“If she’s so against wearing diapers because they make her look babyish, I’m sure she’d find the thought of those pyjamas even worse”. Maybe if you showed them to her, told her that she’d have to wear them if she didn’t keep her diapers on, she’d realise you were serious even if you never do use it”. “What do you mean?” Sue asked, eager for a solution. “Ally’s difficult, but I certainly couldn’t do that to her, much as I might wish I could when the washing piles up!” “That doesn’t help me much either”, Sue sighed. We actually only needed to use them for a week or so, until he’d settled in”. He gave us hell for a few days, but settled down in the end.
They zip up in the back, and have this little tab that closes to stop him even getting at the zipper. We did a bit of Googling, and came across these one piece pyjamas. “Much the same way as when he was little, actually. I guess taking off all his clothes was his way of dealing with the sensory issues” Jenny continued. He didn’t take it well, sleeping in a new room. Not sifting through his diaper, thankfully, but taking it all off. “He actually had a bit of a relapse a few years ago when we first moved in here. “Well, I don’t think that would help me much” Sue laughed along. Thankfully he got past that stage in a few months”. “That way he couldn’t unzip it to get to his diaper. “We put his sleeper on backwards!” Jenny laughed. But when he was about three he went through a phase where he would pull off his diapers and sift through the contents”. “Well, not the social side of it, obviously. He was now almost sixteen, but his severe autism meant that he required constant care, and had never been toilet trained. Did you ever go through anything like that with Dylan?”ĭylan was Jenny’s youngest son. “Before you start, I’ve tried punishing her, rewarding her, nothing seems to change her mind. She just takes them off as soon as I leave the room.” Jenny grimaced at Sue’s last comment. Don’t let her go to bed unless she shows you that she’s got them on” Jenny had always been the stricter parent. “She’ll lie to me about wearing them as well – tells me that she’s put them on when she hasn’t” She doesn’t even want to talk about it.” Sue continued. “I’ll bet she didn’t like that” Jenny quipped.
Said it was just something she’d have to outgrow, but that in the mean time she was best to wear protection.” He did a few tests, but couldn’t find anything wrong. “Of course, none of it worked” Sue replied, exasperated. Jenny was trying to be helpful, but Sue had been through it all before. “And you’ve tried all the usual stuff, restricting fluids and all that?”. “We tried them about a year ago, but they just leak right through. Have you looked at pull-ups? Maybe she’d feel better about those”. I think she’s hoping that if she doesn’t wear them she’ll somehow stay dry”. She keeps saying that only babies wear diapers. “Deep down I think she would, but she’s too upset to think it through clearly. “Really? I would have thought she’d rather wake up in a wet diaper than a wet bed”. There aren’t many kids who still wear diapers at eleven, but all that washing is really getting to me, and worst of all her room is really starting to smell”. “To make matters worse, she’s now refusing to wear her diapers to bed. Still, you know how it is with kids – give it a couple of weeks and they’ll all be talking about something else”, Jenny sympathised. Well, I think someone at school must have found at and spread it around”. “Not so well right now, I’m afraid”, Sue exclaimed.
“How are things going with Ally?” Jenny enquired, always keen for an update on Sue’s only child. Brandon always had been a high achiever, and she was glad to see her eldest nephew was getting on so well. “He just got his first exam results back – all distinctions and high distinctions!”. “And Brandon’s doing really well at college”, Jenny boasted. This time it was Jenny’s turn to play the host. Jenny had moved back into the neighbourhood a few years ago, and while they were no longer as close as they had been as children, they did their best to catch up from time to time. Sue sipped her coffee absentmindedly, listening to her sister Jenny’s latest update. The TBDL, the bedwetter and the sleepover.