different bedwetting idea
Cindy White
I too was a bed-wetter & I think that my pediatrician hit upon the answer, at least for me. I was dreaming that I was in the bathroom, on the toilet. I would have those dreams sometimes even when I was in college! I still have very vivid dreams, always have.
So when my daughter began wetting the bed, after diapers, we did the pull-ups thing for a while too. But she found them uncomfortable, bulky to wear. At the time my mother was an invalid, so I used what the nurses used for Mama, those large, square pads they use in hospitals and nursing homes. You can get them at a hospital supply store, they are very reasonably priced. I bought 4. I would put down 2, on top of her sheet and she lay on them...2 made it safe for her to roll over. They are soft, they don't make crunchy noises when she rolls over like a mattress cover does, and most importantly, they wash just like a towel, but protect the bed. If she wet the bed I only had to wash her gown & the pads, put down the other 2 for the next night, and never mentioned it to her. If she said something about it, I just told her that lots of people wet the bed until they are 10-12, as I did, and it's no big deal.
During the months that she wet the bed almost every night, I kept the extra 2 pads and a dry gown next to the bed so that when she woke up (or I did, as we slept together) from the cold or wet, she wouldn't even really wake up in the time it took to take off the wet pads & gown & put on the dry ones. She never remembered it the next morning and I think this helped her stop wetting sooner, that along with telling how I dreamt of being on the toilet those times she said something to me about it.
She's not wet the bed for a year or more, but I still sleep-walk her to the bathroom every night, just in case.
Cindy
"Never laugh at live dragons." -Bilbo Baggins
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So when my daughter began wetting the bed, after diapers, we did the pull-ups thing for a while too. But she found them uncomfortable, bulky to wear. At the time my mother was an invalid, so I used what the nurses used for Mama, those large, square pads they use in hospitals and nursing homes. You can get them at a hospital supply store, they are very reasonably priced. I bought 4. I would put down 2, on top of her sheet and she lay on them...2 made it safe for her to roll over. They are soft, they don't make crunchy noises when she rolls over like a mattress cover does, and most importantly, they wash just like a towel, but protect the bed. If she wet the bed I only had to wash her gown & the pads, put down the other 2 for the next night, and never mentioned it to her. If she said something about it, I just told her that lots of people wet the bed until they are 10-12, as I did, and it's no big deal.
During the months that she wet the bed almost every night, I kept the extra 2 pads and a dry gown next to the bed so that when she woke up (or I did, as we slept together) from the cold or wet, she wouldn't even really wake up in the time it took to take off the wet pads & gown & put on the dry ones. She never remembered it the next morning and I think this helped her stop wetting sooner, that along with telling how I dreamt of being on the toilet those times she said something to me about it.
She's not wet the bed for a year or more, but I still sleep-walk her to the bathroom every night, just in case.
Cindy
"Never laugh at live dragons." -Bilbo Baggins
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