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‘MY name is Andrea and my 8 year old still wets the bed!’We feel like we’ve tried everything. Using night time pull ups, not using pull ups, stopping all drinks after 6pm, no dark drinks, getting him up for a wee, not getting him up for a wee, seeing doctors and health visitors but we are honestly no further forward.
And I’m not talking about a little patch of wet, I’m talking soaked from bottom to top. Even his hair gets a drenching!
Although my OH and I are sympathetic and don’t make a big deal of it, it doesn’t stop his evil older brother teasing him, despite our pleas.
Accompanying the bed wetting, are night terrors. It seems that when he wants to wee he tries to wake himself up but instead has a night terror. We’re talking full blown shouting, crying, sweating, shivering and then remembering absolutely nothing about it.
We do seem to have cracked this though, by leaving his radio on as he falls asleep. It may be a fluke but the night terrors have, for the time being, stopped.
We’re now at a stage where he’s starting to be asked for sleepovers and so far he hasn’t been brave enough to go. Then a couple of weeks ago, I saw a request for parents of bedwetters to try out a new product called ‘UnderJams‘.
I put forward my request and soon received a pack of UnderJams. Made by Pampers they are similar to ‘Dry-nights’ which we have used before.
I am aware that the general advice seems to be, that the bed should be protected and not the child. But trust me….after years of ruined mattresses, disrupted sleep, a distressed child and shares in plastic sheets…..I am more than happy for him to wear night time pull ups. As is he!
Underjams are slim,discreet and when I asked middle son if he would be embarrassed wearing them to a sleep over he said, ‘No, because I could hide them in my bag, put them on in secret under by bottoms and no one would know. Would you know mum?’ And with that he performed a little pirouette!
And no, I couldn’t tell he had them on at all! They didn’t make a crinkly noise, they weren’t bulky and he said they were very comfortable.
Also, if it hadn’t been for UnderJams, I wouldn’t have heard of ERIC or Education and Resources for Childhood Continence.
Pampers are working with ERIC. It has a great website with loads of information, advice and best of all a helpline to call. It also made me realise that we weren’t the only ones and it’s actually a very common problem, especially in boys.
We’re now trying a hypnotherapy CD designed especially for children up to the age of 9 who are still bedwetting. He’s listened to it 4 times now and last night he was dry. So I’m hopeful that with the help of underjams, ERIC and the CD we may at last be getting somewhere.
This blog post can also be read at http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/fromdawntillrusk/2010/02/bedwetting-issue.html
It happens. Your son is very brave and sounds like a remarkable boy to understand that he wants it to stop. My daughter still wore pull ups aged 7, but she was so big that we couldn’t get any big enough and I just had to put up with the wet sheets. However, she did grow out of it eventually. She’s 10 now. I used to blame it on her autism but I doubt I’ll ever know for sure.
Good luck with the Underjams; and big hugs to your lovely boy.
CJ xx
It’s good to know he’s not the only one and that it’s more common that people think.
Thanks for your comments too!:)
Hi Andrea- I found your blog off a link from Twitter..Just wanted to say hello from the USA…I’m a young adult(30′s)and deal with anxiety, a mild form of Asperger’s syndrome and have ADD and I’m STILL a bedwetter.
Best of luck to your lil guy and hope the CDs help and hope he doesn’t mind wearing Underjams to bed.
You can tell him lots of people, even teens and adults also wet the bed.
I work at a store and the bigger size of Goodnites(10-13 age group) outsell the smaller sizes(for your son’s age)
best wishes,
Andy
Hey Andy
Thanks for finding me all the way from the USA!
I’m starting to learn that it affects many ages and that it’s very common. I certainly don’t worry too much about my little guy and he seems to take it all in his stride!
All the best
Andie!
We tried Underjams and really liked them. There is no creaky-crinkly nappy noise because they are very soft. We have tired Dry Nites and they leaked so we would buy these in future. The only thing I would say is that they seem to be designed for the average child. My daughter is smaller than average; even though she is nearly 7 they were actually a little on the big size and so not as discreet as I would have liked, not that it bothered her. She still fits into pull-ups so it would be a whole before we needed to buy these. But if we do, we would.