Bed wetting older child

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DD is 8 and still occasionally wets the bed. It’s got less frequent and now she might only fully wet say every 2 months. And that’s waking up in the small hours of the morning soaked. Sometimes she starts to wee in the night, but realises and gets up to use the bathroom (approx every 6 weeks or more)

so I realise this isn’t a big problem in that it doesn’t happen frequently and is happening less frequently. It doesn’t feel like she needs medical intervention because it doesn’t happen a lot, but she’s at an age where I feel like it shouldn’t be happening. I’m quite confident from speaking to friends with DCs same age that they don’t have this issue, and it’s only parents with younger children (say age 3 or 4) that say they sometimes have similar with their DCs

More nights than not she will get up during the night to go for a wee. Only a couple of nights a week will she sleep all the way through without getting up to go to the toilet.

she drinks normally, goes to the toilet before bed. She doesn’t have any worries or known reasons why it happens when it does, she says she doesn’t know.

she doesn’t seem embarrassed or bothered by it, but also she can’t go to sleepovers or there’s a school residential coming up that I don’t feel she 100% wouldn’t wet the bed at.

is there anything I can do?

My dd is 10 now. Still in pull ups at night. Tried all sorts - alarm, hormones etc .nothing worked. I think she will just grow up of it . Shes on a residential with school in June..spoke to teacher, she says they deal with this every year and they put provisions in place. Its not as uncommon as you think OP. Im sure itll all work out.

It doesn’t help that my DD is either in denial or just isn’t that bothered about the idea of it happening. Obviously it doesn’t matter if it happens at home, but it does if she has an accident when away from home, especially without me. I think she’d be mortified. However she is just so confident that it won’t happen that she’s not willing to for us to do anything to help, like wear pull-ups because she just knows she won’t wet the bed.
I like her confidence/the fact that she doesn’t seem that bothered by it, but I just fear she doesn’t comprehend how embarrassing it would be for her to wet the bed at a friends house or when away with school or Brownies.

Pull ups are your friend here, and a 'stuff happens' attitude whilst time passing sorts this out. My DD was a regular bed wetter until 10ish, and then occasional until about 11, then it stopped at 12. Pull Ups saved the washing machine, and allowed for uninterrupted sleep for all.

Just saw your latest post, I'd suggest to her she wears the pull ups and if she stays dry then all the better. Good luck!

My daughter was about this age when her bed wetting was resolved.

We followed the advice of increasing her fluid intake during the day to build her bladders tolerance to being full. This meant that any slightly over average intake putting pressure on her bladder in the night and wet.

It worked!
Reward chart for increasing water in day.

Being kind and soothing when accidents happen.

(We also had a ritual of saying goodnight to her bladder at bedtime and reminding him to wake her up if needed!)

My almost 15 year old son has had this issue for years. The urologist at the hospital said it was because he is a very large child/teen (as tall and heavy as a full sized man), but his bladder is the size of a child his age. This means it fills up and overflows. Basically his bladder has to catch up. We give him this wafer at night before bed which has been prescribedbyhis GP. It works and there are no adverse side effects.

Constipation can cause this