My 3.5 year old, who was fully potty trained for over a year (even at night), recently started having multiple accidents at night. We’ve tried everything from not giving her any liquids after dinner, to setting the alarm clock to get up with her at night, but she still has an average of 2 accidents almost every night. We only have one waterproof mattress pad so I’ve been doing laundry every day for about a month and it’s getting frustrating! She used to be so good – she would wake up, and ask me up to take her to the bathroom and she was even starting to go on her own without waking up. Now, she just seems like she’s sleeping so hard, she doesn’t even wake up. Is this normal? Did anyone else go through this? Should I just give up and put her in pull-ups at night? I’m at a loss and my husband and I are really tired of this!
Thanks ladies! We decided to go with the pull-ups and we've all been sleeping soundly ever since.
HELLO, i WOULD SAY BUY THE PULL UPS. tHIS IS A PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY GO THROUGH WHERE THEIR BRAINS ARE EXSPANDING AND THEY ARE ALSO GROWING. iT HAPPENED TO BOTH MY BOYS. aLSO IF THEY HAVE TRANSITION ISSUES, WHERE SOMETHING NEW IS HAPPENING WE HAVE THE OCCATIONAL ACCIDENT. gOODLUCK
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This could be caused by an allergy to a food item. Talk to a specialist in children's allergies. For my daughter it was artificial flavors and colors. Once we took it out of her diet no more wet beds.
My daughter just turned 4 and goes in spurts with night accidents. It seems like she'll have several days in a row that she is wetting the bed, and then be fine for a few days, etc. She has been out of pull ups for several months. When I talked to our pediatrician about it he said that it is normal for kids that age up to age 5 to have accidents at night. Even though she has been out of pullups for several months, he told me to go ahead and use the pullups if we needed to. He said to keep trying to get her out of pullups, but it wasn't going to set her back to use them. I went out and bought a package, and bought a second mattress pad (I suggest a vinyl mattress cover if you don't have one). At first she wanted to wear them, but I told her it was just in case (I was going to see if we still continued to have a problem or if it was just sporadic). Since then she's only had a handful of accidents! And she hasn't used them at all. Crazy. Anyway, since it is cold out now and you'll have a ton of blankets to wash on top of the sheets and mattress pad, I would go ahead and use the pullups if you need them. Also, we take our daughter to the bathroom right before we go to bed, even if she had just gotten up to go on her own an hour prior. Almost every time she has to go. Good luck! I know it's frustrating!
I would go ahead and use the pull-ups, as others have said. It saves the frustration and hassle. My daughter had periods of bed-wetting until she was 6, then they stopped. It is completely normal up until 6 or 7.
HOw is her frequency during the day???? If her frequency is increased all around, could be a sign of juvenille diabetes. I am certainly not trying to scare you. HOPEFULLY it is as simple as a growth spurt and the bladder not keeping up with it.
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I share your nightmare!!! I have been for about 4 years now. My son is 6.5 and he still has the problem. I did take him to his ped. and she had me do some research - she said it this is normal if one of the parents had the same problem when they were young - it's probably in your genes. So, I talked to my dad and he couldn't remember my mom going thru this with me or any of my siblings. So I called my mother in law and BINGO - My husband had this problem until he was about 9. ugh! It been going on for the past generations.
Yes, it is frustrating, but I tell myself it's not his fault it the gene! ha!
I have stocked up on the mattress pad. I purchase my at a thrift store in the baby section. I put one under the sheet and above the sheet to protect the mattress plus a matress cover.
Hope this helps - Your not the only one!!
A.,
Did this coincide with the cold weather? I have two boys who both stay dry at night all spring and summer until the cold weather hits. They sleep deeper in the cold weather and start wetting the bed again.
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Have you checked with your pedi yet? You need to rule out any physical issues. Has her napping or bedtime changed? One of my sons tended to have more nighttime accidents when he didn't have a nap during the day. He was just so worn out he didn't wake up.
It IS frustrating, isn't it. I had the same thing with my girl (now 12) at the exact same age. She was dry at night for a year and then started wetting nearly EVERY night. I took her to the pediatrician after a few weeks and nothing was medically wrong (always good to check that out first). I tried limiting liquids (didn't work), waking her in the middle of the night (didn't work), changing bedtime routine (didn't work), I even moved her to a different bedroom (I thought maybe she could hear water running in her sleep and that was causing it - didn't work). Frustrated, I took her BACK to the pediatrician to see what could be done. Her pediatrician sat me down and said "she isn't going to get married and still be wetting the bed, she isn't going to be going to college and still be wetting the bed, she'll grow out of it when she is ready - quit sweating the small stuff! Best advice I ever got. I put plastic on her bed under the sheet and had her wear Goodnights (or the equivalent) every night and forgot about it. A couple of other thoughts that may be helpful. Some kids are supposedly more "prone" to bedwetting than others: kids who snore, kids who had a parent that wet the bed longer than "normal," kids who are really heavy sleepers, and kids who are big for their age. My kid fit all those criteria to a tee. There are a few things that did sorta "help": I did try an alarm when she was older. I did help, but short-term. It would go off the first few nights, then she would stop for a week or two so we would stop using the alarm, then it would start up again. Sleepovers were a concern and what seemed to help was giving her a 1/2 dose of Benedryl before bedtime at a sleepover almost always kept her dry for the night (this was before Goodnights were really "good" at being more like underwear).
Moral of the story is: she WILL outgrow it eventually - work on making it as stress free as possible for both of you until she does :)
Good luck!
Try the chiropractor. If she is out of allignment she may not be feeling enough urge while she's asleep to wake her up. I know a few families that have used this method and it has worked for them.
Good luck.
