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Waterproof Duvet Covers
Relatives have a child who wets the bed. They have a waterproof mattress cover but have also been looking at waterproof duvet covers. They have said that reviews online are a bit mixed. Has anyone any experience of using them?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A friend of ours was caring for a relative with a similar problem, they used something I would never have thought of, puppy training pads. Cheaper than any purpose made product. Readily available in places like B & M and are large and super absorbent.
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One of our children wet the bed till they were nine, not regularly but often enough for it to be a problem/nuisance.
They wore pull-ups, not nappies, for a long time especially when we went away when the laundry facilities were not especially good. They eventually grew out of it, we never made a big issue of it as we knew they couldn't help it.
Those puppy pads are brilliant for protecting the mattress and useful for girls. Not so brilliant for boys and protecting the duvet cover.
I might be overstepping the mark here but my wife told a friend some years ago to put her boy in terry nappies when he started wetting the bed at 4. He really didn't like having a cold, soggy nappy and it seemed to work. They didn't make a big deal out of it, never scolded him or fussed him.
My younger daughter was dry at nights, aged 4. I began to work 1 or 2 days a week, leaving her with a teacher friend who had her own little boy (2) at home. Daughter began to bedwet. Whether she was angry with me or influenced by seeing a smaller child sleep without a care in the world, I don't know, but at 10 she was still bedwetting.
I was going nuts - I had to work by then and it was a lot of extra stress and work - we tried star charts, we tried everything, aided by a friend who was a specialist child support worker.
Eventually friend suggested hiring an alarm. A blanket under the sheet which beeps at the first drop of moisture. Idea is simple - it trains the child to be aware. We tried it. It worked at first then it stopped being effective for some reason.
Exhausted after a particularly hard day at school I came home to yet another soaked bed (no time to sort it in the morning) to discover that the electric lead had been disconnected by said child. She'd woken, pulled the plug and gone back to sleep..............
I put her subsequent dryness down to the thorough bollocking she was given.
Apart from that, one of those devices may be of help.
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