bed wetting

Guest · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:19 am Post subject:

Lots of wet beds in our house doctors found nothing wrong is it wrong for older children to wear nappies

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:08 am Post subject:

Isn't a "nappie" a diaper with the tabs and such that lay flat to change a babe's bottom, or do you call any sort of absorbant pant a nappie?

I had a friend years ago with a 12 year old boy that still wet the bed. His 9 year old brother and 5 year old sister NEVER teased him about it. His parents simply bought some of those pants that pull on and off easily and stored them in his bottom drawer. My friend was a bit worried about it because of his age, but only confided in me and neither she nor her husband ever acted alarmed when he did wet the bed. After he turned 12 though, they tried a different tactic, one that usually takes a hit for it's appropriateness -- but, it worked. They told him one day that every day he woke up dry, they would give him $1. Yes folks...bribery. Within a little over a month, he had stopped wetting. They gave him a bonus. He got the video game he was saving for. He was finally able to have a sleepover. Things worked out!

(I have to admit, I did the same thing when my daughter was still sucking her thumb at age 5 when sleeping. We promised her the Barbie dreamhouse if she could wake up without a soppy thumb for 2 weeks, and it was over!)

Now granted, it could have just been "about time".

(Roger, hilarious!! Laughing

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Guests · Guest

Have 2 bedwetters and nappies are used nightly. Neither of them is upset about nappies being put on at bedtime. Bedwetting runs in both families and cousins are also in nappies at nightimes. In our families it is not wrong for older children to have nappies on in bed.

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: bedwetters wearing nappies

Guests · Guest

Yes they do go on sleepovers and Dry Nites are worn on those occasions. They know how to deal with the matter privately.

gorman · Guest

Guest · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: Re: bedwetters wearing nappies

katiekool · Guest

guest7666 · Guest

I know this seems out of know wheres and I don't know your kid, but I wonder from my own theory if kids with wetting the bed are lucid dreamers or dyslectic. I guess it's normal for dyslectic kids to wet the bed (from only a side effect). There is more dyslectic people out there then people think. Albert Einstein is dyslectic and many other famous people (can't think of wich right now).

If it's none of the above posts then I wonder if there is testing for dyslexia for kids.

Guest · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: Re: bedwetters wearing nappies

Cassey · Guest

wombles · Hello. I am New! Talk to Me Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

Alarms under the age of 7 very rarely work, over this age you can usually get them from the school nurse.

Pull ups or similar are fine - adults with enuresis wear them, what shouldn't happen is that the child is put into nappies as a way of humiliating them into better bladder control - it wont work.

There are 3 main reasons why children wet the bed
1. Small bladders (usually because of poor daytime drinking habits)
2. Too much urine - most hereditory bed wetting is down to not producing enough of a hormone called ADH - medicines can be given to replace this missing hormone - it doesnt cure the bedwetting - but makes it go away so long as the medicine is taken.
3. Brain not listening to the signals from the bladder - this is a maturity thing and why alarms (which basically act like pavlovs bell with the dogs) work to enhance the child's awareness of their bladder.

Other reasons are diabetes and waterworks infections (though not in that order)

chineze · FF Visitor

You can the read the full article at: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/yin-and-yang/Bed+Wetting-317.html

try dry nites they wont stop it but it looks like pants so you can still do sleepovers and camping ect goodluck