Still wetting the bed at 7 - Page 2

[rhianna813]

wool mattress cover

Originally Posted by PreggieUBA2C

We also have them sleeping on woolen mattresses and with wool blankets. It has been completely effective at not soaking and what ends up on the top of the mattress is easily sopped up with the towel. There is no smell, and the wool top cover and blanket can be washed and hung outside to freshen when needed, although it's been many months since it has been needed.

The wool mattress cover idea sounds brilliant! We also have an almost 7 yo DS who still wets at night and wears a pull up. There are leaks sometimes and he does not wake up to notice them. They are discovered in the morning and sometimes not even right away if he gets up before us

We have some wool army blankets.... not sure if we can use these? Thanks for any feedback!

Rhianna

[gmvh]

Originally Posted by MJB

My 7.5 yr. old wet the bed until a few months ago. We used a toddler prefold wrapped around a microfiber towel in an XL Bummis cover.
He still doesn't hold his pee all night, he just wakes up now (and goes to the toilet).
We also had a plastic cover on the mattress which is a must for the smell.
My 4.5 yr. old has occasionally wet the bed but has been out of night-time diapers since 2.

May I ask how, exactly, you did this? I have a six year old and huge prefolds but I cannot imagine that she's going to be agreeable to a prefold... Maybe I'm having trouble imagining this because we Snappi'd our prefolds when they were little. Do you just lay the prefold in the cover? I've found 50+lb Stacinators and I'd rather use that than a Bummi but we used Bummis when my two were little.

Thanks!

[KimPM]

Has anyone tried one of those bedwetting alarms? From what he tells me, DH had this problem as a child, and it didn't get resolved until they used some kind of bedwetting alarm. It's some kind of thing attached into the underwear/pull-up that is supposed to wake the child (vibration? sound?) so their body learns to become aware of the sensations even during sleep.

[lisawm]

My almost-7 year old DS still wets at night. We use the Goodnights-type pull-up (or generic brand), but they do leak sometimes. We also use a mattress-protector like this one: http://www.leapsandbounds.com/catalo...tegoryId=85243. The difference is you don't have to remove all of the sheets if they get wet at night and you don't have quite as much laundry to do. I put this on top of the type of mattress protector that covers the entire bed so the mattress is protected from getting wet too. A smart idea to put layers, as PP have mentioned, although I only have one of these at the moment.

I get the frustration - I've been there! But I do try to see it as a natural thing and while it's a headache, we can do thing to try to improve the situation, but eventually his body has to grow into it.

[sparkle16]

I read in the book Allergies, diseases in disguise by Carolee Bateson-Koch that bed wetting is caused by food allergies. When the child has eaten something that they're allergic to, it reduces the size of their bladder due to inflammation, so it can''t hold what it normally could.

[karanyavel]

Medical supply stores sell reusable cloth pad things that are waterproof on the underside and absorb a TON of liquid. They come in a few different sizes but the biggest ones should be big enough to cover a large portion of a twin-sized bed. I have the small one and it holds 800 CCs. I think the large one holds 1200 CCs, and they really slurp up the liquid. I paid nearly nothing (I think $4) for mine, but it was on sale. I grabbed it while making an order online and thought it would come in handy when the new baby is born. We're co-sleepers and I remember well how DD's portion of the bed tended to get wet with diaper leaks, breastmilk, and sometimes spit-up (she spat up a LOT).

I can PM you a link to the company that I bought mine from if you're interested. They have all kinds of supplies for incontinent adults, some of which might come in handy for your situation.

That said, I agree with others that it probably isn't laziness, *especially* since your DD is urinating more than once each night. For a child to even need to go more than once overnight strikes me as very unusual. I would probably think about getting a doctor involved.

FWIW, DH wet the bed frequently until he was 11 or 12 I think. And (rarely, maybe once a year) he STILL wets the bed. He's a very heavy sleeper and occasionally just doesn't wake up until he's already peeing. I was still wetting the bed at 6 or so, and I have some other relatives who wet the bed much longer than that (my aunt did until she was 14!).

--K

[PreggieUBA2C]

Originally Posted by rhianna813

The wool mattress cover idea sounds brilliant! We also have an almost 7 yo DS who still wets at night and wears a pull up. There are leaks sometimes and he does not wake up to notice them. They are discovered in the morning and sometimes not even right away if he gets up before us

We have some wool army blankets.... not sure if we can use these? Thanks for any feedback!

Rhianna

Yup, that's what we use. Not all army blankets are 100% wool though, as I recently discovered while shopping for some to make rugs, so make sure yours are. I thought they would need to be lanolized, but mine are not and work perfectly. I made my children's mattresses from 100% wool army blankets. They are super comfy!

[Teensy]

I've posted several time over past years about our success with a bedwetting alarm, you can find longer posts by me, but the short version - that thing was a miracle!

DS NEVER had a dry night EVER, until we bought the alarm. Within a couple of weeks, he was consistently dry. I ordered the Malen alarm with different sounds and vibrations, DS picked out the color he liked. At first I offered to sleep in his room, but he didn't end up needing my help at all. He also wore a Pull-up over his underwear (that had the alarm attached), so when the alarm did go off, he only had wet underpants to deal with, not a soaked bed.

The alarm for us, was worth every penny and them some! DS has since been able to go camping and the spend the night with a friend without fear of wetting.

Best of luck!