bed wetting

Josef has accidents still, and we just ask him why he did not get up to go potty-his response "because I was sleeping!"  He does still wear pull-ups for those "just in case", but 99% of the time if we remind him to get up to go potty he does.

Josef does have more accidents when he is under stress or does not feel well.  So if your little one is sick or there are changes taking place this could explain it.

Some kids just sleep deeper then others.  I was a bed wetter until 13.  I had dreams of getting up, sitting on the toilet only to wake up in a wet bed.  My son was a bed wetter until shortly after his 4th birthday and then just stopped.  I wasn't worried, but my husband made a bigger deal about it and insisted we limit drinks (something my parents did for me also) and carry him to the toilet in the middle of the night.  It didn't work.  Some kids just need to outgrow it.

I got the potty training for dummies book and it talked alot about that in it.....you should check out a book on it.....a recently written one anyway.....just my thoughts for ya!

I don't know what it is with my son but he will go a long time without wetting then all the sudden he will do it for a couple nights in a row. He's been doing that for about a year, it's frustrating I don't get mad at him b/c I know he doesn't mean to do it. It can be frustrating though, I wish I had some words of wisdom but I need some myself!

HA something i can relate to! Ok my son was doing well then all of a sudden he has wet his bed every night this past week... i have washed his bedding every day. I'm tried of it. i can not do it any more. I cut back the liquid in take. he pees before bed time and still.."mommy i peed my bed" Grrrrr. So when i was back home my dad would get up at 4am to get ready for work. he would wake my son up and make him pee and then put him back in bed.

So Yesterday i started a new plan i came up with. I found my electric alarm clock. I programed it for 4am and taught him how to use it. He woke up to the alarm and went pee. He came in to my room and said he could still hear his alarm. so i shut if off for him. He woke for school VERY DRY. THANK GOD! Hurray for me. one less load of laundry. well i am trying to get that stupid smell out of the sheets and comforter though. I am hoping this works from now on till he can grow out of that bed wetting stage.

Now if only i could break the finger sucking habit. I think i might have a plan for that.....

My daughter stopped wetting the bed over a year ago.  She would be fine throughout the day, but she would still wet the bed at night no matter what we did (no drinking before bed, wake her up a couple of times throughout the night, etc...).  If she wore pull-ups she wouldn't wet the bed...if she didn't, she would wet the bed.  Finally, after several months of wearing pull-ups and not wetting those, she asked us if she could try it on her own.  She finally got through a night of not wetting the bed.  Every morning we would praise her and it continued.  My 8 year old step-son still wet the bed until he was 5.  My advice would be to not give up.  It will just happen.  Kids all stop at different times. 

There are lots of different reasons for wetting the  bed my 21 yr old son still has accident's.  I was so frustrated i took him to the doctor we ended up switching between a  nose spay and tablets used just for bed wetting. They can be very expensive but are very effective it was good for his self esteem with summer camps etc. We did the alarm clock,  no drinks before bed, etc. I dont know howmany mattress's we have bought the plastic sheets would rip it was truly a trying time. My niece just needed to go to the chiropractor for an adjustment she was fine after that. each child is different. but theres alot of help. Good luck lala

My son still wets the bed....I talked to his doctor and he asked me about his poop habit's. He said if they are hard a lot of the time that can cause the problem as well as liquid in take. So we are working on liquid intake and stool softner first and if that does not work he is going to put my son on a pill you take before he goes to bed at night.... I have a few cousins that have a bladder problem and they only wet the bed at night for many years and then they had to be put on meds. I Hope this helps.... I am still trying to see if it works.

I have worked with kids that have had bed wetting problems.  Though I know it's frustrating, the child really has no control over it.  And unless there are emotional problems(you would know) there really is nothing psychological about it.  It is a common problem that may be genetic.  It is common enough that they make a special pull up shorts just for older kids.   There are techniques that can be used, but they are time consuming and must be followed consistently.  If it were my child I would buy the big kid pull up shorts and wait and see for a while.  They still are only five.

The way I handled it, was to make sure he went to the bathroom before going to bed. I tell him when this happens, do you want people to know that you pee the bed? When you do pee the bed the whole room smells like it and nobody's gonna wanna come in here and play if it smell like pee. It seems to help. Also, I have noticed that when he plays hard during the day without a nap and/or goes to bed late or is really tired, he can't bring himself to waking up and going to the bathroom.