bed wetting 4 year old boy- any ideas!

[honeycombe]

My son is 4 and a bit and has been without a nappies at night for about 8 or 9 months and been dry for almost all that time (give or take a couple of accidents) but over the last couple of months he has been wetting the bed.
We don't give him any drinks before bed and we try now to get him to go to to loo before we go to bed but mostly he refuses and then wets to bed in the early hours. I'm fed up of changing the sheets all the time and he is so grumpy about it all- does anybody know what I can do please help !!!!!!!!!

Insist on the night time loo visit. Using star chart or possitive messages such as now you are growing up... all grown ups sit on the loo before going to bed. My dd2 is almost six and is still in nighttime nappies which she proudly aims to keep dry. Has anything changed that makes him worried or is he overtired when he goes to bed? Changes and tiredness send us backwards on the keeping dry stakes

thanks but it is v hard to insist on that last night time visit when he is screaming he doesn't need to and then really wakes himself up and sometimes then finds it hard to go back to sleep. Maybe it is the case that at that time usually between 11 and 12 just before we hit the sack that he actually doesn't really need to have a wee again- it's in the wee(pardon the pun!) small hours like 4 or 5 that he should probably need to have a wee. At one point I was setting the alarm for me to go and get him up for a wee in those early hours but it was exhausting. \maybe I should do it again for a while and see how we go. I do give him stickers on a reward chart for going to sleep well and without a fuss and if he remains dry throughout the night. It did sort of coinside with him going from being at nursery just mornings to him being there all day which could understandably result in him being more tired. He was also quite ill at that time with some bug or another. He has not had sleeps in the afternoon though for about 2 years though and never seems to flag at home even though he is always on the go so I wouldn't have thought that it would have any effect like this. He is happy there and in general. I don't know it is just weird how he was fine for a long time and now he's not.

Put him back in a nappy for a while until things settle down?

Did you try raising the foot end of the bed? Sorry for delay in replying on other thread - DH working from home and hogging PC. Would be very interested to know if it worked.

I'm having the same problem at them moment honeycombe, although dd is only 3.5. She has been out of night-time nappies since last May and mostly has been fine but over the last couple of months has been wetting the bed once or twice a week (four times one week ). I insist on her going to the loo before bed, no squash type drinks after lunchtime. she usually goes before bed so there's not much more I can do. She doesn't wake up because she's wet the bed, so it could be any time. Am thinking of getting some of those bed mats. I'm not too bothered about the sheets but I hate to think what the mattress is like as ds had that one too, and I won't get a new one till she's 100%

have daughter 4 - been out of nappies for ages, but can't wake up for 9.30pm wee, so we 'lift' her every night (and miss quite alot).

raising foot end of bed sounds interesting. Anyone done this?

will try.