This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of GoodNites. All opinions are 100% mine.
With five kids you can be assured that I have plenty of experience with diapers, potty training, and bedwetting.
Only one of my children (Who shall remain anonymous.) had a problem with bedwetting and it took until that child was 8 1/2 years old to be dry at night, every night.
I found out a few things about myself and this child during the process.
First, I did not want my child be on any kind of medication.
Second, I never wanted my child to feel that they were upsetting me or inconveniencing me because they wet the bed.
Third, I found that my child was an extremely sound sleeper and would not wake up at all after wetting the bed.
This meant that if my child wasn’t wearing special underwear he or she would wake up in the morning wearing wet clothes and lying in a wet bed.
If you have an older child who is having issues with bedwetting maybe these five tips will work for your child.
I used all five of these at the same time with my child to help finally kick the bedwetting problem.
1. Limit drinks, especially sugary drinks, before bed.
I only let my child have sips of water after 7:00 pm. However, this by itself wasn’t enough to stop the bedwetting issue.
2. Have your child go to the bathroom right before he or she goes to sleep.
I made my child use the bathroom right before going to bed so that the night was started with an empty bladder. Yet, again this by itself wasn’t enough.
3. Try to determine when your child is wetting the bed and start waking them up each night to use the bathroom around that time.
This may seem like a lot of work, but it was what finally put my child on the road to dry nights. I had to stay up a few nights to figure out exactly when my child was wetting the bed. It was worth a few nights of not as much sleep in order to help my child.
What I determined was that my child was wetting the bed between 10:00 and 11:00 pm most nights. I found this to be so strange since this child didn’t really drink anything before bed and went to the bathroom right before laying down at 8:00 pm.
However, once I started waking my child up at that time to use the bathroom every night the accidents stopped. Eventually, I didn’t have to wake my child up anymore because it became automatic for them.
4. Put your child in disposable underwear (Like GoodNites) so that if he or she does have an accident they won’t have to deal with changing clothes and sheets in the middle of the night.
I tried the whole “Put your child in underwear so they will know the feeling of wetness and not do it anymore” routine but it did not work.
Whether in cloth or disposable underwear my child would wet the bed. So, I decided that saving my child from sleeping in wet clothes and a wet bed was the most important thing.
5. Be encouraging and do not discipline your child for wetting the bed.
If you have a child who wets the bed it isn’t because they are bad or trying to upset you. There very well may be a medical issue or your child is an extremely sound sleeper like mine was. Therefore, making the child feel bad is going to do more harm than good.
I am so glad that I figured out what worked to help my child overcome bedwetting and that we didn’t have to resort to medication.
While my method may not work for everyone I do hope that it will help you and your child as much as it helped me and my child.
Since I still have a child who occasionally wets the bed and one who isn’t even potty trained I thought it would be fun to take the GoodNites dry night 3-day challenge with my 5 year old.
My son really liked the way the GoodNites fit and was happy to wear them since they didn’t look like diapers.
They were discreet and made him feel secure at night knowing that if he did happen to have an accident he wouldn’t be in wet clothes or a wet bed. (He’s even wearing them in the picture above. I bet you couldn’t even tell.)
The great thing about this underwear is that it is discreet, super absorbent (moreso than regular disposable training pants that are meant for daytime wear), and they are designed for big kids.
So, if your older child is in need of extra nighttime protection against bedwetting I recommend GoodNites.
Be sure to visit the GoodNites Facebook page for helpful tips, to talk with other parents about bedwetting, and for a chance to win prizes.
What are your tips for dealing with bedwetting?
