Night time bed wetting at 6 years old

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my dd of 6 years has had three nights in a row now of wetting the bed. We have had the occasional accident over time but never this regular. Night time drinks are being kept to a minimum and she is always made to go to the toilet before she gets into bed.
The only thing I can think of is that she goes into such a deep sleep that she doesn't wake up in time to go to the loo.

Does anyone else have this problem with their kids?

Bed wetting as already pointed out is very normal.

I know, I was a habitual wetter until in my very late teens, I would say that the last time I wet the bed I was in my 20's!!

The only thing I would say is please please please don't make an issue of it, don't make any child feel they are doing anything wrong, just prasie and reward dry nights (stickers are good!! - but not for late teens )

It is very important to ensure that plenty of fluids are drunk during the day, and freely available even at night time. It certainly does help in many cases.

Good luc.

You mention that it is very tiring changing beds etc during the night. It probably sounds gross, but if your DD doesn't mind just leave her until morning, and then a good bath / shower before school to make sure she's nice and fragrant. It won't do any harm and makes sure that sleep doesn't get disturbed too much for anyone.

I think its totally normal.. I actually wet the bed about three days ago.. in my defence my control hasn't been great ever since my little one was born but still..

Roxswood,
I know someone very close to me who has wet the bed and does most months just before her period is due.... she gets very embarrased about it. I wondered if it is the pressure caused through bloating previously to period coming????

Vaunda. [Light bulb clicks on over head emoticon}!!!!Maybe thats our problems. Ds1 still wets at 9, not every night but enough to cause a lot of laundry! So maybe my restricting drinks is making things worse. Caligula, this might sound dim but how much fluid counts as a drink? And are all fluids allowed, or just water, milk etc?

Chipmonkey,
I still stand by this solution. During the end of term ds wet once at night and that was the day he had only had one bottle of water during the day at school. Also at the time he was chesty (asthma) and had had medicine to help him sleep prescribed by gp. so this could have been the reason. But after that I made sure he took a couple of bottles of water to school and he has been fine ever since.
As i say not all children respond to this, some just have weak bladders others sleep too deeply. Just hope you get it all sorted for all of your sakes xx
good luck

also some people swear that blackcurrent drinks cause wetting - apparently blackcurrent is irritable to the bladder?

otherwise if she hasn't wet for ages and is suddenly doing it, my first port of call would be to my practice nurse with a tube of urine. they can dip it in 2 secs and tell you if there is anything in there. don't even need your dd with you!

Today I have to buy a Fairytopia doll as dd (5) has just gone 7 days being dry for the 1st time. She had always produced soaking nappies until a few months ago when I read on here about some squash making things worse, whenever I have been able to cut out squash etc from 4-5pm she has been much drier or gone thru. I am worried about what will happen when we are on holiday & eating later but hopefully she will get used to getting up for the loo in the morning.
I offer water after 4ish but she doesn't drink a lot, I just try to make sure she does drink plenty thru the day, tho difficult when they're at school.
Anyway, mumsnet helped with that so thought I'd let you know.

ds1 does sleep very deeply. If I wake him to bring him to the loo, he really hasn't a clue whats going on, will walk past the bathroom and downstairs if given the chance.

dd1 has just re-started bedwetting quite a lot: two nights ago i discovered she has threadworms...

The idea behind drinking more in the day is so that the bladder capacity will increase (it stretches like a balloon) and so it will be able to hold more wee for longer at night.
At least 6-8 drinks a day, only water after 5pm (other drinks have diuretic effects) and make sure they don't go to the loo too many times during the day as then the bladder will get used to emptying regurlarly and not be able to hold much (vicious circles and all that) 5 trips to the loo in a day is acceptable.

Also, DONT lift them for a wee in the night, they generally sleep through it (if you ask them in the morning they will not remember it) and it doesn't train their brain to wake themselves up when they need a wee or their bladder to hold off until morning

Nell12 How long does it take for the bladder to get used to this? Have been doing the drinking thing for about 3 months now and still wet pull ups.
Can't be sure if he wakes up for a wee and as he has a pull up just doesn't bother to go to the loo.

It can be a long haul. If you feel brave enough, go without the dry-nites then if Ds does wet himself, the discomfort may effect him. Make him sort himself out (get washed, clean p-js etc)
My Ds is 9 and still bed-wetting , this advice is from Eneuresis clinic. Generally this will solve 90% of problems. DS now has to go for medication, but the school nurse at the clinic told me this week that the drinking more and not weeing on the hour like a heavily pregnant woman has "cured" the majority of her kids

I know the feeling my DS1 is 5 and hasnt stopped wetting yet, he like many of then is a VERY deep sleeper and can sleep thru a wet bed, we have tried him without pants etc.

The school said they dont worry about it til they get to 7, then they may refer you.

I was advised to encourage DS to drink a shed load during the day and make him hold his wee, so if he asked to go the loo, tell him to hang on 5 mins this does work as he forgets he needs the loo, eventually this will train him/his bladder to hold on longer espec thru the night.

DS said last week whilst we were just about to eat, I need the loo, I said lunch is here, hang on til after and then you can go, 2 hours later he finally said "ooops I've just remembered I need a wee"

I am not bothered about it espec as if you read up on it, Boys espec are very late starters of dry nights, altho there are the exceptions to the rule. DH is panicing about it

My 6yr old DS still wets bed occasionally. Was dry at night for over a year but then started wetting again. He has last drink at dinner time then goes to the toilet before he goes to bed. This routine very rarely changes. What I have discovered is the reason for the bedwetting is that he is worrying about something. So now I don't mention the wet bed and instead have to try and figure out what has upset him. Normally something he has overheard or something happening at school.

His 3yr old brother is completely dry so I worry that is going to upset him but he doesn't seem to mind.

I think he is just very sensitive and doesn't voice what is worrying him. If he did he would probably be dry.

Probably not the advice anyone wants to hear. Night time enuresis is just something you need to live with. My DS was always wet few nights out the week dry possibly. For holidays etc we got a nasal spray from the doc but he had to limit liquid intake and wsn't allowed to go swimming as it was bad for kidneys. We tried the sun n rain charts, the no drinks after dinner and the dreaded buzzer mat, which just woke the whole house up apart from him who was contently peeing in his sleep Just gave me a job to do changing bed at 3am rather than in the morning after a good nights sleep What you don't want to hear is that he did this until he was around 13years old and could never go to sleepovers or school trips. Think it's more common in boys and heridetary. My bro was the same.

Hi Moms,i have 4 bedwetters to,boys are 6,8 9 12.all i can do is diaper them, have trierd everything.
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Lois campbell

Just jumping in here:

My ds1 is 8 years old and has never been dry at night. We took him to a specialist who ruled out all physical, emotional, behavioural causes and said he just needs to mature.

In the end, we opted for medication (desmopressin - or some such spelling!) which reduces urine production at night. We started at the minimum dose of 0.2 mg and it reduced the urine, but he was still wet (we use drynites). A few days ago the GP increased it to the top dose of 0.4mg and he is still not dry. I am tearing my hair out and I think I will have to go back to the consultant.

Does anyone have any experience of these medications?

10% of 5 year olds
5% of 10 year olds and
1% of 15 year olds

Not an abnormal one amongst you.

IlanaK - if all the other things have been ruled out that is really good! Be positive - it will get better.

IlanaK,
My brother wet the bed every night until he was 9 and then suddenly stopped. For no clear reason, just seems that he just wasn't ready. My mum despaired though, as we did not have a washing machine and she kept on having to lug everything to the launderettes, and also she knew that he was being teased about it at school (don't know how they found out, but I remember them teasing him in the playground).
Seems it can run in the family. My dd was unreliable until she was about 5 1/2, then it suddenly clicked, but she does get up most nights to go to the loo.
Must be frustrating for you and for your ds, but it will get better in time.