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Bed wetting but only when we take away the nappy

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Baj22 · 14/03/2023 13:43

1st time posting here and I'd really appreciate some help. My daughter is turning 5 in a few weeks and she is dry at night as long as she is (annoyingly) wearing a nappy. Last weekend, my wife switched her to night time pants (thinking that she'd been dry for ages, but in fact, she'd only just wet her nappy the previous night, so bad timing). She wet the bed, but the next night we lead her to the toilet at around 10pm and the night went fine. Last night we were too late and it didn't work out. This is our 3rd try at going nappy free; the 1st time, we tried a potty in her room which she did not use herself and we ended up (mistakenly) resorting to "lifts". These got earlier and earlier until we gave up for a while. On our 2nd stint we actively encouraged her to get up if she need a wee and she enjoyed carrying her night light to the bathroom but after one night, that novelty wore off and she began wetting herself into her snazzy (night time) pants. We'd dutifully change her brolly sheet etc whilst reminding her to get up to go, but when it got to having to do it twice in one night, we agreed to take a break. She's quite a deep sleeper and doesn't always know that she has wet the bed. She's always been good at staying in her bed until someone comes to get her in the morning but this, in combination with her not getting herself out of bed and knowing when she's in need of a trip to toilet are major problems. When she's been dry overnight, it will have been over 11-12 hours without a trip to the toilet and we aren't really looking at diet as this has varied over the duration of her dry nights. We do eat quite late and and are at the table from around 1745-1815 with her in bed/asleep 1900-1915. She has a small amount of milk with her dinner/tea and we haven't really actively thought about limiting fluids at the back end of the day as we worry about her hydration levels after a day at school. I've heard things about sugar and dairy but she's been dry after having these. Her issue is that she can't register the need or rouse herself. Is she too young for a sensor? For now, we're going to try and push back her bedtime to 1930 and strongly encourage one last toilet trip, even if she's already been at 1900. I might try and get some bigger night time pants too, so that they have a bit of a looser fit and mimic the gentle, soft feel of a nappy, rather than the tighter feel of pants (going commando lead to more accidents on our 2nd stint). What do people here think?

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