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Posted: 18:09 Aug 06 2002
Advice wanted from the mums please.
Bedwetting. How do you deal with it?
Billy will be 4 in December and he's still not dry at night. Through the day he's dry & clean (I have to remind him to go occasionally) but the night time just isn't happening. He hates wearing his pull-up pants to bed but I can't be doing with washing sheets everyday. The night before last we managed a dry night (I'd run out of pull-up pants so we had to do without) I praised him in the morning, told him what a good big boy he was etc and last night he wanted to go without again. When I went to get him out to use the toilet he'd wee'd in his bed so I changed his PJs, made him use the toilet and put him in with me. In the morning he'd wee'd in my bed and on me
I try not to make a big deal out of his accidents but it's driving me mad. I don't know anyone who's (almost) 4 year old is not dry at night. My eldest was dry day & night by the time he was 2 years old, and I'm not doing anything different with Billy than I did with Sam
Billy will be 4 in December and he's still not dry at night. Through the day he's dry & clean (I have to remind him to go occasionally) but the night time just isn't happening. He hates wearing his pull-up pants to bed but I can't be doing with washing sheets everyday. The night before last we managed a dry night (I'd run out of pull-up pants so we had to do without) I praised him in the morning, told him what a good big boy he was etc and last night he wanted to go without again. When I went to get him out to use the toilet he'd wee'd in his bed so I changed his PJs, made him use the toilet and put him in with me. In the morning he'd wee'd in my bed and on me
I try not to make a big deal out of his accidents but it's driving me mad. I don't know anyone who's (almost) 4 year old is not dry at night. My eldest was dry day & night by the time he was 2 years old, and I'm not doing anything different with Billy than I did with Sam
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Posted: 18:09 Aug 06 2002
Hey hunny , you sound like you are doing all you can ... with mine I just always made sure they hadn't had loads to drink before bedtime , I would make them go to the toilet when they went to bed , wether they said they needed one or not and then as you did when I went to bed I would lift them and take them to the toilet and make them go again.
Just really keep praising when he doesnt do , and try and make sure he doesnt have loads to drink before bedtime
Good Luck
Just really keep praising when he doesnt do , and try and make sure he doesnt have loads to drink before bedtime
Good Luck
Posted: 18:56 Aug 06 2002 
Just to agree with Sange.. Joel is still in night nappies, we can't toilet train him at night... but last time we tried was just after Hannah was born, but we're going to try him again soon.
As an incentive, why not do a star chart?.. use gold stars for every night that he's dry and if he manages a whole week of staying dry, then maybe buy him a little treat or do something special with him?. Keep praising him loads for dry nights though, that's important
Best of luck hon
As an incentive, why not do a star chart?.. use gold stars for every night that he's dry and if he manages a whole week of staying dry, then maybe buy him a little treat or do something special with him?. Keep praising him loads for dry nights though, that's important
Best of luck hon
Posted: 19:37 Aug 06 2002 
I'd go with Keeny's advice - try a star chart or something. Kids always want treats. My sister did this with her boy and it worked for her - but he was 7 before he was dry at night.... 
Why not try a rubber undersheet to help with the accidents?
Good luck hun
Why not try a rubber undersheet to help with the accidents?
Good luck hun
Posted: 12:49 Aug 07 2002 
My friends little girl is 5 1/2 and she has actually been put on antibiotice for a irritable bladder, and since then has been dry most nights after being wet most nights.
I used to have some brilliant sheets when the girls were younger - towelling on the top but rubberised on the back, which protected the mattress but cut down on the washing. Either that or an incontinence pad.
It may be a medical problem - give the doctor or health visitor(if you've got a nice one at your surgery - some of them are battleaxes! ) a go as bladder infections are quite common in young children - girls more commonly than boys though.
Make sure he drinks plenty in the early part of the day, as being dehydrated could aggravate the kidneys - and could make the problem worse.
I was lucky with my 2 - both dry at night by 3 - no consolation for you though!
I used to have some brilliant sheets when the girls were younger - towelling on the top but rubberised on the back, which protected the mattress but cut down on the washing. Either that or an incontinence pad.
It may be a medical problem - give the doctor or health visitor(if you've got a nice one at your surgery - some of them are battleaxes! ) a go as bladder infections are quite common in young children - girls more commonly than boys though.
Make sure he drinks plenty in the early part of the day, as being dehydrated could aggravate the kidneys - and could make the problem worse.
I was lucky with my 2 - both dry at night by 3 - no consolation for you though!
Posted: 17:00 Aug 07 2002 
T - know its no consolation but my sister wet the bed up until she was about 10. She saw doctors and everything. In the end she had a little chart with gold stars for dry days and silver for wet days
Posted: 17:52 Aug 07 2002
He hasn't got a bladder infection or anything physically wrong with him. A little while ago after I saw the health visitor, I had to measure all liquid going into him and all liquid coming out of him and everything was OK there too. We made a chart on the computer a few days ago and he chooses a different stamp to go by the day everytime he is dry. So far he's been dry for 3 nights and has a sun, eye and a snowflake on his chart. I've promised him a present when we fill the chart and my eldest has already decided for him that he'd like a GameBoy game Fingers crossed that this will last - even 'tho I've had to resort to bribery
Fingers crossed that this will last - even 'tho I've had to resort to bribery
Posted: 10:26 Aug 12 2002