Post by Yogurt on Jul 7, 2024 13:00:08 GMT -6
So my almost 9 year old daughter has never been night time "potty trained". She stopped day time diapers before or right around 2 years old. I knew overnight dryness came later and it can't really be "trained", it's more like a body maturity thing? So here is the deal...
She is about to be in 4th grade. She has worn pull ups until a few months ago. We ditched the pull ups because we speculated that maybe it was just convenient to not get up and just pee in the pull up. (I now know this is not true.) She also feels humiliated by them because her younger brother has been over night dry for such a long time. (He didn't potty train at all until like 4, but once it clicked he was overnight dry too at like the same time.)
So when we ditched the pull ups, we switched to those washable bed pad things that you can lay on. Problem is, she pees so much that everything is soaked down to the mattress. Mattress has a waterproof cover, so the actual mattress is dry, but 3 layered bed pads (spread around so her bed is covered) plus the sheets and mattress cover are soaked through. I'm doing full bed linen washing like 5 times a week. And she feels like shit about it.
I don't want her medicated unnecessarily, and I will ask her pediatrician but...what would you do?
Go back to pull ups? Keep doing this constant bed washing? I don't limit her liquids after dinner, but I make her pee right before bed. Maybe I do need to limit the liquids? I will start there I guess.
Thank you!
She is about to be in 4th grade. She has worn pull ups until a few months ago. We ditched the pull ups because we speculated that maybe it was just convenient to not get up and just pee in the pull up. (I now know this is not true.) She also feels humiliated by them because her younger brother has been over night dry for such a long time. (He didn't potty train at all until like 4, but once it clicked he was overnight dry too at like the same time.)
So when we ditched the pull ups, we switched to those washable bed pad things that you can lay on. Problem is, she pees so much that everything is soaked down to the mattress. Mattress has a waterproof cover, so the actual mattress is dry, but 3 layered bed pads (spread around so her bed is covered) plus the sheets and mattress cover are soaked through. I'm doing full bed linen washing like 5 times a week. And she feels like shit about it.
I don't want her medicated unnecessarily, and I will ask her pediatrician but...what would you do?
Go back to pull ups? Keep doing this constant bed washing? I don't limit her liquids after dinner, but I make her pee right before bed. Maybe I do need to limit the liquids? I will start there I guess.
Thank you!