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1. Pee him when he goes to bed
2. Wake him up to pee when you go to bed
3. Pee first thing in the morning (wake him when you get up and then loop him on couch to snooze)
3. Make the bed like this: mattress protector, fitted sheet, mattress protector, fitted sheet, other sheets/blankets. That way you can strip the bed in 10 seconds and don’t have to remake it same night.
4. Patience. I wet the bed until second grade. Look at me now. :-)
I don’t know any 18 year olds wearing diapers It will happen naturally. There are ways to train quicker, but if they aren’t working for you and your family, then all will be fine if you just leave him in pull-ups. Likely by 5 or 6 he will be done.
Don't push it and shame him in the process. Some boys take awhile because they are such hard sleepers. My 9 year old is almost ready to be done with pull ups and we have just been patient. Doubt any of the advice would have worked because once the kid is asleep, not even fire alarms wake him.
Take away the crutch. No pull ups. No water before bed.
We used one of those bed wetting alarms for an older child that has some difficulties in staying dry at night. It worked wonders and he was done with it in a few weeks.
To help with the bed changes, we put regular underwear on, hooked up the alarm, then put a pullup on over the underwear. That way he still felt the wetness without soaking the bed.
Most pediatric urologists do not recommend waking them and forcing them to go. By doing that the brain and the bladder never learn to communicate.
Had the issue when one of my kids was 4. We used the nighttime bed wetting alarm. A week later he was potty trained. It gives a small shock at soon as it feels wetness. Make sure to use pads and vinyls covers under and you or your SO sleep with your son.
Agree to just let him grow out of it. Raising these things is tough enough without having to change pee sheets.
I second the suggestion to make sure using the toilet before bed becomes part of the routine.
Limit drinks an hour or 2 before bed. Other than that just wait it out. Are the pullups not keeping the bed dry? Our kids were them at night for a while. Some mornings they were dry and other mornings they were full. Make sure you use nighttime pullups and those things can hold a lot of pee. If the sheets are still getting wet each night then maybe I'd push it more.
No liquids for 2 hr before bed. Pee right before bed. I don’t think waking him up in the middle of the night is a good move. Your body should just work this out eventually. Assuming there is no medical reason he can’t make it through the night and finally be patient!
We did it at 3 with both kids. They just didn’t have the bladder it make it all night or the reaction time to get out of bed fast enough, even if they woke up. So we’d put them on potty when we went to bed (they were basically asleep and went right back down). We didn’t make them pee
In this an intern or your son ?
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Make him walk around the house without pants, underwear, or diaper on. After the First few times he pees on the floor...he’ll start to ask for help getting to the potty. Worked for us.