Bedwetting. My one is 6years old and has pull ups at night. I resigned myself to the fact that some kids just get there sooner than others - Considering there is medical fact to this too. Siblings had not had any more night accidents up untill about the latest age of 4. An older family member is really shaming and placing pressure that it just SHOULD NOT be happening at all. It's making me feel like I am lazy or am not even trying. I am trying though. We live rural and washing and changing sheets daily is simply not an option - we have done so in the past and didnt seem to make any difference to the pattern of being dry overnight or not. Some nights its completely dry and others not. I do feel though that maybe the pull ups might encourage wetting on some occasions. Any tips for me gals? This child was super easy to toilet train and was from a very early age, it's just this prolonged night time wetting.
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I have no suggestions sorry but I wet that bed at least weekly until I was 13. It didn’t matter what I did or didn’t do I was just such a deep sleeper that I never woke to it
Are they warm enough at night. If my daughter is cold she’ll wet the bed. It’s never her intention and she’ll tell me she’s done it.
You need to tell your family member to back off and that you’re dealing with it as their parent. Tell her to stop talking about it with your child if she is. It’s medical not just for shiz and giggles. Just plain change the discussion every time they bring it up. No apologies just start talking about something else. The child is not doing it on purpose. My cousin wet the bed up until his teenage years. He went on medication for camps and stuff. I’m not sure if he had surgery or if it eventually just stopped. It wasn’t something our family talked about. None of us shamed him for it.
It's not a thing you can "train. It's literally a switch in there brain that tells them to start waking for the toilet. And I saw pull ups in Aldi the other day for muxh older kids because it's pretty common for even older to still be wetting themselves.
Don't let him wet the bed. Keep him in pull ups. My son is 5.5 and I'm not pressuring him. He toilet trained for day at 4 and has asked me a few times to go night without one, had one perfect night and then two where he wet himself. I even tried waking him before I went to bed and he was in too much of a deep sleep to wake.
Little kids are usually exhausted by the end of the day. And I know how hard it is for me to wake and get out of bed to go to the toilets some nights because I am dead tired, so it's not easy for them to do.
It will happen when his brain is ready to tell him and wake him when needed.
They have great stick on pads to go over the top of his sheets, if he happens to leak through a pull up.
Medical professionals wouldn’t even consider assessing a bed wetter at 6. It’s very much a normal thing for many many people.
My sister bed wet until she was a teenager.
Some adults will wet the bed if they don’t take certain medications.
Sounds like you know exactly what you're doing but this person is making an issue. So are they going to come and wash your sheets daily? Change beds nightly? Do they have to experience it for themselves before they'll believe you that you're doing it for a reason??
Sounds like you have a pretty good handle on it. I was a bed wetter until I was around 11. My brain just never woke me up until then. Thankfully research and studies now show that it is perfectly normal and children will grow out of it when they grow out of it. My youngest is four and he's only just come out of pull ups. My eldest never needed them. All children develop at different rates. Don't be afraid to flip those unsupportive people the bird when they get to judgey either. Some people need to mind their own business....
My daughter was the same and it finally stopped around 12 , my sister was always making me feel bad about it because she was in pull-ups ( she’s still wearing nappies blah blah blah ) I had her checked and she had a very small bladder we had no other options except for sleeping in a wet bed every night . She grew out of it
Iam going to put a different look on to this, is your daughter at school. People believe that bed wetting is normal till 12. But studies done by the worlds best urologist has proven that constipation and bed wetting go hand in hand. This is due to the fact they learn to hold on, when the colon is impacted it is increased insize which makes the sensation of needing to wee disappear. Id be going to getting her checked for being consipated before residing to it being just an age related thing