7 years old nephew still wetting the sheets at night

Actually this is normal. There is a hormone (I forget which) that is not triggering your nephew you wake up in the middle of the night, and he therefore wets the bed. I babysit for a family with two girls and one boy.. and the oldest girl age 8 still wets the bed. They finally figured out this hormone problem and she now takes a pill before bed so she doesn't wet it. She also still wears a pull up.

This is actually more common than people think as I found out when my now 17 year old son was little. He had this problem you see, I took him to the doctors and the doctor told me that some children suffer with it and it is only a problem if it continues after the age of 10. My son stopped when he was 9 all of a sudden, it can be that the bladder is not waking a child up to go and sometimes it takes longer for the bladder to work properly.

Im no expert, but is does not sound normal at all..Im feeling that there may be an underlying problem....And I wouldnt say thats its just laziness...

i thinng its a normal thing specialy lots of action or playing during the day and he is very tired to get up and going to tiolete for peeing.try to waking him up to pee but does he did it every night or it just happened.

Hello Se7enth,I have heard of such cases where older children wet their bed at night.I think your brother should consult a peadiatrcian rearding this problem his son is having.Only then will it be clear what problem the child is facing......

Hey.... Its not psychological. I had a friend in high school that still wet the sheets.... but they later discovered that it was his bladder that had a problem and couldn't hold the urine for longer than 2hrs... Have u done any tests on this Kid to find out the scientific (medical) implication of this disaster???... I think that's the first step to take.... Good luck.

Personally this is abnormal for someone at 7 to still be wetting the bed, and that to me would mean I would think either a Psychological problem of some sort, or a Medical condition that needs to be looked at as well. I know sometimes as well I have heard of kids doing this to gain attention as well. But it does sound like they need to get down to the bottom of why this is happening and learn to deal with it more as well.

my sister wetted the bed until she was 18 she was scared that if she did wet the bed my father would whip her, this made it worse for her.i remember one time i took her spanking for her because she was so scared of getting spanked for doing it.eventally she stopped but after mamy years of being in fear.so for the seven year old here he could have some sort of fear,this is why he still wets the bed.fear can sometime come from what we create.

Yes, my daughter had this problem. She was extremely tiny and had small kidneys. She was born premature and they also told me that the part of her brain that controlled this had not yet fully developed. She did outgrow it by around 6 or 7. I have seen this with much older kids and Im sorry but I can't remember the exact explanation for it but there is a medicine to help control the problem. Your brother should talk to his pediatrician about it. If he does not get any answers, then he should seek advice somewhere else as there is something that can be done to help his son.

I also did so when I was 7 years old,I don't know when I didn't get wet any more,maybe I have not wetted since I was 8 years old.so I think the matter of your nephew is not serious,ask doctor for some suggestions.

This is not necessarily a phycological problem. I had kids that wet the sheets as old as 13. Sometimes it is just the body. I think that he should just wait it out. You can also buy underwear for just such an occasion. They are called goodnights and they work good. I hope this helps.

I feel that it is not normal, but at the same time many children do it.I think it is that they feel insecure for some reason or the other.And if the parents or the others are constantly reminding them about it, i feel that it only makes things worse.It is better to make sure that for a few days he is made to wake up in the middle of the night and asked to relieve himself, and once they start making friends it automatically disappears..

Hello friend! My mom told me that my aunt still wet their sheets even if she's already married! Only to find out that my aunt had a urinary track infection. I think your brother should have his son checked by a doctor. Maybe his son and my aunt share the same sickness. Godspeed...

Maybe he should start training his son to uses the bathroom just before going to bed. So he wont need to use it at all after bedtime. And avoid giving him liquids 2 hours before going to sleep. And I think different children have different times when they stop. Eventually they will, But it's better to train them while they're still young.

sometimes this case is first ask to the parent. does your brother or her wife gets up and guide the child to get up and go to the toilet? are they letting the child pee before going to sleep? if the answer is yes then i think they need to go the a doctor and ask for advice from the expert. they can do something about this. i can say that it is something psychological but the doctor needs to prove it first. cant just jump to any conclusions.

Everyone's night time bladder control develops at its own rate, so it may just be that your nephew's bladder hasn't caught up with him yet. It doesn't have to be psychological. I had a similar problem with my son until about 5-6. The part that puzzles me is that he doesn't wet the bed anymore, but he will not go to the bathroom on his own. If left to his own devices he will moan in his sleep until morning. The problem with that is, I started getting him up when I heard him moaning, so now I am awake when I hear the moaning, which I let him do because I want him to go to the bathroom on his own. If you find a cure that will get him up to the bathroom and not just whine about it all night let me know!!!

Kids develop at different rates. Physically their bladders may not have fully developed. Or a kidney may be enlarged like a child I know, therefore processing urine at a different rate. Some children are deep sleepers and don't wake easily to the need to go. Approximate bedwetting rates are : * Age 5: 20% * Age 6: 10 to 15% * Age 7: 7% * Age 10: 5% * Age 15: 1-2% * Age 18-64: 0.5%-1% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedwetting you can read up on it at the link. It doesn't mean he has a psychological problem. And he isn't alone by any means.

I don't think there is naything ot worry about. My son still wore pull ups at night at the age of almost 6. My freind's son still wears pullups at the age of 11. He'll grow out of it when he is ready. My daughter's guide leader still wet the bed at 15 most nights so don't worry

Every body is not having the same way some body may wake up on that time or some may not possible for them to do so. it's common because of their mentality.

I actually wet the bed until I was 13. I do not know what it was but as soon as I turned 13 I quite. My son always wet the bed until he turned 13. When he turned 13 he did not wet the bed anymore. I have no explanation for this.