bed-wetting!

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@kyekye (123)
Australia
February 6, 2007 5:50pm CST
My daughter is 5, and has just started school. She still wets the bed, and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for stopping this??
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
6 Feb 07
There is no real cure for bedwetting. I would take her to a doctor and ask the doctor if there is anything they can do to help. There is a device that if a child starts to wet it wakes them up so they know to go to the bathroom. Bedwetting usually runs in families so if you had a relative who wet the bed when they were older, then thats probably why your daughter still does.
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@lonewolfnan (4366)
• Canada
6 Feb 07
Just as a point,I also had trouble as a youngstrer with bedwetting and it was not until just before my teens that I would wake up and go use the bathroom instead of sleeping.It was not until I was in the hospital at 22 that they found it was a phsiological problem and I had surgery to correct it.
@coffeechat (1961)
• New Zealand
10 Feb 07
Both my sons stopped wetting their bed when they were about four. We recently moved house and the kids toilet is a little further away from their bedroom than our previous house. My five year old has resumed wetting his bed because he does not want to take the trouble to go so far away to the loo! We have now commited ourselves to make sure to take him to the toilet around midnight, and then it is all hunky dory! If one of us forget, the aroma of urea assaults us in the morning! We look at such a disaster, as a failure of one of us adults at home, rather than as a problem of the little boy. Even his older brother who shares the bedroom (who finds every opportunity to tease his younger brother) seems to take the whole thing in his stride and does not tease the 5 year old for this. We feel, that in time the wetting will stop.
@Sasselle (698)
• Australia
7 Feb 07
I can't give you any tested and tried advice as Hayden is still wearing "night nappies". Have you tried those PJ pant/night pant things?? I guess the best thing i can say is just to be supportive of her and reassure her that it's all ok and just a part of growing up. If you are really concerned then your GP might have some information for you.
@kyekye (123)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
I was buying her "pull-ups" up until recently, when I decided that buying them was just helping my laundry pile and not the actual issue! My older daughter whos now 13, wet the bed until she was about 9-10, but grew out of it. Maybe my little one will too. Fingers crossed!!!
@CRiley27 (983)
• United States
6 Feb 07
I would not stress,it's very common. Her bladder could just be small. You can talk to her doctor about it.
@jsae29 (1120)
• Philippines
7 Feb 07
I do have the same problem with my 8 year old son. No matter what I do he still pee on his bed. I tried waking him up at the middle of the night to ask him to pee, it didn't work. Some advice me not to let him drink water at least 2 hours before bed time, it didn't work also plus it is kinda hard depriving your child of water. I have search the net for a possible solution and i've read that there is medicine for this, however this is only given to older kids.