Wetting the bed

[kneedeepwith1]

Hi, I would like to know how common it is for a 7 year old to still wet the bed. Its not everynight but she still does 2-3 times a week. I dont get mad at her for it and I have tried all the techniques like waking her and limiting drinks and making her go befor bed but she continues to do it. Is there anything I can do to make mornings easier for the both of us? I stopped buying pull ups about 6 months ago because they just didnt work anymore and I would still end up washing weather she wore one or not. Not to mention the price of them wow! She isnt big for her age but she still wears 5-5T clothes. Thankfully, she isnt bothered too much about it but its making mornings a bit stressfull because she wont help with the clean up and I hate having to argue with her in the morning to help. Thank you everyone and I hope to get some suggestions and ideas.

Bonnie

It is not rare.

You should not be limiting her drinks or lifting her.

Leave off expecting her to clean up. It will feel like you are punishing her.

You just have to sit it out, buy the pull ups and wait for her body to catch up.

She can't help it.

Thanks fab, I would have no problem buying the pull ups if they worked but they just dont hold enough and they leak. From the looks of it, they just dont fit her right as they arent snug enough on her. Even the ones for big kids are WAY too big for her. I would love to find something she could wear to help us both out and wait it out. Thank you again.

I thought by having her help in the morning would be giving her more responsibility, at least thats what all my friends have told me. Thanks for the tip.

Bonnie

its possible tht she is lacking the hormone vasopressin. 7 is the top end of the age where bed time wetting is considered normal so i would start to think bout a visit to the gp if i were you.

Thanks Kew, I have taken her 3 times already and have been assured that she is perfectly healthy and just to wait it out. I have even been to a urologist and she advises me the same thing. She isnt a heavy sleeper at all which surprises me why she can still wet the bed. Thank you again for the suggestion.

Bonnie

Not uncommon. try boots pull ups - they are snug (my ds is tiny and they work on him). 7 is the age at which gps will start to look into intervention - it could be lack of hormone or they could use an alarm. I think she should help, but you need to make it so that it isn't a punishment.

Thanks, I think I have tried all the different brand of pull ups and they either leak or she breaks out from them and cant wear them anymore. The reg pull ups fit her no problem, they just dont hold as there are times she will wet more then once a night. A friend even suggested trying cloth but I am leary as I never used cloth before and I dont even know if they would work any better. Does anyone here have any experience with cloth or knows if they come in bigger sizes? Thank you again

Bonnie

you dont mention any of the "devices" that I've read about when articles mention bed wetting beeping pads?????? ask your clinic. good luck.

was lso going to ask if you've tried alarms?

my ds is 9 this year,he still wets on average 5 times a week! hosp prescribed desmopressin which is suppost to minimise urine production but this didnt help they said his body wasnt mature enough to respond to the drug,if you lift them they dont learn to feel the urge to go so this doesnt help,and pullups dont allow them to start learning to feel when they start going so my advice would be bladder training...let her drink as much as poss in the day,try and encourage her to hold her wee for as long as poss so she can expand the bladder and then eventually it will help her bladder muscles hold more and in time the bladder will fill in the night so much so that eventually the urge will wake her and hey presto..dry!! having said this im still going lol good luc i know its hard!
i also have ds2 who is nearly 6 and he's also a wetter damn!!