Bed wetting almost 5 years old

[Freshair1]

Dry in the daytime. Goes to sleep by 7:30. Gets dream wee'd about 10pm. Has wet himself every night for a week. Do we persist or should he be in night pants again? Our washing machine is doing some serious work!

Has he ever been dry at night?
Its very common for his age to still not be dry overnight.

Not unusual in boys apparently. My daughter was dry straight away at night - both boys were however still having accidents at night at around 6. Spoke to school nurse who assured me not an issue and the hormone of whatever that tells them they need to pee sometimes kicks in later with boys and not to stress about it and go back to pull ups and try again every few months. They eventually got it as she said.

Yea my dc been through phases of this. We always do one last wee at bed time (830) and try and limit water in the last hour or two before bed. It seems to be working!

Would you suggest leaving it for now then? As in go back to pull ups?

Wear pull ups .Many children wet until 8-9

My ds was in pull ups till 7 in bed.

He is one of the lazy few though. People on here will tell you it won’t happen but with him it did. He didn’t want to get out of bed and was deliberately wetting his pull ups. When we took them away, he’s never had an accident.

It doesn’t hurt your child to have him in dry nites. Why do you think they are advertised for up to 15 years old?

My 6yo DD is still wet if we don't wake her for a wee at 11pm (which we are doing at the moment)... it's totally normal.

Ok. Will go back to pull ups. At least we won't have to deal with multiple bed changes which wreck our sleep so there's something.

@Freshair1 yes, personally I went back to pull ups and took the stress off me and the boys. I can't remember what age they were actually dry (teens now) but I think it was around 7 but they got it eventually.

It’s hormonal and you can’t train it, unless you’re certain it’s behavioural eg weeing on waking rather than getting out of bed which is common but doesn’t sound like its the case here.

4 is the average age to become dry at night so if he’s still 4 then it’s completely normal. Many of his peers won’t be there yet, anecdotally I’d say it’s about 50:50 at the time of starting reception. I’d do what you can to help it along- as many fluids as you can before 3pm to expand the bladder, little/nothing to drink after dinner, wee before and after bath to double check and no blackcurrant or fizzy drinks ever. Then I’d go back to pull ups, stop lifting him at 10pm and save everyone the stress, sleep disruption and washing. Time will most likely take care of the rest. Remove the pull ups when you’ve had a week of them being dry. If you’re still here in a year and no improvement then see the GP.

Thanks. Really appreciate your time. 😊