Bed Wetting - Petersburg,IL

Don't yell, b/c it is not your fault. You might want to try waking her at night before you go to bed (like 11pm or so) so she can potty again during the night. Maybe this will help!
Good luck!

I had the same issue with my daughter a couple years ago. It's really not their fault so yelling at them, promising treats, etc. won't make a bit of difference. I finally resorted to forcing myself to get up half way through the night, usually about 2 a.m., and physically taking her to the bathroom then putting her back to bed. Eventually she will grow out of it. Just because she is sleeping, the rest of her body is still working and if her bladder is full it will release itself. She's just not old enought to wake herself up before it does so. Getting up in the middle of the night was no big deal for me. I had an infant during this period so I just got into the habit to get her up after I was done with the middle of the night feedings. Once the baby slept through the night my body was still programmed to get up and I just did it. My daughter is now 8 yrs old and up until about 6 months ago was wetting the bed about once a month. Now, FINALLY, she gets herself up and we're potty training the 3 yr. old. She's going to be my stubborn one, she won't even potty on the big potty! Good luck to you and go easy on the little one, she'll get it.

It sounds like it is a physical problem more than a mental problem in my opinion. Thus, talking to her about it, toys, treats, etc. aren't going to work. For whatever reason, it sounds like to me she can't help it. I would consult a good pediatrician if I were you. My younger sister had this problem occassionally until she was 7 or 8, when they figured out her allergies, the bed wetting stopped. We had a two year old that was potty trained but often had accidents during naptime in my daycare classroom, we would set a timer and wake her up and take her to go potty then put her back to nap in the middle of naptime every day and that worked well too. (I think her parents just had her in pull ups at night.) Good luck.

I have had the same problem with one of my twin daughters. It is still not perfected but the things that I have done that seem to be on the right track are to limit the drinks about an hour before bed, making her go right before bed and the I get her up before I go to bed to go again. Since I go to bed a couple hours after she does. Like I said it is not entirely fool proof but I limits the amount of laundry that I have to do. I know bed wetting runs in my family and through the generations it has been said that it is from sleeping too heavy at night. It always got better eventually though. My daughter still has accidents during the day too. Those are the times that we sort out the consequences, but at night I feel that it is out of her control if her body just simply isn't waking her up to go. Also try to make sure that she is getting enough sleep, if she is getting too tired her body is also less likely to wake her up at the signal to go.

One other suggestion just to make sure everything is going fine with her body, is to have her pediatrition do a blood sugar test. My nephew was fully potty trained at night and then started wetting the bed (amongst other symptoms) and the dr. ran a blood sugar test and found the he was diabetic. Probably not the case here, but That was the first sign of diabetes in his case.

I hope that this has helped you! Good luck and if I find that magical solution I will be sure to pass it on.

S. D