Jo,

I personally wet the bed until I was old enough to get up and take care of it by myself (I'm not sure how old I was, but probably 8 or 9). My twin sister never wet the bed. My 7-year-old daughter never has wet the bed, by 3-year-old son never has wet the bed, but my 5-year-old daughter would be wet every night if she didn't have a pull-up on. She knows she needs them and prefers it to waking up wet. We've ran out a time or two, and on those occasions I have personally set my alarm to get up with her a couple of times in the night to take her to the bathroom, but she still wakes up wet. In the mornings her pull-up is very full and heavy. My mom told me to just be glad they have pull-ups nowadays, because when I was little there was no such thing (not even disposable diapers), so I'll keep buying them as long as I need to. I have a plastic liner on the mattress, so on those rare occasions when even her pull-up leaks and she gets wet that way, I just get a towel, put it over the wet area, and she can get back into bed quicker that way (and so can I!) after she changes her P.J.'s We just have to wait for their bodies and brains to coordinate enough to wake them up to go, I guess.

TrudyP
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