HOwdy,

Yep, I know there are some folks on here with kids, so I'm pitching out the topic. Besides, maybe some of this will be useful to others as the get older? Anyways....

LIttle Dude is almost 5, and has been daytime trained for a couple years. No problems there.

Unfortunately, he still wets the bed, well...it's off and on. We took him off of diapers about 6 months ago and started getting him up around 2.5 - 3 hours into his sleep to tinkle. That worked about 90% of the time. But now he's regressing, and wetting the bed about 50% of the time, about 3 hours from wake-up, even with the nightime relief.

Info:
He's a deep sleeper
No liquids after dinner
Usually naps
He's not really mentally affected by the incidents, nor do we deman/punish. Positive stuff for success.

any suggestions?

Rumbly

Party training boys? Is that some new music group?

Didn't Flea used to wear diapers on stage?

On topic: um...nothing to add yet.

LOL

i have a cousin that had the same problem when he was four, i think he just stopped has he got older :shrug:

Sorry, I'm really tired and just realized how lame what I said was.

No kids here, but you could have him sleep on the toilet and sell his bed.

In the bathtub where it drains naturally and leave the toilet open?

He pee's after 2-3 hours' sleep, then about 4-5 hours later, leaving about 3 hours of sleep left for him. We can try to push back the 10:30 pee break, but he's had blow-outs before around 3 hours in, so we shortened the time.

Just give it time. My oldest daughter took a while to fully potty train(ie: stop wetting the bed). We took her off diapers, but we bought special night-time pull-ups for her until she was 4. do you have another child? If so, younger? My wife's sisters oldest boy is 3 years old, and was starting to become potty trained, and getting out of sippy cups, until they had their 2nd child(who is now 1 year old). Since that occurred, he has all but given up potty training, and refuses to drink out of anything but a bottle now. I've heard that is fairly common.

In the end, just keep doing what you're doing. It's exactly what needs to be done. Don't demean/punish for the accidents, and constantly(I mean constantly) praise the times he goes without wetting the bed. eventually he'll realize that he gets good things said to him when he doesn't do it and the incidents will stop.

On the other hand, there is the possible chance that he has a weak bladder, and holding it all night long just isn't an option, even with a night-time intervention. Perhaps consult your doctor about that.

Yeah I don't have kids, but I do have dogs.

Are you making sure he goes for a pee right before bed, whether he says he needs or not?

@emz Yep, he pees right before bed. :nod:

My brother [censored] his pants when he was 8. It was the single most hilarious thing in the world.

Sorry, no kids here to ask. My ex has one buts its a very recent make.

Have him checked by a physician. If nothing is wrong, then he needs to train his bladder. Also, no sweets except dessert, and that needs to be at least a few hours before bedtime. Sugar makes you pee.

My son had issues like this when he was four, and this is what I did.

Buy him an alarm clock, let him pick it out. Put it in his room. Make it LOUD. Set it for a time fifteen to thirty before he wets. Get up when he does, escort him to the bathroom, and let him do his thing. Do not put him in pullups, put a plastic sheet over the mattress. Pullups are convenince for the parent, and do not adress the real issues. I used cloth training pants on my kids, most kids need the unpleasantness of wetness against the skin as a stimulus. If he wets, and this is the most important, albeit mean, but necesscary thing to do: He has to do the majority of cleaning up the mess he made. That means stripping the bed, and helping you wipe it down and remake it. Ater two weeks of this son learned to wake himself up before he needed to go. I was dead exhausted, and it was difficult, but he was given the physical and pyschological tools to modify his own behaviors.

I always got up when I heard him moving about, once, in second grade, he mistook the closet for the bathroom, and peed in there.

Grazzi.

Sounds like we're on the right track, and we just started implementing the clean-up thing. He has apretty miserable experience anyway as he's usually pretty cold and shivering when he changes is jammies. (soaked through the undies)

:( and :rofl: about the closet

I've heard it suggested that this happens to kids who sleep too soundly. Maybe have a TV or radio cranked at half volume while he sleeps?

It just depends really. If kids are anything like dogs, their bladders aren't strong enough to hold it all night until they hit a certain stage in their development. The age at which they develop to that point depends on the individual. :shrug:

It may be wise to have him checked for vesicoureteral reflux. Children with it tend to be bedwetters. It might be worth to also have him drink sufficiently and urinate every other hour in daytime.