And to think that my child does not wet bed at night

Since I got into the business of making waterproof cloth potty training pants, I have been contacted by many parents for their children who still wet bed at night by 4, 5, 6, even 7 years old. I have been thinking about bed wetting drama in my family.

The three youngest of five of us had bed wetting issue. If my big brother and my oldest sister had the issue remains untold to me till today.

I had bed wetting problem until graduation of elementary school, that is, 12 years old. Usually on the nights I wetted bed, it started with a dream of me running to find a restroom, then I heard the sound of water fountain and would wake up at that moment, found I could not reverse or control the "water fountain" flowing and only let it control me and empty itself all out. I have to admit it was not comfortable at all to sleep on wet and hot (our bed is made of clay and is heated under) sheet. So I would roll to another place of the bed. By then my mother would already know that I wetted bed, she would take off my quilt, spank me very hard on my buttocks and say she spanked me so hard that her palm was hurting. I could also hear my father talking to my mother from the other side of our bed that my mother forgive me and not spank me. What was I doing and thinking at that moment? - pretending I was in sound asleep, neither knew I had wetted bed nor knew my mother spanked me for it. I thought I was clever and that my mother didn't know I was pretending. In my heart and mind, I have no bitter feeling for my mother spanking me, I actually felt released that it was over and soon fell asleep again. It was my mother who would have to wash the beddings (by hand, no electricity, no washing machine). Sorry and thank you, mommy.

Side story, yes, we slept in one wide bed, as wide as the whole room with my parents on two ends and we children in the between. How come there were five of us, or four of us later, technically? We haven't a clue.

My sister who is just older than me had bed wetting problem until later than 12, maybe 15 I think. However she would wake up right in the middle of it and try to make the rest of it into our night potty. It seldom worked. One time it was obviously she did not make it to our potty but our dad's hat instead which fell off the wall to the floor. She was so embarrassed by such an unfortunate accident that she would be in immediate tears when it was brought up. This had been used by me and other siblings to win whenever we felt we were going to lose a fight with her. Hey, siblings can actually be mean to each other.

My sister who is older than my older sister had occasional bedwetting till college. My parents had sought alternative medicine for her with no apparent effect. When she was in college, she hung out her beddings after an accident to dry (no washer or dryer in college dorm at that time) and they were stolen. I haven't heard my sister had bed wetting accident after that. Maybe it was stolen away by a thief!

So when I told my sister who had the longest bed wetting problem that my daughter was potty trained, she rushed her question : does she wet bed at night?

Nope. Not once. She wears underwear at night by 22 month, not one accident at night.
And to think that my child does not wet bed at night, what a blessing.