My DD1 turned 4 in October 2011. She was out of day nappies at 20 months old (yay) but kept sleeping in nappies at night.
When she turned 3.5ish she declared no more night nappies! (yay again)
She went a couple months with no accidents at all...then...My husbands mum and dad passed away. We fell pregnant. We sold our house. We moved.....you get the picture! and she started wetting the bed again.
So, as I was pregnant and yes, bad I know, easier for ME...we put her back into nappies. She didn't want too, but we explained that as she was wetting the bed nearly if not every night! that she cld wear nappies just until bubs was born and we were all settled.
Well, she has been out of nappies again now for 2 months, (bubs is now 3 months old) and she is wetting the bed still
We just don't know what to do! Hubby takes her to the toilet around 9ish and then usually again at 2.30ish. But she still wets the bed.
During the day she can NOT go to the toilet for HOURS! but I don't worry about that, as I have always been able to hold my pee! seriously, I can go the whole day without peeing if I needed too!
So, my questions are, I guess ...have I stuffed up by putting her back in nappies at night because it was easier for me while pregnant? and how do we get to have dry nights again?
Sorry it's so long! but would LOVE to hear some ideas!
I'm not a mum yet Hun so I haven't had to toilet train anyone yet. Although my mum had a terrible time toilet training my brother when we were younger, he set the bed until he was about 10!
The only thing she found that worked was giving him a teaspoon of 'special' medicine every night which was water with food colouring in it. She told him it was special and would stop him from setting the bed 1 he never did it again. Apparently it's something to do with the phycological side of it... Might be worth a shot!
She doesn't notice I don't think MadB. Sometimes she will cry out and when we rush in she is upset that she has wet the bed, but other times when we just go in to check on her and she has wet the bed and she is still fast asleep!
A little girl at my work was doing this, a preppy. The parents got some device that would beep in the night if she wet the bed it stopped her bed wetting, not sure how but maybe you could google it?
It's normal, but a frustrating problem. what about a brolly sheet? Or an absorbent 'bluey' (like they use in hospitals)? That way you can quickly get her back into bed without too much disturbance.
Do you know what time it usually is? Like if you get up to go to the loo at 1am is she usually wet or dry? And what about 5am?
I know with some kids it's part of their body waking up, so it's often just before they wake for the day.
Arcadia- that's the thing! she goes to bed about 7.30. Pees before bed. Hubby takes her to the toilet at 9ish and sometimes she is still dry, others she has already wet the bed!
I have been looking at the brolly sheets! Might get some of them as they look awesome
One of my brothers was an extended bed wetter. Mum took him to a special clinic at the children's hospital as they had a program for it at the time (not sure if they still do).
They set him up with a special sheet that had an alarm attached to it that went under his normal bedding. As soon as it sensed wetness the alarm would go off. The first point of the alarm was to hopefully startle them out of sleep and stop them from doing the entire wee in the bed. He was then taught that he had to go finish his wee on the toilet, and as a part of the program is was his "job" to get changed into fresh pajamas, remove the wet bedding from the bed, push fresh bedding on the bed and then go back to bed by himself. The idea was that none of it was very fun, and he quickly adjusted and stopped wetting the bed. I think he was older than 4 at the time though, and as my eldest is not quite 3 yet, I'm not sure if a 4 year old is mature enough to understand and learn to do all that stuff. It might work if perhaps she just had a parent 'helper' when she is changing the bed clothes and things.
All kids manage it in their own time. My MCHN was horrified when my 4yo was still bedwetting and suggested all kinds of 'training' programs. Truth is, if you ask lots of other mums there are lots of kids that just don't 'get it' until a bit later. My DD is nearly 6 and still averaging only 3 out of 7 dry nights.
My SIL did it until she was 8.
In all honesty research suggests taking them at night does little to help, but I do it too. I can't carry my nearly 30kg DD and haven't been able to for a while, so I have to physically wake her. The nights I do it (usually after 11pm) are far more successful than when DH is here and he just picks her up and carries her without waking her properly.
A friend of mine found an osteopath helpful for her 6yo.
What to do??
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