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Surviving Sleepovers
5 Questions and Answers to Help Your Child Handle Bedwetting When Away
By Melissa Granberry
One of the best features about GoodNites® Underpants is that no one has to know that you are wearing them! The new trim fit GoodNites® Underpants are virtually invisible under PJs.
Ashley*, of Evanston, Ill., has a 6-year-old son who wets the bed. "Only one time did our son feel bad that he had absorbent undergarments on in front of others," she says. "We were at a party, and he changed into his pajamas there."
Her son was upset because he thought everyone knew about his disposable underpants. But Ashley explained to him that no one knew he had them on, and that he just looked like he was wearing his pajamas. "Since then, he has had many friends and cousins spend the night and is never embarrassed about it," Ashley says. She adds that he happily spends the night with friends with no embarrassment about his undergarments.
Grace*, whose [story] was featured in our last newsletter, has a 12-year-old son who also wears absorbent products to sleepovers and was worried about the sound the disposable undergarments made when he moved. He and his mom found a pair of lined sweat pants that he wears over his undergarment that seems to lessen the "crunchy" sound.
Karla Giramonti, a nurse practitioner for the Division of Urology at the Albany Medical Center in New York, tells her patients to pack a plastic bag with an absorbent underpant in their sleeping bag. In the morning, the child can discreetly put the used underpant in the plastic bag, roll the plastic bag up in the sleeping bag, andno one will ever know!