If you wet the bed as a kid did your bedwetting come back as an adult

I did wet the bed as a young child. Knowing what I know now, I suspect the reasons were more physiological rather than psychological. In essence, the frequency of it happening decreased year on year between the ages of 7 and 16. I used to make a coded note in little diaries / notebooks that I kept ( sadly, I no longer have them). The incidents had decreased to single figures per annum ( each annual total also decreasing). After the age of 16 I never wet the bed again...nor have I in the intervening ( virtually) 50 years.

My bedwetting was genetic. I was in diapers and wet every night until I was 12 and puberty kicked in.

At 20 I was wounded and became full time IC.

Yes, I wet the bed as a kid and was in disposable diapers at night until I was almost 13. I actually thought I was done with them at 8, since my parents had stopped buying them and were trying to just get me to be dry at night. They tried the alarm, lifting technique, cutting back on fluids, but nothing worked. When I was 11 we were going on a road trip and my mom decided I should be in diapers at night to avoid problems at the hotel. So for the first time in a few years I was wearing disposable diapers as an 11 year old boy. That's when I realized I liked them. I became dry about a year later and thought that was the end of diapers for me

When I joined the Marines at 17, I realized my bedwetting was never far away. I wet the bed a few times in boot camp, as did a few other guys.

After I got married at 22 I had occasional accidents after sex, or when I was really tired. I began to wear diapers after a number of accidents that happened in succession and my wife made the rule that I needed to have 7 dry mornings before I could stop wearing them. At this point I'm 36 and that doesn't look like it's going to happen.

I wet the bed often as a kid. It didn't stop completely until I was about 13 years old. I thought that chapter in my life was over until I arrived on a college campus and tasted alcohol for the first time. I found out that if I drank a lot I had a good chance of wetting myself. It got bad at times because I became a problem drinker in those years.

My case of wetting was a little unique. I never wore diapers. As a kid I wet often but I would also go through spells of not wetting. i had that awful, crinkly plastic sheet cover on my bed. It was loud and noticeable if anybody sat on my bed so I lived in fear when friends and relatives would come over. There were little leaks at times so we did the flip the mattress thing until there were so many pee stains we would have to toss it and buy another.

I remember my mother bringing up diapers to my father once. My dad went crazy. "Why the hell would you want to encourage her to pee in the bed? We want her to stop!" That was the thinking.

My mom also had a ritual. I often woke up to her hand on my pajama bottoms. If I were wet she would be uptight and anxious. I had to go straight into the bath. She would practically peel my clothes off as i was trying to wake up. If I were dry she would let me rest a little longer and stay in my pajamas. Sometimes she would hug me for being dry.

On the weekends I usually woke before she did. I had to march into my parents room first thing and present myself to her, wet or dry. I did this until I had been dry continuously for a year and had started high school. I was almost 14 years old and my mom was grabbing my crotch. She wasn't trying to be mean but yeah, it was humiliating.

I wet the bed up til I was 19 yrs old and wore diapers for this.

I wet the bed until I was 13 or so. Wet beds resulted in enemas and shame - also in not being able to go to sleepovers and things. Mom never diapered me, but she threatened on many occasions. The worst times I wet were when I was at camp. Wet sleeping bags are a bummer.

Probably on and off until puberty set in. Long time ago to remember accurately. No diapers though, that I do know.

I did, for a few nights, when I was about 7 or 8, then after a long time of being dry, it happened once more, when I was 14.

I was a typical bed wetter until I was about 10 y/o and wore diapers for it on and off. Through my teen years and as a young adult, I would have small pee accidents while sleeping 2 or 3 times a year. Nothing much because I would usually wake up rather quickly, stop peeing and go finish in the toilet. However, going into my later adult years. The bed wetting has become more frequent and I generally don't wake up. I had developed a thing for diapers as a young kid and have worn diapers all through my adult years, mostly to bed but during the daytime too. I don't think my bed wetting returned due to wearing diapers to bed. I think it's just a part to having a rather small size bladder.

I wet the bed frequently when I was very young and it continued to happen occasionally until I was in my early teens. I have had issues with daytime incontinence for several years and now also wet again in my sleep.

Interestingly, my son who is now in his 30s came to stay recently and wet the bed. He had very similar issues to me when he was young, wetting the bed and also having daytime accidents and only became completely dry when he was 11. I now wonder is there is a genetic link as my parents both became incontinent in later life and my dad confessed that he had always had issues with bed wetting.

I wet the bed until I was 9. The wetting came back when I was in my 50's. Cloth diapers with plastic pants are now the standard night time attire.

@Diaperlady did you ask your son to wear a diaper the following night?

@Diaperlady did you ask your son to wear a diaper the following night?

He went out and bought some the next day. He confessed that he very often wears them at home but had forgotten to pack them for his visit!

I was a chronic bedwetter up until around age 18 (in 1969). Was sporadic for a few years, Then returned with a vengeance. Did not wear diapers or plastic pants growing up, as they were difficult to find. Always woke up soaked head to toe. Now, as an adult, I now wear diapers and plastic pants every night. Keeps me and bed dry. Hate wetting the bed, but I accept it.

I was potty trained early then had problems and last wet the at 13yrs in childhood. When in early 50's it came back. I've been a chronic wetter since.

I was not a bedwetter as a kid. Once I was taken out of Pampers, around turning age 4, a little late, I remember a little wetting, in the age 4 to 5 age range, but, not often. Then, do remember wetting once, one time real bad, during a late afternoon, at a friends house, somewhere around 7 or 8 years old. I felt nothing, then boom, the front of my pants were wet. Never forgot that, was not good, felt the humiliation. Luckily, my friend, nor his mom, said anything, but, they definitely saw it. I am sure something was said right after I left.

Then, yep, woke up at granparent's house one morning AT about 16 YEARS OLD, wet the bed. All isolated incidences, but, IT CAN HAPPEN. Trust me. After that, that was it. From age 4 and on, I wore only tighty whity briefs. Some over the years yellowed in front, so, not completely clear, but, not really wettings.

Later in life, regression hit. Back in plastic tapes disposable diapers, similar to Pampers I wore as a child. Once I was back in them, a local woman I spoke to on line, warned me, being back in diapers like this, can cause wettings. I thought impossible, thats ridiculous. WRONG. My body, after years, knew I was wearing diapers that did not necessarily need to be dry. Wetting started but was real light. Today, its not too terrible, but, A LOT more consistent. I wet, both day and night, but not a lot when I do. Mild wettings. but, ALOT MORE OFTEN than when originally started.

I wore diapers and rubber pants to bed every night until I was 17 and woke up most morning with wet diapers from going potty in the night. My mother started to help me stop wetting my bed around 16 and it took close to a year but I finally stopped wetting my bed. I really didn't want to stop because my mom diapered me at night and I began to enjoy her wiping, powdering me and pinning on my cloth diapers around the time puberty started and started masturbating under my diapers after mom finished diapering me and putting me to bed. I know I lacked the incentive to potty train but was finally forced too by mommy. My bedwetting returned when I was in my mid 50's and began to wear diapers more and more after my divorce. I had always loved wearing diapers and going potty in them, but hid it from everyone after I finished university and left home for good. But once I began wearing diapers and rubber pants again, I soon started to wet my bed again and now wet every night. My SO changes me all the time now and i'm in diapers and rubber pants full time.

I wet the bed as a child until I was 9. I wore cloth diapers and plastic pants to bed until then. I started wetting the bed again as a adult in my mid to late 30's. This mostly happened when I drank too much beer and slept through my bladder emptying. As I got older (now 62) I started wetting at night without drinking any alcohol. I stopped drinking alcohol over 20 years ago. I always wear some sort of protection at night both disposable and cloth diapers and always with a pair of plastic or rubber pants on over the diapers. Being a life long diaper lover this is not a problem at all.

It took a while - until late teenage - but it hasn't come back in decades, thank goodness! But maybe it yet will. I briefly dated a nurse who worked in an old people's home, and got her reports …

- Ken

I wet growing up into my mid teen years, around 15, and was diapered (and scolded, and grounded, and spanked) for it, but managed to stop from then until I went off to college, where I think stress brought it back to being a regular thing for me :/

I certainly did. I was a heavy, every night bed wetter from when I was born until I was in my mid teens. At that point it slowly tapered off until the last time I wet my bed at 19 years old. I was completely dry from 20 until I turned 40, when my bed wetting slowly returned. I am now in my 60's, and back to wetting the bed every night. I am now losing control during the day, so am now diapered pretty much 24/7.

Complicated answer. I don't know if wetting the bed before toilet training counts — I toilet trained quite late, like, late enough that many people's bedwetting phase would have come and gone by the time I left diapers.

I had to go back into diapers in early adolescence and had irregular bedwetting so I suppose you could say my current bedwetting is that coming back. However, my bedwetting in my early teens was pretty light and irregular. My bedwetting as an adult is actually much heavier and more constant.

I wet the bed up until I was around 18. It stopped for a short time, only to start up again a year or so later. That was back in 1969. Still bedwetting to this day, 2025.

Incidentally, my mom, joking of course, I couldn't get my driver's license until I stopped bedwetting. It's a good thing she was joking, or I still would be walking everywhere today.🤣

I was a bedwetter as a kid, not daily, but frequent. As an adult it occurred a lot less, but still … the last few years it happened 4-5 times. When diapered 5 out of 10 times I will wet in my sleep.

Spike