bed wetting

[britkane8]

i was woundering if any one could help me.

my daughter is nearly 4 yrs old and i have toilet trained her but nights are not going so well.i have had to put a nappy on her at night and in the morning she is waking up really wet.why is that?
i have also toilet trainned my son and he is nearly 3 and i dont have one problem with him. he never wets the bed wakes up dry everyday.

it would be good to get some advice on this situation thankyou.

love susan

[Astrolady]

Susan we are exactly the same. Kameron who is 5 still wears pull ups to bed and even though we don't give him a drink after tea, and make sure he goes to the loo before bed everynight, he will still wake up wet. However we have noticed that he is slowly getting, like in a week now we might have 4 dry nights instead of 6/7

Lachlan our 3 yr old was night trained a week after he started toilet training.

Love

[saslia]

My DD is 6 and never had a dry night until we started the "mat and bell program "through our child health nurse. So far she has had runs of 10 and 11 nights without accidents. She was always waking up VERY wet and it did not bother her until we started this.

[nikbrad]

I don't know the answer as Mackenzie has been great but could you put her on the toilet before you go to bed? Some people do this but I didn't as I knew Mackenzie would wake up too much and we would never get her back to sleep. Just a thought.

[MelS]

My DD is 4 1/2 and still wears a nappy to bed. She is wet nearly every night. We have started a chart system and that went well for 3 days but then back to wetting. The Herald Sun newspaper recently ran an article on it and they suggested a new product called Slumberdry, which is an absorbent pad which can be washed and put in the dryer if it gets wet. Its about $40. They said that kids find it hard to stop wetting the bed when they are in nappies. I'm going to get one and try it, I'll let you know how it goes, hopefully good news! Good luck.

[Niamh75]

both my boys wet the bed my eldest is 6 and the youngest is 4 ive noticed they some times have a great run of dry nights then a bad run. no matter what we do it doesn't help. ive spoke to our health nurse and they said it should stop when they are 7. my eldest Adam is quite self counies of it and gets quite upset we try and not to make a big deal of as a lot of children have this problem.

nikbrad what is the the "mat and bell program " ild be intrested in finding out more about that.

I was told they could go on medication but im not to confortable with that idea my self has any one ever tried any thing like that.

[nikbrad]

Not sure what the mat bell is - that was Saschamum who wrote that.

[visitor2]

Kimberley still wets the bed at night and i thought putting her in a cloth nappy would help stop this but it hasn't at the moment i have her in drynights but she still wakes up wet.

I'd love to know how the mat on the bed works out. But wouldn't you need a couple so you can change it if they wet halfway through the night ?

[britkane8]

thankyou guys for all the suggestions i might have to try some i have tried making her go to the toilet b4 bed and then when dp got home from afternoon shift he would wake her up but still be wet in the morning. my younger sister had the same problem and she wet the bed till she was 12.mum had tried everything with her including the nasal spray but didnt work. then at 12 she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and once she was on insalin she did not have one more wet night. so im hoping my daughter doesnt have the gene.

[Heaven]

maybe this is the mat and bell thing??

Using a mattress bedwetting alarm

These alarms are available for hire from the Royal Children's Hospital (you need to see one of our paediatricians first).
The alarm consists of a rubber mat that is placed in the bed under where the child's bottom will be, and it is connected by a wire to a box with a battery powered alarm bell. The system operates at low voltage and there is no risk to your child.

• The mat should be placed in the bed, on top of the bottom sheet, and should be covered with a piece of thin material (eg an old sheet cut up) just big enough to cover the mat and tuck in on either side of the bed.
• The wires should be plugged into the box, which should then be placed as far away from the bed as the wire will allow.
• When going to bed your child should switch on the alarm and get into bed. It is best if he or she only wears a pyjama jacket and underpants. Not pyjama trousers or a long nightdress.
• When your child wets the bed, a loud alarm will ring. He or she should get out of bed as quickly as possible and turn off the alarm, go to the toilet to finish emptying his/her bladder. Then dry the mat using the piece of material, put a new piece of material over the mat, turn the alarm back on and get back into bed. You may have to help your child with some of this, at least for the first few nights.

Within a week or two your child should start to have some dry nights. This may happen because he or she wakes up and goes to the toilet before wetting the bed, or because he or she learns to hold on all night.
If your child has 7 dry nights in a row, try giving some extra fluid to drink in the evening. This is called "overlearning".
If your child has 14 dry nights in a row, try leaving the mat on the bed but without the alarm switched on and see what happens. If dry nights continue, try leaving the mat off the bed all together.

[Heaven]

There is a factsheet on it on the RCH website, and it has some tips.

[MelS]

Michelle, I thought the same thing too. I might have to buy 2. I tried to search for the article from the Herald Sun but couldn't find it, but it was really interesting. It also suggested against holding back drinks before bed as that only shrinks the childs bladder which I thought was interesting. Will let you know once I order them and if they work (I hope they do!).