bedwetting protection for 5 1/2 year old

[Llyra]

I'm kinda wondering whether a truly reliable cloth bedwetting pant exists?

DD1 is 5 1/2 and has never been consistently dry during the night. I'm not particularly worried about it-- she'll get there when she's ready.

My younger two wear Starbunz trainers at night (I think they have a different name now-- I bought them years ago) but when DD1 outgrew those, she went to disposables. She wears Good Nites now. But lately the waste and the cost have been getting to me, so I was kicking around the idea of cloth. Plus I think it would be helpful if she felt wet when she was wet. She's big on swearing up and down to me in the AM that she didn't wet, even when the Good Nites are huge and saggy and obviously full of pee.

But she's not what I'd call a light wetter. She sleeps like the dead and when she wets (about 4 days in a week) she never even wakes up until the morning, unless I happen to check on her during the night and wake her for a change.

I don't want to put her in cloth if it's going to be a daily hassle of leaks, though. I don't think I have the patience. She's so clearly not ready to be dry at night, and I don't want to make a huge issue out of it. So I'm wondering if anybody has found cloth pants that will really hold a bigger kid at night?

She's 43ish pounds and tall-- she wears a 6x or even a 7 in clothes.

[lnitti]

my dd is 6 and still wears either goodnights or underjams. She also claims sometimes that she did not wet even though the diaper is soaked!

Even as an infant and toddler, we never found anything that would hold over night and we tried EVERYTHING! Even Mother-Ease bedwetters, pockets stuffed to the gills, wool, etc.

So, sorry, no help!

[rainyday]

The only thing that we found that would hold it all for our ds were the overnight pullups like you have.

We finally got a bedwetting alarm like this one and it really worked for us. It took about 3 weeks before our ds even woke on his own to the alarm (before that one of us had to go in and wake him and drag him to the toilet), and then it took another month or a bit less before he was dry. It was worth every penny and every night of having to get up and take him to the bathroom! Our ds who had never, ever been dry at night, who slept and sleeps like the dead, and who comes from a long line of bedwetters, many until their teens, is now dry every single night. It was truly like a miracle for us. We figure it paid for itself in just a few months compared to the cost of those overnight pullups! Plus I'm so glad to not be putting more of those in a landfill night after night.

[lnitti]

Originally Posted by rainyday

The only thing that we found that would hold it all for our ds were the overnight pullups like you have.

We finally got a bedwetting alarm like this one and it really worked for us. It took about 3 weeks before our ds even woke on his own to the alarm (before that one of us had to go in and wake him and drag him to the toilet), and then it took another month or a bit less before he was dry. It was worth every penny and every night of having to get up and take him to the bathroom! Our ds who had never, ever been dry at night, who slept and sleeps like the dead, and who comes from a long line of bedwetters, many until their teens, is now dry every single night. It was truly like a miracle for us. We figure it paid for itself in just a few months compared to the cost of those overnight pullups! Plus I'm so glad to not be putting more of those in a landfill night after night.

How old was your son when you used it? I have been told that the alarms are good for older kids still wetting the bed - like 8-10 or something like that.

Also, how loud is it? my dd is hard of hearing.

[rainyday]

Originally Posted by lnitti

How old was your son when you used it? I have been told that the alarms are good for older kids still wetting the bed - like 8-10 or something like that.

Also, how loud is it? my dd is hard of hearing.

Our son was 6 and a half when we used it.

It isn't super loud. We could hear it from our bedroom with his door closed and our door ajar (just across the hall), but it wasn't super loud. The one we got also vibrated. (The child wears the alarm part on his pajamas. We pinned it up on his shoulder so it would be closest to his ear.)

[travlr]

My 6yo DD is now dry about 3/4 of the time. We use the Blue Max pads that I bought from Amazon.com that someone on MDC recommended. The 3'x3' pads are fabric with a waterproof backing. I just put them on top of the bottom sheet. They're soft, they clean up great in the washer/dryer, and they don't move around too much under my DD. Much cheaper and a lot less waste than the pullups we'd been using.

[mlh]

I just switched my 6 yr old dd over to happy heiny's trainers a couple of months ago. I use 2 inserts, they are huge and look silly...but they work! She still wets 3-4 times a week and I am so thrilled to have finally found a cloth pull up that works!