How do you get a 3 yr old to stop peeing in the bed?

Question

He is potty trained. I wake him several times in the night, but he still wets the bed. He also does it at daycare and they wake him during his nap there also.

Answer 1

I had the same problem with my 3 yr old son. I finally put a potty in his room, and told him that he needs to use it if he has to pee. I havent had an accident since. I also limited his liquid intake about an hour before bed. If your son sleeps really heavy, you might want to invest in the bed wetting alarm....look it up online. Good Luck.

Answer 2

Don't make him feel ashamed! laid-back attitude is key, so whatever you do, try not to scold or punish your child for wetting the bed. You don't want to make her feel bad about something she can't control. Almost half of all children still wet the bed at age 3. Most experts consider bed-wetting normal until age 6, when only 10 to 13 percent of kids still wet the bed. Nighttime dryness is a tricky skill for a child to master, since it depends on her bladder being able to hold urine for an extended period of time. And if your child is a deep sleeper, the process is even more difficult because she hasn't yet learned to wake herself up and head for the potty when her bladder feels full.

To find out if she's ready for nighttime training, check her diaper or training pants every morning to see whether she's stayed dry all night. When she's managed to wake up dry for at least several nights in a row, start letting her sleep in her underwear. Tell her it's an experiment to see if it works, and give it a week or two. To help matters along, limit the amount of liquid she drinks in the evenings, and if she's already asleep, rouse her for a last potty run before you turn in for the night.

It's also a good idea to protect her mattress with a plastic sheet or mattress cover. Then, if she does wet the bed, it won't seem like such a big deal. If she wakes up wet, get her out of bed and into dry clothes as soon as possible so the urine doesn't irritate her skin. Calmly change her bedding and tell her to try again the next night. If after a few weeks your child still wets the bed frequently, you may have to take a sabbatical from nighttime potty training. Tell her in a reassuring way that her body isn't ready to stay dry at night yet, and put her back into diapers or disposable training pants. You can try again in a few months.

Answer 3

Something like 20% of 8 year olds still have this problem. If he is asleep ( most kids who do this are very deep sleepers) then he can not help it. My 5 year old still has this problem while his old er brother stopped at 2 1/2. The pedatrician said if by age 10 they still do it then they begin to look for a medical problem , until then just try overnights or pull ups and dont try to make him feel bad about it because he can not control it. It would be like someone yelling at you or trying to make you feel ashamed about snoring. You are asleep and can not control it. There are alarms that run around $60 . Some people swear by them and say after about 4 weeks the problem is gone BUT you also have to use a baby monitor to wake them when the alarm sounds for the first two weeks or so because they are such deep sleepers that the alarm doesn't phase them. Just be patient , get pullups and/or plastic sheets. Three is still pretty young.

Answer 4

I have the same problem with my girl she is 3. I have heard that waking them up is not good for them and it doesn't help. I was speaking with the nurse and she said that it may just be because their bladder is not used to being full, meaning that they go to the toilet often and don't know what it is like to hold it in. She advised me to give her plenty of water - not sweet drinks not even juice- and just fill them up on water. She is still wetting the bed but not as often as I have only been doing this for a week. Also I went out and bought some pull ups.

Answer 5

You don't. You let them outgrow it. Some kids just wet the bed and can't help it. If you make a big deal out of it all you do is destroy his self esteem. Buy him pull ups. Don't give him a lot of sugar during the day. Don't give him a lot to drink before bedtime. His system is immature and you can't expect it to work like an adults anymore than you can expect his vocabulary to be that of an adults. I have 6 children, two of which were bed wetters. They do outgrow it.

Answer 6

Kids are funny and potty training for day time is different from night. just be patient normally kids stop on there own no matter how many times you take them to the bathroom at night. if this problem persist after the age of eight them see a doctor.

Answer 7

It could be that he isn't quite ready for nighttime training. That sometimes takes a little longer. Try limiting or cutting back on his liquid intake an hour or so before bedtime and make sure he uses the potty before he goes to bed. Also - would you consider nighttime pull-ups for awhile until your sure he is ready to go the night?

Answer 8

PATIENCE.
3 years old is pretty early to be worrying about this. The doctor won't really worry about it until age 5 and it's normal up to about age 9.

Put him in pullups or Goodnights when he sleeps. When his body is ready, he'll stay dry through the night.

Don't push and don't punish. Some kids take longer than others.

Answer 9

Your son is just not ready to do this. He may have a small bladder or he may be falling into a very deep sleep, or he may just be one of the 50% of children who do not toilet train until after they are three years old. You can check with your doctor, but s/he Will probably tell you that this is normal and he will outgrow it.

Answer 10

No drinks after 7 and make him go several times before bed... cut his caffiene way back too...

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good luck