[Velvetta]

I don't like the sound of the drugs they can prescribe. He has an absorber mat for bed and wears pull ups/drynights. 5 nights out of 7 they are wet.And the sheets - they are wearing thin from all the washing! I just wish he would grow out of it. It's embarrassing for him and expensive for me.
What else can we do? Do the alarms work?

This post has been edited by Dorothea: 28/03/2012, 11:48 AM

[alwayshappy]

I have just replied to another thread similar to yours with my suggestion. Basically, the alarms do provide good success rates and are well worth trying. We tried with my 5 year old son and found that he sleeps through it... no wonder he's not waking up to go to the toilet. However, we have to persevere with the alarm until he makes the connection between the noise and wetting.
You can find alarms secondhand on eBay or brand new (google dri-sleeper). Well worth the money if it works and no harm in trying.
All the best.

[emnut]

The alarms didn't work for my son. The only thing that did was time. Just after his 8th birthday he told me he didn't want to wear dry nights anymore. I was hugely reluctant since they were always wet & often wet through, but let him go anyway. Had a month of wet beds & are now up to 5 weeks without an accident. So for him it was just time (his paed had told me that often boys can be anywhere up to 9-10 before being night trained but would look into physical causes if I wanted)

[ms flib]

My 8 year old DD1 still wets the bed but not all the time. She will be fine for months and then we'll have a couple of weeks of bed wetting. Every time I decide it's time to do something about it she stops again.

I'm wondering what to do next too...

All the best

[laurs]

My 8yo DS is still soaking his pull-up every night. He also slept through the alarm. Because his room is at the other end of the house we didn't hear it and woke up every morning to flat batteries. We stopped trying because it was just getting too expensive.

[Mummyjane24]

The alarm system worked well for my brother when he was about 7yo but nothing seems to work for my Nephew who is nearly 9yo. He wears dri-nites and it is absolutely soaked by tthe morning. Like you probably have we tried everything. Restricting his fluids, waking him through the night etc etc. When he was 5 we took him to the Dr who said not to worry until he was at least 8yo. At age 8 my sister took him back to the Dr who said not to worry at all and that there is a reason they make dri-nites for kids as old as teens. Very unhelpful to say the least. My Nephew is getting to the age where he will be going on school camps and is already getting nervous. He doesn't have or go to sleepovers yet because the poor little guy is embarrassed. The last resort is medication but no parent wants to do that. Sometimes it just takes time I guess. I just feel for the LO's when they are old enough to be embarrassed by it. I truly hope you find a solution that works for you.

[kissy10]

I feel for you, we are in the same boat although DS will be 7 in May. Will wait for him to get older before trying again to get him out of drynights.

[LifesGood]

I finally decided to see a specialist about DDs daytime and night time wetting. She told me that while most kids will just grow out of it, some won't and she has seen 18y/o's that still have night wetting issues.

I decided I'm not prepared to risk that happening to DD and so we are following a training program given to us by the specialist. I have posted this in a separate thread ( about the Enuresis clinic ) so I won't go into it in detail here.

But the issues for wetting and faecal soiling are more or less linked. The wetting problem is usually a combination of one or more of poor bladder muscle control, an undersized bladder, an over active bladder and a hormonal issue.

At the moment we are addressing the undersized bladder and poor bladder muscle control (as well as bowel muscle). It is early days but DD has had about 3 dry days in a week so far, which has been unheard of for about 2 years. Nights will be a later stage of the program.

If you are over it, I strongly recommend you phone the Continence Foundation of Australia and ask their advice.

Good luck with it.

This post has been edited by LifesGood: 28/03/2012, 09:14 PM

[belinda1976]

Have you tried just putting him in undies instead?. I only question this because if he know's he's in pull-up's he probably knows then it's okay to wet them and it will still be okay. If he's in undies he might have a few nights (or weeks) of wetting but he'll soon get the jist that he can't wet them - this is what a childcare teacher advised once.

Also do you limit his fluid intake of a night time and does he do a wee before bed.

But if you are really worried as PP's have advised maybe see your GP in case it is something that needs to be investigated.

This post has been edited by belinda1976: 30/03/2012, 08:11 PM

[Cluckster]

My DD wet her nappy every night of her life right until she turned 6, bar a couple of weeks the summer after she turned 5. She wanted to wear undies like her friends but whenever I let her, she'd just wet the Brolly Sheet anyway.

I promised her I would try an alarm if she was still wetting every night at 6 so we did. First week I slept in with her and woke her as soon as the alarm went off and took her to the toilet. This is supposed to train their brains to trigger the connection between a full bladder and getting out of bed before they wet. The second week she was getting up herself with the alarm. Then by week three she was taking herself without the alarm at all. She had a couple of wet nights during the next 2 months but each time she got herself up. Previously, she would just sleep through it.

Another thing you might consider is worms. Worms can cause bedwetting and for DD this was certainly the case. She suddenly regressed to wetting every night last week and then we discovered she had worms (again...). We gave her de-worming medication and suddenly she's back to dry nights.

Good luck. It's hard on us but it's harder on the child.