Potty Training Issues - Fort Collins, CO

My 5 year old occasionally wets the baed-mostly when she has something to drink at night. We cut her off at 7 pm and she goes to bed at 8 pm. This usually works. Sometimes she still wets the bed, but now we don't get up with her. She has to take her sheets to the laundry and then sleep on the couch. I tell her that I am not going to get mad about accidents, but it is her responsibility to take care of it.

I would give her the last drink an hour before you normally put her to bed and see if that works.

Hi!

Some kids wet the bed a long time. I did until I was 10. My son still is wetting, he is 10. I would keep her in pull ups / good nights until she out grows them or stops wetting. Also...start having her change the sheets when she wets. If Jack pees the bed, he has to change the bed and wash t he sheets before he goes to school. I make him responsible for wetting. Even though he can't control it, I still make him responsible. Since I strted doing that, he wets less often. I know he will out grow the problem soon. Your daughter will, too.

My grandmother thought giving me a tablespoon of peanut butter before bed would help. I don't think it did! BUT what got me to stop is a silky nighty...I had gotten a silky nightgown and was wearing it when I started to wet my bed, I woke up and stopped because I didn't want to wet in my silky nighty!

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My daughter took a long time too she was 4 years and 4 months. We tried everything, and nothing worked. We tried to tell her that she couldn't go to school if she didn't learn how to go potty and although it upset her it didn't change. Then one day we went to my Grandma's house and she hung out with her older cousins who were 6 and 7 and the very next day she went potty. It was the pooping problem that we had a problem with. The only drawback now is that she is 5 years old now and everytime she poops I have to "go look".

My daughter is 4 1/2 and she wears overnight pull-ups, I have tried waking her up every few hours at night to go and she would still wet. So I just figure when she is ready it will happen, sometimes when you push your child to do something they aren't ready for it just makes the problem worse. I would just chill out about it and go with the flow. Every child is different so determining weather she should or should not be doing something by when other kids do it does not always work out well.

What about friends her age? Does she have anyone that she plays with all the time that is potty trained? I know that with younger children it helps to have them around children that are already potty trained. She is also at an age that you could probably reason with her or give her a little incentive, or rewards.

My two oldest children, ages 8 & 9, didn't go through the night until age 7. With my 9 year-old I was very frustrated, until a doctor explained to me that it was a hormonal issue and once the hormone is mature they will better be able to hold off on using the bathroom until morning. I have a 6-year-old, right now, that still wets through the night. I have just used pull-ups and I don't increase the size of pull-up with the growing child--Discomfort seems to be an effective way to change habits. Good luck!

Your daughter may have a very common PHYSICAL problem that is causing this.... I know of many people who had issues with wetting the bed untill 14 or 15 because their bladder was too small for their growing bodies. One of the Worst things to do is make the child feel bad about it. It may not be their fault. It is usually genetic, so if you or the dad had problems, your kids are more likely to have them too! I'm not sure how to check for this problem but talk to the ped. and ask about it. It is way more common then most people realize!

Have you tried not changing her diapers? Tell her that since she is six, and should not be wearing them that she has to do that for herself. Maybe after having to do that a few times she will dislike it enough to use the toilet. Just a thought.