My son just turned 8 and he is STILL wetting the bed! :banghead:
Every morning it's the same routine. I have a waterproof mattress bad, and everything on his bed has to be washed every day. It's driving me insane! He seriously soaks through his PJ's and doesn't even wake up.
I have been seriously contemplating buying Goodnites for him, but I can't stand disposables!!!!
I have checked for cloth bedwetting pants, and everything I've found is SO expensive! Like $20-$30 a pair. The point is to not have to wash something EVERY day, so I would need several pair. If I had THAT kind of money, I'd be buying Goodmamas :giggle:
What is the solution here?? He is about 65lbs.
4boys1girlforme
01-14-2008, 08:35 AM
I have an almost 5 year old that is 38 pounds and he has occasional accidents but if I don't have a diaper/cloth pullup on him he has them constantly- like he needs the security of knowing that he is protected should he have an accident.
I was using large fleece GAD's with the elastic almost shot- I have 2 and I stuffed them with hemp babies bigger weeds- they snap nice and tight and he can pull them up and down just like underwear.
I just bought some fleece pullups off DS- I can't find the link now but I plan to stuff them the same.
I would get some MOE overnight undies from FSOT- 2 or 3 maybe- they come in larger sizes. I think it is less traumatic for them to wear a pull up than to pee the bed- I know I got sick of the 3am bed changes and having to put his bedding in the washer.
esoloj
01-14-2008, 08:39 AM
:popcorn:
My daughter will be turning 8 next week and we are dealing with the same thing. We currently are using Goodnites. I tried a HH trainer and stuffed it to the max (which she hated) and it still leaked. She sleeps so hard and does not wake up even if she's wet! The pediatrician said she'll grow out of it but like you, we need a solution now to contain the flood!
jenjen31
01-14-2008, 08:49 AM
My ds is 7 and still wets the bed every night. We have had pretty good luck with the snap-ez nap-ez. I bought a couple of seconds from her directly and picked up a few more off of fsot. I stuff them w/ toddler prefolds and microfiber towels or hemp and microfiber and they work pretty well - sometimes a little bulky.
Just keep an eye out in the trainers section of fsot or check out the deals section of Snap-ez.
ShadesofRae
01-14-2008, 10:09 AM
I love Snap-EZ, I've been eyeing their nap-Ez for a while now...Still so expensive. At least with diapers, you know you have 2-3 years before potty training. No clue if he'll stop TONIGHT or 5 years from now-lol!
The pedi is totally pushing medication to "relax his bladder" so all of his pee comes out, but I'm not on that wagon yet.
4boys1girlforme
01-14-2008, 10:17 AM
How about these?
http://www.snap-ez.com/ShoppingDealZTrainerpics.html
caricandothis
01-14-2008, 11:10 AM
First off, :hugs:. Its hard to have an older bedwetter, both for them and for you.
My two girls are both bedwetters (8 and 4) and they wear HH trainers every night. My 8 yo is a SUPER soaker and I played around with all sorts of different insert combos until I finally found something that worked. She rarely, if ever, leaks out of it but dang the thing weighs a solid tonne when she plops it in the pail it the morning!
The thing I've found with the HH trainers is that if you stuff them TOO full, they leak. I use a HH stuffin w/two ovals, a trifolded MF towel and a MF insert in my 8 yo's and its just enough. Sometimes I just use a trifolded prem pf with a trifolded MF towel and it works but not as well as when I add hemp. I just got some Thirsties Hemp inserts and those things absorb like mad...I love them!
I haven't tried any other trainers/bedwetter pants so I can't comment on anything else but I just wanted to give my :2cents: on the subject. :)
momof5girls&4boys
01-14-2008, 11:27 AM
My almost 7 YO is a bedwetter too...we like the NIKKy overnight pants...we have a MOE trainer in his size but it dont fit right, looks weird and leaks, he fits an XL FB and double stuffed it works ok but not perfectly...
I do dipes every 2 days anyway so w/ the 2 Nikky pants we have I am safe but we keep the FB and MOE aroubd for emergencies!
My 2, 3, and 4 YO's use the blueberry trainers and they are bulletproof for them
kaylabelle05
01-14-2008, 11:49 AM
I used to wet the bed when I was younger. A couple of things helped me.
1) Restricting liquids after 7pm.
2)Mom bought a sensor JUST for wetting the bed. It would wake me up when I would start to go (it was around $50 in 1990)
3)Mom started a prize system. Went 1 week I got a $5 prize. Went 2 weeks got a $10 prize. Went a whole month? Got a clock radio (I wanted it! I am weird like that)
I went until I was 11 but my sister went until she was 13. There were circumstances behind ours. But we didn't have any Goodnites or cloth for our size.
I know it is frustrating. But what also helped is that if I wet my bed I had to clean it up. It helped me understand that something needed to change. Also if you have older kids don't let them tease the bed wetter. It only made it worse for me (3 older siblings)
skueppers
01-14-2008, 12:03 PM
I used to wet the bed when I was younger. A couple of things helped me.
1) Restricting liquids after 7pm.
2)Mom bought a sensor JUST for wetting the bed. It would wake me up when I would start to go (it was around $50 in 1990)
I have a friend whose school-age son was still soaking disposable bedwetter pants every night, and she tried both of these things, with amazing results.
I think they then used the same device for their 4-5 year old daughter, with similarly good results.
No advice on the bedwetter pants; my daughter is only 3 and wears large FB to bed. She doesn't really need something she can put on and take off herself, since she almost never wakes up in the night wanting to use the toilet.
shreck
01-14-2008, 12:23 PM
I don't know if this would work for you, but I'll tell you what we did. We got a cheap little alarm clock and set it for 4 or 5am. Before dh and I would go to bed at around 11-12 we would get the bedwetting kids up and have them use the bathroom. This was about 2 hours after they'd gone to bed. Then, their alarm would go off a few hours later, and they would get themselves up and go. It took a little while for them to get the hang of getting up, and at first one of us(usually my dh, since baby would be asleep next to me) would have to get up at 4 or 5am and make sure the kids actually went to the bathroom and got their alarm turned off. Also, a couple of times our ds would already be wet when we would get him up the first time around 11pm, so we had to wake him a tad earlier and then set his alarm a bit earlier.
We've used this method with all of our kids once they get to 7 or 8 years old and are still wetting. We actually even tried it with our 4 1/2yo last year, and it even worked for her. I think it basically trains them not to sleep so deeply. Once in a great while one of them might have an accident, but we've been pull up free and dry at night for quite some time now. It's a little bit of a pain at first, but it's SO worth it. Once they get the hang of the alarm it's really not any inconvenience on the parents.
HTHs!:-)
jee_jee
01-14-2008, 01:07 PM
I don't know if this would work for you, but I'll tell you what we did. We got a cheap little alarm clock and set it for 4 or 5am. Before dh and I would go to bed at around 11-12 we would get the bedwetting kids up and have them use the bathroom. This was about 2 hours after they'd gone to bed. Then, their alarm would go off a few hours later, and they would get themselves up and go. It took a little while for them to get the hang of getting up, and at first one of us(usually my dh, since baby would be asleep next to me) would have to get up at 4 or 5am and make sure the kids actually went to the bathroom and got their alarm turned off. Also, a couple of times our ds would already be wet when we would get him up the first time around 11pm, so we had to wake him a tad earlier and then set his alarm a bit earlier.
We've used this method with all of our kids once they get to 7 or 8 years old and are still wetting. We actually even tried it with our 4 1/2yo last year, and it even worked for her. I think it basically trains them not to sleep so deeply. Once in a great while one of them might have an accident, but we've been pull up free and dry at night for quite some time now. It's a little bit of a pain at first, but it's SO worth it. Once they get the hang of the alarm it's really not any inconvenience on the parents.
HTHs!:-)
:thumbsup: Awesome advice mama! we're are still having problems with our 5 yo but I did notice that he is getting the hang of waking up on his own now that DH and I have been doing this before we go to bed. He's such a deep sleeper, a few times I started to panic and thought he was dead:blush:
rainbowbrite812
01-14-2008, 01:08 PM
run to SEZ...she's having a super sale on her dealz trainers...like 2 for $20 on size 10s :)
I know they are a little spendy, but I soooo recommend snap-ez, I bought 3 nap-ez solid pul trainers for ds and the customer service was great, shipping was fast and with me washing every other day already, 3 has been working for us pretty well. The trainers are ss and will also pull up and down like underwear. You don't have to get the soakers and things from her bc they are pricy, but you could spend $17.95 each for the dipes and use pf's to stuff them or mf towels and that way it would just be much less expensive. I understand your frustration since my son is a bedwetter 4 yo) and changing the sheets every day gets so frustrating, I was buying goodnights, but they are expensive too.
ShadesofRae
01-14-2008, 01:40 PM
My pedi told me not even to bother restricting liquids--that too much liquid wasn't the problem. *Shrug* I still do it though.
I love the idea of those bedwetting alarms, but franky, I don't think my DS would wake up to one! I have seen him sleep right through the smoke alarm. (Scary! Scary!)
Sometimes I'll go get him up in the morning and his bed will be dry, but there will be a sprinkling of pee on the floor. Seriously, he will get up, but he's still half asleep and thinking he's in the bathroom. One time I found pee in his Darth Vader mask. LOL. (Okay, not funny, but you just have to laugh at this every once in awhile.)
He has an older brother and TOTALLY gets made fun of, which I hate. His older brother really likes to tell everyone at school about his little brother who still wets his bed. It's sad.
Even so, he doesn't seem to care AT ALL that he wets. He doesn't seem bothered in the least bit. So strange.
The pedi also said it wasn't a good idea to wake him up in the middle of the night to pee--that it isn't teaching HIM to get up himself, it's teaching ME to do the job for him. I tend to agree, although at this point I think I'm willing to try it now that my little one is sleeping through the night.
I'm sure the Snap-EZ trainers are awesome, but even on a $16 sale it's $7.50-$16.00 for a single inserts! Woah. I think I might have to bite the bullet on this one though.
Jillybean
01-14-2008, 01:43 PM
My oldest son was still wetting the bed every night at 8 and would soak thru anything. We finally bought a malem alarm from www.bedwettingstore.com . It took 1-2 weeks before he started having dry nights and within a month and a half we weren't using the alarm any more and he hasn't wet since, he is 9.5 now. They are a little pricey, but the malem is the best and if you have future bedwetters it can be used for them as well. If you can manage it and would like to be done with bedwetting I would highly recommend this. My son can now have sleepovers and feel confident that he won't pee in his sleep, and I know from experience that that is a wonderful feeling.
ShadesofRae
01-14-2008, 01:43 PM
run to SEZ...she's having a super sale on her dealz trainers...like 2 for $20 on size 10s :)
