Things were a little bit different for me, I really wasn’t embarrassed about it at all at home. My parents and siblings treated it very matter-of-factly, there was no teasing or other issues at home. I wet for quite a while and finally stopped before my 15th birthday, I had very few dry spells between those years, maybe a couple days in a row at most usually? Honestly, though? I’m really not that convinced that it was that terrible of a thing outside of it being slightly annoying and cost my parents a fortune in pull ups. I kind of skated by through those years without that much of a problem caused by bed wetting, I rarely had any leaks, never got teased at school, my siblings and parents were supportive, and after getting a little smarter when it came to sleepovers, it didn’t really keep me from going to them even though I did worry about being discovered a little, especially when it wasn’t like my best friends, my two best friends knew, and they didn’t care one bit! I feel kind of bad reading some of these posts were you guys felt so isolated and had parents that we weren’t supportive, because in my case, it was really just no big deal and I’m very thankful to my family for how well they handled it with me.
Anyway…
The first time I can remember ever feeling any kind of embarrassment about it I was probably around 7 or 8ish when I’m pretty sure someone I considered a friend was spending the night and asked why I had Pull-ups in my room - I told him they were for bedtime and he seemed kind of weirded out by it and I was like oh?… Ok?… Do you like… wear those still? — That’s about the first time I realized it was a little different to still wear a pull-up to bed because he was so confused by it and I knew all none of my siblings needed them anymore, both of my brothers stopped when they were like six or seven and it was just an occasional issue for them whereas for me it was a every night kind of issue. I don’t remember what I said to him after that but it was probably a little awkward, I probably lied about it? But I can’t really remember the exact details past it being brought up and being awkward about it. I do remember asking my mom about it and her being very matter-of-fact and generic with her. Some kids need glasses. Some people wear casts some kids need pull-ups. It’s no big deal!
That was probably about the point though where my mom switched away from pull-ups to UnderJams and part of me actually thought that they were a lot more disguised and that nobody would be able to tell I was wearing a pull-up. I don’t recall ever having a discussion or friends discovering those until like 9 and 10yrs old and I was traveling for swim meets at which point changing into pajamas in the same room as other people I knew and sleeping in a hotel room with other kids my age was the expectation on the team. There was a couple of embarrassing encounters then when team members found out and teased a little, but I was pretty popular and confident, and every time it was brought up, it was kind of swiftly handled and not that big of a deal, no big telling the whole school issues or anything for me thank goodness! Slightly embarrassing for sure when it was mentioned, but not nearly as embarrassing if I had woke up in a soaked bed. Just kind of handled it in the mornings as discreetly as possible. I think after the first time where one of the older kids fuss and I got upset went to my parents. I got a lot smarter about how to handle things and kept it very discreet. Unless you pulled my pants down how would you have known anyway?
You know what was massively embarrassing to me? The doctors visits where the pediatrician would ask 1000 questions and my mom all about how things are going and blah blah blah. I wanted to melt in that place. She was definitely not the most helpful doctor when it came to that issue, just reassuring that I would eventually outgrow it. I mean, I did, but I do wonder knowing a little bit more on the subject now if them doing x-rays or something else or prescribing the medication that was available would’ve helped me? Neither here nor I survived it!