Toddler Wetting Bed
Posted by cassie on Friday, 6 June, 2008 @ 7:26 am
My DS is 21 months old and “discovered” himself several months ago. We had a problem with him walking around with his hand in his pants for awhile but he’s since learned that you do this in your room or in private, that other people don’t want to see it. We also switched him to using only Pampers (instead of Luvs during the day/Pampers at night) and this seemed to have helped as well.
Fast forward to about a month ago and he is now playing with himself at night which leads to him wetting the bed because he either moves his diaper or pulls his penis out.
We’ve tried putting him in onesie pjs, Huggies Overnight diapers, Pampers pull-ups, etc to see if this would help with the issue and it hasn’t. We even switched his bubble bath to Burt’s Bees to reduce the possibility that it was soap making him itchy (he’s uncircumcised) and washing him down with clean water before coming out of the tub. While we are discussing it with him that he needs to go pee pee in the potty or his diaper not his bed, I don’t really think he is getting it. It seems as though he is holding it until morning though because when I go and get him he is freshly wet and very upset over the fact. My mom has suggested working on potty training but I don’t know if that will reduce or add to my troubles.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Washing his blankets and bedding AND making the bed up again every day is beyond a pain for me and an embarrassment to him.
I’ve posted this on several forums and heard back from a couple of moms that their sons have done this too. Interestingly enough the ones that have written back to me have said their sons are uncircumcised too. I don’t know if there is a corolation between the two but something to think about.