Ok, Aaron will be 6 yrs. old in April and occasionally wets the bed at night. Well, it's been a bit more often recently - twice just this week. Last night he even had a pull up on and still wet the bed!!! I am thinking I might have figured a connection - we've been having pudding for dessert with supper because it is something Abigail can eat. I think I've read somewhere that milk relaxes the bladder? so maybe having all that milk in the pudding is doing that to him and causing him to wet the bed?? I don't know. Anyone have any thoughts on this?? Usually it is a day I hadn't planned to do laundry so then I have to do laundry to wash up his bedding! ugh!

Janell

We certainly had a connection between ice cream and bed wetting with Eldest. I hadn't looked into it and read what you mentioned. I just knew that the ice cream would pretty much guarantee a wet bed. Any sweet could very possibly lead to that, but most definitely the ice cream.

Eldest was a late bed-wetter too. We then discovered he was just lazy. I won't go into how we discovered that, here. But, that's what we realized so we stopped the pull-ups. He had a plastic sheet on his bed and was already in charge of 'taking care of things' when he wet..which was generally quite significant and meant wet sheet if not other bedding as well. He was to simply take care of that when he got up in the mornings. No big deal. We didn't make an issue of it..just 'matter of fact' this is what you do. Your responsibility. He did well with that. Promptly tending to things each morning. Without pull-ups, it just meant his sheet was wetter and more often so was his closest blanket. He quickly began having LESS frequent bed-wettings.

I'd recommend having him be more responsible for his accidents. Like I said..not condemning..just 'matter of fact'. There's no reason why he can't take his things to the laundry room and even start a load once you show him how. And yes, eliminate the sweets before bed. I don't know what time frame you're talking here..between the pudding and bedtime..but..I wouldn't go any closer than an hour if you still want to allow something. Eldest seemed to do ok with that spacing. 1 hr was the cut off, that's for sure. 2 hr was better. But 1 hr or less..he'd wet.

Who'd have thought huh? But, we noticed the pattern, clear as day. Made adjustments and things cleared right up.

Good luck. :)

He's finishing his supper before 6 p.m. and goes to bed at 9 p.m. so 3 hours and nothing after suppertime to eat or drink so not sure what else to do. Try and make sure he does his business before he goes to bed but I'm usually putting Abigail to bed or in bed myself at that time (when she goes to bed; I go).

Janell

How about trying a vegan pudding for supper, if the milk is the cause? That way Abigail could still have a pudding. GL!

Hmmm Janell well thinking it could be a few things. New happenings around the house with Abigail possibly, not meaning he means to wet his bed because of this but its new and different.

Also when my son wet the bed late we watched all you stated eating and drinking, using the potty before bed, as well-- than took him to the ped. The ped told us many times during a growing spurt the body grows faster than the bladder hence accidents in some children. If the accidents continued which they didn't after some time, they offered some testing but we didn't feel it was necessary.

Maybe just bear with it for now. Is he a nervous child, very sensitive this happens? Try changing the pudding idea, write things down so you can keep them straight in your head type of thing. Also they make fantasic mattress pads about 2ft.by 3 ft,soft on one side plastic on the other, that I use under the kids mattress pads always. You could always buy one or a few for back up and keep it on the top of his sheets.

In time he will grow out if it, but there are also some medical reasons children do this that isn't in their control as well.

Keep us posted.

Ditto the 'nervousness' idea. Good catch Renee. And the possible medical condition. We had Eldest checked by our chiropractor. He was already going for a circulation issue in one leg and we had heard about chiropractic care helping with bed-wetting. So we had looked into that some more and asked her about it. She checked him, said she wasn't sure that was his issue, it's hard to tell sometimes. But adjusted him a couple of times specifically for that, like I said, he was there anyway, just added an extra 'tweak'. It only took I think those 2 adjustments for her to confirm that was *not* his issue. That area hadn't changed in any way since the treatment, which is normally noted almost immediately, even in 'severe' cases. And she never felt a change where she adjusted...apparently though not 'obvious' immediately in all cases, once treated a time or two, if they *do* have that issue, the chiro can feel the problem and the shift to change after just a couple of adjustments.

Sorry, that was probably confusing :blush:

But anyway..all that to say...you could look into a chiropractor for this as well, once you've tried a few things on your own to no avail and think it may be something *more*.

There is sometime a medical reason for bed wetting. So maybe you should talk to your dr. and they have done research and found that some childern are in such a deep sleep they can't get up and these childern have even reported that they were dreaming they were on the potty.