Bed wetting

[xoz]

AM I being overambitious to expect my 3 1/2 year old dd1 to be able to go without nappies at night???
We've been trying now for about 3 weeks to get her out of the night time nappies.
The problem is that she goes through the night fine, but wakes in the morning and then wets everywhere (I'm starting to think she has some camel genes from the amount!!!) and gets up, takes off her pyjamas and then starts her day. It doesn't seem to bother her at all. I'm getting pretty sick of washing the sheets, etc everyday... She won't call us to come and help her, so we've got the potty out again and put it in her room, which means that now we're getting about 1 in 3 success rate. We've also tried a star chart with toy rewards, but this doesn't seem to be a sufficient motivator, so we've moved on to punishments, (no TV for the day) but she's getting quite used to this now too, and it makes my day so much harder.
Any advice or suggestions are welcome.....

No advice, just sympathy. DS is 3.8 and goes through spates of dryness at which point I think wow this is it and they reverts back to his former ways . I am trying not to push him though as I think boys do tend to be quite late with this sort of thing.

Thanks Bagpuss, it's really doing my head in... When I ask her why? she says, because I wanted to!!! One morning she even took off her underpants sat back on the bed and did it when the potty was right there in front of her!!!!
with steam coming out of my ears!!!

I would leave it for now xoz. It's very very common not to be dry at that age. In fact gp's/clinics will do no investigation on bedwetting until aged 7 usually, so it shows you how common it is. Why not go back to nappies for a few more months, then try again. She is really a bit young for a punishment system for this I think, as it is quite possibly out of her control iyswim. Hth.

I'd agree with Lou. Wait until she shows an interest in doing it herself. ds was almost 4 but has rarely had an accident in over 2 years. dd has dry nights at almost 3 and, although she won't wear a nappy, she will tolerate pull ups so will continue until she is more consistent and willing !

lol I was just sitting here reading the last couple of comments in this thread about dd1 when I realised that dd2 (21mths) had started crying more loudly than her usual pre-sleep grizzles. Went upstairs to find her lying in her cot with pyjamas &nappy off and she had wet her bed!!!!
She was trying to be a big girl too! This is a classic illustration of the difference between my 2dd's.dd1 wants to be a baby and dd2 wants to be a teenager!