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I can assure you it is NOT laziness on his part. I know it is frustrating. My daughter is 9 and wets the bed every night! For my daughter, her brain does not excrete enough ADH (Anti-Diuretic Hormone) at night, so her kidneys do not get the signal to slow down on urine production. This is a common occurrence. I know you feel like you at the only mom on the planet that is dealing with this, but millions of children suffer from this. You need to discuss this with a pediatrician. There is medication that can help. I have opted not to use the meds. My pediatrician told me to be concerned if it is still occurring when she's 16. Most of the time, when puberty hits, the brain is in over-drive and will suddenly start producing the ADH it should. Good Luck. Our biggest problem is Sarah cannot spend the night with any of her friends. We tried one time and it was a disaster!

I have discussed this with my son.  I am very supportive with him and his bed wetting.  The thing with him is he wets his bed, gets up changes clothes and gets in mine then wets my bed gets up changes puts a blanket or sheet over the spot he wets and goes back to sleep.  What is this.  I know that your mind plays tricks on you when your sleeping where you think you are in the bathroom.  What else can I do?

I know exactly how you feel. My daughter was still wetting the bed up until about 12 years old. I would wake her up in the middle of the night for her to use the bathroom. I finally took her to a urologist who explained to my husband and I its not uncommon. He said there is some part in the brain that develops late in some kids (I can't remember which part). He gave my child some medication which helps with this and I was just to give her one pill prior to her going to sleep. This would stop her from bed wetting and eventually it did. She stopped using the bathroom at night. I know its frustrating I would say if you can take her to a urologist with this.

Mashell4-  Hello,  I have 4 children.... Let me rephrase that my children are grown now, but still my children ;>)  I had three out of four that wet their beds until age 16.  It was a maricle with each of them..... It was almost like a rite of passage to young adult life.  They just stopped.....  We went through everything to try to stop them.... Dr visits and nasel spray.  My youngest went through having a cath put in at the Dr. why????  I was at wits end with trying to keep up with bedding and the smell!!!!!  My kids felt bad because family would get after them if they wet.  Thier dad ws so hard on the boys.......  Then when their dad and I broke up and the youngest was with him was the worst.  They lived at a family friends for a time and the way this family tried to deal with it was shame.......  He would call me from HI crying.......  He hated everyone and I was worried about his mental health.  I called and got after them and soon his dad decided to move  into his own place.  My daughter had a friend that told her to eat dandelions.  SCARY... Parts of them are poisonous.  I didn't learn that part until a long time after it happened.   We tried bed wetting alarms.  nothing worked...... but age....;>)

He's getting alittle better I tirelessly wake up almost every hour to get him up during the night.  We are still working through this.  Thanks for all the advise.

As the mom of 5 kids, aged 22 years to 4 years old, and two were 'bedwetters'.   I was told that each year that passes, 10% of bedwetters will stop for 'no reason'.  One of my kids wet the bed until he was almost 8, and my youngest who is almost 5 still wets the bed.   I just stopped making an issue of it, and bought plenty of pull ups.  If your ped has checked your child, and there are no medical reasons for it, just keep buying pull ups, it will go away eventually.  I always make sure he pees before bed, and no special treatment, other than the pull ups.

My son wet the bed until he turned 10, i know it can be very fustrating. I talked to his dr about it, etc. Then the funny thing was that maybe a day or so after his 10th b-day he completely stopped and I havent had any problems since and he is now 12. They say there is really no cause for alarm unless they are over 10. So just be patient & supportive.

Dmazment your right I should invest in pull-ups, He wore them when we were potty training him, but after that I just never thought of continuing  that pratice.  I dont know why I feel as though getting up, breaking my sleep in the middle of the night is better.  I may try the pull ups again.