Still wearing night time pull ups at 9 years old.

[Beach1983]

My daughter is still wearing pull ups at night and she had not long turned 9 (much to her embarrassment). I’m aware that kids only stop wetting at night when their brain makes a certain hormone which varies hugely (my son was 3!).

She desperately wants to stop wearing them but she is such a deep sleeper she doesn’t even wake if she’s wet the bed! Sometimes she has a wee at 8 when I take her to bed and when I check on her when I go to bed at ten she’s wet the bed already!

I have suggested going to the doctors which she is massively against, but I feel I have no other option. I would be grateful if anyone could share anything that works - do the alarms work for example?

You need to take her to the GP. I can't believe you are letting a 9YO child make the decision on this. It's not just a case of being fobbed off with medication, you need to find out the case of this instead of just hoping to goes away.

I contacted our local school nurse team directly and they supported in helping resolve my dd bed wetting issue. They were really helpful, their details were on the county council website.

We tried tolterodine and oxybutanen I can't remember which way round but the first one worked for the bladder but gave really nasty mental health side effects. The second one no side effects but also no effect on the bladder. Then the bladder nurse recommended Solifenacin as she had read some evidence that it worked well with Despmopressin. This combo worked really well and actually we just use solifenacin and no desmopressin which is much easier as we don't need to do all the restricting water and last drink an hour before bed.

If i'm being honest. Up until I was 9 I had been wearing pullups because i just wet myself evry time at night. But all of a sudden i just stopped wetting myself and just didnt need them anymore. It just happens over time its natural

My Ds was 11 or 12 when he was dry at night. From when was about 8, he was put on desmopressin. That, plus cutting out coloured drinks helped, he was dry probably 4 out of 7 nights - I used to have three or four layers of bed pads, and old towels under that. It was tough at the time for him, but once he hit puberty, the bed wetting just stopped.

@StampyC Funny you say that as literally in the last month she has been dry! A couple of accidents but pretty much there now!