Aaaaaand we’re off again. Will let you guys know if we had a dry or a wet night tomorrow morning.
Never too old… 
Exactly…
And (just in case), for anybody else who is still skeptical: white-boucke.com/ifpt.html
For the best effect click on the link that reads “For TABLE OF CONTENTS click here”…
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Ah! Here it is. The Loneliest Runner. And someone’s put the whole film on Youtube.
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I just finished watching the whole thing. Not a bad movie, actually. 
Yeah we won’t discuss anything about bed wetting and diapers till we get that update.
RobinTaiwan, it’s really nothing. Glad you understand there are different approaches, but you know it’s a culture thing. Now that we have consumerism at our shores, I doubt any Indian will be potty training infants and toddlers after another 10 years!!
Back to the question at the beginning. When i had an opportunity to consider (in retrospect, as an adult) my own experience as a child, i found out that a traumatic event like the loss of a loved one or a sense of loneliness coming from another reason can cause or contribute to a bedwetting (or worse) problem even well after a child has been potty trained already. You are the best tto judge which factor(s) you can rule out…
Back to the question at the beginning. When I had an opportunity to consider (in retrospect, as an adult) my own experience as a child, i found out that a traumatic event like the loss of a loved one or a sense of loneliness coming from another reason can cause or contribute to a bedwetting (or worse) problem even well after a child has been potty trained already. You are the best tto judge which factor(s) you can rule out…[/quote]
That was my first reaction too. But I am anyways considered woooo gaga so I didn’t want to be the first one to say it. The word is ‘fear’. When a child is afraid, of ghosts, papa’s beatings, friends moving away, of being scolded in school or suddenly not being in familiar surroundings, it happens. A lot of moms have reported bedwetting and a new sibling to be in tandem, ditto with starting school. Basically if there’s a new set of issues to deal with. Hence, the ‘jia You’ method. I really don’t believe in not drinking liquids before nap time. My son even gets up thirsty in the middle of the night and he isn’t 4 yet, I am not going to deny him a drink, even If I have to change the sheets at 4 A.M. He just needs to learn not to pee in bed.
No problem. Took him for a pee at around 2am. Back to bed, and we woke up this morning with dry sheets. He was just going on about being tired when we woke up for school and wanted to continue sleeping. Seems we have something else in common.
In my house, the only person allowed to take a dump in the sink is ME.
Great news!
What about showers?
Bedwetting is no laughing matter.
I wet the bed last night myself.
Fortunately, I was staying over at Doc’s house.
See, this is the exception that proves the rule. :neutral:
I’m surprised the method Divea mentioned is not more widely known or used in Taiwan. In rural China, none of the children wore diapers. Clothes for babies and toddlers all had an open crotch, and it was because the babies had been trained to crouch down to pee and poop. True, they didn’t often make it to the bathroom in time, but at least their clothes were not soiled. From birth, the parents and grandparents or nannies would hold the child over the floor or a bucket or a toilet when it was time to pee. It was a learning process for both the baby and the adults - the adults would gradually come to understand when the baby would most likely need to pee or poop and recognize the signs he needed to, and the baby would start associating the ‘potty’ as the place to go.
Actually my mother taught me, but my Ayi was the enabler. I started working part time when the girl was 4 m/o and she continued with the potty training. That and NEVER using the bottle to feed my kid. I would pump the breast milk and she would spoon it to the baby. Nice na??? No bottles, no formula, no sippy cups never spent a dime on all those products and minimal on diapers.
Thanks for all the advice, encouragement and kind words, guys. It’s been a week since Josh last wet the bed. I did buy him an under sheet (one that “drinks” the pee, and that can be washed) just in case, though. Tonight I have to get to bed earlier than 2am, so we’ll see if he can go without the 2am pee recce. If not, no biggie. We have the under sheet.
Glad to hear it’s going well.
Slipped up last night because he didn’t want to pee at 2am. Luckily we have the washable under sheets, so no worries.
How do you potty train a baby at one week old??? 
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you take them over the sink and make em peee…they pee. You keep doing it and by week 6 they see the sink and pee…I’ve done it. But more than pee it’s potty. They learn that first. You hold them over the sink and they grunt and they potty!!! It happens. I’ve done it twice, and no my children don’t bear any scars. There are more misses than hits, and it’s fun Then as a mother you develop a relationship with a baby that will tell you when they want to go (super stink farts are a big clue). I know a lot of mums like that. We just know, we pick them up, hold them over the sink or toilet and voila have a shit load!!! It happens. I think it’s in the interest of diaper companies to promote potty training as something traumatic. You know learning to pee and shit is kinda natural like learning to eat. Ever wonder that half the world not only cannot afford a diaper have never heard of one. My whole family asked me to educate them on diapers, how to use them etc. because none of them had seen them except in ads. I am 32, and was never diapered either.[/quote]
I did this with two of my kids and is was so much easier than I had expected. Both girls were able to walk over to the potty by themselves just after a year old. I started when they were newborns and it was amazing how quickly they learned. I’d make a sushing noise and they’d immeadiatly pee or poop if they needed to. One of my girls still wets the bed though, at six! It does run in the family, I have a nephew who wet the bed until 9 and a niece until 10! Not every night but once a week or so.