My kid's almost potty trained, but I just have this one last step. Please help!!!?

Question

My son is going to be four in February, and he still wears pull-ups at night. During the day he is fine--except for when he sleeps. I know my son like the back of my hand, so I know what the problem is, I just don't know how to fix it. He is like me, a very, very hard sleeper. I have tried waking him up to go a few hours after he sleeps, but he still wakes up wet in the morning, and I've tried to put briefs on him with water proof pants, but he sleeps right thru it for the most part. Sometimes every once in a while, he wakes up, but this isn't working too well. Is this something I need to wait and let happen on it's own, or do I need to step it up and start getting firmer and more disciplinary about it? If so, what are the best steps to take??

Answer 1

His body needs to train itself to wake up, just like yours does if you need to go. My son is also a deep sleeper, and I was tired of the pull ups. What I did is to buy the plastic bedsheets and put him in regular underwear at night. If he peed in his sleep, whenever he got up, he was responsible for taking care of his clothes and the sheet and wiping his bottom clean. He was trained within a week. Why should children care if they wet the bed if they have to take no responsibility and mom's doing all the cleaning? I learned this trick years ago and it worked for me. Trust me, he'll learn to wake up when he realizes sleep in wet, cold urine is not comfortable. No yelling, no threats, just let him know what's going to happen from now on. Good luck!

Answer 2

First don't get upset about this (the poor guy!). He probably feels bad about it too.

If you're not already doing this try, cutting out (or at least decreasing) any liquids a couple of hours before his bedtime. Continue to wake him to go to the bathroom.

There are some bedwetter alarm (if this is really an issue) -
SleepDry, produced by StarChild/Labs (in which I have no interest whatsoever). Cost $59.00 and you can call 1-800-346-7283. But he might sleep through the alarm and you'll have to get up and take him to the toilet, etc.

He'll gain better bladder control eventually and with the alarm, he'll learn to hear it and wake himself up eventually.

Answer 3

well I have a daughter that is almost 5 that I have the same problem with it has been a year and a half that we have been trying with her, we have tried everything except disciplining her and nothing seems to be working. your little guy is still just learning, how long have you been pottytraining him? sometimes it just takes time for there bladders to catch up but I would not let it go on for as long as I have. you are likely to pull out your hair as I have

Answer 4

Wait and let it happen on its own my son was five before he stopped wetting at night.

Answer 5

i was fortunate to have kids who didn't have this problem, but my understanding from everything i've read on the subject is that this is very common, and that the best thing to do is just wait until he's older and his bladder is a little bigger! there's no point disciplining somebody for something they do when they're asleep.

Answer 6

he will grow out of it, but you can help speed it along by not giving him nothing to drink before bed and make sure he goes potty before he is in bed. Punishing for accidents that he cant help is not the way to handle the situation

Answer 7

i know it will be messy for a couple of nights but you have to stop using the pull ups, he needs to feel uncomfortable with the pull ups he does not,

Answer 8

there is no fix leave it alone my son is almost five and has the same issue he will just have to outgrow it