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.

speak to ERIC/check their website so you know everything that helps such as no squash, ensuring no constipation, drink lots of water early in day. Best to buy an alarm (wireless) it often cures it within days as they quickly learn to wake. It seems expensive but saves so much in washing and pullups in the long term.

see her school nurse
or do you have to wait until this is still ongoing at 8?
you can get an alarm and tablets

Definitely agree with Pull Ups. Son went on a camp when he was 10 and still had to use these at night. Due to embarrassment there was nowhere he could dispose of them so came home with a week's worth in his bag - not pleasant!

This. Ditto.

It's a hormonal thing, OP. Some children take that bit longer for the hormone to start being produced. It has nothing to do with toilet training.

It's normal until the age of about 7 or 8. If still happening after that, contact GP.

My son is still in pull ups at nearly 7. It's a chemical imbalance in their brains. If their brain is not telling them to wake up when they wee at night, it's not their fault.
Your daughter will grow out of it. I use ninjamas pull ups and they are amazing.

My middle child struggled through the night until he was 8, he found it better for himself to have pullups, fingers crossed it won't be long before she's dry through the night x

Apologies, haven't read all the replies but you do need to bring her to your gp to have her referred.
She has what's known as Nocturnal Enuresis.
Limiting drinks actually has the opposite effect and there are certain foods and drinks that contain ingredients that irritate the bladder that need to be avoided.
I wanted to avoid the medication as it can have side effects so we use pull ups at night and have really really good (expensive but worth it) mattress protectors and the bed is layered with sheets that I have cut in half (to minimise washing) and the night pad sheets.
It means when I have to get up to him I'm only taking his pyjamas and a couple of layers off the bed and he can hop straight back in.
Shower in the morning.
We are seeing a reduction but not quite there,

I swear by a little plastic tag clipped onto the underpants.
It is connected to a battery alarm. It takes weeks not months and gentle encouragement and help with waking to the buzzer. I slept in their room. It was great.
I used the buzzer once my child turned three and a half and lent the buzzer to numerous friends, all success cases.
Also used a waterproof mattress protector and sheet.

I like the idea of the re usable mats.
I like the idea of not using the word nappy.

To all those with kids who weren't dry until tween age- what did you do about sleepovers? My DD is 6 and I'm already stressing about her being teased if her friends notice (she hasn't been on any sleepovers yet, partly because of this) She couldn't care less but I worry that may change soon.

Thankfully sleepovers weren't a thing when my son was young.

Just use the pull ups OP. My DD was wearing them at night til she was 5. She’ll grow out of it in her own time - don’t stress too much or she’ll pick up on it and it might become a bigger issue

Yes I’d put her in pull-ups, but then I wouldn’t have taken her out of them if she was wet at night. It’s a hormonal thing and can’t be trained but you can ask for a referral for help, I used a bed wetting alarm for one of my children that worked well.

Yep, this. DC1 was in pull-ups until he was nine, and suddenly became dry in the course of a week. Some kids are just dry at night later - I wouldn't stress about it for a couple of years yet!

ERIC are a fabulous organisation. Find out what age you or her father were dry at night . There tends to be a familial and maturation of the neural pathways. She may sleep heavily so doesn't respond yet. ERIC have various machine / buzzer that help. as well as a wealth of experience and advice. It would be worth having a chat with GP and taking a urine sample just to rule out infection and provide a baseline investigation. With them decide what is a reasonable age to be referred if nothing improves. In my experience teachers are great ( and parents ) and are very understanding. For example when a child went on a residential weekend it was arranged they would go to a certain teacher and would exchange their sleeping bag when necessary. Nobody else had to know. Enuresis is very common but not often spoken about and 9 times out of 10 will resolve in time. Another resource to contact is the school nurse attached to school. Main thing is the child does not do it on purpose and, given normal physiology, will resolve. How many boy / girlfriends did you date that still wet the bed😀

I don't think my son's friends would've been particularly bothered (and my son certainly wasn't), but he went to sleepovers with a bag with a pullup and some wipes and instructions to give himself a wipe over in the morning when he got dressed. I think he got changed for bed in the bathroom and I made sure I packed a fairly long pyjama top and loose bottoms.

Have you tried a pre-emptive wee as you're going to bed? Pick her up while asleep, put her on a potty beside the bed and put her back into bed. Mine barely wake for the preemptive wee and after a while I've stopped having to do it.

This used to be the case, but now everybody pees.

If they were dry for a period and then have started wetting the bed again. It might be worth ruling out Type 1 Diabetes. One of the signs is increased urination at night which often means bed wetting for kids.

Other signs are tired, loosing weight, drinking more. GP can check urine for sugar or finger prick.

One of my DC was in pull ups until they were nearly 9, the other was dry at night at 4.5 years. It's a hormonal thing, and does generally resolve.

Genuinely don't understand the negative comments. What on earth is the problem with putting her in nighttime pull-ups?

I have the waterproof mattress protector and the full sheet again waterproof and on top of that the dry mats. They still leak through

The waterproof protector must be cheap or faulty if after that it’s still leaking through on the mattresses. There are waterproof mattress protectors designed for full on incontinent adults that don’t leak - get one of those. Also look at Conni or equivalent mattress pads. Again, designed to hold an adult wee and you can get them in large wrap around so they can’t be moved by the person sleeping on top of them.

My DS wasn't dry at night til he was around 7 years old. Still wore pull ups . We asked for referral to eneurisis clinic and they lent us an alarm thing to wake him as soon as any wetness was found. I'm not sure whether that helped or if he just naturally grew out of it. The referral is useful though as they provide general advice around measuring bladder size, what and when to drink and checking there is no infection .

I am aware that often GPs won't act until child is age around 7 but at this age I think it's worth asking as I've known some schools take children on residential
In Y8 or children just sometimes want sleepover with a friend and it would be horrible leaving a child open to being embarrassed .

She's 6, she's well within normal limits for still wetting at night time. The GP will just tell the OP to come back in a couple of years.

Don't limit drinks too much before bed as then you go the opposite way and the concentrated wee might irritate the bladder or trigger uti.
Unfortunately it's not something that can be controlled it will come with time, I would go to the Dr if still wetting in a couple years.
Use pull ups at night, you might find the less worried she is about wetting the bed the less it becomes an issue.