2 year old peeing the bed?

Question

My 2 year old still wears a diaper to bed. The only thing is that EVERY single night, while in his sleep, he pulls his p***s out of his diaper and soaks the whole bed. In the winter, we used to put zip up one piece jammies on him, until he learned to unzip it and pull it out, in his sleep. I know it sounds weird, but we have physically seen him do it while he is fast asleep snoring. We remedied it by getting button up jammies. It stopped for the last few months, but he is doing it again now.

The only thing is that it is summer now, and we don't have central air conditioning. Thus making it impossible to put full pj's on him comfortably at night. Previously we had just put pj shorts on him and it was working, now it doesn't work at all!! He is soaking his bed, and I am forced to wash bedding every night!!! I

tried putting a towel underneath him, and he freaks out that he doesn't want the towel under him, and if leave it there he pulls it out from underneath him, and throws in on the floor. The only thing I was left to think of was eliminating liquids after dinner, and going potty right before bed (we are just in the middle stages of potty training), but this still did not put an end to it, and I feel horrible telling him no when he is thirsty.

I cannot put full pjs on him, its too hot.

Help?

Answer 1

They may sell in your area really light zip up pjs in your sons size. Safety pin the top, my little cousin did that and doing that was the only thing that stopped it. Make sure there is a fan in his room and thats it stays some what cooler. Other then that i dont think there is much you can do.  

Answer 2

Pick him up and bring him to the potty. Put him on the potty before you go to sleep. Slow do the fluids before bed.

Answer 3

Buy him some pull ups training pants he is still a baby and most 2 year olds arnt trained yet  

Answer 4

What I am going to say may not make sense, but as a scientist, it's the best I can come up with and hope you consult your peditrician before trying this.

First you take your child to the sleep study clinic and and they will tell you his rhythm. There must be a time in the night when he does this. It may not be the same time to the second every night, but it sure should be within 30min to an hour. Say he pees at 1am one day and the next day at 1.20am, etc.

Once you figure this out, you have to go "Freud" on him and train him like a dog. Set an alarm clock and wake him up around 20 minutes before that time. Eventually, he will get trained and learn to get out of bed.

This is interesting and I'd appreciate if you can let me know how it goes please ([e-mail]). As a Med Student, stuff like these interest me. Good luck.

Answer 5

I know it sucks telling him no to drinks after dinner but you really need to cut drinks out at least 1 - 2 hours before bedtime. If not then he will continue to have the urge and then go on his bed. Also a good trick I found out with my daughter was getting a pad for her bed(a waterproof pad that is made for beds) and putting an old shower curtain  on top of that and then her fitted sheet. When she would wet the bed it would not soak the bed just her sheet,and quite honestly she got tired of laying in a huge wet spot all night long. My daughter sleep walks too so she wouldn't even realize that she wet the bed until she woke up soaked with wee wee.

Just do those little tricks,cut out the drinks even if you don't want to,and have him/make him try to go pee before he goes to bed and hopefully it works.

Good Luck

Answer 6

He could have a muscle problem in his bladder so it doesn't hold on to pee like normal.  I had the same problem when I was young and it was due to a yeast infection, so check that out.  See a doctor.  

Answer 7

you touch very briefly on the fact that you are in the middle stages of potty training. is there something in the way you are training or something you are saying to him before bedtime that could be causing this? what i would do is sit in his room, when he attempts to pee, wake him up. after several days or weeks of this he will either brake the cycle or start waking on his own when he has to pee. always keep in mind he's only 2 and he's not doing this on purpose.

Answer 8

Put his diaper on backwards and put on rubber pants. Put a onesie on him and a pair of shorts

Answer 9

What you can progressively do is to try to wake him up say 12:00 am if he sleeps at 10:00pm to pee... slowly it will train him to wake up by himself if he needs to pee in the night...it works fine for our kids....

Answer 10

Well he is obviously well-trained consiously to be able to do all that in his sleep so congratulations there. It sounds like his having a repeating dream that he is going to the bathroom. Try breaking his sleep/dream cycle by waking him up in the middle of the night and taking him to the bathroom. I know its a pain but probably not as much as washing the sheets every night. If you miss him, do it earlier the next night. If you go through this long enough maybe you can train him to wake up to go to the bathroom at night.

Answer 11

lol sounds like a male to me, I know grown up males that don't even make it to the bathroom becaus they get locked in sleep and think they are peeing in the bathroom lol and they just let that thing flow wherever.  I know my friend said her boyfriend was peeing in the closet in their bedroom one night lol and he was 30+ years old.  Your son is only 2 years old so he is still very young and his bladder is still very small and weak so he will need to get up at night to potty maybe one or two times.  

Answer 12

My sister has gone through the exact same problem.  I know it is frustrating but we know he is not doing it to upset you.  Don't try to force the issue as it will only make it worse.  It sounds like you are trying everything you can think of...you sound like a good mommy.  I know this will sound strange but my sister used a girls swimsuit on her son when he was doing this.  She has a plain colored one piece.  It works wonders!  Also, she gave him a special huggie to love on (a dog that he named...pee pee...how funny is that?) and hold so he wouldn't have to pull on himself.  Good luck!