Quote From: girls3boy1Hi. I just wanted to let you know you aren't alone. Has Dr. Phil ever done a show on bedwetting? I sure wish he would. My son will be 9 in January and he also wets the bed EVERY night. It is so exhausting. I have three daughters. One is only a baby, but the other two have never had any trouble with bedwetting. I know it's more common in boys, but I feel so badly for him. His sisters (one older, one younger) have not wet the bed since they were 2, but he still does every night. I just pray that he stops wetting, before the baby is potty trained. I know that will make him feel even more humiliated. I don't punish him or ridicule him for the problem, but I have tried everything else... waking him in the middle of the night, limiting fluids, rewarding him if he could stay dry... none of it helps. We even bought one of those alarms. Doesn't shock him, just goes off whenever he starts to wet and is supposed to wake him up. It doesn't wake him up. It wakes me up, if I use a baby monitor so that I can hear it go off, but then it is a true battle to try and get him out of bed and to the bathroom. He sleeps so deeply that I cannot get him awake most of the time. We have lived out of the country for the past few years as missionaries, and pull-ups or Goodnights were not available there (3rd world country). So, we just had to make due with soaked sheets and pjs EVERY morning. Now that we are living back in the States, my husband wants him to wear Goodnights. My son thinks it is way too embarrassing to wear what he thinks are "diapers" and isn't reassured by the thought that "lots of kids wear these". He'd rather wake up soaked, than to wear them. My husband thinks I should force him to wear them until he outgrows this. I don't know what to do, or how to best avoid damaging his self-esteem in this whole issue. I'm also so tired of the laundry and the smell... Any ideas, anyone?
My daughter was bed wetting until she was in 8-9 yrsw old. I had her evaluated by a urologist to be sure there were no physical problems. Then we tried the medication, the medication did not help. she was allergic to it. We did use the electric shock equipment , but I think you misunderstand how it works. It does not shock the child. It only produces an alarm to wake the child and parent up when the child begins to bedwett. then you go to the child and use a cold cloth to help the child to wake up from their deep sleep, and then you can take the child to the bathroom to urinate. This helped my daughter to understand when she should go to the bathroom and she would wake up from a deep sleep with this procedure. She became trained from bedwetting in a couple of weeks. I wished I had used it sooner, then maybe she would not have had to go through the humilitation she experienced growiing up. we did not have the pull-ups back then and she was upset when this would happen and her sister would always comment about it even though I told then not to critize or make fun of her. She has not had any more trouble since then. Hope this helps you.
I am a grandmother now helping my grandchildren potty train. so0 far none are bed wetters. You do know that this runs in familys. lpewagoner
