| Was someone in one of your parents families a bed wetter? This is usually hereditary.
I've got 5 kids and a husband who started sleeping dry at 9 yrs. My oldest (now 12) slept dry at 9, the 2nd one at 9 (he's almost 10), 3rd one at 2 (since he's potty trained), the next one, who's 5 still wears Pull-UPs and then there's the 20 ms. old.
Nothing really helped me. When they felt they were ready, they started drinking less at night time. (I cannot tell a child "No" when they asked to drink), or whatever. It just worked then.
If your sister shows some readiness signs, like waking up with a dry Pull-Up for 3 nights in a row, your mother can encourage it, otherwise I would just wait. I'ts not her fault.
As someone said above, most doctors consider it quite normal until age 5-6.
Good Luck!
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Jan 26th, 2010, 14:10 PM
