not to worry that my 8 year old still wears night time nappies...

[Laura0806]

Just wondered. I have not been too concerned but maybe I should be. Tried doctors tablets, alarms and nothing working. Apparently my brother was very late to be dry at night and told it was a hormonal thing. How common is it? A bright happy high functinonning child in all other respects

Oh and MeDented, my DS is exactly the same. I have no idea what he does in his sleep (he can go to bed with the quilt on, the right way up, but wake up with the duvet cover on the floor, be upside down and wrapped up in the duvet!) So I feel your pain when it comes to not only having to wash the sheets, but duvet/pillows and covers too.

I have a 3 year old who has started doing the same also, and weeing so much that I have to strip his bed an all. I can't wait for the day it stops, even for just 1 of them to lessen the load!

All three of mine wet the bed. I have some coping strategies that you need when your kids are giving everything a personal rinse.
They are 10, 8 and 5. The youngest two are girls. My 10 year old ds wees almost every night and the girls may be 2 or 3 times a week. I don't make a fuss but do tell them off if they lie about it. No hiding of wet pjs or sheets. It's nothing to be ashamed of. They to get up, strip themselves and the bed and put everything on the sub landing for me to wash. I'm not going to lie. I hate it and am at my wits end. Our electric bill is sky high because the washing machine runs at least twice a day as does the dryer. But needs must. I wet the bed until I was 14 so I'm expecting to be in it for the long haul. I found night pants ineffective. They'd leak, they're expensive and I still end up with washing to do. Quitting night pants and buying 3 waterproof mattresses helped immensely. They worked out around £150 inc delivery for all three. The bedrooms gradually lost that old wee smell. (Even though I used protective sheets and pants there was still a whiff in the air).These mattresses are fab. They just need a quick spray of cleanser ( I use whatever's to hand) and a wipe with the dry part of the sheet. This was the advice from ERIC.
No brown drinks or chocolate after 5pm.
No restrictions on water/milk at all. This made a big difference to ds. He still wets the bed but not every night and not with as much volume. I never thought that increasing his fluid intake would help.
No lifting. They need to learn to control their own bladders. ( I didn't always follow this as when I did get them up they would always do a big wee although I can understand the logic behind the advice).

It's hard op but it's not permanent. Good luck.

YourMa, I could kiss you! I didn't even know there was such a thing as waterproof mattresses. Just searched and found them. I will be ordering 2 by the end of the week once I get back home!

I know what you mean about the whiff of pee in the room. No matter how much I scrub, it always seems to be there

My dc was extremely hard to potty train. Day trained finally at 6 through massive patience on my part! Wore night nappies until was 8.5., had before then never ever woken up dry.

One night dc wanted to try on their own, went great, never went back!

It will come!! YANBU.

Glad to be of service straitjacket. :o last time I mentioned the waterproof mattresses on here I recieved 2 PMs saying that very same thing. I got mine from Amazon. They are packaged neatly in a cardboard box. I thought someone had made a mistake but no it was the mattresses. Dh was very impressed at how they did it. I'll find the link.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004KDZX32/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1414553025&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40

My DS is 6 , he was dry just turned 3. Yes i would be slightly concerned. Not getting a true picture on here as those who respond tend to be those with same issue

Don't worry, they'll grow out if it in the end.
My DS wasn't dry til he was 15, we tried everything but dry nights - the clinic said not to as it would be a step backwards, surely it would be better than being soaked every night? The alarms just woke everyone BUT him up. The drugs which they guaranteed would work like magic, didn't at all. The faint whiff of wee was ever present too.

So glad 'someone' has brought out waterproof mattresses that work! I'll keep that in mind for future reference.

YANBU!

apparently its a nerve-pathway or something that cuts thru the sleep, but some people take longer for this to 'grow'.....obviously dont show any concern about any of it to DC [specially in the very very very few cases where it's psycological anyway]

YANBU at 8 years old. My DS is 14 and still has this problem. Doctors, alarms, medication, none of it has helped. He is late to hit puberty so that may have something to do with it. He has a bad protector and I buy him drynites which he puts on and takes of in private in his own time.
DS2 is 6 and still not dry at night. Every morning his nappy is full, and their is no sign of dryness.
Your 8 year old is not alone and I'm sure its just a matter of waiting for him to grow out of it.

We used them until we went to the eneurisis clinic at 7, saw the nurse a few times and had an alarm and were 'cured'. The nurse gave her lots of info about drinking, how to use the alarm, how to sort her bed out etc. and talked directly to her which was good. She explained why it was happening. DD was dry for quite a while and we were signed off.

Then we had a rubbish y4 teacher and it all started again. so we carried on carrying on, waited for it to stop and it didn't quite. PGL was fine, as I rang up the centre directly and they were very discrete and used to it.

I bought an alarm from Eric, for dd to use on her own and that seemed to sort the problem. ( It stayed in the packet, but she was determined not to need to use it. )

There were occasional accidents later and dd sorted her own bedding out and even washed it herself by the end (this was all part of what we talked about with the nurse, originally so she was willing). We had washable mattress pads and waterproof cover, moving to just pads when she was in her teens. Only got the mattress once. The last time was a one-off during GCSEs (stress?).

Thank you YourMa. I will definitely be ordering 2 at the end of the week!

Thank you all, my DS still wet 9/10 nights at 6 and I was just starting to wonder if I should be concerned but it seems I shouldn't, thank you.

If you have the chance of an enuresis clinic, it is worthwhile going for the talking/counselling involving the child. It helps them approach it in a more grown up way.