Nearly 5 year - still in night nappies

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...but has developed penile thrush so nappies have to come off to air the area. However keeps wetting himself whilst asleep and last night two times. Two bed changes in night which was very upsetting for him. His body is definitely not ready and he is not ready but if I put him back in night nappies the thrush will return. Is fine in daytime with pants. Drinks a lot and thus he obviously hasn't yet developed the urine hormone needed to go through night. It will come I know.

My worries...he has been a good sleeper and now this is really upsetting him. I tried the waking up to wee but that makes him cry and really stressed out and anyway sometimes he is already wet in bed when I go to him around 11PM.

ANY advice really appreciated!!! Any experience on the matter?

Haven't posted in months and this is really worrying me now.

Regards

[CowboysGal]

Hope someone comes along with better advice than me but can you not just get rid of the nappies? We got a cheap shower curtain and put in on DDs bed with fitted sheet over it till she got hang of being dry at night. if she had a small-ish accident at night we sometimes took off her underwear and put a thick folded over towel over the sheet till morning when she had shower.
It took a while and there were some tears, not to mention a huuuge mountain of washing, but she eventually just 'got it' and I'm not sure how or why.

[Tobagostreet]

I'm sure you've already done this - but speak to your GP, just to get him checked in case of any underlying issue.

That said, I think it's just common for boys.

My now 8yo DS also was in pull ups each night at that age and desperation led me to get rid of them. My sisters DD of the exact same age had been dry at night since age 2.5!!!

Incidentally, he also suffered from a bout if Thrush, but until now I'd never connected the 2!

After deciding that 'big school boy's' don't wear 'nighttime pants' I just persevered with the 10-11pm lift to the toilet (tried not to wake him too much, but told him what I was doing and when to pee!). Also to make my life easier, had multiple waterproof sheets on the bed ( you can get nice ones from boots which are full size single fitted sheets - soft cotton on one side and waterproof foam on the other, so no 'rustling' to cause him embarrassment.)

A lot of what you can do is have patience and know that it will come.

A few weeks of having no pull ups on at night (and not liking the feeling of wetting his bed) made a big difference to my DS. Wet nights became by far the minority and stopped before he was 6.

Hope it all works out for you!!!

[TheEnthusiasticTroll]

have you switched from nappies to the "bedtime pants" maybe they will provide more room and absorbancy to reduce the thrush.

Another suggestion is a very good absorbant sheet over the top of his normal sheet with jammy bottoms off (to reduce irritation) and no nappy as this absorbs the wet straight from him and keeps more off his skin than if he was in a nappy. fleece blankests rather than duvets as the flecce will also do the same and can easily be changed in the middle of the night and washed and dryed far quicker. He may wake more frequantly but in my experience of wet nights they wake anyway often when the wet makes them uncomfertable.

I dont think there is any solution to preventing the night time wetting and madication and other interventions will not be possible untill around 7yrs old.

[RandomMess]

Surely if the thrush has been properly treated then it won't return just because he's wearing nappies at night

I agree pampers bed mats are good and may stop him getting disturbed.

Lots of pants free time at home before bed and in the morning?

Poor boy

[TheEnthusiasticTroll]

you may find also with less bedding and a full waterproof shhet and no nappy he may begin to just strip his bed and rplace clean things himself if dry set is left out without waking you. My dnephew had the same problem was still wetting well into 8/9 yrs old and would sort himself out in the night, he preffered it that way rather disturbing anyone and felt more in controle if he was managing things himself.

he just chucked wet stuff in a bag left out (or under his bed) and my sis would leave out 2 or 3 waterproof sheets a few fleece blankets and some clean tops.

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thanks to all for tips
..really appreciated!

have got waterproof sheets but he has been wet every night sometimes twice

long long road ahead me thinks ...like always.