Pull ups.....go back 20 years.....

[Janeymoo50]

...or more. Why are so many 3 and 4 year olds in pull ups? I get that there are children with SN, before you all start with my child is this, my child has that. There was a thread recently about bedtime, all kids wore nappies of sorts, until the age of 9, every response said it was normal to have kids in nappies at 6 and over, what the feck is it!!!

8MrsBob*
The daily mail like to report it every so often, sometimes blaming the influx of imigrants and mothers (of course) who don't know how and when to start potty training.

If been a parent for 13 years and work in a school.
Have never seen it.

X posts Jason! :)

It would be interesting to know how many of those who are in nappies later get diagnosed with SN.

There was another thread on this a little while back, a teacher said over the years she's had 4 students in nappies, and all were diagnosed as having special needs by the end of year 1.

My d c aged 10 and 8 both wet the bed until sometime during their 7th year despite being dry in the day age 2.
I took ds to the doctor aged 4 because my niece and nephew the same age were dry and he told me that it is not something they can learn and not to believe everything people tell me.

Dsd was dry at night from age 3, not because of spectacular parenting but because she didn't need to wee during the night. Now that ds and dd are dry it is literally because they no longer need to wee at night either.

Totally agree Jason it just doesn't happen there is no way I could have got my NT nine yr old in nappies at five he would have point blank refused my five yr however has ASD and learning disabilities and is still in nappies we are slowly trying to toilet train him but due to his disabilities theres a bloody good reason he's still.in nappies.

Actually if you read what I said the doctor said poor potty training contributed to accidents because he hasnt learnt how to control his bladder and has led to an overactive bladder.

Mr Ds is 7 and still in pull ups at night. It's just one of those things. I'm sure he would rather not be in a sodden nappy every morning but Im not about to make him feel bad about it. He isn't wetting the bed every night for fun, that's for sure. He was still in proper nappies when he started school too untill one day in reception when he just got it.

How many adults do you know who still wet the bed? My guess is very few. People grow out of it eventually.. Everyone gets it eventually.

I'd rather be judged as the parent who's son still wore nappies than the parents who's son was having their mental health ruined but being made to feel guilty about quite normal nighttime incontinence.

Actually if you read what I said the doctor said poor potty training contributed to accidents because he hasnt learnt how to control his bladder and has led to an overactive bladder.

And if you read what i said it was along the lines of "Total rubbish."

Not one word of what you have put above makes any kind of sense....
Potty training doesn't work this way, You can't magically get an overactive bladder becuase you "were taught poorly."

Doctor: I am of course a vague specialist doctor in the field of this subject.
I'm sorry Mrs Everytimeref, but your 14 year old stepson is having accidents because he didn't learn to control his bladder when he was potty training. You see poor potty training leads to this kind of thing.

^Yep, that's the reason.... I hope it helps bye.6

Oh and tablets won't work. And he needs to feel a wet bed in order to make things better.

You really have no idea what happens when an older child goes to a doctor over wetting do you?

There is just no way a doctor would say that and it's simply not true

you used to have rubber pants with a terry lining as training pants. They were hot and sweaty.

You also had the kids who just constantly smelled of piss.

I think parents did have to concentrate on toilet training earlier. A lot of children still in pull-ups these days, would probably have trained earlier by some horrible unfriendly methods.

This thread is a load of rubbish. You could get pull ups and size 6 nappies
And there was a designated continence service
And older children/teens still wet the bed at night
They did twenty years previous to that

This is one of those it never happened to me, therefore it never happened threads

Any hypothetical doctor who does say that probably needs to retire about a decade ago.

Nappies are more comfortable, you don't have to wash the fuckers, less pressure on kids from nurseries etc to be dry.

It's not fucking rocket science.

Any hypothetical doctor who does say that probably needs to retire about a decade ago.

Or the 1950's....

Nighttime incontinence is down to hormones. Not how comfortable nappies are.

Palomb

Some adult males still wet the bed when they have been out drinking, however I don't know any adult females who do.

Some adult males piss in the wardrobe, what's that all about?

Actually that reminds me I've got to put three year old DS on the loo. We're on night two without nappies (everything crossed especially legs....)

Good luck EWbank

Thanks

I think the number of children not being dry by 3 hasn't changed. But I think parents talk about it more and there is a bit less shame and embarrassment. My auntie was telling me that when her dc went to preschool in the mid 80's mums would put their child in pants at preschool and hope they didn't have an accident. These day those mums would just keep them in nappies until they were ready.

I wet the bed when I'm drunk, I'm definitely female

I was also wetting the bed at night till about 6 or 7. I grew up also with what I thought was poor bladder control and in my late teens I would getconstant UTI's. Turns out I was born with a urethra that was too short. Ah well.

Don't think this explains why I pee myself in my sleep when I'm drunk. Of only pampers did pissed pull ups

Be careful, because if you do it wrong he'll have wetting problems at 14, you'll have to take him to a specialist doctor and you’ll be told all about your poor potty training causing him over-active bladder disorder.