My 7 yr old son wets the bed. Does anyone have any successful solutions in stopping the wet nights
I am a mother of two boys. A 7 yr & 4 yr old. My 7 yr. old is suffering emotionally with bedwetting mostly because his younger brother has'nt wet the bed in nearly a year. It is really low key and only spoke about with encouragement and love. Our pediatrician has gave us some literature on a device that runs a wire from the undies to the shoulder and beeps when it senses wetness to wake him up. It is expensive and I don't want to emotionally distress him any more than he already is. I have explained to him that it is an option but, he is resistant and then not.......when he is effected by the emotions of it all. Genetically he gets a double whammy because bedwetting runs on both sides of our family. Age 12 seems to be the consensus on when they out grew it. Time may be all that stops it but, I thought I'd see if anyone had a successful solution. I want to be clear that we have tried all the conventional ideas such as going to the bathroom before bed, no drinking anything 2 hrs. before bed, even waking him up and getting him to go in the middle of the night. Anyone find something that worked for there little angels? Either mentioned here or something new. I need to hear all the hope and ideas I can. Thanks for your time.
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I'd be interested in hearing new ideas as well, being a mommy of a 6 year old girl that still wets the bed nearly every night!
One question I have is, Does he wake up when he wets the bed, or just sleeps through it? My daughter wet the bed up to the age of 4 1/2. At that point, she started getting upset. I took her to a chiropractor. He said she had a pinched nerve in her back so that when she was sleeping, she didn't know she had to go. After a few adjustments, she no longer wet the bed. Also, dairy products to close to bedtime for some doesn't help as it can make them sleep harder. Good luck.
Does your child have a bladder infection , if so try some cranberry juice. Another thing that helps my child is giving his last liquid intake at least an hour to an hour and a half before bed.If I notice he is overly tired I give him a couple saltine crackers and also make sure that the house is not too cold.
My daughter had the same problem, I took her to the Doctor and he gave her some medicated nose spray, I cant remember what the name is but it really worked good. After 2 weeks she quit taking it and never had the problem again. Hope this helps.
My seven year old use to wet her bed but didn't start until she turned four and it only occured a couple times a week. We talked to her doctor and she gave us some advice like when she does wet then have her help clean up she said not to wake her up every few hours because you won't get any sleep and your child won't either. For us it seemed like all of a sudden she wasn't wetting her bed anymore. Here are a few things we did to make it go a little smoother when she did wet. I always had her pick out extra pj's everynight and I had extra sheets and blankets laid out just in case also we used those assurance underpads under her sheet so her bed didn't get wet. I didn't have her help clean up because it was usually after midnight. I usually washed her in the tub and my husband cleaned up the mess. We talked about her wetting her bed and that it was't her fault. The doctor said that childrens bladder isn't fully grown until they are like eleven years old so it is quite common. She always went to the bathroom before bedtime. Her doctor also said that caffeen was a trigger. We almost never have pop but we have chocolate and other sweets so I cut back on that stuff. I'm really not sure what did it maybe just talking about it and cutting back on the sweets helped I don't know but she is doing great now! Good luck!