Every morning Rebecca wakes up and washes her eight-year-old son Lachlan’s urine-soaked sheets and doona while he jumps in the shower to get clean.
For the last three years the family have tried doctors, physios, drugs and alarms to help him stop wetting the bed, but so far nothing has helped.
“At age five Lachlan was still wearing pull-up nappies in bed at night, so we didn’t realise it was a problem. As soon as we took them away in preparation for starting school, we noticed that he wet the bed most nights.
“At first, my husband Paul and I hoped he would grow out of it, but it became a nightly occurrence, even if we woke and took him to the toilet at 10pm. By that stage he was refusing to wear the pull-up nappies at all, as his little brother Jude had also stopped using them with no issue.”
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I bought the therapee pad that popped up on Facebook and have used it for 9 days. It has the website with interactive charts and video guides. My son has started waking when it goes off at last which is a step in the right direction and it’s easier to deal with then the wired alarm. My son is eleven. The star chart is a real motivator for him.
Are you sure he’s warm enough at night? Adjusting the heating in my son’s bedroom has made all the difference.