Any clues/cures for sudden bedwetting, nearly 5yo?

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DS (5 in August, dry at night for a year or so) out of blue 6 weeks or so ago started wetting the bed 2-3 times/week. Can't see any link between fluid intake in the day. Nothing (obviously) stressful going on for him at the moment (no new siblings, schooling etc etc). I am wondering whether to put him back in nappies at night - am not keen to do this (2 yo DD is nappy free and he won't want to be 'behind' her).

Any ideas a) why this might be happening; b) what to do to help DS get back to being reliably dry and c) how to best deal with it? We are currently still using cot beds and were hoping to move both children to single bunk later the year so don't want to be buying new waterproof bedding which will be too small within a matter of months.

Grateful for advice. Thanks.

I'm just giving my experience as a mum. Definitely don't go back to nappies. This is very, very common with young children, and it doesn't always mean that something is wrong. I know it's a bit of a faff, but when it happens again, act like everything is fine, change the sheets and carry on as normal. You might find that he is dry again for a while and then the bed wetting comes back again...or may be not at all. If your little boy is otherwise fit and healthy, I would just roll with it. I bought a small plastic bed protector, which I then covered with a draw sheet (like they use in hospital). So i didn't have to take the whole bottom sheet off. This would be ideal, if you were planning to move him into a bunkbed, which I am sure he would love!

dianne

I recently had to revert to taking my 7year old ds for a wee before I go to bed, round 11, as he has started getting up at 2am to sleep walk to the "toilet" and instead pee against any old wall.

Maybe worth taking him before you go to bed? My ds has been night-dry since 4yrs, this started about two weeks ago and the 11pm visit has worked so far, I think it's end of school year exhaustion.

Thanks. Have just done exactly this on your prompting. Have tried this once before and he still wet the bed later on so we'll see if it has an effect.

Interesting what you said about exhaustion as the only pattern I can see is that the nights he wees in bed are the nights that he has been running about like a mad thing during the day and I wonder if he is just so knackered he simply can't wake up if he needs a wee.

4 nights in a row now and I'm exhausted.

Hope it works, it is horrible having to deals with a wet bed in the middle of the night, and if you're anything like me you'll be torn between worry/exhaustion and annoyance! Good luck, haven't taken my boy as he went himself twenty minutes ago so shall sleep with one eye open ready to run up and help him before he finds a "toilet" as cleaning piss off the wall that has also splashed back onto toys/carpet is pretty shit too!