2nd dry night for ds 7.4. Is this it?!

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Ds has had very few dry nights in his life, and even fewer of these have been in a row.

At 5 he had his HUGE (surgeon said biggest he'd seen) tonsils and adenoids removed due to sleep apnea.
Dr had mentioned that his brain was so concerned about keeping him breathing, it didn't care if he wee'd but that this would likely resolve itself after surgery.
It did, for 3 nights.

Fast forward a couple of years solid of brick-heavy pants every morning (and occasional wet beds too despite pants), we are on our second morning in a row of bone dry pants.

I don't want to be too outwardly excited at home in front of ds as he can't control it, so I want to be excited here please!

Could this be it, or just a lucky streak?

Not disappointed from my point of view. He was a bit upset because since he got to 9 nights in a row he's had alternate wet/dry nights. Just got to try to keep him positive.

Yes it must be heartbreaking for him when he thinks he's cracked it
I have told ds a couple of times that he may still have a wet night or 2, and that it's totally fine and normal.

In the meantime, dry night number 11 here last night

Dry again last night. Trying to figure out why it seems to be alternating. The nurse did warn him it might happen so he kind of knew.

Your son (and you) must be over the moon.

We are but confused also, the alarm didn't really seem to do anything!
Only woke him up successfully once iirc, not complaining though!

How was your ds last night MyChildren?
We had another dry night

A dry one last night. DS has been chopping and changing between wearing pyjama pants and not wearing them. There doesn't seem to be any logic to how he decides to wear them or not. The last pair have been put on tonight but I don't intend to buy any more so fingers crossed it we continue to have the majority of nights dry.

Another dry night last night, using this to keep count as ds was uninterested in the sticker chart.

Dry last night here too. :)
And I know what you mean about using this to keep track.

I make that...2 WEEKS DRY!!

#4 in a row here last night. Even better he woke up at 1am and took himself to the loo. Never before have I been so pleased to be roused from my sleep by someone wandering around the house at that time.

Wow! Waking up to pee is the holy grail

Who knew going to the loo in the night could be so exciting?

Dry night 15

Dry again here with another instance of waking to go to the loo.

Dry night number 16

Dry here too. Although when I went in to him this morning he said "I've wet the bed." I said never mind and went to run the bath. On going back into his room he was still in bed. I told him not to lay in it and he said "actually Mummy, I've realised I wasn't wet. I'm not sure why I thought I was."

We are winning!!

Dry night number 17.
It has quickly become normal

Yay. Dry #7 in a row here.

That's great! It's such a joy for everyone - and I really mean that, even in my current mood.

I'm back here wanting to cry. Sorry in advance for a selfish rant and frustrated downloading of upset and rage for poor DS.

Big relapse. Like, back to square one. After six fucking weeks, in which he mastered sleepovers, telling Grandma, being dry became normal. He came with us to Cub camp last weekend. Wet Friday night but too embarrassed to say. Wet every night since. Haven't the heart to put him back in pull-ups, so burning through the mats and washing duvets like Widow Twankey, with the wet stop back to singing away without him hearing it.

Wet Stop just went off, and he didn't stir. Soaking bed. He's devastated. Again. How can his little body play such nasty games with him? He was over-tired at the weekend, but should be fine now. It's worse than before, because it was ok, and now it's not. And because we have no idea what pulled his switch last time, we can't reproduce the conditions.

I want to cry. We're off camping for three weeks in three weeks, and we had already gleefully thought about the joy of not taking bloody nappies, and how DS would be. Now it looks as though I'll spend all day, every day washing and drying sleeping bags, while his alarm wakes the entire site bar him, and the poor, poor child feels his embarrassment even more. I know that, on the scale of things, this is nothing. But I'm so gutted for my little boy right now.

Sorry, ladies. But I know that you'll understand the mixture of frustration at a situation and compassion going on here at the moment.

Oh no Lemonsole how devastating for you son, and for you too. It's so hard watching them go through it.

Is the alarm one you were using on advice of an enuresis clinic or one you had bought yourselves?

How often does he wee in the day? That was one of the biggest keys for my DS. On monitoring it turned out he was going for a wee 18 times a day on average.

We read up on the Eric website and bought it ourselves - mainly because nights were the only issue. He drinks plenty in the day but seems to be able to hold it well. When he was dry it didn't make any difference how much and when he drank in the evenings. The guide reckons that relapses are normal after an initially dry run - but it just feels so cruel.

He says that when he woke this morning it was because he needed to go. Just back to the sleeping like the dead problem again.

It did feel better sharing it all. thank you.

Mine was sleeping very heavily too and it was also the case that nights were the only issue re wetting.

The advice the nurse gave us is in a post from Fri 13-Jun-14 08:49:21. It might have something helpful in it.

lemon

I can't even begin to understand how you must all be feeling, I welled up reading that and you are 'just' a name on a screen to me.

Has he stopped drinking so much in the day?
Is there any pattern to his wetting?

I just don't know what to say/suggest, but I am thinking of you all