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Nighttime Routines Help Son Get Rest
by Alexis
My son is 8 1/2 and wets the bed almost every night. We limit his fluid intake after dinner. He goes to the bathroom before he gets in bed. I wake him again to use the bathroom when I go to bed and my husband sets his alarm and gets him up at 3 a.m. every night to go again. Often times he is wet the first time and sometimes he is dry at 3 a.m. He rarely remembers us waking him. He walks to the bathroom, pulls down his pull up and urinates and then walks back to bed. He is a very sound sleeper. Two to three times a week we put a second pair of GoodNites Underpants to get through the night.
We know that he is not being lazy. He is at a point that he wants to go to sleepovers but is embarrassed. We have tried calendars, rewards, no GoodNites Underpants (we thought he might be using them instead of getting up) but he still wet the bed and never woke until he was soaked.