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We have recently been placed with two AAboys 6 1/2 and 9 years old. They were both physically abused and also for wetting! The 6 year old is pretty well ajusted except for one thing. He wets his pants slightly any where from 2- 6 times a day. We notice an odor and sure enough they are wet. He has seen a urologist two years ago and they have found nothing wrong at all. He is uncurcumsised and has extra skin. I have had the doctor show them both how to go and clean themselves properly. He says he is going the right way but still weting. We thing urine is getting trapped in the foreskin. Is the still going inproperly or ? Anyone heard of or experienced this problem ? He wants so badly to please Icannot believe he is not trying. The 9 year old wets the bed a----lot. We have woke him up every two hours and he still wets. He has been put in pullups every night and plastic pants for his entire time in foster care(3 years) maybe before. He has no shame for wetting and no desire to stop. We took the pull ups away and are making him strip his bed and do his own sheets and pajamas daily. We have been for the month we have had hinm when ever he leaks through. I do think he may have an irratated bladder as he goes to often during the day also.I have attempted the night time fluid restriction and daytime bladder stretching but he just sobs and sobs that it hurts. Help for both of our potty problems.
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they were recently placed and had been in foster care. they have been through alot and are still going through alot
i wouldnt make it an issue for now.
i know its hard and you want to have the bedwetting stop, but for now, its one of those issues that we, as adoptive parents, have to handle differently then if they were birth kids.
my suggestion...let them pee....hopefully when they start feeling more secure, it will stop
dadfor2
Our seven-year old also has trouble wetting in her sleep. She was using GoodNight pull-ups for quite a while, if not always. We noticed that she never seemed to need to go the bathroom as long as she had them on. Hmmm? She also seemed not to care a bit about being wet and stinky or wetting. We didn't want to make her feel bad by making an issue of it, but we also thought an almost eight-year old shouldn't be wearing diapers (wetting in her sleep is one thing, but wetting just because she can is another). We bought her a book called "Dry All Night." It has tips for parents and the last half is for kids to read. It is super LONG and we thought our daughter would not be interested. It tells the kids what to do, includes a chart to moniter their progress and suggests parents be as uninvolved as possible, so that the children really get a sense of responsibility for their bladder. Anyway, our little girl loves this book. She sleeps with it under her pillow, does everything it says and has not wet the bed this week since she stopped wearing the pull-ups. It is amazing how much she cared once we gave her the tools to work on it herself and she is so happy when she wakes up dry.
You can get a bedwetting alarm. There's a part that goes in the child's underwear at nighttime. If it detects any moisture, the alarm, which is pinned to their jammies, goes off. It wakes the child up so they'll go to the bathroom. I ordered one from the company directly. Their number is (800) 544-4240. I think there are other companies that make them too.