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?

5 wet nights in a row! :( But.... I realised something last night. He is taking his trousers off in bed before he wets because they can be found, bone dry, scrunched up at the bottom of his bed. I presume he is dreaming that he is actually getting out of bed to go to the loo. Not sure what to do about that one. Any suggestions? We are on the waiting list for an alarm from the nurse.

Do you know how long the wait is?
The one I bought was less than £30 on amazon.

She wasn't sure. Could be a few weeks, could be a few months.

If you can afford it, I think you should really consider just biting the bullet.
Do you get it for as long as you need or is there a time limit?

Presumably not a time limit I suppose otherwise you'd get a firm date I suppose?

Sorry about the wet nights. I agree with whereisegg if you can afford it, our trust don't loan out alarms and my own GP's son had used the alarm we got.

The PJ thing probably is a sign your DS is rousing from sleep before he wees. I realised when we started using the alarm that DD was waking about 10 mins before it went off - I could here her moving about through the monitor and then the alarm would go off.

I meant to add that I included the movement as part of our nightime routine, reminding her that if she started to toss and turn it could be a sign that she needs the toilet.

Does anyone have a child that can't go to the toilet before bed? DD can go at bathtime or just before (say within 30mins) then it can be 30mins after bath before we say a final goodnight - 4 kids, bedtime stories etc. but if I send her to the loo at time to say final goodnight she just can't go. I have tried explaining she is making her body work up to an hour harder than it needs to but she just can't go.

No experience of that I'm afraid fresh

We generally have to gently suggest it, and then ignore him. The more watched he feels, the less likely he is to come up with the goods.

We had a wet one on Tuesday - but it was a very calm affair all round. Popped Wet Stop on last night, and all was well. No alarm, but he poodled off to the loo in the small hours. He had been knackered, and it was a late night, with not as many fluids as he needs in the day.

In a bizarre way it's good, as we're a bit more calm now that one wet night doesn't have to mean a three-month relapse!

Morning everyone

Sorry Fresh don't have any experience of that either as DD can always go a bit more after a very short space of time.

After how many dry nights did you take the alarm off? We are now on 11 dry nights :) but I'm being cautious as we've got to 12 before (back in August). She gets up most nights about 2/3 without the alarm which is great. I read it was 14 nights but then I think the nurse said 4 weeks.

Hi August,
Probably not much help - but we did it when he felt ready to give it a go. We ditched the pull-ups first, and then did a week or so with just the alarm. Then he said that he wanted to have a go without it, so we went for it. I think that it was about a week, but we let him be in control there. It's there in the wardrobe, in case it's needed again, as we have done with our two wet nights since 20 Oct.

11, 12 - brilliant! If she's getting up, and wants to go for it, I'd let her go for it. 4 weeks seems blimmin ages!
We use the bed mats, which have saved the mattress and let us go for it.

We've had a hit and miss couple of weeks - I'm hoping it's just down to tiredness - we're ready for the holidays now. But at least it's hit and miss which is better than the every night we had before out dry spell.

Fingers crossed it all gets back on track now school has finished.

We had another dry night here :) We have a long day tomorrow so am going to wait until Sunday and suggest she tries without the alarm, we always have a double layer of bedmats on the bed so if she is wet we don't have to change the whole thing in the middle of the night.

Another wet one.

Blooming Christmas.

Oh lemon was just about to post how wonderful all the updates were

Hopefully another one-off - but still antsy at their being so close together. We've had a v chilled evening and early night; he's had some poo issues this week, too, which can muck up his nights. WetStop's on, and staying on for a week or so, or until visitors arrive on the 23rd.

So we tried without the alarm last night and she was dry . She was a little bit apprehensive but wanted to give it a go and was really pleased, she got up through the night then slept until about 8.30 this morning.

Poo issues can have a big impact on dryness Lemon. The nurse always asks what bowel movements have been like.

DS had a really long stretch of wet nights, then he had 5 dry nights, 1 wet, then dry last night.

August, what a lovely Christmas present!

DS has always had links between the two - end-of-term shenanigans meant that he wasn't guzzling enough during the day. We got on the case straight away; no more blips this week, but he's wearing the alarm, just until the ship has stabilised once more.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. And thank you to Whereisegg for starting this thread. It has been a great place to come to when it's getting tough!

I was so grateful for this thread, for the people who had been through it, were still going through it, and those who had never had this issue but posted anyway.

It's so lovely to see some of you still here I may be a bit drunk

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that today's laundry load is minimal... We were OK, in spite of a late night and less than optimal diet . DS, that is. I tend to be dry anyway...

4 dry, 1 wet, 5 dry, 1 wet, 1 dry has been our latest tally. A vast improvement over the period of time just before that! Particularly pleased because amongst all that we have had 5 nights away from home, and 2 nights of DS feeling really rotten.