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| My son will be 6 soon and still has trouble staying dry at night. We've tried everything. Currently, we've set his alarm clock to go off at 11pm to wake him up so that he can go to the bathroom. He sleeps so soundly though (the music is blasting!!) that we have to go in and wake him up ourselves. Even though we limit his drinks at least 60 minutes before bedtime there are still times when he has accidents. The Dr. has told us that this is not uncommon and that eventually he'll grow out of it. He went to a sleep-over last night and had to change in the bathroom so his friends didn't see his pull-ups. We try not to make him feel bad about - he already feels kinda bad. Hopefully it will get better soon.
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Thanks again for the info everyone. I have been monitoring this thread and appreciate all of the feed back. My son has an appointment next week to get his kindergarten shots/talk about his asthma/allergies...I will mention this situation to the doctor see what he suggests. Once again, thanks for taking the time to post.
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First of all I would tell you if he sleep that heavy you might want to talk to you doc and make sure he is ok. For a child to sleep that heavy is not good. I know my daughter sleeps like that and I know now it has to do with her weight. But she has never wet the bed of her pull up everyone is different.
Also does bed wetting run in the family? If so then he might have to grow out of it.
But until then I would tell you to do like my mother, and I did with my boyfriend’s daughter and get him up to go. I would wake her up every few hours…to go she would not wake up but I would put her on the toilet and she would go…Then on day she just stopped and could hold it until she woke up.
Also I would ask you is he going to bed late?
You should not give him anything to drink about ˝ before bed and make him go before he lays down…
He will be fine! Good LUCK
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My son was having nap/night time accidents when we were working on potty training and we had the same problem... pull up soaked, pj's too. One day when I went to his Parent's Day Out program and said we were trying to get through naps with out accidents she said they would keep his underwear on and put the pull-up over top, that way he would be used to the feel of underwear, which he wouldn't wet in during the day.
That worked really well, but I also suggest using those huggies overnights instead of a pull up over top of the underwear. I know that its sort of a pain to have to wash out the underwear but its better that the pjs and the sheets!
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| My SS still has accidents and he is almost 16. When he was younger, we didn't make a big deal out of it, but as he aged, it has become a rather big deal. By the time they are in upper elementary and above, they make a sub-concious choice whether or not to wake up to use the bathroom. We limit liquids after 7:0pm; he has to pay for and wear Depends; he is in charge of his own linen washing; he must set an alarm for 2:00a, get up, try to use the bathroom, and wake us up to let us know that he did this; and he is not allowed overnights with friends. Since implementing these rules, his accidents have drastically decreased. Our pediatrician said he, like hundreds of other boys, are lazy. I certainly wouldn't implement such harsh consequences to a 5-year-old, but by 10, absolutely. If we had started cracking down earlier, we may have stopped it earlier.
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CONNIEMARIE72
3/3/08 10:46 A
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| My step daughter wet the bed until she was 8. My husband and I figured out she had her accident about the same time every night so we would just wake her up and make her sit on the toliet. It disturbs your sleep but it's better then changing wet sheets. She grew out of it thankfully!
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JUNKDRAWER
2/15/08 11:08 A
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My son went from occassional accidents where he'd wake up and need us to change the bed and his clothes etc, to sleeping completely through any of it within the last 2 months. He is just now 5. I've asked the doctor about it and he said that he's probably just deep sleeping through it, plus he's been spurting as well. If it continues we might do a urine test just to check for an infection.
The mess was getting tiring, but I was leary to do pull ups with him since we'd had such a hard time PTing him with them on, plus they are expensive. I had a talk with him one night about the whole situation and he confirmed my fears when he said, if I wear the "big kid things" (since I didn't want to insult his age by calling them diapers) that he wouldn't ever have to get up to pee. Soooo, my compromise was to use some thin cloth diaper liners (the kind used for adding absorbency to a cloth diaper) and folded it up to place in his underwear. It's not terribly bulky and seems to work. He can still feel the wetness, but it helps contain the mess more than just letting him pee everywhere. We also get him up to go pee before we head to bed, but even that and limiting water is not fully effective in preventing it.
It's frustrating and I feel bad for him. We don't talk about it a lot, but check in with him every now and then, and sometimes he offers the information.
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WARRENG317
2/14/08 1:10 P
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| I have an 11 yr old son who still has this problem at least 2-3 times a week. Our drink routines are regulated to prevent this and he even refuses to drink anything after supper most of the time. He sleeps very deep and just does not wake up. We are just patiently waiting for him to out grow it as we are all doing our best to control it. I agree with the earlier post of not making a big deal of it as the child is pretty much helpless on this problem. I had wonder if it could possibly be heretitary as I had the same problem as a child and did not grow out of it for a long time.
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| I'm in the same boat, but it's my 6.5 year old daughter who has this problem (she'll be 7 in May). She's very petite at only 43" tall and 35 lbs -- tiny bladder and deep sleeper! I dont' allow her to have drinks after 7 PM. I've tried waking her every few hours all night, and she'll just pee in between those times! My doctor gives me the "she'll grow out of it" speech, but I'm getting a tad bit anxious the older she gets!
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JOJOSMAMA
2/14/08 12:52 P
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| Hi. Let me preface this by saying I have a daughter, not a son, and she is only 3, so I am sure it is not the same. I have found by putting her to bed in a pull up she does not bother to get up and go at night. When I finally said to her a couple weeks ago, "I am absolutely not spending another dime on pull ups. You have to get up to go in the middle of the night.". She threw a fit and I explained to her that she is a big girl now and she can get up and go in the middle of the night. She has not had a night time accident since then. I usually limit the drinks before bed time and I go ask her if she needs to go before I head to bed, but most of the time she says no. I think it helps though she has her own bathroom in her bedroom.
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MERCERSKI
2/14/08 10:47 A
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| Thanks for the advice and taking the time to post to my question! We try not to make it a big deal and tell him he'll grow out of it. We also tell him that he's not wearing a diaper and that there's a difference between that and a pull up. What's funny is times when we do let him wear regular underwear to bed, when he wets them, he'll wake up, put a pull up and clean jammies on and come into our bed. I'm really glad that he knows to do that!
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I have two boys (7 and 8) who are still in pull ups. Our pediatrician told me that about 30% of boys are not fully dry at night until around the age of 10. He advised against using the alarm until the boys were 8. My oldest sleeps through that too, lol.
My best advice is simply don't worry! It will happen when his body catches up to it. As he gets older, if it continues, teach him how to strip his bed and bring it to the laundry room. The most important thing is to follow what you've been doing, limit drinks at night, try waking him up after he's gotten into a deep sleep and take him to the bathroom. Other than that you just wait and don't make a big deal out of it. Trust me that will just stress you and your son, lol. Can you tell I've been there done that?
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LOSETHEJIGGLE
2/13/08 11:59 P
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| I have exactly the same problem. My son will be 6 in couple weeks and sleeps like he's in a coma. I have to go in his bedroom late at night and wake him up to go to the bathroom. This helps, but sometimes he still wets the bed. I'll definitely keep an eye on this post for any other suggestions.
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MERCERSKI
2/13/08 11:27 P
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Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions...
My 5yr old son has been potty trained since he was 2 1/2. The problem is, he sleeps so deeply that he does not wake up at night to go potty. When he wakes up in the morning, his pullup is soaked, sometimes his P.J.'s too and he smells like pee. He doesn't drink much before he goes to bed, just a smaller chaser after he takes his allergie meds. I know that boys bladders don't keep up with them and they grow out of it but it's the deep sleeping that's getting me. I can seriously go in there to put laundry away and slam dresser drawers and he won't wake up. So if he won't wake up with that, I can see why he won't wake up to pee.
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