On-off bed-wetting 6 year old

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DD 6 often wets the bed. She goes through phases though.
She was dry during the day from 2.2 with no accidents at all after the first week.
At nights, she was dry every night from about 3 and this lasted about 6 months. She then wet every night in a row for about 2 weeks and we put her back in pull ups. She continued to be wet regularly for the next 6 months or so. Eventually we managed to get her out of pulls ups and she went through another period of several months of being completely dry.

Since then it has been the same thing -periods of time (often months) when she has no accidents at all, and then other periods when she has regular accidents (we are in one of those at the moment - every night for a week now). There has been no suggestion from either her or us that the pull ups come back.
I do make her strip off her wet sheets but otherwise we largely ignore it apart from making sure she goes to the loo last thing.

I have read on here that there is no point in forcing them until they are ready because it requires them to have developed in some way physically. If it is this I don't understand how she has managed 6 month stretches with no problem. She is a very calm and happy little girl and doing well at school etc, with lots of friends, so I wold be surprised if there was a physcological (sp?) cause. I did at one stage get her tested for diabetes (in the family) but it was clear.

Has any one had experience of this on-off behaviour and have any tips? I understand the doctors will not normally treat bed-wetting as a problem until they are 7 so we will have to sit it out a while. Is that right?

any thoughts from the daytime crowd?

i had two dc who did this and even up to age 10
was beside myself especially as they got older.
Realised at some point - oh, they're not doing it any more

I was convinced they would be adult bedwetters

We had support when they got to the 7 ish mark but it didnt really help and stressed them out, and we gave up i suppose.
It was a pain if they went to a friends or grandmas to sleep over.

Good news was it resolved itself

thanks, reassuring to know it stopped eventually. She is keen to start having the odd sleepover and I am not sure what to do about that. Fine at ours to keep hidden from friend, but harder if she goes to theirs.

My 10 year old wears night time pants still. There is a reason why the Huggies are 'age 8 to 15'!
His brothers also wet the bed until aged 7 or 8.
Because I did myself until I was 11 or 12 I have never worried about it and assumed they would grow out of it as I did.

My 12 year old is like your daughter and goes through phases of wetting the bed. I just have two layers of sheets on his bed, ie waterproof and sheet, covered in a second waterproof and sheet. In between the waterproof and sheet I use the Pampers or Huggies absorbent bedmats which are excellent.

If he wakes wet he can strip off the top layer himself. There is always a spare duvet or sleeping bag at hand too. Then in the morning he brings it downstairs to the washing machine.

She will grow out of it I'm sure so just make it as easy and relaxed for her as possible in the meantime.

I wet the bed for an embarrassingly long time. I think I was about 15 when I stopped.
I don't even know why either. I didn't really have any psychological issues. I think it may have been that I didn't drink enough water during the day. If you can't find any traumatic experiences or dietary changes that may have caused the bedwetting to regress, then I think all you can do is wait.