7 Yr Old (Almost 8) Still Wetting the Bed 2 or 3 Times a Night

I would vote for another visit to the doctor...and possibly a few sessions with a child psychologist to get to the root of what is causing this. Let the doctor rule out physical causes first....then start thinking about what psychological issues may be contributing to this. What is the relationship between the young man and his family??? Is this a bid for attention...or a way of proving that HE is in charge??? Since it is happening at school too...maybe the school counselor could be of some help.

My older brother had issues for a long time and my parents at one point in time got him a water bed because it was supposed to help somehow.

Usually a kid wets his bed to get attention wether it be positive or negative. Has there been any changes in his life? New people in his life, you gotta try to get to the source of him still wetting. Did he always do this or is this something new he just started doing. Being on medication I guess I can assume its a medical issue.

Is he also having accidents at school? How does the teacher handle it?

You said he changes his clothes when he wets himself. Is he also having to help launder his soiled clothing? Making him be responsible for cleaning up might be an incentive to him to not have accidents. If there is a medical reason why he is having accidents perhaps the doctor needs to re-evaluate him as the medication he is using does not seem to be helping.

Has she seen a urologist or just her pediatrician. This could be from a medical problem to emotional problem. Has he had something happen to him or family problem.

My friends son wet the bed and would wet his pants during the day because #1) he was too busy playing video games to bother himself to go to the restroom #2) he took three different medications for seizures and ADHD. They did teach him to do his laundry and also put him in adult diapers for nighttime accidents. He eventually quit wetting his pants because he didn't want anyone to know he was doing it and it finally was embarrassing enough for him to make an effort. The night time wetting got less after he hit puberty.

Has she thought about teaching him to do laundry? This would be a natural consequence to all the wet pants/clothes/sheets he is creating. It might make him think more about getting to the bathroom on time. She shouldn't make it a punishment--just very matter of factly explain that he needs to help with all of the extra laundry he is creating. (Love and Logic approach) Best of Luck!

My now 14 year old had accidents every night until he was past 7.... He had no medical reason, no stress, no changes... He was a HARD sleeper and just did not wake up. So we started with an early beverage cut of time. We started with 8:30, that did not sork, so we moved it up and kept moving it up until we found the time that worked. For him it was nothing but water after 7:00. We found that soda was the biggest culprit. As he learned and got better his time moved later. Now at 14 we do not have any issues.

When he would spend the night somewhere, I would let the mom know to help remind him to cut off of the soda early, and to make it fun for all of the kids and put them all on the floor.... It was the least I could do, as he did not want to tell his friends, and us mom's knew how to keep it descrete.

Tell your friend to not despair, it will come....