Help!! I wake the 4 year old up at night to go potty, and he is still wet in the morning. My 3 year old will wet ony if I dont take her to potty. She isnt bad. Its the boy. He is a really deep sleeper. My oldest is 7. He was potty trained by 1.5, and he wet the bed and stopped at 2. Why are the others doing it?
2007-11-26 22:45:01 · 7 answers · asked by SR 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
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2007-11-26 22:58:39 · update #1
To be honest, I have been getting up in the past, and they both stopped. I had a new baby, and I dont have the energy to get up, and they went right back to wetting up. Shouldnt they have gottne it by now? Am I going to be getting up with them until they are 7 and 8?
2007-11-27 05:52:39 · update #2
From my own personal experience, and from listening to friends, it is much easier to potty train girls than boys. I also had this problem with my twin son. he wet the bed occasionaly until he about 6 or 7. We simply put pull-ups on him at night, but still encouraged him to get up to pee if he needed to. Make sure your hallway and bathroom are lighted well enough for them at night. You know how "scary" a dark house is at night for a little kid. Try to eliminate liquid intake after 5 or 6 pm. You may try the special sheets with a built in alarm that wakes the kid up when he starts to wet the bed.
Sometimes it's just something they have to grow out of...and they will. I have a dear friend who was a bedwetter til the age of about 12. He just couldn't help it. His parents got him the alarm sheet thingie and he quickly "trained" himself.
2007-11-26 23:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by ~RedBird~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is 7 and still wears pullups. I had a girlfriend whose boy got out of them at 4 years old. Her daughter got out before 2 years. This is VERY common. The body grows SO fast and bladder control is just not a priority of the 'body growing' process as of yet. Some kids get out of pullups by 12 years old.
You can give them less to drink at nigt
Wake them up to go pee when you go to bed
If you want treatment (which is not necessary if you are willing to wait it out) you can seek medication... the doctors persecribe a pill for this, and I have heard that chiopracters do some work on this with some sucess
My daughter is 7 and is sensitive about it, so I just treat it like no big deal. I don't mention or seek 'treatment' as if something is wrong with her. She is already concious of it and it will come. She will not be 18 in pullups. It will happen
2007-11-27 07:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some tips that might help you. First off, whatever time they go to bed, all liquid should be cut off 2 hours before. I don't believe in pull ups because it is too comfortable for them to pee in. Leave them in their regular underwear. Protect their beds by using mattress protectors. Before going to bed, MAKE THEM go potty. Stand them, or sit them on that potty for at least 2 minutes. If nothing happens, nothing happens, but they have at least given it a good honest try. You MIGHT even reward them with a little treat if they make it through the night without pottying in the bed. If sister gets a treat and brother doesn't, it might make him try harder and visa versa. Good luck, and I know it is frustrating, but remember, most of the time our little ones want to make us happy, so they aren't doing this on purpose. If you try all this for a couple of weeks, and still don't get the results you need, then take them to the doctor and let them know what has been going on. Over the next 2 weeks though, be sure and keep a journal of what each child is doing...example, what time they had their last drink, what time they peed, what time they went to bed, if they were wet that morning...and so on. Good luck!
2007-11-27 09:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Corona 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When my daughter was first potty trained she did wet the bed a couple of times. But my family believes in not only medical advice but home remedies. Here is one that I read in a book and it worked wonderfully. One hour before bed stop all liquids, have them empty bladder completely, and give them one teaspoon of regular honey. You can have them rinse their mouth out to keep the sugar off the teeth. But don't swallow the water. Also you need to get them up and take them to the bathroom at least twice a night. I would actually set my alarm to get up and take my daughter to potty. It's neat the way it worked because after a couple of weeks of doing this she was getting up before my alarm even went off and would go to the bathroom all by herself. Also for every morning that the bed and pj's were dry I would give her praise (NOT bribes).
2007-11-27 08:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by M.S. Mom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My child's paediatrician told me that 10% of 5 year-olds and 5% of 10 year-olds still wet the bed. Mostly they all grow out of it in time.
2007-11-27 07:05:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because every child is different.
i have a 7 year old and 4 year old who NEVER wet the bed, and twin 3 year olds who do wet the bed occasionally. it happens!
2007-11-27 06:49:05 · answer #6 · answered by Havanah_A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some kids just have a harder time, and like you said he's a deep sleeper. wake him up more than once a night if this is a problem, or just buy those Goodnight's underwear until he grows out of it.
2007-11-27 06:48:37 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Mommy to 3 year old Jacob and baby on the way♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋