My daughter is 5 1/2 and has been bed wetting free for about 2 years now. For some reason, in the past 2 weeks she has wet the bed twice.
Our daily routine has been taken well. We 'push' every night before bed, and for the past couple years she has been waking on her own and using the potty during the middle of the night. She doesn't drink excessively before bed.
Last night, she woke up when I was going to bed at 11:00 p.m. and said she had to go, went and trotted right back to bed and fell asleep with no issues. At 2:30 a.m., she was next to my bed, telling me she wet the bed. She did not have a single drink at all after dinner besides a couple sips of water when she brushed her teeth.
I have heard that children who have major issues going on in their life, i.e., new school, new sibling, etc., may revert back to bed wetting , but there aren't any major issues in our lives at the moment.
Has anyone had the same problem? Is this usual? Do you think it will continue? It is pretty surprising to me, considering she has been doing so good for so long and has had mistakes twice in the past two weeks. Plus, it is really a pain to keep cleaning the sheets/comforter so often. I refuse to put her back in nighttime pants.
Is she in preschool or Kindergarten? My daughter started wetting herself the last few weeks of preschool and again when she was in Kindergarten.. The last few weeks of school the teachers started talking about going to Kindergarten and First grade, and it really worried her. After we talked about the move to the next grade level with her she quit wetting herself.
Use a waterproof bedpad directly under her.
I got mine from Amazon.
I have 4 of them.
Then, make sure she goes to the Doctor, to rule out any urinary infections.
Make sure she doesn't have any problems... or at school.
talk with her.
Night time dryness, can take even until 7 years old. And this is normal.
My daughter is 7, and just the other night, she had a pee accident in sleep.
Don't scold/punish or make her feel bad. She obviously cannot control it, and it is involuntary.
My daughter, even had a dream once that she WAS on the toilet, until she felt herself wet. We laughed, I put another waterproof bedpad under her, she changed jammies and went back to bed.
all the best,
Susan
might she have a urinary tract infection?
I can not display the other answers you received and so this is likely to be redundant, but please take her to your doctor for a urinalysis ASAP, before her own confidence at beng able to be dry is eroded; this sounds like a UTI situation. In any case you will be able to discuss the full issues and hopefully end your extra laundry loads; we had an 11 year bedwetter (genetic) and I feel your pain re: laundry!!! Good luck.
Hi! I'd take her to the doctor to rule out a UTI. If that's not it, maybe she is worried about ending the school year and missing her friends/teacher, or maybe it is as simple as being more tired than usual and having trouble rousing herself. My kids tend to sleep deeper when the weather is nice because they're outside playing more. I'm sure she's trying her best, and she'll get back on track. In the meantime, maybe you should use a mattress/sheet protector.
she is five and at that age, its not unusual for them to see if they can continue to climb into bed with you after wetting their own bed. kind of a make your own excuse to climb into bed with mommy. put plastic sheet sheets on her bed and once she wakes up in her own puddle a time or two, she will quickly change her mind about wetting the bed. and dont buy anymore expensive coverlets or whatever for her bed until she stops wetting the bed.my own little one has decided that she will sleep in her own bed but only after falling asleep in my bed, and she has to have a bedtime story, her blankie and her ducky first.
K. h...she has also decided that she is a night person, her playtime is four in the morning
Being a child who wet the bed just as your saying. I was potty trained even at night when i was 2yrs old. I started wetting the bed again when i was 4yrs old. We have never figured out what started it. Than when i was 12yrs old i stopped. We also don't know why i stopped than. If you listen to Dr's they say her bladder control is in mature. But that in my opinion doesn't make since since she did have control did she for get how or did something happen to cause her to either loose control or choose not to control it. I don't think anyone will know. My mother contributed mine in her divorcing my father. I don't think it was h*** o* me (though i don't remember) but it could have been and i didn't say anything. Things can bother children and you wouldn't even know. Good luck but feel assured she will prob. regain control and it doesn't (at least in my case) mean she's going to have other major problems in her life.
My son had the same problem and boys have it even harder than girl to overcome this issue. My naturopath suggested including sesame seeds at dinner in his diet. So I bought Tahini (sesame butter) and incorporated it in his dinner (e.g made a dip with tahini and dipped veggies in it and gave it to him) and in less than a week his problem had disappeared.
Well, since I am ninteen, I still pretty much remember those times. For me, I went back and foward for a while when it came to bed wetting. I was out of diapers by the time I was turning four, but about a year later, when I was about to turn fuve, I lost my mom. She passed away from cancer before my 5th and her 27th birthday. After that happened, I was devistated, and went back to bed wetting, and it continued off and on until I was almost ten, even though that is embarasing to admit, it is true. So even if she is not going through something right now, she may have gone through something before, that is causing it now. It may even be a cry for attention (but from the way it sounds, she has it good on that page). There could be the result of an infection, or she may just have accidents as they are accidents...
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Yes, you should have her seen by a Dr to rule out a UTI, but this has happened with all 3 of my kids around this age. My oldest daughter wet the bed when she was taking skating lessons and then when she went to Summer day camp- we were worried about that, until we realized she was just sleeping so hard from the extra activity that she wasn't waking herself to potty. It could be an emotional or stress-related issue, but for our kids, it seemed to be after a long or busy day, or when they were run down/tired.
Get her a pad to protect the mattress, and tell her not to worry, this will pass. MANY KIDS still wear Overnight Pullups until much older, for this very reason- it takes a long time for all the mechanisms to be solid.
I had issues with my DSS wetting the bed when his dad and I got married (so yeah it was more of a life changing thing....but it continued for a while). We had him stop drinking 2 hours before bedtime and then he went to sleep - then we woke him up right before we went to bed to have him go again...for about 2 weeks, and that seemed to fix the problem. (Then we just had his day time pee issues!) Sometimes kids' bladders just aren't mature enough (aside from underlying conditions like a UTI or something). I would try the waking up thing, and only let her drink water (other drinks aren't absorbed as much), and in the mean time, put a plastic cover on her mattress and just use a fitted sheet and a small fleece or something that is easy to throw in the wash with other clothes....it's too hard to do a comforter separate each time...plus it's summer time, so she doesn't need anything too heavy right now any way...so it will be a lot easier on your housework! Good luck!
I never had any problems like this with any of my kids. Take her to the doctor and have a UTI ruled out. This can be a major problem for little girls. Show her some extra attention and see if she is experiencing any problems in her life. Maybe her sleep cycles are changing. Could be a number of things.
