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

[Whereisegg]

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?

Fingers crossed tonight, Doradoo.

We're going alarm-less tonight.

Fingers crossed lemon!!!

Fingers crossed was only a blip - only one wet out of 12 now....

How did the alarm-less night go Lemon?

Same old story here of some dry, some wet nights. I was a little concerned that DS was reverting completely earlier this week after 3 wet in a row. 2 dry since then thank goodness!

1/12 is great doradoo

All well here, thank you all! DD was having a sleepover here, so he was chuffed to pieces not to have had to skulk in his bedroom or the bathroom.

I hope you all had good nights.

That's great Lemon, I long for the day we can go alarm-less.

Still up and down here - we have had 3 damp (not on bed) nights out of the last 12 and each time she was damp it was early (around 11/11.30) then slept the rest of the night.

Hoping for good news from you all

Been generally good here - since starting with the increased fluids we're on to 2 (and a half - dampish) /18 wet so really good!

Hope every one else is on a good run!

Oh that is good! Happy Friday

I've just stumbled across this thread. And what a relief to hear of so many others in the same boat. My very nearly 8 yr old DD seems to be the only one at her school, although I'm sure there are others with parents staying quiet. She has never once had a dry night and this week we went to see the school nurse, who was so lovely and fantastic. DD has been in Drynites for years but it seems like the only way forward is to dump them. I've always been of the opinion that it'll just sort itself out at some point but DD has had enough of the Drynites and so it's lead by her that we're seeking help. We've two weeks of drinking more in the day, avoiding anything apart from water and milk, and no drinks after tea and then we go back. Last night was the first night and DD managed to go for one wee by herself at 11.30 (a first) but then wet herself twice more before the morning. It's early days for us but oh so comforting to hear of so many others in the same boat. I shall stick around on this thread!

Hi sydney
I always felt alone with this issue too, never really discussed it with anyone outside of the family so this thread has been wonderful

As you may have read, we had huge success with the wetstop alarm which I ordered from Amazon, and ds seems to be out the other side now

Thanks whereisegg, that's reassuring. Night 2, three wet incidents, so I feel we're destined for an alarm...

Hi y'all, and welcome aboard, Sidney (although we're all hoping for dry docks, rather than oceans!)

Checking in once more, and we're happy to say that all is still dry here, and we tentatively mark a month of dry nights without soggy Dri Nites. DS is so much happier, although his parents are still to relax.

You'll have grasped from the looooong history on the thread that my DS has now been helped to dryness twice by using a Wet Stop in conjunction with pull-ups. My very depressing posts from July/ August show that the alarm + normal pants didn't work at all for us, as everyone was up for too long in the night to do the changes. We turned a corner when we went back to what had worked the first time around. Once dry, relapses can and do happen - but it can be turned around again.

We made Egg buy her Wet Stop

The solidarity of this thread has been very important - anyone popping their head round the door with well-intentioned advice based on what worked with their three-year old is gently moved on with a wet pull-up in their ear! We know it's 1 in 10 in a KS 2 class, and that there a lot worse things that could happen - but that doesn't mean that it isn't hard for our DCs.

Sydney, your DD is probably in the best position for an alarm, as it's coming from her lead. My DS did understand that he needed help to override his astoundingly deep sleep, and generally didn't resent having it. He was old enough to make a rational decision and felt empowered that he was doing something about it.

Yes we spoke to lemon ds before buying the alarm and he was really excited to try it.

And yy and to the advice about bloody reward charts and just taking the pants away

lemon is it just me that's a bit at the gp advice on the thread we both just commented on?!
Most of it seemed so conflicted with everything else I've read!

Flippin' eck!

It's the complete opposite of everything on the Eric website and if everything that HCPs say. Is it 1975 over there?

"Don't talk about it?" I mean, talk about making a taboo. Poor kid.

And washing everything every day? Yeah. Worked for us. Not.

I might have to say something

I think so too. How many people on this thread? Have any of us been told to lift? Errrrrr thought not.

I've done it

Me too. Same points.

We had our first ever dry night EVER last night, taking nothing for granted though esp as for various reasons it was a late night and an early start. Haven't seen other thread but I've had enough of people telling me she's doing it for attention or is just lazy. There's so much misinformation out there purely because people aren't open about the whole thing. Taboo causes rubbish outdated advice.

Hey, that's great, Sydney. It is possible to be delighted with them without it turning into the "well done" that suggests that they have any control over it.

Was your DD pleased? My DS likes hearing about other children on the thread, as it reassures him of the normality of it all in a world that seems generally to regard him as enjoying waking up in a pee-soaked bed.

She was thrilled! She did get up twice in the night for a wee which concerns me a bit as even post 2 big babies me only goes once. And yes, 'well done' is hard when it's not really them! Prepared for another wet night tonight..