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After exhaustive medical checks in which nothing wrong was found. I am considering using an alarm system for my daughters bedwetting. Has anyone used one and were you successful or how did the wetting stop. Currently she wears reusable bedwetting pants and is ok with them and is mre comfortable waking in a dry bed. ↓
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| Name: Michele | Date: Jan 6th, 2006 6:21 PM |
| My son is 6 1/2 and would wet the bed if I did not take him right before we go to bed. Sometimes I am too late, but usually we catch it. I think some kids just grow way faster than their bladders and are heavy sleepers. I say give it a try, it can't hurt. ↑ |
| Name: I know | Date: Jan 8th, 2006 5:06 PM |
| I wet the bed until I was 10 years old and once when 13. My mom taught me how to change my own bed and put out clean sheets in case i would need them in the night. She said I would wet the bed every time there was an argument in the house or stress in my life (note: I had a happy childhood and am not suggesting there is anything wrong in your home). Nothing could change me wetting the bed except time. She will grow out of it! Just be suuportive...the hardest part for me was feeling like I disappointed my mom and was so scared it would happen at sleepovers...which it therefore did. I'm know 30 and the beds been dry for years! :) Bless you and your girl! ↑ |
| Name: To "I know" | Date: Jan 9th, 2006 2:26 PM |
| You are very right about the bed wetting when there is stress in the home. (I also am not saying there is anything going on in your home (Deb)).....When my son was 4 he was fine, never had an accident, then there was a stretch for 3 days that my husband and I were fighting (and he'd never seen us so mad at each other all the time) and every night, he peed the bed. When all the fighting and everything stopped, he didn't pee the bed any more. ↑ |
| Name: Stacey | Date: Jan 10th, 2006 7:34 PM |
| My daughter wet the bed until she was 9. It was getting embarrassing for her because of sleepovers, etc. Finally, we decided to try an alarm system to see if it would help. We used one called the Potty Pager. It was ideal b/c it only woke my daughter up (and not the rest of the house). Long story short, she was totally dry within 2 - 3 weeks. That gizmo was the best $ we ever spent!!! I highly reccommend it and so does my daughter. ↑ |
| Name: Deb | Date: Jan 10th, 2006 9:29 PM |
Michele, I neglected to say that we do get her up. My husband wakes her to go to the bathroom before he goes to bed, 11 to 11:30. She is wet most mornings even when woke up. We will continue to wake her for the forseeable future.
As far as her being stressed. Not that either me or my husband are aware. We both know that when she is stressed she will probably wet twice during the night, but at this time she does not appear to us to be stressed.
Stacey, when you used the alarm did you just put the sensor in her underwear or did you put protection over the underwear, did she deal with it all herself? Would appreciate some how to's. Thanks ↑ |
| Name: alexis | Date: Jan 12th, 2006 3:29 AM |
| hi how are you doing me i am doing fine ↑ |
| Name: alexis | Date: Jan 12th, 2006 3:30 AM |
| hi can you right me back please ↑ |
| Name: Rhea | Date: Jan 23rd, 2006 6:19 PM |
HI Michele,
I'm a writer and I'm looking to interview a parent about the impact their child's bedwetting has on the family--ie night waking etc and also on the child's self-esteem. Would you be available for a quick phone interview or I could email you my questions. We could use a pseudonym too if you'd prefer. Please let me know asap. Thanks,
Rhea Seymour ↑ |
| Name: Deb | Date: Jan 26th, 2006 9:16 PM |
Rhea,
I'm curious to know why a bedwetter should upset a household? If treated with love and respect the child should respond positively. Being comfortable with your surroundings had a lot to do with it. If handled correctly th childs self esteem should not suffer at all. Simply there are 3 or 4 ways to handle bedwetting and not upset the house or the childs life. ↑ |
| Name: Michele | Date: Jan 26th, 2006 9:20 PM |
| Yes I would be open to an interview and study on this. I am taking him to a urologist soon and would be willing to share the results as I to am worried about his self esteem. You can e-mail me at [email protected] ↑ |
| Name: Sam | Date: Jan 26th, 2006 9:34 PM |
| I am 18 and have a problem i sleep in my parents rooom with a special design cot with wate rproof matress and potyy (don't use toilet i find it to hard and my parents never let me try till i stop bed wetting, as a form of embarasment) i also have to pay 4 my diapers and my parents get me change to make sure i put them on i am using a bed wetting alarm now which is working i also wear 2 diapers a night but usually have 2 change about 3 times a night i wet myself a lot ↑ |
| Name: stephanie | Date: Feb 8th, 2006 5:36 AM |
| Name: Ally | Date: Feb 11th, 2006 1:38 AM |
| My daugher wet her bed until she was 8 years old. She wore "pull-ups" to bed. Honestly, I didn't make to much of an issue about it. Once in a while I tried to tell her she was too old for this. But this only made her feel ashamed. Then....she was invited to a sleep-over party. She, herself wanted to get out of that pull-up before the big party. Within 2 weeks she was out of the pull up and no longer bed wetting. So.....maybe you can tell your daughter that when she is ready to stop wearing the bedwetting pants she can have a sleep over party. Hope this helps ↑ |
| Name: Deb | Date: Feb 21st, 2006 10:19 PM |
Ally,
Thanks for the suggestion. Have put it to work for school vacation week and we'll see how it goes. I think it will work. I really do. ↑ |
| Name: Al | Date: Feb 22nd, 2006 8:24 PM |
| I wet the bed for years and i was always at the doctors because of it too. They started me off with a drinks chart monotoring what i drank and how much. Then they moved me onto a alarm which didn't work because when the alarm sounded it was too late and finiallly they moved me onto special tablets which worked really well. I then just a tablet every other day and then faded them out completely. My bedwetting went on until i was 12 which was upsetting for me but now i havn't wet the bed for years. I think you should ask about these tablets because they work really well! ↑ |
| Name: Angelique | Date: Feb 28th, 2006 7:29 AM |
i wet the bed untill i was 15, docs had no idea why, they ran a whole heap of tests and everything was normal.
im 37 now and i have my 6 yr old who wets the bed so im not going to stress out over it, maybe its just heredetry(sorry cant spell it)
it was frustrating alot for my mother but more for me, cause although i never drank anything after 4pm and went to toilet just befpre bed, id wet the bed, i thought i had something seriously wrong with me, but then just like that it stopped, it was the best gift ever! ↑ |
| Name: Lori | Date: Feb 28th, 2006 7:41 AM |
| HI Deb, I just wanted to say that when my brother was younger he wet the bed till he 14 and my parents and the dr's couldnt find anything wrong. hey all said it had something to due with stress or sleeping to hard to wake up and your the restroom. At one point my Uncle made him and alarm system with a bell that was by his head and a sensor ype ting that cliped to his underpant leg. That thing WORKED!!! when his underpants got a little wet the bell would go off and wake him up and he could go to the restroom. Of course this wasn't made for him till he was 13 but it did work. if you could find or make something like that I would say it was worth a try. Good luck and I hope it gets better for her. ↑ |
| Name: Julia | Date: Feb 28th, 2006 10:22 PM |
| Your daughter will more than likely grow out of wetting her bed. The most important thing is to not make a big deal over it and never shame her for it -- Imagine how she feels waking up in a cold wet bed every morning!! I had a friend in college who wet the bed as a little girl and her step father would make her wear plastic underpant protectors while dragging her wet stained mattress outside to dry for all the neighbors to see. My friend has been seriously scarred by this and it caused a lot of self esteem problems. Don't make your daughter feel any worse then she already does. Also, maybe there is an underlying emotional or pyschological reason she is wetting her bed have you asked her if someone is doing something to her that is upsetting her. Reassure her that you are there for her and praise her when she wakes dry but don't punish her for waking wet. Give it time, she will not wet the bed forever. ↑ |
| Name: to angelique, btw im nora! | Date: Mar 2nd, 2006 2:27 AM |
are you serious 15?
ooook that sounds like your pulling our legs and you just want ppl to feel sorry for you,
thats not normal 15 to be wetting the bed!
your just another sad case who comes in here for attention.. ↑ |
| Name: im not nora | Date: Mar 2nd, 2006 2:37 AM |
| thats what i meant to type, im not nora by the way ↑ |
| Name: roflmao | Date: Mar 2nd, 2006 3:56 PM |
| Name: kim | Date: Mar 8th, 2006 12:57 AM |
| I have a step son that is 17 now but he used to wet the bed at that age and the DR put him on some kind of medication for it . Like I said it was a while ago so I don't know what it was, but it worked really well. He would have about one accident a wekk compared to every night. I know it don't help to not know the name but maybe mention it to your Dr. and see if they know of something. It was the only thing that helped and with him they also never could find anything wrong, just said that his bladder was still growing. ↑ |
| Name: Sammantha | Date: Mar 11th, 2006 9:15 PM |
To ANGELIQUE
LMAO ARENT YOU EMBARESSED TO TELL PPL HOW OLD YOU WERE WHEN U STOPPED WETTING THE BED! ↑ |
| Name: sydtan | Date: Mar 13th, 2006 6:30 AM |
| hi deb i was a bad bed wetter when i was young i did it until i was 13 or 14 i went thru weekly blood test to where now i am terrifeied of needles cat scans the whole nine yards back then they came up with i had weak kidneys and i will wet to bed until they get stronger well i am 28 now and i have only wet to bed 1 since i was 13. now my daughter is a constant bed wetter and i make no big deal about i know you can't help it she does not feel ashamed in the least but she has not had sleep overs yet anyway i told our dr. about it and he said it runs in the family and will be outgrown and he gave a pill that has since stopped it 2 weeks now. hope this helps ↑ |
| Name: Angelique | Date: Mar 16th, 2006 12:29 PM |
To sammantha,
no I am not embarresed to tell ppl I had bladder problem, I was young, Its fixed up, and anyway this Is meant to be a forum where ladies help out each other with problems, and we give advice etc, obviously your too young to be that mature enough to understand.
grow up sammantha ↑ |
| Name: Lisa | Date: Mar 25th, 2006 6:23 PM |
| I was a bed wetter,every night clear through grade school.The Dr. said I was just in such a deep sleep I wasnt waking up when the urge came.My parents would always get mad at me because my bed stuff had to be washed everyday.And it wasnt normal for a kid my age to be wetting the bed.My parents and grandparents tried all they could think of like cutting me off of all liquids in the evening and making me pee right before hopping into bed,setting their alarm clocks for odd hours to make me get up and pee,1am ,3am ,5am,etc.But sometimes it would be too late and Id already wet.Once my mom tried to put a diaper on me but it wouldnt fit so she got mad about that.My grandma bought one of those alarm things where as soon as the pad gets a little wet a loud buzzer goes off and wakes you up hopefully in enough time that you canhold the remainder and pee the rest in the toilet.That helped somewhat but the bed still got a little wet.I think I just eventually grew out of it.I have an uncle who wet the bed clear up to the day he went in the Army! ↑ |
| Name: chastity | Date: Apr 4th, 2006 4:33 PM |
| my son is 6 and wets the bed every night. we don't make a big deal about it. it is nice to know that other people are going through the same thing. i feel better reading everyones replies. it looks like he will grow out of it by the majority of the replies. ↑ |
| Name: Nikki | Date: Apr 5th, 2006 9:18 AM |
| My son just turned 7 and we have been using an alarm system to wake him up for months with varying levels of success. We make sure he goes to the toilet before he goes to bed at 9 then my husband takes him before we go to bed about 11:30 and then wake him up to go to the toilet around 3am. Using this routine we usually catch him but not always and lately he has wet the bed every single night. We did have the alarm set in his room so he could get used to getting up himself and going to the toilet now he is older but that seems to have stopped working and starting tonight we are setting our alarm to get us up to start taking him again. I get so frustrated about it sometimes because it seems like we make progress and then like right now it is like he regresses and wets the bed all the time. The thing I can't get is that this child will complain if he gets a sleeve wet during the day but will quite happily sleep in a soaking wet bed until we wake him up to get out of it. I know he will grow out of it so patience and persistence is the key I guess. ↑ |
| Name: Jeneen | Date: Apr 5th, 2006 1:54 PM |
| We used one on our son, at the recommendation by my dr. who used one on her son... And it worked in one week. (We kept it on for two weeks just to be sure.) He never wet the bed after that! The first three nights were difficult, but after that it was SO WORTH IT! And our son was so proud of himself after that he stayed dry every night. (And didn't have to wear overnights anymore!) We are planning on using it soon with our 4 year old, when he wants to. I also recommend lowering intake of drinks after dinner as well, which may help the transition. ↑ |
| Name: brandy | Date: Apr 9th, 2006 2:58 AM |
| dont worry my husben still pees the bed ↑ |
| Name: Diane | Date: Apr 9th, 2006 11:29 PM |
| GET THE ALARM! It was a life saver for me and my son. Within one week it worked. We still kept it on for a month or two incase there were any accidents. After I was done I passed to another mom who's son had same problem. Within 2 weeks, it worked. Both boys were very proud of themselves. I think it is important to tell them that this is to help them. They could then go to friends for sleep over parties. This other mom then passed it on to someone else. It worked them too. We had tried everything else too. Just sound sleepers is what the doctors said. ↑ |
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