Anyone have a kid that won't wake

my2monkeyboys wrote: up when he wets the bed? Will turned 4 in Oct., and we've tried many times over the last year to get him out of night time pull-ups. I've tried taking his drink away at least an hour before bed, letting him potty before bed, and still he wets. The real problem is that when he wets, it doesn't wake him up. He'll sleep right through it, cold pants and sheets and all. I'm just wondering what we should do. If he's not waking during/after he pees, he certainly isn't going to wake just from feeling the need to pee.
Anyone else ever gone through this?

sparkys2boys replied: Sorry, I don't have any advice other then he may just not be ready yet. Some kids take a little longer. What about actually waking him once through the night to make him go again? I know that you hate to have to wake them but it may help until he can wake himself through the night.. KWIM?? I think limiting his liqiud before bed is a good start though too, don't stress to much over it..I have never seen a kid go off to college that wets the bed.. he will in his own time stop

mom21kid2dogs replied: Olivia didn't night train until she was 4.75 years old for the same reason~very heavy sleeper. She eventually outgrew it.

Maybe it's a kid born in October thing?

3xsthefun replied: Ok, I've been keeping this kinda to myself. Kaitlynn is almost 7 years old and still wets her bed. We do have to put a pull-up on her. She is also a very heavy sleeper and will sleep right through peeing herself. I really don't understand it myself she woke up when we had bad thunderstorm during the night in the summer. But she can't wake herself up to go the bathroom. I'm thinking about taking her to the doctor soon and see if they have any suggestions.

my2monkeyboys replied: I hate the idea of limiting his drinks too much, and waking him up at night just makes him VERY grumpy the next day. (We've tried that before! ) I feel like it's me being trained, not him, ya know?
I'm glad to know that other kids are just heavy sleepers too. I guess I'll just keep him in pull-ups for a while longer. We had just ran out and I had forgotten to buy more, so we decided to try it again.
I do know that when I was a bit older (like, 10, 11) I woke up a few times having wet my bed just from sleeping too hard to wake up. Maybe it's just hereditary?
I have heard of alarm things that you can put in their pants that sound off if they start to pee, but to me that's the same thing as waking them up every night. I just don't see how that would help them.
I don't know... hopefully it'll work out soon.

mom21kid2dogs replied:
It's actually not as uncommon as you would think. Olivia has a friend who is 8.5 and still has occasional night accidents. I used to run a respite camp and we almost always had one kid who still wore night protection. (Kids ages 6-18). I know some families do seek out medical intervention~especially when they get to an age where they would be staying overnight in others homes.

booey2 replied: yup that would be Thomas, he just turned 5 this past November and it was only really around Christmas that he stopped wetting at night. He wore pullups right up until I think Christmas and at that point he refused to wear them and stopped peeing the bed. I also tried all the tricks, stopped his drinks, got him up when I went to bed to pee, I had no real concerns it was just those around me kept saying he shouldn't be still doing this. I kept reminding them that it is a physical issue, some kids bladders just need to catch up with them. Thomas still will have the occasional accident and he sometimes doesn't not wake up if he does. But the times he does wake up wet - no matter what time it is, he jumps up calls me and requests new underwear and a dry bed. We still have the mattress protector on his bed for the occasional wet night but so far this week he has been dry since Sunday. I wouldn't worry at this point, his body will catch up to him sooner or later.

3xsthefun replied:
Well I'm kinda glad to hear it is not that uncommon. I guess I worry though because she will be wanting to have sleep overs. It is not so bad if she goes to my parents house or the inlaws. Because they do know of the problem. I hope soon that one night she will just get up on her own.

I think I will hold off going to the doctors until the girls next physical and ask him then. They will be needing one sometime this year anyways.

my2monkeyboys replied: Thanks for the help. I wasn't so concerned about it until my DH mentioned maybe he shouldn't be still doing this.
I think I'll just get his pull-ups today and let it go for a while.
Thanks, again!

ediep replied: Jason still wets at night and he's been potty trained for well over 1 1/2 years. I limit drinks after dinner and he goes tot he potty right before bed, but he still wakes up with his pull up soaked and sometimes his sheets wet too

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: Okay, everyone, not to worry. I consider you all friends so no teasing. I am a former bedwetter. I did it until I was nearly 9. My parents tried it all, no fluids after dinner, pee before bed, Dad getting me up once a night. I was even on a prescription for it. Talk about embarassing, my mom and dad had to put a plastic mattress cover on my mattress and it made the most annoying sound.
I did grow out of it eventually and I am not mentally scarred in anyway. Unless you all start giving me heck now. Give him time, he's just 4.

Boo&BugsMom replied: I have never personally dealt with this, but my cousin's little girl, who is now 14, use to wet her bed until she was about 7-8. She is a very HEAVY sleeper. I think it's common. She did at an early age also have bladder control problems she needed to seek a physician for, but that was taken care of and she still wet the bed because of her heavy sleeping. She eventually just grew out of it as her bladder gained more control with age.

my2monkeyboys replied: Thanks everyone!! I feel much better now!!

McKenna replied: Also it's known thta it takes longer for male children to gain full bladder control through the night and it's not uncommon for them to be wetting the bed until age 7 or longer.

mckayleesmom replied: Mckaylee still wets the bed at night and doesn't wake also...she will be 4 in April...I try taking drinks away 2 hours before bed and sometimes she is successful, but most of the time not.