Bed wetting help

Wilma33

rugbymum wrote: »

I didn't know about the waterproof quilt & pillow covers. Will investigate. Hot? no problems, despite being a tiny sweat monster, it may help. The house is bloomin freezing!

They are cheap in Argos:
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pigpen

stilernin wrote: »

My DD wet the bed until she was about 8ish. So regularly that she went to Brownie camp with two sleeping bags.

On her bed, on top of a waterproof sheet I put a folded towel and then the sheet. Almost every night she would wet the bed, get up, pull the sheet and towel off the bed, dump it on the bathroom floor with her wet nightie and then come and climb into bed with me. No fuss, no comment. I have no idea what time this was as I didn't bother looking.

Of course she was almost pre 'disposables' and I do wonder if children these days aren't 'getting the message' because they are too comfortable.

If I were to give any advice, I would say don't worry and do what ever makes everything as stress free for all concerned.

Mine was in cloth nappies until about 6 (not to school mind!) I think sh likes feeling wet so has no wih to stop. She only had disposables for bed once she got too big for the big cloth ones which she would out wee in a few hours!

She is away on a residential with school next week and I am dreading it! Then again she may not wet because she isn't sleeping as well as she does at home.

I get fed up with DD because she doesn't strip her bed or tell me it is wet and she will sleep in it damp and smelly she doesn't care. She leaves wet pullup on the bedroom floor and she shares with 2 younger sisters. Other than that it isn't an issue here.

deedardingle

One of my sons was still bed wetting at eight years old and was referred to the clinic, where we were told to ensure he drank lots more throughout the day to help increase his bladder control, and to have no drinks after 6:30pm. This obviously worked for him as after two weeks, he was only having the odd wet bed and within four weeks, he was completely dry.

I think the main thing is to not to let him see your frustration, or disappointment at having wet bedding every morning and if he gets distressed by it, reassure him that it is OK and that it will stop as he gets a bit older.

Good luck and please let us know how he gets on.

minimoneysaver

One of the biggest problems for me is the immense expense involved. The dry nights etc are about £5 a pack for only about ten nappies. Then you have the cost of all the extra laundry involved. I may look into the washable ones. Does anyone know if they are any good? x

pigpen

I tried washable ones and they simply were not absorbant enough and I had used cloth nappies for her as a baby but by about 5 she out-pee'd the thickest cloth nappies with extra boosting.. and they smell nasty.. not like baby wee but like grown up wee.

They are incredibly expensive. I stock up when they are on offer. 2 for £7 in Tesco at the moment but only the large stores have the biggest sizes in. I have also had them from charity shop.. indredibly lucky with that purchase as they were £1.99 for a pack of 15 and I got 6 packs! I do occasionally wonder if it would be cheaper to ring the factory and see if they would sell them direct cheaper.

deedar you were lucky.. we have been going to bedwetting clinic for over 3 years.. I stopped going for a year because I was so sick of being told 'try this' and 'try that' and nothing made any difference.. and when we took the alarm home DD said 'that won't work' when I asked why she explained 'Because I LIKE being wet' !!!! Needless to say it went back a month later with rusty connectors!

Mado

pigpen wrote: »

The desmo made no difference to us either..

Oh dear!
I am devastated to read this as we have just started on the Desmopressin too, and so far it's made no difference.

Since the summer, DS was wetting the bed with a drynight, so I strated taking him out of bed at night and that was the reason the nurse instructed us to start on it. My GP didn't sound very keen though.

I do ask him to strip the bed in the morning if wet, which he does on some occasions (mostly he forgets or doesn't realise it is wet). He just doesn't wake up at night (the very rare dry nights we have had is when he does)
When I wake him up when I go to bed, he is still wet in the morning.

flower24

My dd has just turned 4 and I decided to stop putting nappies on her at night, but for her to stay dry through the night I am having to take her to the toilet 3 times....if I don't she wets, I guess she's just not ready yet, she doesn't even wake up if she wets.

Mado

I had to resurect this thread.
DS has been offered an alarm at our last visit and it's really making a difference.
I think we have had 5 wet beds in the last month which is simply fabulous.
On top of that, the alarm isn't functionning porperly so it only vibrates and hardly makes a noise which menas that we can sleep through but it still wakes him up most of the time.

results!:T

Britwife

My son is 5 and is just now really dry at night. We wracked our brains trying to get him night trained and really just stressed all of us out. We switched back to pullups and although it has been about a year, it was so worth it. We thought about seeking out help but looking a what was out there, that wasn't going to be an option for us.

Our son's problem is he is just a very deep sleeper, he would pee and just sleep in it. I have read that the drugs don't really work. You just have to let your children be with it and not make a big deal about it. We found that if he wet the bed, he would have to get himself changed and we would just say lets try harder tomorrow night but when he had a dry night, we made a huge deal about it. He got to the point where he didn't want to wear pull ups and grandually, he was dryer and dryer and now he's completely night trained.

We had a one point woke him at 12 midnight to get him to go and I later found this was not good because it would trian them to be awake at midnight every night, not good on a school night.

Sorry, but these things are normal and the best thing to do is relax and go with your child. Make them feel secure and no embarassed, they will outgrow it. If there are other areas of concern in the child's life then I would seek help but not just for bedwetting.

I wish you the best.