Bed wetting help

allIcouldwishfor

HelenKA wrote: »

Please don't get side tracked by PolishBS's inflammatory comments.

Amen to that! Just add them to your ignore list and the problem will go away - PBS, not bedwetting, although I know which is more irritating! :rolleyes:

jackieb

My eldest son still occasionally wet the bed until he was 14. We'd been to the clinics at the hospital. He'd had the alarms which went off when he got wet, but he'd just pull it off and go back to sleep on the wet sheets! He had the nasal spray for occasional use (which worked but it's not meant to be used all the time. It's okay for the odd night away. We tried restricting drinks, waking him before we went to bed, star charts, everything. In the end he just stopped in his own time. I'm glad to say that he's now 25 and dry at night!

My next 2 boys were dry all night from 2-3 years old. My daughter is 13 and she still wets the bed, so I know it's nothing i've done as my middle 2 were fine.

My tips are to not make him feel bad. Avoid fizzy drinks as it can sometimes irritate the bladder. Don't restrict drinks though (apart from caffeine which is a diuretic. I don't expect your 3yo is drinking much caffeine though! ) Get a good mattress and duvet protector (and maybe a couple of Kylie sheets to tuck in on top of his normal sheet). I have a mattress cover which zips on and covers the whole mattress. I was advised by my health visitor to get my daughter to strip her own bed but she's a lot older than your son. I wouldn't punish him.

Don't worry about it. It's a lot more common than you think. People just don't talk about it. And even if he is a bed wetter until he's a lot older, he will stop eventually.

Paparika

Once i got DS out of nappies, i had a chat with him about going into big boys pants, and that to get to wear those he would need to come out of nappies and move on to the bigger boys pants which were pull-ups and i showed him how they looked like boys pants but special ones just for little boys like him, so if he could use the potty or toilet then showed him what to do, and if he wet himself then ok these special pants can deal with it, he only wore them for a few months, having got used to being able to pull them up and down himself...

OP your lil one is almost 4, there is no great rush, no competition, he will get there eventually, at his own pace, lots and lots of praise when he gets it right :T

PolishBigSpender

Loz01 wrote: »

Why not? So if a 6 year old wets the bed a couple of times because they're worried about school/family/friends, they're abnormal and need help? :rolleyes: How judgemental.

Well, if your previously dry 6 year old suddenly starts wetting the bed - I'd suggest that there was indeed a problem and it should be looked at.

Having said this, what kind of society places worries upona child of 6 to begin with? The whole concept of a 6 year old child being worried about school/family/friends...it's just disgusting. They're children, they shouldn't be worried!

arhino30

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Well, if your previously dry 6 year old suddenly starts wetting the bed - I'd suggest that there was indeed a problem and it should be looked at.

Having said this, what kind of society places worries upona child of 6 to begin with? The whole concept of a 6 year old child being worried about school/family/friends...it's just disgusting. They're children, they shouldn't be worried!

Are you telling us that you were never nervous about going to school/nursery or anything else as a child for that matter? I find that very hard to believe!!!!
Sometimes it can be the insignificant things that we wouldn't consider as 'worries' that worry our children.

fernliebee

A family member wet the bed until about 7 and it was rectified using the alarm. Interestingly like someone else mentioned, they should drink more during the day. The nurse told them that as they would have little sips and go to the toilet so frequently in the day they had never stretched their bladder properly, so it was tiny and couldn't hold much! He then used to drink a big drink all at one time, and this seemed to help.

tiamai_d

:rotfl: @ 'Doctor' POLISHBIGSPENDER Maybe a Doctorate in spouting crap...


OP, stop taking him to the toilet at 10pm. All you are doing is teaching his body that the baldder will be emptied during the night so it's counterproductive. His body has to learn to cut down on urine production from 7-7.

Make sure he is not getting too much to drink during the day (kids don't need a cup of juice constantly next to them). No drinks except milk after tea time which seems to help most kids.

Get some waterproof sheets (for speed you can layer them so at night you just strip off one layer) and keep a spare duvet made up. I do this for DS2 who has night time vomiting bouts occasionally and it saves time at night. If he won't wear nighttime pants or you don't want him too, then just bear with it, he will get there eventually.

Swans1912

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Well, if your previously dry 6 year old suddenly starts wetting the bed - I'd suggest that there was indeed a problem and it should be looked at.

Having said this, what kind of society places worries upona child of 6 to begin with? The whole concept of a 6 year old child being worried about school/family/friends...it's just disgusting. They're children, they shouldn't be worried!

Before I start a family i'm going to suggest to my OH that we move to Poland to avoid the British society making our future children worried in that case then! :mad:
You must have had a wonderful childhood if you experienced no kind of worries or uncertainties as a child

jackieb

tiamai_d wrote: »

:rotfl: @ 'Doctor' POLISHBIGSPENDER Maybe a Doctorate in spouting crap...


OP, stop taking him to the toilet at 10pm. All you are doing is teaching his body that the baldder will be emptied during the night so it's counterproductive. His body has to learn to cut down on urine production from 7-7.

Make sure he is not getting too much to drink during the day (kids don't need a cup of juice constantly next to them). No drinks except milk after tea time which seems to help most kids.
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You shouldn't restrict drinks (apart from fizzy or caffeine) during the day. They need to get used to the feeling of having a full bladder.

tiamai_d

jackieb wrote: »

You shouldn't restrict drinks (apart from fizzy or caffeine) during the day. They need to get used to the feeling of having a full bladder.

I didn't say restrict.