Sigh. Tell me this is just a really really short phase - ds2 wetting the bed...

[DottyDot]

Ds2 (5 in a few weeks) potty trained early (at around the age of 2) never had any accidents day or night even when very little - got the hang of it straight away. We were really lucky and he just seemed to know what to do.

For the last 6 weeks or so he's been wetting the bed about once every 10 days/fortnight.

We're completely baffled - he says he can't feel it/doesn't know it's happening.

I'm stumped - the only thing I can think of is that he's had a virus - cough/cold - for quite a long time recently, so maybe he's sleeping slightly deeper and not waking up to wee? Usually he just gets up in the night and goes to the toilet without any problems.

Obviously it's not a huge deal (other than we'd stopped using mattress protectors ages ago so we're on mattress no. 2), but I was just wondering if anyone else has been through this?

Thanks!

DS went through a stage of occasional bedwetting at a similar age DottyDot. We never really got to the bottom of it but found that by stopping drinks with Sodium Benzoate in them and also keeping an eye on books he was reading and programmes he was watching to make sure there was nothing that might unsettle him, it did soon pass. We resisted the ruge to 'lift' him when we went to bed as we'd heard that this can create more problems than it solves. Instead we made no big deal about it (hard though that is I know) and just let it pahse out. A tip I was given - put a spare clean sheet underneath the mattress protector so if it does happen in the middle of the night you just rip off the top two sheets and your DS is straight back into bed. No hanging around while you get the spare sheet out of the cupboard and fit in to the mattress.
Hang in here DottyDot. This too will pass

Thanks! We've been wondering about the lifting thing but as it only happens every 10 - 14 days it's difficult to know what to do.

Fingers crossed it's a short phase - we've cut down on tea time/evening drinks - not that he had much but he now gets less

ds2 did this when he had a UTI. But he was also complaining of pain down there which we put down to constipation and made him drink lots of juice which probably didn't help!

oh good lord - twice in the past 2 nights. Help!!!! Why would this happen?

He's well now - no cold, no temperature. He doesn't seem at all bothered, which I know is good as we don't want to stress him out. He just gets up, tells us he's done a wee and we sort out his bedding and then he's straight back asleep again.

Sigh. He has half a cup of milk at 6pm with his tea and nothing afterwards.

Do you think it's worth starting to wake him at 10pm for a wee, or is that a really bad idea?