6yr old wets the bed every night. Sometimes twice.

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Would you go to a doctor? He's six and a half.

We lift him to wee at about 10 but sometimes it's too late and he's already gone by then. And sometimes he goes again before morning. He just never wakes up.

I don't have any experience of this but read this article yesterday and found it really interesting www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting/bedwetting-accidents-potty-training

It's hormonal. He can't control it until the hormone that shuts his kidneys down at night kicks in. Also he needs his bladder to communicate with his brain to wake him up.

It's not unusual for under 8's to still be wet at night (1:5 I think).

Chill :)

Our rule was always 3 consecutive dry nappies, try without. 3 wet beds, back in nappies.

You can get bed wetting alarms. Have no idea how they work but my db had one when he was little

Butterflylady- that blog post is seriously suggesting a bowel clean out or series of strong enema's in under 8's!! You won't get any doctor in the uk to go along with that! Plus an x-Ray...

Plus it's a rubbish bit of research, there's no control, how many non- bedwetters are constipated? The only way you could really link constipation with bed wetting would be to show nobody dry at night is constipated.

If it were linked people would be going back to wetting the bed every time they got constipated!

6?? That's very young, have you ever used DryNites?
Your GP would refer you to an enuresis clinic at 7. DS wet every night until after puberty.

It's quite normal. My almost 6 year old son wears pull ups at night and is wet every morning.

They all grow out of it eventually. No point turning it in to a thing.

Ds2 wore nappies at night till he was 8. He was referred to a special clinic who help us sort it out.

6 is still young, boys are usually later than girls. As a previous poster said, it's to do with the production of a certain hormone.

I wouldn't stress about it. Just use night time pull ups and give it a while longer. You won't get a medical referral till your ds is 8.

But try to encourage not weeing little and often, to go slightly longer between wees, to stretch the capacity of the bladder. We had a measuring jug in the bathroom which ds2 used to measure the volume of his urine. This enabled us to 'measure' his progress. This may or may not work for your ds, but ds2 is really into science, so it appealed to the scientist in him.

Hope this helps, and good luck.

It's still normal at this age. See here:

At night, some children produce too little of the antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which controls the production of urine. Tablets containing desmopressin (eg Desmotabs) may help. The child needs to be examined by a doctor who will then decide whether treatment is necessary.

You can speak to your doctor, but they'll probably just advise you to wait a bit longer. Some children simply take longer to start producing the hormone.

We took dd1 when she was 5.5, we got referred and started treatment around her 6th birthday. She's now 6.5 and medication free, she hasn't wet the bed for weeks . The medication is called desmopressin and it mimics the hormone she wasn't producing herself. In some children a few months of it is enough to 'kick start' things but some children need it for much longer. Of course it may just have been a coincidence in our case but it was worth it

The other option is an alarm but we decided against that because she shares a room with dd2. Or you could just wait and watch. It's certainly worth a trip to the GP to ask for further advice in any case.

I tried one of those alarms with my son (5yrs old) he's desperate to be dry, the alarm did wake him, but he'd already started wetting by then. He genuinely couldn't manage to go through the night and was heartbroken that he couldn't fill up his star chart we abandoned it and I have just decided to wait and see when he's ready. I think it's just one of those things that they all do in their own time

Thank you everyone. That's reassuring. I sometimes feel as though everyone else's child has been dry at night since they were two!