Help Staying Dry at Night

Hi,
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Have plenty of fluid intake during the day up until 2 hours before bedtime. After the two hour mark only a sip before bed and then right before bed after a warm bath, a relaxing time sit on the potty with a special book or sticker book for 5 minutest to teacher her to relax and empty her bladder fully. Just put rubber/plastic pad on the bed, have plenty of clean sheets on hand and help her learn how to change the sheet and clean up when she does wet. I would let her go to bed in regular underwear and be awakened by the unpleasant feel of wet and then help her learn how to clean up. This will engender a sense of independence and self confidence AND it will be incentive to abide by the regimen first mentioned so the bladder is not full during the night. Good luck! p.s. I am doing a free Potty 101 mini seminar for parents on March 22 5:00 to 6:00 at Foundations for the Future in Kennesaw for parents who face all sorts of pottying related issues. I'm a children's counselor specializing in ages 2-5 so I do a lot of support things for parents that are a free service... You can email me directly for more info if you want. Again, good luck!

When I was that age I had problems with staying dry all night and even other times during the day. I just have a small bladder and my mom made provisions for this. We didn't have pull-ups at that time so there were a lot of wet nights but I do remember my mom never being mad at me for this. It really helped me. Your daughter probably has a small bladder also and maybe you need to just continue with the pull-ups until she's dry for a long while.

Maybe you can try waking her and taking her to the potty before you go to bed at night, that may help to empty her bladder some until the morning.
Good luck!

Try asking the childs doctor of some recommendations first. You can also try not letting ur child have anything to eat or drink a few hours before bedtime along with making her go right before bed. My younger borther wet the bed until he was 15, but my mom also never put forth REAL effort to try and end it sooner. Might not be the case in ur situation but sometimes bed wetting is caused by bladder control issues or could be due to her body funtions not giving her the signal she needs to realize she has to go in the middle of the night. Also I've heard that sometimes bed wetting accidents could be a result of them dreaming their actually in the bathroom going. I still say talk to ur doctor first and rule out a medical related problem.

My son is 4 1/2 and has the same problem. So I don't have any advice but am curious to see if anyone does.

Hey C.. I don't know the whole story on this but she might feel like wetting the bed gives her attention. shes the oldest of 3 children. I would sit down and talk to her and explain that shes the oldest which means the youngest 2 look up to her. she's the big sister now. give her a resonsablity, let her feel like a big kid. hope this helps!

My son wet the bed until he was nearly 10 but it runs in my family so I was not overly surprised or concerned- although a little frustrated at times and sick of buying GoodNites 7 years after our diaper days were over. My mom and brother both wet the bed until they were about 10 as well. The good news is that today they make GoodNites so you're not like my mom who had to wash my brother's sheets and blankets every day.

We talked to our son's pediatrician when he was 5 and he said that often times there's really not a 'cure' but that most kids grow out of it between 10 & 12 years of age. He did prescribe some medication to our son which was supposed to help him sleep a little more lightly, and therefore he would wake up to go to the bathroom. This became such a hassle and didn't really work that we gave up on that after a couple of months. We tried everything from the bed-wetting alarm, setting our alarm at certain points so we could wake him up 2-3 times a night, to restricting fluids after a certain time - all to no avail. Often times he would wet the bed after getting up twice in the middle of the night. Getting up 2-3 times a night just make me tired and would make me lose my temper very quickly. We decided that buying GoodNights was probably the easiest solution for our family since there wasn't really a cure. The pediatrician explained that normally kids who wet the bed sleep really, really deep and their brains don't 'listen' to their bodies during this time which is why it doesn't matter if they do get up and go twice in the middle of the night or not.

You need to be very careful of your daughter's feelings with this. Kids know that wetting the bed after they are school age is not cool. Our son felt guilty about it on his own- he certainly didn't need anyone to tell him 'he wasn't supposed to wet the bed' at his age. We always tried to be discrete about it and once he was school age, he started taking showers in the morning as well. This worked as a double reward for us since he was such a grump in the morning; he could go get in the shower for 5 minutes and wake up so that when he got out, he was bearable! He'll be 12 next month and he still takes a shower every morning to wake up even if he takes one before bed the night before.

As a side note, you will be surprised how common this is (although much more common among boys than girls). When we were at a friend's house one time, my son saw that our friend's daughter used GoodNites as well. She was a little embarrased but he just told her that it was OK, he had the same problem too. It was like an instant bond between the two. She was the one person who he told when he stopped wetting the bed and shortly thereafter she did as well (she was about 9 when she stopped). I think it just helped them both knowing they weren't alone. Your daughter may not really care at this point but as she gets a little older you may want to show her www.goodnites.com where it tells about how common it is. You may want to check out that site now for more info as well.

Just know that you aren't alone and make sure your daughter knows that too. The times when I got annoyed by it, I would remind myself that I was thankful my son had a condition that he would surely outgrow, unlike some parents of kids who have conditions they will have to deal with forever.

Good luck.

I have a six year old son who is going through the same thing. He actually went over a year without wearing pull-ups to bed before he started wetting the bed on almost a nightly basis. It turns out that it is actually a hereditary condition, and that my SIL wet the bed on and off until she was 12. It has to do with hormones and the bladder not growing as fast as the rest of the body. My son is also a very deep sleeper, so that adds to the problem.

I have found a few things that work, though. Nothing but water after 7:00 at night, and then it is only a few sips. I make him go to the bathroom immediately before bed. I offer his underwear as a reward. If he goes three nights without wetting the bed, he can wear his underwear to bed. If he wets the bed in his underwear, it's back to the pull-ups. He doesn't see it as a pull-up being punishment, but instead as underwear being the reward. Also, if I get up in the middle of the night with the baby, and find him awake, I will ask if he needs to go to the bathroom. Usually he will. All of these have helped him to stay dry a lot more often lately. I hope some of them can help you.

this is really going to sound crazy, but give raisens as snack all day. I do not now why this works but it does. Just try it.

My son was the same way. I just had to really limit what he drinks and I wake him up every night around 11 - 11:30 pm and take him to the bathroom. Sounds like you are already doing all of this but it is just going to take some time! Good luck!

I understand fully what you are going thru my 7 year old daughter is still in pull-ups I had her potty trained at 18 months and she was fine and doing well with it and it might of been brought on by her dad and my break up but I think it's because of her being such a deep sleeper. Her father wet the bed till he was about 10 she tries so hard to not by going right before bed and not having anything to drink for a couple of hours before bed but some nights it just happens and we have just accepted that it's a situation that we have to deal with and try and not make it such an issue so that it doesn't affect her in a negative way!

Hi C., although my 7 1/2 yr old daughter was not in this situation, I shared a room with my sister (1 yr younger than me) who did (and it wasn't always EVERY night either). I remember waking her up at night when I had to go, our Mom having her go before she went to bed, everything you have tried. However, it was just that her bladder hadn't grown at the same rate and she outgrew it by the time she was 7 or 8. I know how very embarassing and a blow to the child's self esteem it can be, our Mom tried never to make a big deal out of it and just put extra sheets, cut up pieces of old blankets to put underneath her at night (Although sometimes our brother would tease her about it :(.) My other 2 sisters and brother weren't faced with this particular "growing pain", just my sis. Hang in there, you could maybe bring it up with your daughters pediatrician just to rule out anything else medical, and maybe they could give you even more helpful info about children whose bladders don't quite catch up growing until a little later, I think there is also a lot of info online.

I wish I knew, I have 9 and 7 year old girls who still wet the bed and all I have ever been told by their doctors are that they will grow out of it and there is a RX out there that will stop the bed wetting but it wont help because once they stop taking it they would go right back to bed wetting. I had also been advised to google bed wetting and try one of those bed wetting alarms. It is supposed train them to stop doing it.

Maybe you could try something like if she wets the bed, she has to wash herself, change her own clothes, AND change the bed stuff (I assume you have some type of waterproof pads over the sheets or something). She might get tired of going through all those motions every morning before being allowed to do ANYTHING else and make a better effort to go pee before she goes to bed. Of course, you would have to make sure she has no liquids after some time at night--maybe 7pm.
Also a positive incentive like you will take her to Chuck E Cheese if she is dry for a whole month or two weeks or something like that.
Good Luck! I am potty training a 2.5 year old right now and I know it can be tough at times.