Occasional bed wetting

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DS (nearly 5) wets bed intermittently for a few nights in a row, or with a few dry nights in between wet ones, for maybe a few weeks at a time. He then goes on to have long dry periods. He's been potty trained for almost 2 years and has few accidents otherwise. DH goes nuts when this happens and is now reading on websites about how to 'treat it' etc (i.e. preventing deep sleep, drinking more before bedtime to stretch bladder, etc). I think he is overreacting - that it's just a phase and that DS will grow out of it soon, again. Any experience of this issue and how you dealt with it would be very welcome.

Ds1 is the same and he is 6 and a half.

He has only been fairly reliably dry at night for about 6 months now.

He can be dry at night 90% of the time and I'm just leaving it at the moment to see if it cures itself over time.

To minimise the hassle I make his bed up with a waterproof mattress protector thing and then a sheet on top then another waterproof mattress protector and finally another sheet. This means that if he comes to me in the night saying he has wet the bed I can just strip off one "layer" whilst he changes his PJ's, dump the whole load in a bucket and we can all go back to bed quickly. I also have a spare duvet with cover on folded up under the bed although it's rare that the duvet actually gets wet.

Health professionals don't really consider it a problem until they are 7 and still bed wetting and you'd probably be surprised how many of his classmates parents still resort to pyjama pants or night time nappy equivalent. Once I was honest about it at the school gates, several other mums heaved a sigh of relief and owned up to still using them.