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5.6 yr old never had a dry night. aany helpful suggestions?

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partybabestitch · 29/11/2006 23:05

i have been very relaxed about this. he wears huggies pyjama pants t night as the pullups are too small. and if the bed does get wet, he is just told to stick in front of the wsshing machine, and have a shower. 'sort himself out'..
but he hass only ever had one dry night in his life. i dont want him in nappies forever. aany ideas on wht to do?
hv has said she will refer him. not sure what that entails.

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corrina28 · 30/11/2006 12:51

have you tried getting him to go to the toilet when u go up to bed. my friend has to do this with her dd as she still wets the bed at 8yo. Have you tried to sit down and talk to him, he may have just got into the habit of wetting the bed, IYKWIM

dinosaur · 30/11/2006 12:55

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geogteach · 30/11/2006 13:00

DS is the same age and we take him to the toilet when we go to bed, it generally works which is just as well as he won't wear a nappy. I spoke to the school nurse about it recently, she said stuff like make sure they are not drinking squash or fizzy drinks close to bed time also make sure that they are experiencing a full bladder during the day (so don't constantly remind them to go to the toilet) so they learn to recognise the sensation. Basically there is a chemical that has to be relised by the brain for them to master it and some won't until they are older. I was told if it was still a problem at 6.5 we would get a referal. At that point they do stuff like give you an alarm that wakes the child when they wet (no good here as DS is deaf) or may prescibe drugs.

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dinosaur · 30/11/2006 13:01

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laneydaye · 30/11/2006 13:02

Hi, my ds is 5.10 and we are still going strong with the night time saga.....
He was dry in the daytime very early around 18mths so we thought he would just be dry at night very quickly....aaarrgghhh
When he reached 4 i was distraught i just couldnt understand it! We went to see the hv and she laughed and told me not to worry that it was normal and dont seek medical help until around 7yrs!!
We were gobsmacked...
Now i just lift him around 11pm (he goes to bed at 7.30pm) and 5/7 days he wakes up dry..

Its hard though and i know how you are feeling.
Keep asking for advice on here as i have found it really helpfull..

good luck..xx

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partybabestitch · 30/11/2006 16:15

thankyou all.
i did the taking him to the toilet just before i went to bed, but he ws still wetting the bed. and he sould get upset by tht. so we went back to pyjama [ants, but i guess i will try perevering with that.

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TwoToTango · 30/11/2006 17:21

I was told the same as you dinosaur that they won't refer to an eneuresis clinic until they are 7. Please to hear about your DS, mine is 6.1 and does have some dry nights - approx 3 a week (I find he has more dry nights in school holidays), its good to know that they get there in the end, sometimes it feels like everyone else's DCs have been dry since they were 3.

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partybabestitch · 01/12/2006 10:52

ds1 was dry at 5.5 dd ws dry before her third birthday. its poor ds2 who is still wetting the bed.

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Crotchety · 01/12/2006 20:52

Hello all. Identifying with this thread as DS2 is 5 today and overflowing Huggies Dry Nights with monotonous regularity, although his older brother was dry at about 2.5. Anyway, my childminder seems to think just taking him out of nappies altogether might speed the process as he may be subconsciously realising that its OK to wee in them? What do we think about this idea - is it just wishful thinking and even more washing?

TwoToTango · 01/12/2006 21:04

I spoke to the school nurse who said more or less the same thing - that if they are in nappies/pull ups they don't feel uncomfortable etc if they wet the bed and don't have as much incentive to stay dry. I did try this but found that even though he had got up and got into fresh pyjamas and helped me change his sheets he didn't even remember in the morning what had happened.
I think it is an individual thing - at the moment I am having to get up at 5am so find that waking to change a wet bed at around 2-3 in the morning is too tiring also not so easy to keep drying sheets etc. at this time of year. I don't put the pull ups on until he is asleep - I thought that was a sort of compromise! If he was having 4-5 dry nights on the trot I would probably try it.

shrub · 01/12/2006 21:17

my ds1 became dry when i took off his pj bottoms so he didn't get that feeling of elastic around his waist and the idea there was something holding the wet in iynwim
there was a brilliant book i found on amazon think its called 'potty training in less than a day' will try and find it

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