What to do with a child that still wets the bed???

[supersuperwendy]

Buy a waterproof pad and lay it over the sheets, just in case! If they wet it...the hotel should have laundry machines...wash and reuse!

 

[jensen]

Momofbuzzfan - Are you back from your trip? What did you end up doing? My DD3 still uses diapers overnight and she's been potty trained since before she was 2. My DS6, on the other hand, was dry overnight by the time he was 3. I've never really thought anything of this as my understanding of overnight dryness is that it's not as much about training as it is about physical maturity. Ocassionally, my DD will complain that she doesn't want to wear a diaper, so I'll have her slip her panties on over the diaper and wear both. She's satisfied with that.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I remember these days. Here is how I ended up doing things. Good Luck

I always had my kids go just before bed, I never asked I just told them it was time to push out whatever was there. Since I would always stay up an hour or 2 later than them I would carry them to the toilet and put them on it half asleep before I closed my eyes and both almost always went. After a while they were trained to do this themselves. I also did this before we get into the car...still do now.

Of couse all kids have accidents. I would always keep a thick towel in the bed, under them to catch any accidents. When they did go I would take off their clothes and rinse them off with warm water from the waist down & towel them dry before putting them back into PJ's & to sleep. To be honest they didn't like this much but I wasn't going to let them sleep covered in urine. I guess it was a deterrent but it wasn't intended to be punishment. If they would try and argue when I'd wake them to go I'd remind them of how unfun it was to get washed down after an accident and they always gave in.

My attitude is that all kids get it eventually. As long as the prediatrician says there is nothing wrong it's no biggie.

Here's a link that might be a help from NYU in NYC.
http://www.med.nyu.edu/patientcare/library/article.html?ChunkIID=12021

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I know you mentioned that you have her go potty before she goes to bed. . . but our remedy was to have her go again before WE went to bed, which was around 11 or 12 midnight. That made a HUGE difference until she was developed enough to hold it through the night.

I would just go in and get her and set her on the toilet, quietly tell her it's potty time and viola! Really worked well and only had to do it for a few months.

This is what we did when our kids were potty training. We didn't use pull ups or anything like that. Once the diapers were gone, they were gone. They had a few accidents but I never had bedwetters. I had a couple of thick towels under their sheets just in case. Both of my kids were fully trained by 3. My kids were in the hospital alot, so I had that to plan around this also. I found that getting them up before we went to bed, worked in our situation.

 

[flying_babyb]

Best tip- this sounds bad but, go to your local eldery suply store (you know the ones that sell like wheelchairs) and buy some adult bed pads. there cheap and disposable. THere really absorbant. We use them with a 80 year old relitive that just cant help but leak sometimes. They also come in colors so you can get girly pink or green.
http://www.cwimedical.com/underpads.html

 

[tadamom]

Best tip- this sounds bad but, go to your local eldery suply store (you know the ones that sell like wheelchairs) and buy some adult bed pads. there cheap and disposable. THere really absorbant. We use them with a 80 year old relitive that just cant help but leak sometimes. They also come in colors so you can get girly pink or green.
http://www.cwimedical.com/underpads.html

Great tip!!

Here is something else you use: My in-laws have a dog that uses Puppy Pads to use the bathroom on. When my son spends the night at their house they put one of these on their bed where my son lays. He has wet the bed a couple of times and it has never wet the sheet. They lay the puppy pad on their fitted sheet and then double up a flat sheet long-wise on the bed where he lays. It's not bulky or anything. This way if he happens to wet the bed, they just remove the folded fit sheet and puppy pad and there regular sheet isn't wet at all!

 

[Harvestmooner]

The puppy training pads are very similar to "Chucks" that they use in the hospital and are alot cheaper!

 

[lmjacobs]

Some good advice already posted here: 1) limit fluid intake in the evening. 2) use pull ups/good nites - WDW is not the time to worry about leaks; 3) get up at least 1x in the middle of the night and put her on the potty to prevent wetting. Luckily my DD trained easily for days and was day trained by the age of two. Nights were hit and miss at that time so I'd get up around 11pm and then 1:00am to put her on the potty. Yes, I was tired but It was well worth the effort. Only took about three months and she was accident free (she'd go right back to sleep after potty breaks too).

Oh, good luck!