During the waking hours everything is OK. Mom will go, let me know, we do a changing and everything is relatively normal.
Mom usually turns in for the night between 9-10 pm most evenings, then spends a few hours tossing and turning before falling asleep. I usually let her sleep until 9am, later if she's especially tired. The problem I'm facing right now is with the nighttime urination. She goes a LOT during the night. Despite the Depends, she will be totally soaked by morning, I mean from her knees to the middle of her back. Her blankets, the absorbent pads, the sheets, everything is literally drenched. I tried using two adult diapers on her for bedtime, it worked at first but now it's no different than using one. This alone is accounting for a solid 50% of the workload. The cleaning, the laundry, it's a real mess every day.
She doesn't drink a whole lot of liquids after dinner, maybe a cup of no-caffeine tea or juice and an eight oz. cup of water for the overnight. Does anyone have any helpful advice to offer here?
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Perhaps a potty run at 11pm before you turn in? If she has been awake or dozing her body has been producing urine since she went to bed at 9.
Good Luck.
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There are also booster pads that can be put inside the underwear, they absorb like pads but have no liner so excess can soak through to the underwear.
I was also surprised to discover that some places sell the bed pads in different thicknesses as well, I guess I wasn't paying attention when I bought ours.