CC

I was a bed wetter until the age of 12 and my older sister until she was 13 (I am now 30). It was a miserable experience for the two of us and a lot of humiliation involved. Back in the 70's there wasn't a lot to do about this problem with the exception of the exercise and honestly - it rarely works. The doctor finally told my mother that it was something we had to grow out of - which we did. My nephew (age 8) is also a bed wetter and my sister buys the teen diapers/nightpants for him to wear - it's not a solution but it does fix the problem of changing the sheets in the middle of the night. She has found that after she stopped dwelling on the problem as much, he is slowly having dry nights (instead of everynight now just 5-6 nights a week). We compared thoughts and realized thats when we stopped wetting the bed is when our mother gave up and stopped making a major production about it - it was still there but nothing to dwell on. Reflecting back, as a bed wetter I would try so hard not to wet the bed I rarely slept sound - instead I would toss and turn waiting... In that regard - It was a miserable childhood. As parents we must remember that this is not really harming our child but your actions towards this nightly problem can scar your child for life (just a thought).