My daughter is going to be 4 yrs old next month and she still wets the bed every night.?

Question

Sometimes she wets the bed twice a night. I'll check on her and she'll be soaking wet and it doesn't even wake her up. We always make sure she goes to the bathroom before bed and limit how much she drinks before bed. Occasionally she will get up at night to go pee, but it doesn't happen very often yet. Any moms have any advise for us?

Answer 1

At her age, it is normal to still be wetting the bed overnight - some children do until 5-6 years old.  You are already taking the right steps by limiting how much she drinks and having her use the bathroom before bed.  In addition, you should also wake her up just before you go to bed to use the bathroom again.  Use a mattress pad for when she does wet herself.  You could also use something like Pampers Underjams - which are overnight shorts for older kids who still wet at night.  Besides that, it is really just a matter of patience :)

Answer 2

use goodnights with her and NEVER EVER punish her for this.  Also, you may want to take her to a chiroprator - her hips may be out of line and pushing on her bladder, making it impossible for her to control it.  My mom didn't figure this out with me until i was 11 years old.

Answer 3

Make her wear a diaper.

Answer 4

Two of my girls had this problem.

The oldest wet the bed into the first grade. We did the intake monitoring, got her up in the night to go to the bathroom and still she wet the bed. We finally got one of those alarms (recommended by the pediatrician). You snap it over the crotch of the underwear. As soon as moisture hits it, the alarm goes off. The first time it happened it gave me a heart attack and the kid slept through. The second time it woke her up and that was the last time she wet the bed.

The second child had the same problem and the alarm was pointless. She just slept too deeply. We finally put her on DDAVP (prescription medication) and in a few months, the problem ceased.

Different kids respond differently. I would not be too terribly concerned about a 4-yr old still wetting the bed. Pop her into a pull-up and don't stress about it. Hopefully she'll mature and grow out of it by kindergarten. In the meantime, you can get some sleep and not have to do so much laundry.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Answer 5

i agree, use the pull ups for her just at night, some kids have a harder time waking up while they're sleeping then others, either that or you'll have to wake her up through out the night and take her to the bathroom, but that could be really fun (sarcastic) if your child is anything like mine and is a GROUCH when he gets woke up!! other than that you said your already doing my other 2 suggestions, maybe cut her off sooner than you have been, and only allow occasional sips here and there until bed time, but I would use the pull ups and still work on her waking up to go potty at night because eventually she'll have to not use pull ups, but she may have a really hard time with this for a while..... every child is different, I hope you can figure it out!! best wishes & good luck!!

Answer 6

Good Nights or Underjams disposable underpants might help to keep the sheets from being wet.

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do. Many kids have smaller bladders that grower at a slower pace than other kids, so while some are day and night trained by two, others still wet the bed at 4. Both my brothers wet the bed until they were 10 and 12, and it was because they had smaller bladders. My mom tried taking them before bed and in the middle of the night, but not much seemed to work. What made it worse was that she yelled at them everytime. It wasn't their fault.

Be patient with her and explain that you know it's an accident and that it's not her fault. Use the Good Nights or Underjams for a while. A lot of kids aren't night trained until 5 or 6, or sometimes later, and other kids just have the small bladder.

Take her to see a doctor to make sure that it's not a small bladder though.

Answer 7

Use overnight pull ups on her.  If she truly isn't waking up she may not be able to control it.

Answer 8

Sometimes a child's bladder does not grow as rapidly as their body does.  It is a stage that they grow out of, in the mean time, they have night time pants for bigger kids at wal - mart that work great!!!

Answer 9

this is normal.

some kids wet the bed till there 11 so theres nothing to worry about.

use pull ups when she goes to bed.

and you might want to go to a doctor to see if she has bladder problems.

Answer 10

I am not sure if this will help you or not -

My daughter wet the bed until she was 8.  I thought it was plan laziness and it drove me crazy.  I would get up in the middle of the night and take her to the bathroom and she wouldnt even remember me doing this.  She was always sick with a sore throat and so her doc recommended she go to a specialist about her tonsils.  So I take her in and the specialist asked me questions and one of them was about bed wetting and I said yes she wets the bed.  He said that is a sign of trouble sleeping at night.  Basically she didnt sleep good because her tonsils were to big causing her to stop breathing which she would wake up tossing and turning then she would finally get into a position that she would get into such a deep sleep that she couldnt wake herself up to go to the restroom and she was also such a bear to wake up in the mornings.  Of course she had other symptoms.  So we got her tonsils out and instantly she stopped wetting the bed, she is hardly ever sick, and she is a total morning person at age 16!!

Answer 11

Every child's body develops differently. There is nothing to worry about that she is still wetting the bed. Her bladder may not have grown enough for her to make it through the night. If you are truly concerned, or think that there is something medical going on; make an appt with your pediatrician. My daughter was just 5 in April and she stopped wetting the bed through the winter. The biggest thing to remember is that she can't help it. Try not to get mad at her or punish her for it. She most likely can't help it. Good Luck.

Answer 12

Patience.  It's completley normal for 3 year olds to be wetting the bed.  Put a pull-up on her and be patient.  She will start staying dry when she is able.

Answer 13

i wet the bed until i was 7. just wait it out!

Answer 14

You could try pull ups but that might confuse her because they are like nappies. Or you could get a rubber sheet to go on her bed to protect the mattress and get her up before you go to bed so she can go to the loo. Reassure her its OK for her to get up to go wee during the night.