Bedwetting?

Beginner Joined: Oct 12 2008 Posts: 7

How do you handle bedwetting with a five-year-old?

Posted: Tue, Apr 27 2010, 2:21 am Post subject: re: bedwetting?

I would say put a diaper on at night
I have 3 in diapers at night and my 7 year old sometimes wets and sometimes is dry
my 9 year old was wet every night for a long time - and them just out grew it - for the last year he has not had one accident.
after seeing how he just outgrew it I let my other kids just be. I try to put diapers on teh ones I can and use plastic sheets and wash a lot of laundry.

Beginner Joined: Oct 12 2008 Posts: 7

Posted: Wed, Apr 28 2010, 2:10 pm Post subject: re: bedwetting?

Posted: Wed, Apr 28 2010, 2:22 pm Post subject: re: bedwetting?

1. do not make him feel bad in any way, its very likely out of his control, 2. either take him to the bathroom a couple of times each night while he is half-asleep and hold him while he uses the bathroom, or put on a diaper...I have no shame in confessing that I used to wet my bed until I was like 8 years old! and my mom never made me feel bad about it. I would just go grab a towel, lay it over the wet sheet, and go back to sleep. To this day, I need to wake up once a night to use the bathrom. Maybe I have a smal bladder?

Posted: Wed, Apr 28 2010, 2:26 pm Post subject: re: bedwetting?

Get the Malem Alarm (Amazon sells it). It has excellent reviews, and it worked liked a charm for my 5 year old DS (who is now 7) and has not wet the bed since we used this machine 2 years ago. Yes, maybe he'll grow out of it in a few years, but why suffer until then, and he might feel embarrased, and diapers are very expensive, and it's a pain to keep changing linen etc. It was worth every penny I spent and took less than a month till he was perfect.