Why would completely dry 3yo suddenly wet the bed twice in one night?

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DS potty trained quite easily just before his 3rd birthday. After 2 days he refused his night time nappy and was dry straight away. He is now 3.7 and has only wet the bed once in all that time.

Until last night - when he wet the bed twice. He was really really upset and confused. He has a speech delay so is unable to talk about it, but he didn't seem like he does when he has a bad dream.

He doesn't seem ill. DH did let him take squash to bed last night (not something I'm happy about ) where normally he has water, but I don't see how that could make a difference unless I'm missing something?

When my dd was 3 (many years ago) she unexpectedly wet herself whilst we were out in town. We were very angry with her as she had been dry for ages. The next day she came down with chicken pox.

It might make a difference if he was sensitive to the additives in the squash. Certainly worth banning in future. Or I used to find in the past that something like that occasionally meant that my children were about to come down with a bug. Or perhaps he was unusually tired and slept so deeply that the feeling of a full bladder didn't wake him. My money's on the squash though.

could have been tired, dreamt he was on the toilet, have a UTI, coming down with something or the squash could have irritated his bladder and caused him to pee.

Squash is more likely to make them wet than water, I'm not sure why. But cutting out squash is usually the first thing to do for bedwetting. Also getting unwell or UTI could cause it, or just a disturbed night as a one off.

Interesting about the squash. I think I had heard it somewhere, but wasn't sure if I'd imagined it!

I've been thinking of cutting out squash anyway - just recently the DCs have been having a lot thanks to DH for some reason.

Squash is more attractive to children than water, largely, and the sweetners in it make you thirstier, rather than quenching thirst. He probably drank more than normal because of that.

My girls used to have squash during the day time and would guzzle it and ask for more, all day. DD2 ended up with diabetes symptoms and the GP sent her to hospital. They suggested reducing her squash intake. I decided that was too much hassle (offering squash for part of the day then switching to water) and simply cut squash altogether.

For the first 3 days they all moaned and whined and turned their noses up at water. 3 days in, they suddenly started saying 'can I have water please?'

Now, they drink much more evenly and only have squash on a Sunday with their roast.

Sounds like a plan. The ridiculous thing is both my DCs are really good at drinking plain water, but they've got hooked on the squash recently - funny how quickly bad habits form isn't it - much quicker than good ones!