Bed wetting desperation .........

[StarPlayer]

I've decided to try that Old Wives' tale - raise the foot of the bed 6 inches.

So, I've got 20 book under each foot of his bed (He hasn't seen it yet)

What do you think my ds chances are of not wetting the bed tonight? He's 6 (7 real soon).

No. I think I'm going to start a thread to ask for positives using an alarm.

Hi starplayer. What time does your son go to bed? I put mine to bed at 7, after making him do a wee (by bribing with extra story) but to have a dry bed in the morning I still have to get him up at 11 pm to do a wee whilst he is very asleep! I'm wondering when I will be able to stop getting him up in the night to wee?!

my son goes 2 bed at 7 aswell scodgie always make him go to toilet b4hand, i have 2 babies as well so wen they were waking up 4 nite feeds i used to get him up 2 go to toilet as well usually 11pm and 5am, still didnt work

Mmmm. My ds goes to bed 8pm (ok - should be 7.30 but never seems to work out). He has a wee before his bath and then - if he can get one out - before he goes to bed. Maybe we should get him up at 11 to have a wee? Might try this. Ideally I should get him up at 5am to have a wee but then I doubt if he would go back to sleep.

My 4 1/2 has been dry at night for a year or so. I swopped juice/squash to water and only gave a drink at meal times, unless of course she asked. Then it was try for a wee before bed and off you go! I have never woken her during the night and so far we have done well, no accidents. I also have a 2 1/2 year old who is dry during the day but not at night so, when shes ready I will apply the same method! if it works great if not, not a bloody clue ha ha no science to it

My DS is 7 and still wet at night.

I tried the waking him when I came to bed, and again in the night, for a wee approach but decided that this was pointless as the poor child was so upset, he didn't really know what was going on, as he is such deep sleeper. The child needs to feel that he is going to wee and wake himself, so this really doesn't solve anything.

I had decided to purchase an alarm for waking him as he actually wee'd and posted on here about it. The advice I got from people who had tried this was not very positive, but I was advised to take him to the GP and get him referred to the bed-wetting clinic.

So, we have seen the GP who advised him to drink plenty in the day time,and not drink after about 6.00 in the evening. She said that even at DS age this was common, and not a problem. They wanted to do sample test to check he hadn't got infection, which we provided. However, we still haven't heard anything from the clinic about his appointment and this was a few weeks back.

[sigh] decisions decisions

Well I've started a new thread to try and get feedback about alarms.

here it is

well im gonna see if i can get an alarm from nurse or purchase 1, 2 c how it goes

the alarm was the only thing that got dd1 dry at 8. she was wet every night beforehand. took 2 weeks and dry every night since then.

we've got a malem i think. variable tone and vibrate.

she slept through it so we had it on baby alarm to wake us up for the first week, then crashed into her room, flinging the light on, clapping and shouting.

like i said, dry.

she's been under continence clinic sionce 5 btw. but for night time they won't touch them before 7/8.

ds1 is a little more tricksy...

dd2 has been dry day and night since 2 lol. they are all different. some of them just need help.

ds1 is on 2 different tablets and an alarm lol, but so far the alarm is just waking him up so he goes to the toilet, not actually stopping him at all... ho hum. (he's 7 btw) next step is the surgeon to discuss scope thingy...

I take it that dd1 gave you your nickname after crashing into her room, flinging the light on and clapping and shouting

lol.
twas effective though. the alarm only works if it actually wakes them up, and dd1 sleeps through smoke alarms.

i'm a big alarm fan.

effectively, on eo ftwo reasons for bedwetting - 1 - no production of hormone.
2 - deep sleeper.

or obv a combination of the two.

dd1's problem was deep sleep, which is why medication did not work for her but an alarm did.

ds1 appears to be a 'combination' child. the meds are having some limited effect, as is the alarm, but we haven't quite got to the root of it yet, which is why he still sees the paed...

dd2 clearly started producing the hormone extremely early, and is a light sleeper we like dd2. she's a lot cheaper! (if only that were true, what i haven't forked out on dry-nites, bed mats and laundry costs, i've spent on disabled equipment lol)

I can suggest third reason, madwoman: in our DD it is not doing a poo often enough.

If we can get her to do a poo (after lengthy resistance, insisting she doesn't need one, crying on the loo saying she can't do one) she will eventually produce a sewer blocking log that makes your eyes water just to look at it . . . and then be dry for the next few nights.

BalloonSlayer why don't you get her onto Movicol? That would/should keep her regular. I still use it with my ds though he has taken to doing his poos at school and sometimes when I think he hasn't 'gone' he has.

Madwomanintheattic could you come and give us your two penny's worth on my other thread please (bed wetting alarm)

oh god, yes - thanks for reminding me balloonslayer - we also had ds1 on lactulose... we have it in the cupboard for 'emergencies' as he no longer needs it every day...

i really do wish i didn't know quite so much about my children's bladders and bowels sometimes!

impaction usually results in daytime wetness as well though - not usually just a night time enuresis issue if this is the cause - for only night time enuresis, it is usually hormone or deep sleep related...

Tis a good idea Starplayer but it's behavioural more than physical.

If she would take a laxative, she would eat more veg, do a poo when required . . . etc etc. She is seven !!! and a well-adjusted, bright girl, but a nightmare when it comes to food.

Unfortunately I was the same as a child. Hated most food, constipated, bed wetter, so I am probably too sympathetic. It seems bizarre to remember now but I can still clearly recall my revulsion for certain foods, and how much I hated mealtimes.

Sometimes we'll say "You can't do so and so unless you have a poo and she will sprint upstairs and bingo."

She says she doesn't like doing a poo.

I think it will sort itself out in the end, possibly when sleepovers start to come into her life. She says hopefully.