Hi Folks,
I'm writing on behalf on my 4 and 3/4s old and myself.
Basically DS1 is still wetting the bed at night. He is reasonably good
otherwise with the toilet, still the occasional accident (mostly
when he is very busy with something else) but would usually get through
the week with only one incident. He was in nursery last year and I think
we had one incident so I'm fairly confident he is OK during the day.
Night though it another matter. He still wears a nappy at night and the worst thing is that he seems to hold it all in and the pee with such force that the pee just comes out and wet the bed. I have tried larger sizes, smaller sizes, pull ups, standard nappies etc. all with the same result. I often lift him out of bed before I go to bed and put him on the toilet to get
rid of some of his pee but even then he can wet the bed. He has been potty trained during the day since just before 2 1/2.
He hates it. I am sad for him (and also would like not to wake up at 5am to change his sheets every night).
To make it worse DS2 (2 3/4s) is now completely potty trained at night and has no issues at all.
DS2 doesn't need to wear a nappy. We tried to hide this from DS1 but has noticed.
I think DS1 is wetting the bed simply because he's such a deep sleeper.
DH sleeps like the dead and DS1 does much the same. DS2 is a much lighter sleeper.
I'm thinking it may be an idea to take DS1 to the GP as we have tried so much already but I would like to see if there is something else we could do first.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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Bed wetting 4 3/4 year old, HELP!
DingbatsFur · 16/08/2011 12:10
docs won't intervene at all until 7. quite normal. it's like trying to get him to grow adult teeth. he isn't ready yet. some kids are dry at night at two, others take years longer.
there is nothing you can do at this young age, so try a few pull up brands/ use in combination with disposable bed pads (quite common for pull-ups to leak - ds1 still swamps the bed through his pull-ups) and sigh at the laundry.
but it is time limited.
if it's still happening at 7, the gp will offer either medication to mimic the hormone (usually desmotabs or similar) or an enuresis alarm. it depends on the cause as to which method works (non-production of the hormone or deep sleep - meds obv for hormone, alarm for deep sleepers. sometimes you need both....)
dd2 was dry day and night at two, and her older brother and sister were in oull-ups until 8 (dd1) and still ongoing (ds1 at 9).
loads of 4/5/6 yo's wet the bed every night.
lifting isn't supposed to be helpful, as it just trains the child to wet at that time of time (whether or not they are awake/ in bed/ someone has taken them to the bathroom etc) but it does help alleviate the level of swamping. so, it depends whether you want to minimise a bit of laundry but set up a routine to pee in a sleeping child, or whether you want to see what happens naturally.... 
My DB wet the bed til he was 9. He even dreamed he'd made it to the loo, was having a wee at the toilet and felt all pleased until he woke up. We had a lot of family problems and sadness at the time 
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He was seen by a doctor and even had acupuncture but the conclusion eventually was that he'd do it in his own time. And he did!
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