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Nearly 2 weeks of bedwetting - help!!!

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Judd · 15/10/2006 22:18

Hi - any advice gratefully received. DD will be 5 in December and has been nappy free at night since September last year. We have had a few blips which have always seemed to have been laziness, as a chocolate button upon waking always ensured a dry bed.
However, for the past two weeks, DD has had a wet bed every night...and it has always been wet by the time we go to bed at 11pm (before we have also managed to get over blips by lifting at 11pm). A few nights she has then gone on to wet the bed again, but does not wake us, and will stay in her bed singing and chatting in the morning, apparently oblivious to the wetness.
We've tried the chocolate button technique, we've assumed great tiredness and put her to bed early (always in bed by 7.30pm and sleeps 12 hours), we've asked her what is wrong - she says she can't feel it coming out of her.
DD sleeps in a double bed and, to be frank, the whole situation is really starting to get me down. The washing machine is on constantly, I am potty training DS and the whole house just seems to smell of wee! I have sent a urine sample to the doctor so that he can test for a UTI but if this comes back clear I don't really know what else I can do.
Oh blimey - just been to check on her - I was hoping to get in early and lift her but her bed is already wet and there's a poo in her pyjamas as well. Everything has been changed and I've put one of DS's pull ups on her as well. She isn't happy about that, but this is getting daft.
Any helpful comments, rallying cries or humorous tales of wee gratefully received!

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Tommy · 15/10/2006 22:39

can't really help (my 5 in Jan DS is still very firmly in night time nappies)but another woman at school said her son had been wetting the bed quite a lot since he started school.

Could that be the reason? Bit of regression due to new school?
As I said, I don't really know.

Good luck

Judd · 15/10/2006 22:44

Thanks Tommy - could be , I suppose. Just seems to be no end in sight.
Will just bump incase anybody in the "wee" (arf arf!) small hours has any top tips........

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jacobliam · 24/11/2006 08:53

Hi i went through the same with ds1, all i did was borrowed some pullup nappies of a neighbour and said that he would have to start wearing them again. He didnt much like that. Combined with not letting him drink after tea, apart from a small drink before going to bed seemed to do the trick.
Another thing to consider is bed wetting can be a sigh of other things. I presume yours is at school, it could be he is finding it hard or any manner of things.

I fully undertsand your frustration washing bedding is a pain esp at this time of year!!

All the best Laura

jacobliam · 24/11/2006 08:54

sorry read your message ad ds, but its dd. i really should put my glasses on!!!!

mamalocco · 24/11/2006 13:50

My dd1 went through this when she was about 3 or 4 after being dry for over a year. On the advice of my wise old granny I raised the bottom of the bed by about 5-6 inches (couple of Yellow Pages should do it) and the bed wetting stopped immediately. Lowered the bed back down again after a few days and it started again so put the books back under the bed and left them there for about three weeks. She has never wet the bed since.

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