When I met my husband-to-be, he had a darling son named Ben who was 3 years old. Ben was a very loving, sensitive boy, and I adored him. He seemed to be well-adjusted and happy, but he still wore a diaper at night.

By the time he was 4, my husband began to feel frustrated by the bedwetting. Working with my husband, we began trying various reward systems and behavior modifications to stop the bedwetting, but nothing worked. Ben also had a very difficult time falling asleep at night. He often ended up in our room in the middle of the night, soaking wet and miserable. There would be a soggy diaper to toss and wet sheets to wash. Then the struggle to get him to sleep would resume once again. We were exhausted and exasperated.

As the years went by, we sought help from our pediatrician, tried the nose spray, bedwetting alarm and various medications, but nothing worked. We eventually taught Ben to clean up the sheets by himself and to take a shower each morning. By the time he was 7 years old, he was proficient at using the washing machine.

However, when we traveled home to visit family, his bedwetting frustrated his grandmother. She had eight children of her own and none of them had wet the bed. Each and every time we stayed with her, Ben drenched the bedding. There was even a night when his socks got soaking wet. His grandma felt that there was something wrong with Ben and got stressed as soon as we arrived in her home. I couldn't blame her for feeling frustrated, as it was a huge hassle each day to clean up after him.

We began putting GoodNites® Underpants on him during our visits to her house. They helped so much and took a lot of the strain out of the visit for all of us. They worked so well that we began using them at home. The mornings went a lot more smoothly for Ben when he just had to climb out of bed and toss his wet GoodNites® Underpants into the trash. There was no more immediate laundry at the beginning of each day and less work for all of us.

Ben was also able to go to sleepovers without worrying about soaking sheets or having his friends know he was a bedwetter. I would pack a GoodNites® Underpants into his backpack, and his friends never knew. I usually called the friend's mother to let her know about the situation so that she could help with discarding the GoodNites® Underpants and hiding any traces of his immature bladder.

Ben was almost 14 years old before his bladder matured and he did not need absorbency support. Because of our experiences with him, I have a lot of empathy for parents who have children that wet the bed at night. It can be a confusing and frustrating time. I learned a lot of patience along the way and found out that children mature when they are supposed to and not one day sooner. Parents need to take a deep breath, relax and realize there will be a day when their child has dry nights. While we waited for Ben's bladder to mature, our family found a simple solution that eliminated a lot of stress for all of us: GoodNites® Underpants.

Ben is now 17 and still remembers the long years he wet the bed. As he got older, the bedwetting could have eaten away at his self-esteem, but our constant reminders that many other children also wet the bed helped him feel better about himself.