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Does your child wet the bed?
If so, you know that bedwetting can add an incredible amount of stress and uncertainty to family life.
Why?
So many of us have been led to believe that bedwetting can be controlled, and therefore when it’s not, we worry that it’s someone’s “fault.” Parents worry that we aren’t limiting liquids well enough, or being consistent enough about waking the child in the middle of the night. Or we fear that our child is lazy or that there’s something wrong with him.
I know, because I’ve been there. And I believed all those things, too.
I eventually learned, though, that bedwetting is incredibly common, even in older kids, affecting as many as 1 in 6 children. It usually isn’t something the child can control, and very rarely is it related to a worrisome health condition. Even more surprising, it’s quite common for children as old as 9, 10 or beyond to occasionally or frequently wet the bed.
For many kids, bedwetting is simply a hiccup on the bumpy road of growing up.
So at some point, I decided to change my strategy from control to comfort. I looked at my goals for myself, my child and my entire household, and decided that it was much more important that we all got a good night’s sleep and woke up feeling happy and well-rested rather than guilty or stressed about “failing” to stay dry through the night or having to change wet sheets several mornings a week.
Instead of trying to force my child over a very natural developmental hurdle, I decided it was my job to offer support, love and as much comfort as possible to make the process less stressful for all of us.
And guess what? Eventually, each of my bedwetting kids did outgrow it, all on their own.
For nearly six years now, I have been a proud member of the GoodNites Nite Lite Panel. It’s the longest brand partnership I’ve ever been a part of, and in fact, even pre-dates this blog! That’s because I believe in the Nite Lite Panel – and GoodNites products – so much, and want to help other parents and kids get a better night’s sleep and wake up feeling good, too.
So today I’m really excited to share with you GoodNites’ newest product: GoodNites* TRU-FIT* Underwear.
Unlike other bedwetting underpants on the market, GoodNites* TRU-FIT* are real underwear that can be machine washed. They come with a special, absorbent insert that slides into a pocket in the underwear and stay in place all night to keep kids dry. What a huge boon for kids who are beginning to go on sleepovers – or who just want to wear “regular” underwear to bed!
Today, I’m giving away a GoodNites* TRU-FIT* Starter Pack, plus a Refill Pack, to two lucky readers! Starter Packs each come with two pair of real cotton-blend underwear and five inserts. TRU-FIT* Refill Packs come with 16 or 18 inserts, depending on size.
For a chance to win, simply leave a comment below!
I’d love to hear if you’ve struggled with bedwetting in your house and what your approach has been.
Official rules: Contest will end at 10 PM EST on Friday, December 5. Open to entrants with addresses in the U.S. or Canada only. Winner will be drawn at random and notified via the email address included in comment.
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These would be great for Cub Scout overnights!
My three year old is fully potty trained during the day, but only makes it through about half of the nights dry. Some nights he can wake up and make it to the bathroom, some nights he can’t. So we’ve just kept him in diapers overnight so we don’t have to change sheets so often, but I think that might be holding him back. Might have to get some of these!
My middle child at 4 and half still wets the bed; and after trying getting up and taking her ot the bathroom at 10pm and 4am (yes, she needs it twice) I decided that sleep is more important for all of us. As I have diapers on hand for our 1yo, the 4yo wears one of those diapers to bed. BUT, it’s starting to be an issue. So this is super interesting to me. I’m wondering if it can handle “heavy” wetting?
My son is 6 1/2 and still wears the regular Goodnites each night. We call them his “nighttime underwear”. He really wants to stop wearing them, but his bed would be wet every morning. 🙁
I saw these Goodnites TruFit in Target a few weeks ago. Very interesting. I really think it could help kids – especially older ones who have a bedwetting issue – to gain confidence and feel like they are “normal” by wearing “normal” underwear.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the TruFit underwear!!!
I have 3 boys and 3 bedwetters. Out of 9 grandkids, 7 of them were bedwetters until an age range of 7-10. It’s a genetic thing! My boys are 9, 6 & 5. Our pediatrician has advised us to just let them grow out of it, but has said a bedwetting alarm is the most effective way of helping them learn to stop. We have always just used Pull Ups and Goodnights, but recently our financial situation has changed and we decided it was time to try the bedwetting alarm so we can stop having to buy Goodnights. We started with our 5yr old since he was the one that was dry more often. After two and a half weeks of the alarm waking him up, he has now been dry 5 nights in a row! He usually wakes up and goes to the toilet once or twice in the night and is so proud of himself. I’m interested in these new Goodnights Trufit for my 9yr old. He has a harder time with interrupted sleep, so we won’t be using the alarm with him until summer break. But as he is the deepest sleeper of them all and wets the most, I wonder also if it would be able to handle “heavy” wetting?
I didn’t know about Goodnights. Thanks for the chance to enter!
We use them at our house. They work great.
I was a bedwetter myself so when my kids wet the bed during the night it was easy for me to understand, having gone through that myself. But thank God so far the two older ones have rare accidents now, we just had them in pull-ups until we noticed they usually had dry nights. Now we have a two year old daughter who just went through with day time potty training, hopefully she will be done with bed wetting in the next couple years.
My son has not had any problems with bedwetting, but my niece really struggles. She is such a heavy sleeper, norhing wakes her, which often leands to wet wake-ups! These would be great for her!! Much beeted than her current system!
My kindergarten son is dying to be dry at night, and though we’ve tried many times, he just can’t do it. 🙁 He sleeps in a pull-up but I know he’s starting to get embarrassed by it. I’d love to try these!
I’ve been using these “nighttime underpants” for my four year old for about two months now. She gets to feel like a big girl and I get a dry bed in the morning. With two younger sisters in diapers she likes that she no longer has to wear a diaper to bed also.
Thanks for this article. It is so helpful to remember it is developmental. I would love to try the new underwear with my 5 1/2 year old boy.
Would love to try these with my newly day time potty trained daughter, that way we could avoid the confusion of pull-ups at night.
I’m so thankful more people and aware of this as a developmental issue and not a power struggle. It breaks my heart when I hear of the ways some parents punish their kids. Our three boys are in varying stages of development with this and we have taken the stance of patience and love. Yes, I have to wash sheets often, even with GoodNites, but this won’t last forever, neither will their innocence and lack of feeling self-conscious about themselves. Thank you for helping to prolong both.
Well said!!
Thank you for writing about this. For those of us with older bed wetters, it is refreshing to hear about supportive strategies and not suggestions about what I am doing wrong. Fingers crossed I win this great treat!!!
I wanted to chime in as the mom of a MUCH older kid (turned 11 this year) who only recently is dry. It was super frustrating for him. He is a classic VERY heavy sleeper, the kind of kid I feared would sleep through the fire alarm right outside his bedroom. The pediatrician told us it should end at age ten. And (fingers crossed) it seems like she was right! Although for him it was nearly 11. So for those of you who are mentioning five-year-olds, just be aware that it may go on way longer than you were expecting. Neither my husband nor I have bedwetting in the family that we know of. The most helpful thing for my kid was the bedwetting alarm — he really wanted to give it a try. That did not solve, but did greatly diminish his bedwetting. I can tell you it will pass.
Thanks for the reassurance! My son is 9 and we’ve tried waking him up at night, the alarm, miralax, and heirs wetting the bed less now, but still sometimes. We really try to be patient and “no big deal” about it, but the piles of laundry are no fun at all!
These are so cool! Both my daughters have night wetting and are just starting to stop in the last few months. Prior to that it was every night and they are 7 years old. We worried about all of the things you mentioned in the post and as they started school they began to be embarrassed about it. Even without any pressure about it being “wrong” from us. They had one sleepover where they were really worried about wetting and had to take Goodnites along and try to hide them. I know the stress of this made their first sleepover less fun. I wish these had been out then!
My 5 year odl son is such a deep sleeper that he does not even want to try to go without his diaper overnight. The TruFit underwear have been great for him. It would be great to have more.
Thanks for the heads up, I had no idea these existed, and my boys would really love to wear underwear to sleep, but we were DONE with the changing cold soggy sheets in the middle of the night and went back to pull ups. These sound like a great transition.
What a wonderful option. We have very old bedwetters, and it is beginning to be a difficult thing to navigate in out-of-our-home situations. Thanks for the tips…and the release from guilt! 🙂
This would be so helpful now that we switched to bunk beds – so much harder to change the sheets!
We have recently been struggling with bed wetting and my 5 year old. I remember how poorly the issue was handled by my father and I knew I needed help. I talked to our pediatrician who gave the usual, limit fluids and wake up in the middle of the night to potty but what really helped was her letting us know that it is usually an issue for kids who sleep very deeply, which is certainly the case for us. Just knowing that we will eventually outgrow it, keep doing what we are doing and not make a big deal out of it or see it as a discipline issue is the greatest thing. But we would defiantly love to try these!
this looks like an interesting product to try.
What a great giveaway. We did struggle with this with both kids – they are such heavy sleepers! We just worked on it bit by bit until they outgrew it.
My daughter was a bed wetter until she was 8 years old. She became embarrassed at school when a “friend” found her GoodNights Pullups and told the other kids in their class. We were very patient with her, but, nothing was working. I was using the “she’ll out grow it” philosophy with a lot of love and reassurance, but, when she was teased at school it was time for drastic measures. Fortunately it was near the end of 2nd grade, and we were able to try an alarm system over the summer. She was nearly fully potty trained with in two weeks. When we stopped using the alarm (after a couple of months) she was fine for a while. But, when she started bed wetting again, we pulled the alarm back out and used it again. She has now been a dry night-time sleeper for over a year and is so happy about it. Also, it is genetic as my sister was a bedwetter into high school. We no longer need the pullups or the Tru-fit, I just wanted to offer reassurance to other parents who are stressed/upset/worried about their child. Not every way will work for everyone, but, I highly recommend the alarm.
My little guy is such a heavy sleeper that he can’t be waken up just to potty and go back to bed. We try to call his overnights “sleep underwear” but he knows better and calls them diapers… When we are at home, it’s a non-issue, but when we travel and he shares beds with his cousin, comments are made. Luckily, my guy could care less what his cuz says, but I always worry one day it’ll matter to him. These are a great camouflage option!
I’m so glad I stumbled upon this blog. I have 2 bed wetters & would love to give these a try with my 6 year old. The 4 year old doesn’t mind wearing a pull-up. I’m getting very weary of the laundry everyday even though I do put several water proof layers on her bed. I try to be patient about it as though it were normal part of our day for her to bring down her wet bedding. I’m also encouraged by the comments- this is a new experience for me as my 1st five children have stayed dry through the night since they were potty trained and I sometimes wonder where I went wrong training these 2. I also have a few in diapers so we’ll see how they do:).
I would love to try these as my 5 year old son still has accidents at night. I hate putting him in pull-ups but I also hate changing the sheets at 3 am- these would be great for both of us!
These are what we have been waiting for with my 6 year old…
Those would be great for sleepovers!
I tried every thing for my 4-5 old year girl I tried them out and she is now OK for sleep over new
I have tried everything for my nine yr old son, like you mentioned in your article. Waking several times a night and still wet in the am and grumpy. limiting liquids in the afternoon and evening, wound up constipated and backed up several times. tried medication for two and half years. I quite giving it to him, after dose being increased a few times. It didn’t liit wetting, and made him more groggy and tired in the am. Goodnites are good, but he is so embarrassed and doesn’t want to go to overnights because of his pullups/goodnites. I don’t know what else to change other than hoping he out grows the problem. These would be nice to try.
I have a 9 year old son that hasn’t woken up dry in the nine years he’s been on this earth. We don’t pressure him or ever try and guilt him about it and realize he’ll grow out of it eventually. Silently and to myself I hope this is sooner than later! Seeing that GoodNites is now offering real underwear will be GREAT news for my son. He hides his “night nights” when his friends come over so they don’t see that he wears them. 🙁
My older daughter is 7 and she wets the bed almost every night. At first I was concerned about it, especially as she got older, however I don’t want to make this a big deal. We make sure she goes to the bathroom right before bed, try to limit liquids yet it still happens. She is a very deep sleeper and my younger brother was a bed wetter till he was older, apparently it is heredity. I am okay with it-although ask me again when she is 8!
Would love to get these for my daughter!
My son was born with urinary and gastrological issues (he is 100% incontient and has a colostomy) and has to wear pull-ups. He is teased for having to wear diapers at age 9. He would LOVE these! what a confindence booster!!!! underpants that we can use replaceable pads and no one would know he has to wear diapers!!!
It seems perfect for my oldest son, doesn’t make him think of wearing diaper. He has bladder issue, unlike my daughter or my other son, they are almost there, always dry. He would love this for sure.
My almost four-year-old has been potty trained for almost two years, but she can’t stay dry through the night. I would love to try these on her and save the diapers for my six month old!
We have not tried the tru fit yet but we would love too! My son has a medical condition so we actually use goodnites all day and all night! We have used them for about 10 years! We have tried all the other brands and nothing compares to goodnites. I’m excited to try the tru fit I think it would great for his self esteem. He has never been able to wear real underwear!