him up early. I think sometimes we make things too convenient in the US. Try it! He runs to the bathroom and sometimes washes his hands otherwise I have a bottle of sanitizer ready by his bed.