Still in nappies.

[Concerned mum]

Irene

Our problems are similar. Does your daughter want her nappies during normal school/daytime ?

My daugher seems to want her nappy all the time now (I have to use an onesie to stop the sagging). If I take them away she screams and I can't cope with her wet pants anymore. I've tried to make her wee before bed but she doesn't want to and by the morning she's so soaked that even the triple layer terry is wet.

Last week We walked up the road to see a friend- I decided to thickly nappied her for the 'just in case accident ' but i didn't want her using it so i asked is she needed to go. For 20 mins she said no so we went. Soon
as we left the house she stood on the pavement still for a while and I noticed that she was weeing her nappies so heavily that wee was dripping down her legs, yet after she didn't say anything and carried on walking. I was so crossed that we went back home and got her changed.

Is it normal for kids to want nappies particularly terries so much. Could it be the nappy towelling which sets off her babyish feelings ? She just wants her nappies to wee in ? Whenever I said it was nappytime she jumps with excitement.


We now have to use the childs version of adult terries (thicker) from kosikare.co.uk to cope.

[momguest]

Question to parents:

Do you think that children should be made to wear thick terry nappies and plastic pants if they still wet the bed after age 5 ?

spare a though for my cousin- When I was round her's on Thurs I oticed on her bed were two terry nappies (bigger than the baby size), nappy pins and a pair of plastic pants. when i quizzed her she said it was for her 9 yr old daughter as she has the occassional accident once or twice a week a night.

[laylamum]

I'm glad I'm not alone and its a great comfort to me that there are other mums with the same problem.
My daughter who is nearly 8 years old still wets the bed at night. We used disposables but they aren't really up to the job so I have used terry nappies and plastic pants fom Boots for the last few years.

Like one of the other mums, when she comes home from school she says I going up to lay on the bed. This is my cue from her that she wants to have her nappy on straight away - she doesn't want to wait until bedtime.

She'll often wet her nappy while watching TV so its soaked through well before she's due for bed and I have to change her into a double thick nappy.

Despite everything I've never been able to get rid of her various dummies either. She will scream ansd shout blue-murder if ever I try.

What worries me is that she will end up being a lonely teenager if this behaviour continues but she shows no sign of wanting to give up being a tantrummy toddler.

Irene

Hello Irene

I wouldnt really worry - my 8 yr old daughter is nappied every night in terrys and plastic pants which are wet every morning and sometimes dirty too. We have a poo issues aswell.

Why do you let her have a nappy on straight after school? does she poo in it also?

I dont nappy mine usually untill just befor bedtime now, I used to nappy her about an hour befor and let her watch tv but she quite often would wet the nappy and need changing again for bed or would leak in the night when she wet in her sleep. The only time she is now nappied earlier is when she needs it on as soon as she gets off the toilet at times when she is having pooing problems.

Does your Daughter ever wear just plastic pants?

[laylamum]

Question to parents:

Do you think that children should be made to wear thick terry nappies and plastic pants if they still wet the bed after age 5 ?

spare a though for my cousin- When I was round her's on Thurs I oticed on her bed were two terry nappies (bigger than the baby size), nappy pins and a pair of plastic pants. when i quizzed her she said it was for her 9 yr old daughter as she has the occassional accident once or twice a week a night.

I dont think its a problem, Is she nappied every night just in case she wets?

[mummy 2]

Do you think that an older girl i.e. aged 8 and above should still be given terry nappies as a source of love and comfort if she still wets her pants/bed at night.

I was given adult type terries till I was 16 until my bed was finally dry- even now I have the ocassional accident. After aged 7 it was even the spanking or the nappy towelling under my clothes (which was the better option) for we panties!

[Suzanne too]

When I was babysitting I sat for a family of 5 kids 3 girls 2 boys all bedwetters. The kids mum used terry nappies and plastic panties on all of them ages 3 to 11. Usually when I went there to sit it was just at the time when she would be getting the youngest ones ready for bed. She would lay put the double terry's and place the child in the middle of them. Apply a rash creme pin the nappies and put the plastic pants on. Then at half hour or so intervals after that one of the older kids was put into nappies, the older ones got a double terry plus a soaker under their plastic panties. All the kids stopped bedwetting around age 12. This was the first time I had heard of 5 bedwetters int he same house.

[newguest]

what brand of terry nappies did u use on your kids ?

Did anyone use zorbit supremes ?

[naughtygirlsmum]

Hi Jasmin

I think see only wanted a terry nappy because she knew she's have to wear plastic pants.That's why she got upset at a disposables unless she could wear plastic pants with them, and then I saw her wearing plastic pants on their own.She was touching the pants when I came into her room.

I hope I don't need to find adult ones!

If I am honest I wouldnt worry - my 12 yr old daughter wears plastic panties in bed on their own - she likes them and is happy - I havnt let her know that I know that she also dirties her knickers on purpose.

Leah.

[Sooz]

I thought I was the only one with a daughter with "questionable" toileting habits, until found this site a while ago. It has taken a lot of courage to make a post here.

My daughter is 13 years old, nearly 14. She is totally "normal": well-balanced, bright, intelligent, sensible, happy, physically and mentally mature for her age - apart from one thing. She still wears nappies and plastic panties. We've been through all the Doctor/Urologist stuff (nothing wrong), psychologists, alarms, etc.. She's never really been dry at night and now seems to have given-up totally. Basically, when she's not at school, most of the time she's in nappies, and this seems to be her choice of underwear. She deals with it herself nowadays - she even does her own washing. Even when she is at school she wears discreet "Tena" pads in her panties - and I think she must change them several times a day, judging by how many packs I have to buy!

We are very close, and she tells me that she "likes" wearing nappies. The other day she said "they are sexy". Okay, I can cope with that, each to her own. I understand that many adults enjoy this, as I have discovered many internet sites which are dedicated to such things. But at 13yo?

I'm worried. Yes, I feel guilty, because I think I've "gone wrong" somewhere, but more importantly, I foresee many problems as she starts dating, as she progresses further into adolescence/adulthood, and starts to take on the challenges of real life. She says it won't be a problem, but I can't see that. She says I worry too much. Maybe I do.

Perhaps I should just learn to live with it? Anyone else in a similar situation?

[Confused_of_London]

Surely if you don't let your child wear nappies, there is no way it can enjoy wetting its nappies. If you don't buy nappies for the child, where's it going to get them from? Stop it. I'm at a loss to understand why people keep feeding this habit in their kids and then being exasperated by it.

[Kitty3]

My 7 year old stil acts like a baby, although i have to nappy her during her sleep, as she wets so heavily. She doesn't mind her terries, and is happy to run around the house wearing 3 folded terries with pins and a top even when she's wet. She's never asked for them to be taken off even to go for a wee.

anyone else have this problem ?

[Sooz]

Yup, see above!

[Sooz]

Surely if you don't let your child wear nappies, there is no way it can enjoy wetting its nappies. If you don't buy nappies for the child, where's it going to get them from? Stop it. I'm at a loss to understand why people keep feeding this habit in their kids and then being exasperated by it.

You obviously do not understand the problem. One tries to achieve a balance. Does one go for euthymia, by "feeding the habit", as you put it, or end-up with a dyseuthymic child through denial?

Life is never as simple as you might imagine......

Sooz

[Sheesh]

For those readers who don't have the benefit of a classical Greek linguistic education: euthymic means content and diseuthymic means discontent.

Everyone has to learn that they can't always get what they want in life and peeing in one's clothing is a pretty good place to start. Why are people so afraid to say tough S*** to their kids?? So they can't crap their pants. Aww. They can't have a new pony every week either. Let them live with it.[/code]

[Guest]

For those readers who don't have the benefit of a classical Greek linguistic education: euthymic means content and diseuthymic means discontent.

Everyone has to learn that they can't always get what they want in life and peeing in one's clothing is a pretty good place to start. Why are people so afraid to say tough S*** to their kids?? So they can't crap their pants. Aww. They can't have a new pony every week either. Let them live with it.[/code]