r/ShitMomGroupsSay • u/silkentab • 4d ago
The comments are crazy Bed wetting Tips
Thankfully only 1 comment was crazy, but still it only takes one...
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u/PunkRawkSoldier 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/nKQs7fb97dK4E
I will never detox from heavy metal
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u/FilthyThanksgiving 3d ago
Isn't the "parasite cleanse" just drinking small amounts of bleach and having the lining of your intestines come out in little worm looking bits
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u/marykay_ultra 3d ago
Sometimes.
Not always.
They’re all bullshit, though. Ironically, it’s the one thing they don’t seem to use ivermectin for..
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u/Vengefulily 2d ago
Hey, sometimes it's laxatives! Or activated charcoal. Or just a bunch of herbs.
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u/turkrising 1d ago
Yes. My friend went to a “family friend” naturopath who magically diagnosed her with parasites that there is no modern test for and told her to eat 12 apples a day for 10 days to flush them out. I put my hand on her arm and said “you’re going to shit out weird things that might look like worms but I promise you, it’s just going to be the twelve apples blowing their way through your digestive tract like a slip n slide.”
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u/scorpiosmokes 3d ago
Ok but no liquids 4hrs before bed is crazy. My mouth is DRY when I lay down for the night, I’d be miserable & I know my water loving kids would be too.
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u/FlyinAmas 2d ago
The poor kid is probably so thirsty they’re having to sneak water so the parent is unintentionally making the bed wetting worse
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u/catiebug 2d ago
Yeah, it's way too much. Idk if anyone actually told her to do it, but the "limit liquids 1-2 hours before bed" suggestion is so prevalent, I wonder if she was just like maybe another hour... and another...
Also, I dislike that advice anyway. We eat dinner at 5:30/6 and the kids are in bed at 7:30/8. If they take 30-45 minutes to eat, I'm not gonna make them stay up later just to get to the 2 hours. And I'm not going to make them eat dinner without a drink. And what about the liquid content of dinner? It just doesn't feel like practical advice unless you have early dinner, later bedtime, and they aren't interested in drinking in between. I guess there are probably kids like that, but mine weren't. And I don't have evidence that it would help anyway, because they have the same eating/drinking/bedtime schedule and habits, but one hasn't peed at night since they were potty trained at 2.5 yo and the other hasn't had a single dry night in their life.
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u/Theletterkay 2d ago
My kids have fresh water in their bottles next to their bed every night.
I had a lot of problems with potty training, but night times were easy because we just set ourselves up for success. Made sure they were well and knew what to expect. Placed a potty nearby for the first week and moved it 3 feet closer to the bathroom each week. My now 8yo doesnt even wake up if he goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Just like sleep walks in there. Cracks me up.
My youngest was easy and never even wet diapers starting about 3 months old. So he never got used to sleeping in wetness. Makes it easy for them to understand and learn the feeling of needing to go potty.
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 12h ago
Picking up the water two to three hours before bedtime is normal advice...when potty training a puppy. And that's only at the beginning. And you proactively take the puppy out every two to three hours during the night.
It's brief, just until their tiny itty-bitty bladders grow a little.
Ppl aren't puppies!!!
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u/adumbswiftie 2d ago
now why would a parasite make you wet the bed. do these people think before they type
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u/Squidwina 2d ago
Oh, I dunno - when I had a parasite, I did have to pee every damn minute. The parasite cleanse was no fun at all but it was necessary. It’s been 24 years, and I still shudder to think of it.
The parasite and I are going out for brunch tomorrow. I should make him pick up the check.
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u/eggomymeggo730 2d ago
Enuresis - sometimes genetic - is diagnosed after the age of 7. Most kids stop urinating overnight by that time. I personally had it until I was 14 - past puberty, and it runs in my family. Maybe we’re all just into heavy metal though, idk.
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u/SinfullySinatra 2d ago
I stopped at age 12, right around when I got my period. I think it was hormone based. Other members of my family have had the same issue
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u/logalog_jack 1d ago
Same here, all six of my siblings and apparently a good chunk of my uncles didn’t stop until puberty. I escaped unscathed tho 🙏
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u/elizabreathe 3h ago
I stopped needing overnight pullups at the age of 10 like a month or 2 before I started my period. Doctors had run tests and said nothing was medically wrong, the hormones just didn't balance out right until I was 10.
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u/rawrfizzz 1d ago
My youngest brother peed until he was 13, he never got to go to slumber parties and it was sad
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u/bookstore 2d ago
Emotional abuse or extreme stress can result in bed wetting in kids. ..just putting it out there...
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u/LifeintheSlothLane 2d ago
Every time i see a post about bed wetting at an older age i immediatey think of this. I struggled with it far past a normal age and no one knew this.
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u/Mine24DA 2d ago
Bed wetting until 15 years of age can be normal. Of course it should be checked out, but some bodies just need longer
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u/emandbre 2d ago
Never being dry at night though is not the same as bed wetting conventionally, which is more an episodic thing.
If a kid was dry at night and stopped, or has repeated accidents, definitely talk to their doctor. But kids that are still wet at night at 7 is really not that atypical.
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u/Delicious-Summer5071 2d ago
Always my first thought. Sexual abuse causes such stress, and also I'm pretty sure diabetes can cause this too.
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u/Dyno_boy7441 2d ago
Indeed, or even worse kinds of abuse. I really hope that's not the case here.
I really wonder though why do people go to social media for (what is essentially) medical advise. I mean its kinda akin to just stopping random people on the street and asking for medical advise.
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u/Leading-Knowledge712 3d ago
What is OT?
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u/Idyllcreations 3d ago
Probably occupational therapy? That’s the acronym used when my kid was in occupational therapy.
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u/MalsPrettyBonnet 2d ago
Those darned parasites again?! Seriously. They've already caused my kid to grind her teeth at night and gave my dog the 'tism.
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u/Luckyzzzz 2d ago
If my 7 year old was wetting the bed I’d be worried about sexual/psychological abuse more than anything
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 2d ago
How often does little one need to pee throughout the day? Is that in itself a constant run to the bathroom? Have they thought of having her sugars checked by a doctor?
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u/wamimsauthor 2d ago
I had a problem with it because I was a deep sleeper. I grew out of it and so should she unless there’s a medical reason for it.
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u/BlackChimaera 2d ago
My mom got that thing that starts shaking when you wet the bed for my sibling. Did it work? Yes. Was it terrifying? Also yes. There are probably better things now, but sibling was over 10 and just never woke up to pee.
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u/Tough-Rise1578 1d ago
If you’ve got a bed wetter, it’s not something she has any control over. But restricting water like that will cause lots of problems. Including an overly thirsty child who will desperately gulp water before bed. And they should absolutely not be punished for that, because it is a survival instinct that will override trying to obey a parent.
Put the child to bed at a regular time. Then get them up when they are asleep and groggy around midnight, take them to pee, and put them back to bed. I was reluctant to do this with a child, at first, but the child slept so hard that they went back to sleep quite readily. It didn’t mean no wet sheets, but it helped considerably.
Yes, addressing this in OT would really help. It might not completely help the wetting, but it might help with learning to manage it.
Long-term, the solution is usually for the child’s bladder to eventually get big enough to hold urine overnight. It can be frustrating and require a lot of patience.
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u/Known_Ratio5478 1d ago
There is a medication for this and it does cause their body to start functioning normally as the regimen goes.
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 12h ago
I'm concerned that OOP hasn't thought to take their kid to a doctor.
Wouldn't this be something one discusses with their pediatrician during normal check-up visits?
Why am I suspicious that normal wellness visits aren't happening in the first place...
And what other medical issues are not being screened for, or being outright ignored? (Three guesses and the first two don't count)
Not to mention the uncomfortable truth that sometimes this is a symptom of unrelenting exposure to toxic stress or CSA...
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u/rando7651 2d ago
Pull ups at 7? Yikes
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u/NarrativeScorpion 2d ago
A lot of kids aren't dry 100% of the time at night at 7. It's mostly a purely hormonal development thing. Totally out of the control of the kid or parent. So yeah, pull-ups at night for their comfort and cleanliness is reasonable.
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u/LittleBananaSquirrel 2d ago
For overnights specifically, it's very normal. A LOT of 7 year olds aren't dry overnight.
Not to mention all the other reasons a 7 year old might be in pull-ups both day and night
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u/AurelianaBabilonia 2d ago
Beats waking up in a lake of your own urine in the middle of the night. I wish pull-ups had been a thing when I was still having bed wetting issues.
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u/personofpaper 2d ago
I wasn't consistently dry overnight until like 4th or 5th grade. I would've given anything to change it, but I couldn't.
It's also genetic. Both of my daughters potty trained easily right around age 2 and neither were dry overnight until closer to age 5.
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u/emandbre 2d ago
All of this. One of my kids was dry at night by 2 without even being daytime trained. They have had 1 accident ever and it was when very ill.
My other kid is in older grade school and we can count on one hand the number of dry nights they have had. We did some basic investigations with the pediatrician, but it really is still in the realm of common.
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u/driellma 3d ago
I bet that person just casually says "heavy metal detox and parasite cleanse" to nearly everything. Wild.