Bedwetting in 5 Year Old

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Make sure your child goes to the bathroom before bedtime and doesn't have too much liquid right before bedtime. Make sure that he has 2 extra blankets nearby that he can get to by himself (one for the floor, one to cover up with). Make sure he can get to a change of clothes easily. Tell him to throw his wet clothes in the bathtub and you will get them in the morning. Put the blankets down and sleep on the floor for the rest of the night. He can do this all on his own and will help him in regard to embarrassment about waking you up. I would see my son's clothes and know that I needed to wash sheets, etc. It helped his confidence a lot. We also later bought the nightime under pants (like pull ups) and told him that if he could go 3 nights without an accident then he didn't have to wear them (he hated them), but if not, they were there for him so that he wouldn't have to wet his clothes and bed. If he had an accident, he had to wear them until he had 3 nights in a row dry. It only took once. He hated them enough that it solved the problem. He occasionally has a smaller accident now and then, but gets up right away and it has usually only affected his underwear, which he changes right away and throws the wet ones in the bathtub for me. I wouldn't worry about it. It is very normal!!! Just give your son the tools to handle it.

I just took my 4/12 year old to the pediatrician yesterday for an ear infection. We saw Dr. Brown, author of the baby books. I asked her about him still wearing a pull up at night, she said very normal until age 7!! She said it was developmental..both the bladder has to develop and the nerve part to send the message to the brain that the bladder needs emptying.

I too was upset about it that was why I asked, I feel better now, hope you do to!

Alarms don't work. My parents tried it on me. It just made for a long night.

My son is 6 and wets the bed at night. We put him in a pull up at night. He sleeps so sound that he doesnt' wake up! I hear that this is normal in some kids until the age of 9 in boys. It runs on my husbands side of the family. I wouldn't worry about it unless it happens every night and he is having accidents during the day too.

I was also a bed wetter and I am thinking my youngest one will be also. We did the following with my oldest and so far so good.

I have read where you can help them by training them to wake up. (That was my problem I slept like the dead!) No drinks 2 hours before bed. Than about two to three hours after they are asleep go in wake them up and have them go potty and than back to bed. Do the same thing in the morning. Wake them up have them go potty and go back to sleep. I will say the morning one stresses me out because I was always afraid that they would not go back to sleep. You try this for several weeks and they will start waking up on their own and going potty.

I hope this helps. I would love feedback it was very easy with my oldest but it will not be so easy with my youngest I have a feeling.

my 7 yr old and the 5 yr old still wet occasionally. It really helps a lot if you restrict the drinks about an hour before bedtime and make them pee before they go to bed.

How does the child feel about it? Is he embarrassed? worried? My grandsons are bedwetters and my daughter put them in pullups which they loved (that cold wet feeling is not fun) and she just didn't make a big deal out of it. when the oldest turned 7 he was embarrassed and wanted help so she got him the alarm which attaches to his underwear and voila, in 2 weeks he was mostly dry. He goes back to the alarm if he has an accident, but she left it totally in his control.
Waking kids up doesn't do a thing but keep the bed dry. Less stressful on the kid to use pullups. The kidneys should not be producing that much urine while the child sleeps, that is the abnormal part. Once my grandson was programmed by the alarm, he does not get up to urinate often- but he does wake up on those nights that he does produce more urine. He is a happier kid. I would discuss it with your pediatrician and do some online research. If he never has a dry night, he may not be ready for the alarm. You also have to be ready to donate 2 weeks to listening for the alarm and waking him up. That conditions him to hearing it.
One of the medications stops the production of the hormone that is the anti-diuretic hormone and the other is an anti depressant. I would try the alarm first.

hey there! MY almost 10 yr old is still a bed wetter. i wet the bed till i was 12 and my dad until he was 16 and my aunt till she was a teenager. for my son, i have tried everything. (alarm, pills, no drinking after dinner, etc... nothing worked. he will have a dry night here and there. this thing needs to just go away on its own. i wouldn't spend a lot of money with things you dont need like the underwear with the alarm in them. my husband gets so mad that he is still a bed wetter but i tell him to get over it. although, when he does turn 10 next month, i will take him to the dr to make sure his bladder and everything is dovelope properly. even my pediatrician does not make a big deal since we have such a dominating family history.

i hope i was helpful!

p.s. i do not and have not ever made him continue wearing a pull up or diaper. my opinion on that is that if he is not laying in pee than he is not aware of the problem. my son knows he has dry nights and is super proud. he automatically gets up and into the shower every morning. i feel if he wears a pull up or something then he wont continue trying to help us with having dry nights. i have protected covers on his mattress and was sheets daily if i have to. for the most part, he wets the bed every night. i hope i was helpful!

My daughter was 7 or 8 before she stopped completely. She hated it, of course, but it was just an immature bladder that resolved itself. We made sure she had a waterproof mattress pad and used the "Goodnight" underwear at night.
We looked into alarms, and they seemed to be an expensive ripoff. When her bladder matured, we stopped. We were very matter-of-fact about this. Just calmly saying "Oh, happened again, lets get your bed changed." We made sure no soft drinks, especially with any caffeine in them, after early afternoon (don't have many anyway), no liquids after dinner.
Check with the doctor, of course, but this usually goes away on its own. The main thing is not to shame a child over what they can't help.

My youngest daughter was a late bedwetter. The cure which was the cure for my granddaughter was for me to wake up during the night (sometimes twice during the night) and wake her up and put her/them on the potty. Most times they were still sleep, I would simply rub their lower back and speak to them calmly to encourage them to relax and potty.
It was difficult at times, but it worked.

I glanced through the repsonses so far and I didn't see any on good bladder habits during the day. Going every couple of hours helps with completely emptying the bladder. When kids hold it during the day they aren't always completely emptying when they go so they don't go to bed with an empty bladder. Whenever my daughter starts wetting the bed at night (she's 7) it is usuallly from her holding it during the day or she's behind on sleep. Good luck.

My son was about 6 1/2 before he started staying dry consistently. He would still wet a few times a week. My pediatrician said he wouldn't worry about it until much older. I would make sure not to make a big deal about it when it happens but maybe do a sticker chart when he is dry all night with reward. We tried to wake him up but sometimes that was very hard.

Good luck and be patient. :)

Hi C.,

Try not giving the child liquids an hour to an hour and 1/2 before bed time. Tell him/her ok it's 5:00 last chance for something to drink before going to bed (or something like that) Then I used to wake my 2 year old up as she slep bring her over to the bathroom and sit her on the toilet and she would go....(even thought she slept) but she went and I would wipe her and put her back in bed. I did this at least 1 time a night until she could do it on her own.

My daughter was a bed wetter and we tried almost everything. The thing that seemed to work the best for us was limit the liquid intake after dinner, and get her up several times a night to go. This did not always work. The Dr. said that the bladder just had not gotten strong enough and it would as she got older.It did.

Both my children were bedwetters. A pediatrician said to just not worry about it until they are ten. They wore pull-ups to bed, and by thte time they were ten, there were totally dry all the time. Encourage them to not dringk a lot at night, always allow them to get up to pee, try to get them up in the morning before an accident happens, and don't worry too much. The emotional pressure can make it worse.

My daughter is 4 1/2 and is wetting the bed about 5x a week. I tried limiting fluids, waking her to take her to the bathroom, and a few other things. After talking to my mom I decided that I will be getting the bedwetting alarm. She used it for my brother and sister, and it worked for them within a couple weeks. My husband also wet the bed, so I'm convinced it's genetic. I've read only good reviews about the alarms. The kind we are getting is the pad you place under the sheet. The reason it works is because bedwetters are deep sleepers. Their brain does not send the signal to wake up when the bladder is full. The alarm trains the brain to wake up when the urine hits the mat. It is a sleep disorder, and re-training the brain is the only way to effectively reverse the symptoms (wetting the bed). There are medications I've heard of, but how will that help a child who is a deep sleeper to learn to wake up? I think you should give the alarm a try. I will be getting the alarm for my daughter when we get paid this weekend, so if you want I can message you in a couple weeks to let you know how it works =)