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Bedwetting
10% of all boys at age 6 are still bedwetting and it only decreases by 5% a year thereafter. Aprox 3% of all boys are still bedwetting at age 12 although it normally corrects itself during the onset of puberty.
I know all this because my 7 year old is off to Children's Hospital next week for an evaluation at a clinic. They usually wont look at kids under the age of 5, but if your son is still bedwetting at 5 I would suggest taking him to the doc and he will request a bladder ultrasound and a urinanalysis to rule out infection.
It is a genetic condition ... 50% change of inheriting it if your bio parents were bedwetters. (he is our bio son) and although neither I or my husband were bedwetters, we both have siblings that were.
We have tried the medications (which work for 99% of all who try them, but are VERY expensive), no fluids after supper, night waking (which is not recommended by docs) but literally the house could fall down around my son and he would sleep through it. Nothing has worked ... thus the clinic BUT ONLY because it is bothering him.
Once I understood that he would eventually out grow it and the best thing we can do is make it as "normal" as possible ... that helped. Ohh the joys of endless stinky pullups!!!
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