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When did your DC stop wetting the bed?

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lostinafrica · 30/03/2011 19:01

DD1 is 7yo and wets the bed maybe once or twice a week on average. DH is away from home a lot which seems to be a factor - certainly it's a factor in helping me stay calm and unemotional when it happens!

I have no idea at what age, if any, this is treated as a problem. It would be nice to know how likely she is to grow out of it soon!

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G1nger · 30/03/2011 22:03

I know someone who took a few years longer than that. My ten year old niece also still does it. There is medical help out there, which is worth trying (and by 7, I'm sure) but it may not work. It took puberty to stop the person I know

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lostinafrica · 31/03/2011 20:42

Anyone else? I thought it might still be normal at age 7, so it'd be good to hear other people's experience.

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G1nger · 31/03/2011 20:45

I have a three year old niece who no longer does it. An older niece stopped at five, but her background was a bit mixed up before then. The only niece who was still doing it by 7 is still doing it now, by ten. I was likewise the only daughter (of four) of my parents who did more than a little accident on a rare night by that age...

clockwatcher666 · 31/03/2011 21:06

My 6 year old ds has just stopped after using a bed wetting alarm.He was wet most nights before this. The alarm only took 2 weeks to work. He has had a couple of accidents since then (Jan) but we are so pleased for him.

G1nger · 31/03/2011 21:16

There are also tablets to perhaps try. Bodies are supposed to produce a hormone or something that reduces urine production when asleep, which some people can lack.

Unfortunately, small bladders can also be to blame, and be something kids just have to grow out of. I wonder if it might be worth teaching your child how to do PC muscle exercises, as that might help.

dikkertjedap · 31/03/2011 21:58

DD has been dry both day and night since two years and five months. However, I do always take her to the bathroom around 23.00h before going to bed myself and if I hear twisting and turning in bed a lot I also take her to the toilet (doesn't happen very often, but in my experience, it often means she needs to wee). I don't wake her up, I just pick her up say that we are going to the toilet (she still sleeping), put her on the loo and hold her while she wees, wipe and pick her up and put her in bed again and she continues sleeping soundly, blissfully unaware of anything. We very rarely have accidents, but if we do have an accident it is usually because I forgot to take her to the toilet when I went to bed. I expect you already make sure she goes to the bathroom right before going to bed? And not drinking too much before bedtime? Hope you sort it out, if not, I would ask GP for advice.

dikkertjedap · 31/03/2011 22:02

Also, you mention to stay calm might be difficult. When we have an accident (I have one of those JoJoMamanBebe mattress protectors on mattress) I don't take the whole bed off etc. I take her pyjama trousers off, if her top is also wet put a new top on (I don't bother with the trousers, because don't want her to totally wake up) then I take several very thick bath towels and cover the area and put her back in bed. If top sheet is also wet, then I take her in my bed and sort her bed out the next day.

Hulababy · 31/03/2011 22:04

Dd was Between 6 and 7y. Was dry during day from 24 months and desperate to be dry at night for ages. Just gradually improved.

madwomanintheattic · 31/03/2011 22:10

dd1 - 8 (but we used an enuresis alarm after failing with desmotabs)
ds1 still wet at 9. every night. meds don't work and he won't use an alarm.
dd2 - 2. dry on her own.

night time wetting is considered very normal and gps won't even consider looking at it as a problem until 7, unless there are other factors.

at 7, if she is only wet a couple of nights a week, i wouldn't be inclined to do anything for 6mos or so.

two reasons for bedwetting - maturity (cured by taking synthetic dose of hormones in form of desmotabs pr similar) or sleeping heavily (trained by using enuresis alarm)

she sounds as though she's nealry there, though. so i wouldn't worry too much.

therugratref · 31/03/2011 22:11

DS1 is nearly 10 and wets every night.

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lostinafrica · 01/04/2011 19:45

Oh, thanks - that's all reassuring, especially mad's comments. Thank you!

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CardyMow · 03/04/2011 10:27

DD stopped wetting at 12 yrs 4 months. She is now 13yrs 1 months, and hasn't had a single accident in that time - puberty was what helped, she was lacking the hormone that helped. Means that Desmo would have helped if there had been an enuresis clinic here. Which there isn't. The GP wouldn't prescribe it. .

My top tips - pampers care mats on the bed on top of the sheet, can just be whipped off the bed and thrown away (saves stripping the bed in the middle of the night). If the mattress starts to smell, cover it in shake 'n' vac or bicarbonate of soda, leave for 1/2 hour, then hoover off. Repeat on other sie of mattress, then febreze before putting back on bed. Gets rid of the smell totally.

overmydeadbody · 03/04/2011 10:30

My DS never wet the bed, but he has a friend who comes over for sleepovers sometimes who only now, at 7, doesn't have the occasional accident.

My sister used to wet the bed until she was about 8 or 9. Then she just stopped.

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