Bedwetting Support Group

Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or the teen or adult years. Find others who are coping with a bedwetting problem and share your experiences and questions.

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Bedwetting son/babysitter problem

EmilyMar
EmilyMar

Hi, I have an 8 year old son who is a bedwetter and wears disposable diapers to bed. I hire a neighbor girl who is 13 to babysit him frequently. She is fairly new to watching him but she is very good. My son is having priblems when she is watching him at and past his bedtime. He is very uncooperative with her when it comes time for him to get his diaper on. Last night, the same problems came up again. He refuses to undress, back talks and doesn't follow her instructions during his diapering. He has told me already he is embarrassed that Jasmine, the babysitter sees him naked. I told him he has to get past this as he needs help with the diapers, needs them for his night time accidents and since she is older and in charge, he has to cooperate with her and follow her instructions. Jasmine is a wonderful and caring responsible young girl who is in nerd of sone extra spending money and is a wonderful babysitter. I'd hate to stop using her but its frustrating for her my son acts this way. Has any other mom's had this problem? What can be done to fix it? Any suggestions would be greatly aporeciated. Im a single (divorced) mom who has just stated dating again. As my ex is no where ti be found, I rely on babysitters quite a bit and its so hard finding one as good as Jasmine is. Thank you in advance for your help. Sincerely, Emily

EmilyMar
EmilyMar
Working on the keeping it pointed down now when he's in the pull ups. The pad is placed in the front no not sure how he leaked out the top of the pull up. Tonight will be another night with the pull up. I am going out on a date again. Jasmine the sitter will be here tonight. I've already spoken to her about pad placement and to tell my son to keep it pointed down when he changes into the pull up. Fngers crossed no leaks. Still have him in the diapers the rest of the nights.
msuspartax
msuspartax
Did it work out better this time. There is some trial and error involved, but I'm sure you'll figure a workable solution.
Anisha
Anisha
what helped with me and my sister was that when we grew out of the pull-up sizes mom searched on the internet for more absorbent diapers together with us, so we could see how they look like and decided (sort-of) together what type of diaper we had wear. there is a great variety available and it made fun to do this shopping.
donny444
donny444
I realize this is an old post however have vivid memories of bedwetting diapers and baby sitters. When I was 8-9 I really disliked having my nightime diapers (in those days pin on cloth with plastic pants) put on me by the 15 year old neighbor boy that would babysit us. My 0 year old brother and me were supervised taking our bath then getting ready for bed. My brother would tease me when Scott was putting my diaper on for bed. I would complain to my mom about this but she would simply say “well if you didn’t wet the bed, it wouldn’t be necessary”
I felt like a baby every night anyway but the babysitter diapering made the feelings much worse.
I don’t have great solutions to this problem but as a parent please be aware your bedwetting son or daughter feels small enough already and needs plenty of encouragement. This is not a body control problem as any child would prefer this condition stops.