Being a bedwetter is a big part of why I’m here. I was a heavy wetter and a deep sleeper so when I did it I woke up just soaked, all clammy with pee, uncomfortable and very ashamed.
I really have no idea why diapers weren’t considered. I don’t remember them even being in our house in my early memories. It never occurred to me that diapers are something parents could do for a child who still wets. My best guess, and only a guess, is that since I’m one of three kids very close together in age, the diaper years were so piled up with wet and dirty diapers that my parents just wanted to be done with that. We had a diaper service as babies, and maybe it wasn’t practical to keep it for kids who are wet a few nights a week.
I peed at night often but always intermittently — unpredictably enough to make every “accident“ morning an unpleasant surprise for me and a disappointing one for my mom. It got gradually less and less often. I was 9 the last few times I wet my bed and well into being 10 when my mom removed the plastic sheet.