PJ, You should read the posts on the Parent’s Board for the last 4 or 5 weeks. There has been an ongoing discussion of diapers vs. no diapers, whether using diapers for bedwetting is infantile behavior, and whether using them (even when needed) might cause a child to develop an attachment to them. It sounds like you are in the group that believes only babies need diapers and their use by an older child is considered infantile or babyish behavior, but millions of older children and adults use diapers for various incontinence problems, including bedwetting, and that does not identify them as babies. I am a bedwetter myself, and at my age I don’t expect to grow out of it so I do use diapers at night. Mattress pads might serve the same purpose, but they are designed to be placed under the sheet, which means wet underwear, wet sheet, and wet mattress pad to deal with in the morning; or worse, when waking up wet in the middle of the night. A wet diaper is a lot easier to deal with and allows the person to sleep through the night. If you check their web site, the disposable pad sold by Pampers in the UK is also designed to be used under the sheet and is capable of absorbing the urine output of an average 10 year old child. That’s not much help for someone your age, but might be useful for a young child that only wets a few times a month. If the problem can be resolved by using alarms, medications, or some other method, that would be great, but for those children that continue to wet regularly diapers should be an option. There is no good reason to force a child to wake up in a wet bed every day.