Bed Wetting
Bed Wetting
Just wondering if any other parents have a child who wets the bed at an older age? Bradley is 8 now and still has accidents.
Re: Bed Wetting
I don't know if you've brought Bradley to a urologist or not, but if not, you should. There could be a physical reason for it. If there isn't, here is how we cured my daughter's bed wetting. I am not ashamed to admit that I was a bedwetter too. Bed wetting is familial. My daughter also has a kidney problem that exacerbated the issue.
Okay, so the issue, as it was explained to me, is that the bladder and the brain aren't talking to each other properly. So you have to start a new "chain of communication". Here is how we did it: Bradley has to drink a lot of water. He has to get up and go to the bathroom. That starts the clock. Then he goes to the bathroom every 2 hours, whether he has the urge or not. (this starts the brain being "in control"). Eliminate milk after 4 pm, no soda. We eliminated juice after 4pm too. Against our doctors desires, we woke our daughter at 11pm or so (when we were heading to bed) and brought to the bathroom and told her to pee. I find that kids are pretty suggestible at that time of night, so she did everything herself except wake up (we called it 'walking the kid"!!) and then we led her back to bed. The docs want kids to make it thru the night without having to wake up. That is what is "normal", but we just wanted success!! And success led to more success. It took a month or so, but next thing we knew, she was dry at night. And, she has been ever since. We tried the alarms, she disabled them all. We tried the medications but they had side effects that were horrid.
She is 17 now and has no issues!! (good thing because we are only a year from college!!!) She doesn't even remember that she used to change her own sheets in the middle of the night...
We did not use any kind of bribe, the success was all she wanted.
I hope this helps,
claudia
Okay, so the issue, as it was explained to me, is that the bladder and the brain aren't talking to each other properly. So you have to start a new "chain of communication". Here is how we did it: Bradley has to drink a lot of water. He has to get up and go to the bathroom. That starts the clock. Then he goes to the bathroom every 2 hours, whether he has the urge or not. (this starts the brain being "in control"). Eliminate milk after 4 pm, no soda. We eliminated juice after 4pm too. Against our doctors desires, we woke our daughter at 11pm or so (when we were heading to bed) and brought to the bathroom and told her to pee. I find that kids are pretty suggestible at that time of night, so she did everything herself except wake up (we called it 'walking the kid"!!) and then we led her back to bed. The docs want kids to make it thru the night without having to wake up. That is what is "normal", but we just wanted success!! And success led to more success. It took a month or so, but next thing we knew, she was dry at night. And, she has been ever since. We tried the alarms, she disabled them all. We tried the medications but they had side effects that were horrid.
She is 17 now and has no issues!! (good thing because we are only a year from college!!!) She doesn't even remember that she used to change her own sheets in the middle of the night...
We did not use any kind of bribe, the success was all she wanted.
I hope this helps,
claudia
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Re: Bed Wetting
GREAT method, Claudia! That 2 hr thingy works great for me too at night at my age of 72...yup! it can kick in at this time of life too! 
HUGS all around,
Carolyn J
LOBPI/72
HUGS all around,
Carolyn J
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