My daughter is 11 and I finally took her to a urologist to make sure there isn't something physically wrong, even though her pediatrician didn't seem concerned. She kept saying she will outgrow it.

The urologist told my daughter to do several things. First, she has to go to the bathroom every three hours. She was holding it in sometimes all day at school and that means the bladder isn't trained to go when it is full and that can make bedwetting worse. Also, she is sometimes constipated and has large stools, which can also make bedwetting worse. We are working on these two issues and she is taking fiber to help with the constipation. If this doesn't help then the urologist will run further tests.

She is on a medicine called DDAVP, which keeps her from wetting the bed. It works 95 percent of the time, but it isn't a cure. My daughter still insists on wearing GoodNites® every night because she is afraid she will wet even with the medicine.

Fortunately, her close friends know about her bedwetting and do not tease her, and she spends the night at their houses. If she goes to a slumber party she just goes in the bathroom to get dressed for bed. We are really hoping that her bedwetting will stop soon because I know it will be much harder to deal with it as a teenager. Possibly some of the things we are doing might help other parents.

- Laurie

I really do not know of any tips I could give anyone other than to be patient. My grandson lives with us. He is now 6 and has been wetting the bed since he was 3. At first it was sporadic, then it become a nightly thing. We tried everything there was to try and stop the problem but all of a sudden when he was almost 4 he just stopped and has had only one accident since then. My husband and I were very worried about him - we knew that the problem was affecting him as well as us. Unless there is a physical or mental problem that keeps a child wetting the bed my advice would be just to try and talk to the child and maybe together you can come to a solution and work it out. Hopefully, all the children that have a problem wetting the bed will be able to stop as easy as my grandson did. Good luck.

- Jill

I found that waking my daughter up every night at a specific time and taking her to the bathroom has helped so much. I generally have to carry her there and back and sometimes turn on the tap water while she is on the toilet - and this has worked really well! She still has the occasional accident but it is very rare any more.

- Annie