My DD is 6yo. I went to the GP before Christmas as at that point she had never been dry at night, despite being reliably dry in the day from 3yo. I explained that she wears a pull up and it was wet (to the point that it's heavy) every morning without fail. This is in spite of us following all the standard advice - two wees before bed, no drinks after 6pm, no fizzy drinks etc.
The GP explained that the problem is usually hormonal, but that we should try a week with no pull up to make sure it's not just "laziness".
Well, we took his advice and it didn't go well. Every night we had to change DD's bedding and pyjamas twice during the night as she was soaking, she would get very upset each time and I felt so sorry for her. She absolutely hated waking up wet so we decided it couldn't possibly be that she was simply too lazy to get up for the toilet. So we decided to go back to pull ups and took the pressure off completely, accepting that it would happen eventually.
A few weeks later DD woke up with a dry pull up for the first time. Then she gradually started having more and more dry nights until yesterday when we realised we'd reached a point where her pull up had been bone dry in the morning for about ten days running. So we ditched the pull up last night thinking the hormones had kicked in and were doing their job. But during the night she wet the bed. DD is now upset, we've played it down and told her not to worry but not sure where to go from here to be honest!
I don't know whether we should go back to pull ups or persevere without. We also have a baby who still wakes multiple times in the night, both working FT, so getting up and changing sheets during the night on top of that is pretty grim.
Any advice or experience much appreciated as she's starting to get self-conscious about wearing a pull up now.