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Old 02-03-2007, 10:26 PM
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My 6.5 year old son still wets every night. He wears Good Nites and they seem to work well. His pediatrician says she doesn't consider bedwetting a problem until age 10 for boys and age 8 for girls. I was a bed wetter until I was 7 or 8. My parents tried the whole alarm thing and all it did was wake everyone up - sometimes a couple times a night.

My 4.5 y.o. daughter still wears Pull Ups at night but 95% of the time she wakes up dry. It's only when she is NOT wearing a Pull Up that she wets the bed. Go figure.

I feel bad for my kids with the "sleep legacy" they have inherited, between my childhood bedwetting and my husband's sleep apnea.

I have stopped giving my kids milk with dinner. They can only have water. Whenever I forget and they have milk with dinner, it's a guarantee that I will have to wash their sheets the next day. Milk makes them produce more urine. I think there have been some studies done about milk and urine production.

There are many websites offering solutions to bedwetting - if you pay. Honestly, I think if there were a true solution, we'd all know about it for free.

I will check out the website a previous poster mentioned.
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