Parenting question -- Bed-wetting issue

[decker96]

DS is 3 1/2 has been potty-trained for a year. He does still wear pull-ups to bed at night which doesn't concern me at all. DD6 was 4 1/2 before she stayed dry at night. The problem is he wets through the pull-up almost every night. This is a relatively new problem it's only been going on the last 3 months or so. It started out only every once in a while, but now happens 4-5 times a week. We were using the Pampers Easy-ups when this started happening. We switched to Pull-ups which were fine for about a week, but now are also leaking. I've had it with changing PJs and sheets at 2:00 in the morning! We've started making him go to the bathroom when DH and I go to bed, but it just postpones it. He wets through at 5 or 6 instead of 2. Nothing about the amount of water he drinks or anything has changed. DD never had the problem of wetting through, is this a boy thing? We do make sure that his, equipment, shall we say, is pointing the right way! I don't know what else to try, short of putting him in diapers at night. We also have another DD 10 months, so he is very upset that we would be treating him like a baby, he says. If anyone has had this problem, any advice would be appreciated!! Thanks!

 

[Annette_VA]

Puul-ups just don't have the absorbancy for overnight, IMO.

My DS3 juust started pt'ing about a month ago, so we have leftover diapers & have been using them at night. Don't know what we'll do when those run out...I might look into those Overnights (I think they're made by Huggies). Have you considered them?

ETA - Oh, dang - Overnights isn't what I meant. I thought that was the name of the ones for big kids, it's not. I can't remember the right name.

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Good Nights! That's it

 

[gymnasticsmom68]

Just try to cut off liquids after 6. Don't worry, this too shall pass.

 

[mickeyboat]

I wasn't able to get my kids to stop wetting the bed at night until I took away their pull-ups. ( I have girls, though, maybe it is different for boys). I started waking them up when I went to bed and I would set my alarm for 1AM, when they tended to pee, to wake them up to go to the bathroom.

I spent many nights changing sheets, but eventually they both stopped wetting (they are 3 and 4 now). They can usually hold it all night, but sometimes they get up to go.

Their day care provider insists they wear pull-ups for naps at her house. DD3 pees almost every nap because she knows she has the pull-ups on. She never does this at home.

Do reward charts work with your son? We did that for nap time peeing and it has seemed to work very well with DD4.

Good luck!

Denae

 

[nemo1987]

one of the kids i used to baby-sit for wore those good night things. im not sure if they are for bigger kids or not but he used to wear those all night and they never had a problem with leaking or anything. you might want to look into those if they make them in your son's size. good luck!
**Sarah**

 

[decker96]

Annette-I did look at the overnights a while ago. I can't remeber for sure, but I think that they are made for older kids, the weight was alot more than DS. He is kind of small only 37 inches tall and 32 pounds. I will have to look at them again though.

mickeyboat - reward charts are hit and miss with him. We tried one when he was originally potty training and it worked pretty well, but we've also tried one to get him to stay in his own bed at night (he comes in our room at least 5 nights a week and wants to sleep with us) and it didn't work at all. He loves snuggling with his dad too much!! I didn't really think about using one for this problem though. We should really try that. Thanks!

 

[ajksmom]

My middle son had a problem with bed-wetting until he was 12. The choices given to me by his doctor were to medicate him or deal with it until early puberty set in. We chose not to medicate and when those GOOD-NIGHTS came out it helped him(and me) sooo much. They are sold in the diaper section and we never had an issue with leakage.

 

[RitaZ.]

I would just have him wear his underwear to bed and toss the Pull-ups. Since you are already changing sheets every night, it won't hurt to try this. It may be all your DS needs to stay dry through the night. Good luck!

 

[oogieboogie]

Those are good advice from other posters.

What I did for the kids were this:

1. No other drink except water at night and nothing at all 2 hours before bedtime.

2. Before bed, make them go potty whether they want to or not.

3. Wake them up in the middle of the night and make them go potty. Keep a night light in the bathroom so you don't have to turn on the lights.

4. Ditch the pull-ups. They just inhibit progress. That's one of our primary rules in the house. No pull-ups... ever!

5. Get a waterproof pad for over the sheets. Let him sleep on that. That'll help you out with changing the sheets in the middle of the night.

Good luck. I know it's frustrating... but you'll get thru it!

 

[Microcell]

Are you pregnant? My DD had this problem when we started decorating the nursery for her brother, before he was born. My Dh was at work with a bunch of moms and said he didn't know why she started this up, they said, have you started decorating the baby's room? he told them that we had just started the day she wet for the first time. Jealousy. So we had the talk about how there is enough love to go around etc and she stopped right away. If you are not preg, is something else going on? He may need assurance.

 

[JVL1018]

When my daughter was younger I used to put a small(about 2'x3') waterproof cotton pad on her bed, over her sheet, if she leaked at night, I just had to take that off and wash it, no changing the sheets needed. I got mine at Kohl's.

 

[decker96]

Microcell -- Nope, not pregnant, thank goodness!! LOL! We have DD 6 1/2, DS 3 1/2 and DD 10 months. That is enough for me!
Plus, it's not that he was staying dry and just started doing this. He has always wet at night, it is just leaking through all the time now, for some reason. Nothing else different is going on either, except that it's summer vacation and oldest DD is home from school. But, they have a great time playing together and DS actually misses her when she is at school, so I don't think that's it.

oogieboogie and JVL1018 -- we have one of the waterproof pads, but where do I have it? Under the sheet! Never thought of putting it on top of the sheet! Duh!

This is why I love these boards. Some of this stuff I just never would have thought of, even though it is mostly common sense!
Any other advice, keep it coming!!

 

[jrydberg]

The biggest thing with my daughter was to make sure she tried to go potty right before bed *and* right when she woke up. Some of her accidents happened sorta as she was waking up, if that makes any sense. Anyway, once it became a routine to go before bed and after waking up, she seemed to outgrow the problem.

 

[zurgswife]

Bed wetting if cronic will not be stopped or helped by most of the suggestions here...

my son is cronic....he is currently 11 1/2 going through puberty and still no end in sight....numerous medications have been tried

For a number of years his flow increased dramatically...didn't matter how much he drank or didn't drink...The bed is double covered in plastic and the pad went above the sheets for a year or 2.....

Good Luck!!!

 

[TINKTWINS]

I have 3 teenage boys who never had this problem, I also have 4yo twins, the boy twin has had bed wetting issues, Im happy to sya it is no longer every night, my pedi also said dont worry it will pass. I was leary about the continued use of pullups as i was afraid he would revert. I did buy the goodnights once, my sil used those. however i got the wrong size and didnt use them. my trick was I layered the bed with a sheet, and 2 of those absorbant things and just pulled them off if there was an accident. Its tough, I know, he is just a really sound sleeper. Good luck

 

[mickeyboat]

I also use the waterproof pads.

Another idea I remembered when the kids were starting training at night was to have a little potty in their rooms. Our bathroom is all the way downstairs and I didn't want them traipsing down there at night.

Denae

 

[JVL1018]

Originally posted by decker96


oogieboogie and JVL1018 -- we have one of the waterproof pads, but where do I have it? Under the sheet! Never thought of putting it on top of the sheet! Duh!

This is why I love these boards. Some of this stuff I just never would have thought of, even though it is mostly common sense!
Any other advice, keep it coming!!

I had it underneath too, and then I was complaining to my MOm about washing sheets and she said why don't you put it on top? Ahhhh, good idea! Duh! LOL