To think that the cost of bedwetting pull ups is too dam high

[Nymeria01]

I have two DS who wet the bed. DS1 is 14 and although going threw a great effort to stop he still wears drynites as he will wet the bed between 4-6 night a week. DS2 is 5 and still not dry. For a while I have kept him in normal nappies but its not practical any more so the yesterday I brought him some drynites as well. Just buying two packets cost £8 (over 10 if they weren't on offer) which is a lot considering its a total of 19 nappies! Does anyone else have this frustration?

Ask your GP to put l put the pull-ups on prescription

Why isn't is practical for the 5 year old to wear nappies?

Mine were both in nappies until 7 as I refused to buy pull-ups, less effective and twice the price!

I'm fairly sure you can buy larger size nappies these days too, my (big) dn was in them until at least 12.

Can I just ask those who may know at what age can you get pullups /nappies on the NHS ds Is four he is autistic with learning difficulties and doesn't look like he will be toilet trained anytime soon he has a statement for when he start his special school in September so that's not an issue.

YANBU. It's cheaper to wash the sheets and have a decent waterproof cover then sheet, then cover and then a sheet.

X2boys, it will depend on where you are. I teach in a special school and incontinent students are entitled to 4 free nappies a day from their fourth birthday, organised yhrough the school nurse, but in some areas they have to be older so could have to wait until your DC is 5/6 or even 7. Best to speak to your GP or school nurse to find out the info for your area.

My dd 12 still has problems even with taking two medications at night. Pull ups are only used when on holiday and I layer the bed several times with decent waterproof sheets, washable incontinence bed pads and sheets, so if the top set is wet then she strips this off and already had a dry layer.

DD however does always wet the duvet so she has several but luckily they dry very quickly.

Incontinence bed pads help to prolong the life of waterproof sheets although I do have to agree that drying everything in winter is a right pain.

It is generally cheaper to buy small adult size incontinence aids/nappies than constantly buying dry nites.

Thanks chesterberry !

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread.

If you use those incontinence sheets for the bed, try using puppy ones. They are a fraction of the price of the human version, and are exactly the same.

micah the nappies still fit my 5yo its just he knows they are baby products and has started to object to wearing them so I promised to get him pull ups. However the only pull ups that seem to have the capacity are drynites.

If you're really struggling to afford the dry nites though the 5 year old's wants should be low priority. I never gave mine the choice.

How does he know they're baby products?

I always told them nappies at night weren't a baby thing, it's just they needed them until their bodies were ready to be dry. I also let them try without a nappy, on the deal that if they wet they went back into the nappies. They wet, of course, so nappies it was.

It's not really cheaper to buy proper I incontinence aids than the pull ups in my experience. You can buy cheap ones, but they're shit, the ones that work are also about £1 per nappy.

We have to because DS poos as well and pull ups don't contain them well at all.

We get the prescribed 5 a day but that's nowhere near enough.

I'm attempting to toilet train in the day now but it isn't going well either.

DS is 8 with severe disabilities.

To be honest I think the SN label makes everything 5x more expensive than it should be. Weighted blankets cost £20 to make but cost over £100 to buy! It's obscene.

I make most of DSs stuff, but I can't make nappies

Drynites are very expensive. Dd wore them for three years and now that we have got the bedwetting virtually fixed, I notice the difference on my tesco bill.

This is why we went with cloth.

My dd is 10 and wears nappies, she gets hers from the nhs, she is using euronform adult nappies which are really absorbent and are about £14 for a pack of 28. im not sure if you can get pull up types in this brand though.

It's sad to see that bed wetting isn't given more help or action. I had no idea you could get nappies on prescription. I have certainly never been told this either by my GP or ERIC nurse. When my mum was a single parent and we were on the bones of our arse she had 2 bedwetters to deal with and I remember that we didn't always have a washing machine. I recall her washing our sheets in the bath. I know she was frustrated because she used to get really mad at us occasionally. One time she Sellotaped a nappy to me. I was very upset and embarrassed but now as a parent of three full time wetters I can now appreciate her struggle and I have a washer, dryer and detergents that I don't have to borrow from neighbours or get on tick.

I don't think bed wetting is that abnormal, even in nt children. Up to age 8 a significant proportion (is it 1 in 5?) will not be dry at night. If they gave out nappies in prescription to every nt child over 4 who still wet the nhs would go bust!

I don't think the issue is being given more help, it's changing the mindset that children who wet at night have a problem, or need "training". It's a biological issue, and until that mechanism kicks in the child will wet. Pull ups and dry nights are marketed specifically to people who think that nappies are "babyish" or are ashamed their 6 year old still needs nappies. I've known people who washed bedding every day, sometimes two sets, rather than admit their child wasn't dry.

When my kids got upset about still needing nappies at night it helped them to know the 1 in 5 stat. 30 kids in their class, so I asked them to pick out the other 5 children still needing nappies at night. Of course they couldn't, so that reassured them that a) they weren't odd, or a baby and b) different to their peers.

I did get a lot of stick of relatives who told me I needed to "do something". One even told me it'd be my fault when they were still wet at 16 . Of course they were dry overnight just before age 7.

Remember, what age they are potty trained and/or dry at night is no indication of iq, genius or stupidity. Yes, the research has been done :)

Of course AN children are different and help should be given if needed.

My DS was exactly the same as yours nymeria01. He was about 14 and puberty had kicked in and it stopped almost instantly. From wet every night to zero. He also suffered headaches with Desmopressin and it didn't really work.

We found brolly sheets very effective. You can get them on amazon.

I totally get where you are coming from. DD was in them for other reasons which have now been resolved finally and have not had to buy them for 2 weeks, I have worked out that we will save £100 a month in nappies and babywipes.

I have three in pull ups at night
The eldest is doing the slow slow process with the doctors (ds3 is five so not worried...yet)

I was thinking the other day how much more money we would have when they're all dry

I also bought those cheap waterproof mattresses yourma linked
I often have days when I have to wash two duvets and well as sheets.

Just to add I second the posters who have said that you need to look around for deals - following the birth of my DD I have some bedwetting problems of my own and I buy protection online. I do agree that it is very expensive, for adults the prices per nappy are about £1 which adds up quickly on a tight budget.

I think for children there are probably still better deals in the supermarkets than online due to the various offers - at the moment you can get large pull-ups for 43p each. www.mysupermarket.co.uk/grocery-categories/Nappies_in_Ocado.html?_fbr=Huggies

Outside of the offers if you buy in bulk then you can at least usually avoid paying much more than 50p a pull-up (although I agree this is still high).

60 pull-ups for £32 - www.tenadirect.co.uk/children-products/libero-products/libero-night-comfort-medium/ (

54 pull-ups for £30 - www.amazon.co.uk/Pampers-UnderJams-Pyjama-Girls-Nappies/dp/B00CISQ1PU/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1407150503&sr=8-7&keywords=underjams

30 pull-ups for £12 - www.amazon.co.uk/Huggies-DryNites-Pyjama-Pants-Years/dp/B00FXV4TJY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407150639&sr=8-1&keywords=drynites

I do think though that pull-ups/nappies should be available on prescription for older children, teens and adults who regularly wet the bed. Once other treatments (alarms, medication) have been tried then it seems reasonable that pull-ups/nappies might be offered instead. Although I appreciate our NHS could probably not afford it at the moment.

Thanks for those links chesterberry, I don't know why I've never thought to buy in bulk online.

The real pain with wet sheets is the duvet. We tend to use a sleeping bag opened out as a quilt instead, but that is still a lot to wash and dry. We've tried fleece blankets but DD really misses her duvet when it's cold. I wonder if I could make her some sort of AIO washable duvet from fleece blankets stitched inside a duvet cover.