To put her back in nappies at 6??

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She still pees the bed. I have tried everything. I take her to the toilet at night, I give her no drink before bed. I've had to throw 2 mattresses away because of this. I've told her if she has the urge to pee to shout mummy and I'll take her toilet. Nothing works. I didn't have this issue with my other two. And it's only at night, no issues with going to the toilet in the day. I'm thinking to just put her back in a nappy at night because I'm at my wits end and I can't be getting a new mattress every other month and stripping the bed everyday.

Sorry have come to this late and haven't read full thread so not sure if others have recommended ERIC? It's a childrens bladder and bowel charity

Hi
this happened to my daughter. She was having an epileptic fit every night

Well worth checking out

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There's a medication you can get off your GP so they produce less urine at night. Also get a waterproof mattress. I got some for my son and daughter got fed up of throwing mattresses out.

They have waterproof matters protectors that cover the whole mattress and zip up around it.

I wet the bed until I was 9.
I had to be medicated (Tofranil) and it worked.
I used to dream about going to the toilet and weeing, except I was actually doing it 🙈
Mum used to just change the sheet and clean PJs (had a waterproof layer under the sheet.)

My dd was 8 or 9 before she was confidently dry at night. Don't put her back in nappies as it will give her the wrong message.

I cut up some double sheets and made rectangles that would cover a waterproof pad and tuck well under the mattress so it didn't move much if she wriggled. Then, if she wet the bed I could wash the rectangle and 9 times out of ten it saved the undersheet and definitely the mattress

Eneuris clinic massively helped my son, but GP couldn't refer until he was 8 IIRC. The nurse there prescribed desmomelt (after trying some exercises/timing of drinking and increasing fluid intake which didn't work!). Desmomelt worked really quickly. 6 is still really young so yes pullups at night. Don't put your back out carrying rhem to rhe loo while sleeping

Ask your GP for a referral to the local Child Continence Service. They'll be best placed to advise you.

Another vote for taking her to the GP for a check up. A friend's kid about the same age as yours was having similar problems. Turned out to be a Group B streptococcal infection which was treatable.

YABVU

Firstly, invest in 2-3 waterproof sheets. You can get nice ones that don’t feel plastic - ours were JL.

Secondly, night time wetting is almost completely hormonal. One of my children was 10 before he wouldn’t wet the bed. (He also sleep walked and had night terrors. I believe they’re all linked).
One day he grew out of it.
You telling her to call you etc. shows you have no clue what the real issue is. She’s not doing it on purpose, she’s just not waking up with toilet signals. There’s nothing she can do.

Yes, go get some night pull ups, but don’t think about it as a big deal. We did end up using a pee alarm (it clips in their pants and detects wetness) but that was at 10. (Doctors weren’t worried until double figures and even then were blase)

You need multiple layers of waterproof protector and sheets, so you can just whip the top ones off and worry about them in the morning. Pull ups also.

This is a long thread, so I’m unsure what’s already been said. Even with the mattress absorbers, you still have to wash the sheets (and sometimes the whole duvet)! Give yourself your sanity back! Put her in pull-ups. My DD was in nighttime pull ups until about the same age. We didn’t deny water in the evenings, as children need to keep hydrated. And I did ‘lift’ DC at about 10:30 pm every night—carrying her to the toilet, wiping her bottom for her, and putting her back to bed. Most of the time she didn’t really wake up. I would have really struggled with the cleanup if she weren’t in pull-ups.

We got around this by him having a sleeping bag with a pull-up already in at the bottom, and in the morning he took it off while still in there and left it in the bottom. Not perfect, but was a way he could still do sleepovers x

@BusyCaz @XmasDilemma1986

"We got around this by him having a sleeping bag with a pull-up already in at the bottom, and in the morning he took it off while still in there and left it in the bottom. Not perfect, but was a way he could still do sleepovers x"

As a bed wetter, this sounds like a great and frankly inspired workaround.

Just stop all fluids and hour before bed. Squash doesn't make you pee any more than water.

I put my 6 year old back in pull ups for bed time when she went through a phase of wetting the bed frequently - she had just started year 1 and was exhausted!. I didn't make her feel bad about it, just explained I couldn't do 2 loads of washing everyday as she always got the duvet wet too. A few months later she was back to be drying dry at night with only the occasional wet bed.

Pee is absolutely correct. Even the NHS website uses pee routinely as a more accessible version of urinate.

My friend’s child was diagnosed with diabetes after years of bedwetting.

the only thing that made a difference for us (and yes we did everything, alarm, no fluids before bedtime, no squash, stretching the bladder with a program by enuresis clinic) was desmopressin. I wish I had pushed for it more 2 years ago it would have saved us so much washing, changing sheets, and be a lot less traumatic for everyone.

It's much more common than people think, but after a certain age we stop talking about it openly because it becomes embarrassing for the child.

I was told by enuresis clinic that at the top end of primary there will be at least one or two in each form who are not dry at night. Some will be helped by medication, alarms etc but others just have to wait it out. For those kids, it tends to stop at puberty, so even in secondary school there are a fair few still wetting the bed.

@mimblewimble indeed. Every supermarket is selling night pants for ages 8-14 years old.