My 4 year daughter has been potty trained and she is still wetting about 2 to 3 times a week. It is mainly when she wakes up and then she will tell me that she has wet. I have took away all fluids after 7pm, because her and her brother go to bed around 10pm every night. I thought at first that she was having too much milk or juice before bed but then I cut it down to about a 1/3 of a cup at 7pm, and then nothing until breakfast. I need help.
I agree with the others, still wetting the bed even after being daytime PT'd is very common. Wetting the bed until seven years old isn't uncommon at all.
I just wanted to add, going from 7 to 10 or later is a long time for a child to go without drinking anything. If she is doing any playing at all, you really should allow her some water. Doesn't have to be a lot but some.
I was just at the ped. dr. for my daughter 4 year check up and I asked about this. My daughter is completely potty trained and has been since about 2.5, however, she still wears diapers at night. I thought, this is stupid, she shouldn't be wearing diapers still. However, my dr said that she is just a very deep sleeper and that it's okay that she still wears diapers to bed. She explained to me that some kids take a long time to wake up to pee during the night. She also told me that it didn't really have to do with the fluids intake (to a point), but with the cycle of sleep she was in. I also mentioned the my daughter will wake up and tell me she peed in her diaper, but it's always after the fact. The dr said she might be waking up because of the feeling of wet, not the feeling of I just peed. She told me to just keep putting diapers or pull ups on her and to keep making her go to the bathroom before bed and right when she gets up. So I'm just going to take it in strides and assuming my daughter is normal. Good luck, I know how frustrating it is to still be buying diaper:)
Lots of kids wet the bed especially at 4 yrs. Others may have sugggestions for you but I'd start worrying when she is 6 or 7.
Limiting liquids will only help slightly - urine is a metabolic by-product which. So, while increased fluids do cause you to go to the bathroom more frequently, the kidneys are always filtering other metabolic waste.
Bed wetting is really common in kids her age. Here's some information from the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding the situation and advice on dealing with it:
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/cond...
My son is also four. I normally use pull-ups at bedtime, because I have the same issue. I don't think it's anything for you to be concern about at this point. However, I do wake my son up sometime in the middle of the night to take him to the restroom. That way his brain can be trained to wake him up, when has to go. When I was a child, I did not stop wetting the bed until I was 10. The doctor told my parents that it was because I slept extremely hard at night; nothing could wake me up. My parents had to do all these creative techniques, suggested by the doctor, to train my brain to wake me up, when I had to go. Good Luck!
My daughter had the same issue. Her doctor said it's completely normal (as the other folks have said below) and the doctor doesn't even look into it until they're 7. My daughter stopped wetting on her own sometime after she turned 5, so don't worry about it. (If it wasn't a really common thing, they wouldn't make pull-ups in those bigger sizes!) Just use pull-ups at night and eventually, they'll be dry for a few weeks in a row and you can stop using them!
Restricting fluids will only make her dehydrated and her urine more strong and harder to deal with and eventually can cause a UTI. It really has no impact on the bedwetting either.
She is like tons of other children who don't have the ability to wake up when they need to go. They just are not able to do it yet. She will eventually grow out of this, usually by adolescence when their bladder catches up to the rest of their body. If she is still wetting the bed at 7-8 take her to a Pediatric Urologist. Constipation is the common factor in that age child. The excess poo causes pressure on the bladder and there isn't room for the urine.
My grandson is 11 and still has issues occassionaly, he is embarressed by the situation and doesn't want to wear pull ups so we just have a routine where he takes his shower in the morning. I check his bed for wetness and if it's wet I wash the sheets and put them back on, he has a mattress pad that is plastic on one side and I wash it first because I don't put it the dryer on high but low temp instead. He already feels bad enough for the accident and all he needs is for me to go negative and bossy about this. His self image is already suffering, he can't spend the night at friends, he can't have friends over unless I know in advance so he'll have sheets on his bed, etc....
I recommend you get the overnight pull ups with the Disney Princesses on them. We use them for our 6 yr. old granddaughter and she has not had any leaks. My 3 yr. old grandson wears the overnight pull ups with Buzz Light Year on them and he occassionally has an accident but the last one was the day of my mom's funeral when we drove 150 miles away and attended the funderal and then ate, then drove home. I wasn't thinking about diapers and he leaked into his carseat some. That was all day, so of course he leaked.
So, you just need to uplift her as much as possible, build her self image and ignore the issue of bedwetting so she won't develop mental issues about it. It is something she can't help and will grow out of if it isn't a biological issue. Put pull ups on her so you don't have tons of sheets, blankets, and mattress pads to wash each day, and let her drink whatever she needs.
PS., those bedwetting alarms don't really make any difference either. They just wake everyone up after the fact and then you just have even more sheets to wash the next morning plus everyone is up mulitple times during the night instead of just wearing a pull up and everyone sleeping and not having any extra sheets to wash.
Hi N.,
I am sorry to tell you this, but she is too little yet. I am sure there are some kids that manage to wake up during the night, but most of them keep wetting until 7 or even older. Kids need lots of fluids, so don't take them away, but probably it helps if you make her to drink plenty of liquid during the day, so she does not feel too thirsty at bedtime (all kids like to ask for water or juice before going to bed...that gives them more time to be awake and..play around..lol!) It's mostly an habit..my kids, both of them always do that....
Be patient and let her take her time, potty training during the day takes time.....so potty training overnight takes sooooo much more patience, work and skills to master. I would suggest you that you let her wear pull ups overnight until she is really ready. (this is one of the milestones that all moms, including myself, want their children to master soon and forever!!!!lol!)
Good Luck!
Alejandra
My daughter did not stop wetting the bed at night until the month of her 5th birthday. Turned out that her bed wetting was inherited. My husband was a bed wetter and so was my mother.
I would put her in Pull-UPs and wait it out. She will stop when her body is able. Day time potty training and night time dryness are not the same thing at all, so I'm afraid patience is the ticket this time. It could be several years before she gets past this.
We had this same situation with our children(who are all grown with babies of their own now). I found it best to just get up once in the middle of the night and take them potty. They never seemed to wake up enough to even REMEMBER that I had been moving them around in the night. It was a pain to have to wake up but a lot less than washing sheets and blankets in the morning!!!
She IS potty trained, but her bladder muscles are not developed enough to hold it all night. Use a Pull Up and make it easy. I wouldn't use undies at night until the point where she has a dry week or two. Don't stress or make it a big deal. She'll get there.
When my son was that age, he had the same problem. I was doing what you are trying, with little luck. I asked the WONDERFUL mamas here on Mamasource, and was made aware of something I would never have thought of on my own.
MILK.
Don't give it to her at dinner or after. None what so ever. For some reason, it was causing night time accidents.
I experimented, of course.
Went for a week with not a drop of milk in the evenings. No accidents.
One evening, let him have a small glass of milk...Voila! Accident.
Repeated the same process with the same results. So, no more milk with dinner. He gets it other parts of the day, and does just fine with that.
I hope this helps you and your daughter as much as it helped us. I wish you the best!
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Her body may be growing faster than her bladder and needs time to catch up. Keep limiting her liquids at night getting her up to pee before you go to bed. She'll grow out of it soon
I had the same problem when I was a kid. Turns out I had 2 different problems...1. My bladder wasn't developed enough and I was having complex partial seizures. The seizures weren't the kind that make you shake or anything, I just kind of zoned out for a minute. I suggest you take you daughter to a urogolist to make sure she doesn't have a medical problem. Other than that 9 times out of 10 she will grow out of it.
