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Cary · 09-28-2004, 08:42 PM

We've been changing his sheets a lot lately. We have been using prefolds folded in a wrap or pull ups and they both leak. We even tried an alarm, but he just slept through the ringing! I just ordered some motherease bedwetting pants and they had better work.

Good luck,
Cary

Morgansma · 09-28-2004, 11:14 PM

Keileigh didn't wet at night but I know I always made sure to have nightlights everywhere and tell her she could wake me if she needed to go or wanted me to go with her. Just in case she was afraid. I bet he'll just eventually grow out of it though. He probably doesn't even wake when he does it, ya know. Give him some time

freedomlover · 09-28-2004, 11:17 PM

(this is not unusual at all by my own eaves dropping on other moms)

My regular sleeper needed them til she was 4.

My light sleeper needed them til he was 3.

I really think that deep sleepers (can't wake them for the life of you) will need to wear something for night for a long time.

Kerrilynn62000 · 09-29-2004, 01:38 AM

My kids have dairy issues. We don't drink cow's milk but do eat yogurt & cheese sometimes & occasionally have ice cream. I found if we overdid the dairy (special occasion such as birthday with pizza & ice cream) then they would wet the bed. But with no or little dairy they didn't!!

I have read in a couple of food allergy books that a dairy allergy in particular may have something to do with bed-wetting. I know of at least 2 other children that totally stopped wetting the bed when they were taken off of dairy. When they were "challege" tested with dairy...they wet the bed again.

Just thought I'd mention it as I hadn't seen any posts about dairy being a possible contributing factor.

singlemomto3 · 02-18-2005, 12:48 AM

Ok i don't want to take over but need some ideas.. my situation is kinda the same.. if i don't wake him up after he goes to bed he will be drenched in the morning.. usually if i wake him up he is sometimes wet and other times dry.. we have been using goodnights and sometimes they leak.. just ordered some mother of eden overnight undies.. but am really questioning this.. he will pee in them in the morning and at night when he is still awake.. about a year ago when he still fit in diapers one day he got dressed.. kept his diaper on and went to daycare and went into the bathroom at the right times.. but peed in the diaper all morning and at nap time woke up wet.. he seems so lazy.. i think we may be back to the nose spray.. he says it burns.. but either it works.. or it works in his head... and either way is fine with me.. tonight he was mad and didnt' want to go to bed.. so while he was in his room.. he peed in the goodnight.. and it leaked all over.. i am so frustrated with this.. Thanks for any ideas...
Annie

morgainesmama · 03-20-2005, 01:20 AM

Apparently a chiro helps some kids. It didn't help my dd -- potty trained since 18m but still wetting at 5.5. Limiting fluids doesn't help at all; diet mods haven't helped (though we haven't done a ton of this). Waking at night doesn't help at all. Putting the training potty immediately beside the bed hasn't helped. Homeopathic tablets didn't help.

We bought a sip-on plastic mattress cover at WalMart; it was like $6 and completely encases the mattress. Outgas it in the sun first. Then, lots of cheapo lightweight sheets, some reusable chux, and the biggie for me is not using a full-size blanket but crib size blankets or lightweight fleece blankets, and throw pillows rather than bedpillows. Makes it all easier and faster to wash and dry.

DD strips her bed and doesn't seem to mind, and remakes it too many nights. She'll sleep soaked in pee and not care -- her hair and clothes can be drenched and she wakes up in the morning without a care in the world. MOE overnight undies not only didn't absorb everything, I found them difficult to wash and even the large sizes hurt her legs fro the elastic. Same with Bummis. We use pullups or diapers right now, but I have plans to make her some kind of overnight pant once I decide what fabric to use, then I'll make her wool pajama pants instead of a cover.

You can buy wool interlock and felt it for a reusable puddle pad.

DS, almost 3, is wetting, frustrating because he was dry for a couple months, but now wets the bed and never keeps a diaper on, but does wake screaming in a wet bed, waking baby. When he does keep a diaper on, he usually pulls his penis out of it so it doens't matter anyhow.

In Superimmunity fo rKids she suggests that magnesium/calcium deficiency can contribute to bedwetting -- we've got an appt w/nutritionist to check out how to dose them/feed them.

It is incredibly frustrating to wake in a wet bed, esp when it's your kids' pee in your bed! But, hopefully, this too shall pass.