Dd nearly 5 still wetting the bed...

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My dd is nearly 5, she has been dry in the day time from the age of 2, but has been wearing pull ups until last week! I decided to try to stop her wearing them.

She wets the bed very night unless I take her to the toilet about 2-3 times in the night. If I only take her once She will defiantly wet the bed.

Last night I went to bed at 9.30 so didn't take her to the toilet atall and she wet her bed then I took her in my bed and she wet mine too.

How can I help her?? I really would prefer her to not have to wear pull ups, but I am wondering if I am forcing it on her? But I just feel that it's not right for a 5 year old to wear nappies to bed. Also when dd sleeps at my sisters house she never wets her pull up and says she just holds it in??

Advice is much needed.

two reasons - the hormone or too deep sleep. some really unlucky kids don't make the hormone and sleep too deeply. so two, but with a combination of both providing an additional issue.

enuresis alarm to cure the deep sleep issue (with the proviso it wakes the parents who then rouse the child initially) or meds to provide synthetic version of hormone for kids who don't yet produce it.

kids with both issues may need both measures in place to be dry... jury still out on that, it's a hard nut to crack.

autism and lds can contribute to daytime enuresis, but night time would be due to the same issues as nt kids - with the proviso that if they don't recognise the 'i need a wee' signals, they are unlikely to respond. shouldn't affect hormone production afaik.

ds1 is too lazy to get out of bed (as well as not producing the hormone and being a deep sleeper). that's behavioural lol. he isn't remotely bothered by wet sheets, duvet and pillows, so even when he wakes up in the morning he doesn't get out of it. nice.

OMG, remember the days of using the alarm! We had to give up on it in the end because it only woke me up and no-one else and I just couldn't cope with broken sleep after fifteen years of it. So we now rely on the tablets, which work most of the time and think about how we might try him without them again, soon..... Maybe....

DH and I are both getting a bit too old to cope with broken sleep and we are also both suffering debilitating illnesses, so we put off the day. Bad of us I suppose.

not bad, you do what you can don't you, when you can, when you have the energy.

i havent really spoken to anyone about dd's wetting. lots of emotional/psychological rubbish has been endured over the yrs, from her father, and tbh i didn't want to burden her with another issue.

tho i did mention once to gp who said it's a matter for the school nurse .

Who isn't based at school, but i think you can arrange an appointment.

Yeh. We did that once. The school nurse. She called me. And was utterly, completely and unreservedly useless. I never bothered again. GP is wrong though. Should have referred to enuresis clinic. Not school nurse. Has she not had ultrasound to check bladder and kidneys etc? Poor show for the GP.

You do what you can is absolutely spot on. When you can.

the only consolation i have from your post about the scan comment, is that dd had severe ab pain last yr, which resulted in them having her in hosp and she had an ultrasound of everything in that area.

One would assume something may have shown up, it was very thorough.