Until Lucas turned 5 (7/27) he was wearing pullups at night. Then he hit his birthday and said he wasn't wearing them anymore (fine with me) but he is such a heavy sleeper he doesn't wake up. So I started waking him up to go pee before I went to bed. If he wasn't woken up he would wet the bed, take off his wet PJs leave them in the floor and just lay on the other end of his bed.
He starts school tomorrow and I told him that he needed to go back to Pullups. He isn't waking up unless he is wet and it is messing with his sleep. He was unhappy about it and so was DH... but neither of them have to do all the pee laundry. So I bought the pullups and he went to bed wearing them. I told him when he wakes up with them dry he can go back to not wearing them. DH thinks I am backsliding on all the progress we made... I don't think we made any progress.
I brought up the issue at his 5 year check up and they just said to not let him have drinks at night... that doesn't help with him being a HEAVY sleeper.
emily has gone as long as 2 weeks waking up dry, but then she'll go a few days in a row where she has accidents every night. i got SO sick of all the laundry that we went back to pull-ups.
emily knows that once she stops having accidents at night (i'm thinking close to 3 weeks straight), we'll try again.
it's just not worth it, imo, to have that much pee in a bed.
Same here. Christopher will go a week or more dry, then several days in a row wet. It's just not worth the extra work for me. I am with April. We will do three weeks or so dry before making the switch.
I have a heavy sleeper, too. Brenna's 6 1/2 and still wakes up wet nearly every morning. We've tried waking her up to go but she doesn't wake up. We've tried waking her until her eyes are open then standing her up to wake her up fully, but she just collapses and has no recollection of us even trying to wake her the next morning. I'm hoping she'll grow out of it eventually so we don't have to keep buying pull-ups. I honestly have no clue what to do about it except just wait.
I am sorry there are so many in the same boat but also glad that we are not alone!!!
Alaina, sometimes when I would try and wake Lucas up he wouldn't be awake all the way either and instead of going potty he would try to crawl in the bathtub to go back to sleep or just start peeing in his PJs when I had him fully standing up.
We backslide often too - go back to pullups a bit - switch back to undies at his request and once he's been dry for a many nights. Progress is slow, but I think what you are describing is not backsliding, just normal.
SG is still in pull ups at night. Her urologist told me before her surgery that it may take her awhile to be night trained since she had kidney reflux. He assured me that it's not unusual, even in kids that don't have kidney problems because their bladder is so small.
I think I'd make him wear them until he's dry too. Pee smelling laundry sucks, haha
Well this makes me feel better about Owen. Gavin trained late but when he trained he FULLY trained and never had accidents. So, since Owen has been day trained for so long I've been frustrated because he still wears diapers at night because he wakes up wet 5/7 nights a week.
Anyway, I'm not going to stress. I need to just let it go. I was getting worried but I'm not anymore.
FWIW my brother wet the bed until he was about 9 I think. My parents tried everything from waking him up to go before they went to bed to buying an alarm pad that he laid on at night so when he would wet the bed a LOUD alarm would go off. Bottom line is nothing worked and he eventually just grew out of it. Some kids' bladders don't "keep up" with their growth. Hang in there, it WILL get better. But I would keep buying pull ups for now, its not like he is having accidents during the day, so I wouldn't think too much of it. : )
I agree with the pull ups. The only other suggestion, which is more or less what you said, is to maybe switch to those underjams, which are basically pull ups for older kids. The plus side to them is that I think they hold more if you would ever need it. You also might be able to pull it off as something other, like big kid nighttime underwear, maybe.
Bottom line, if you are the one doing the laundry and dealing with all of it, you get to be the one to have final say.
emily has gone as long as 2 weeks waking up dry, but then she'll go a few days in a row where she has accidents every night. i got SO sick of all the laundry that we went back to pull-ups.
emily knows that once she stops having accidents at night (i'm thinking close to 3 weeks straight), we'll try again.
it's just not worth it, imo, to have that much pee in a bed.
I'm in the same boat as April w/my almost 7 year old. Its just not worth it, he needs to get his sleep, and I am sick of the pee. My pediatrician also told me about the "no drinks before bed" deal, but that doesn't work for David. I'm just trying not to worry or make a big deal of it. Once he starts getting invited over for sleep overs, that should get interesting but for now I'm just going back to the PullUps at night.
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I'd definately do pull-ups. It's completely normal to be having that issue at this age, btw. My gf has a set of twins, and both of them soak their pullups a few nights a week - not from lack of being trained, or lack of trying, they are just heavy sleepers. Heavy sleeping is fab, so I'd just use the pullups until he goes a monthish without wetting them.
I would go back to pull ups. Bryce did not start staying dry until a couple weeks after he turned 6.
I also would not fool with waking him before you went to bed, because that is just messing with his sleep that much more and he is not getting the sensation he needs to go since you are the one waking him and sending him.
Bryce still has occasional accidents at 7 1/2, usually once a month I would guess.
