4yo bed wetting advice

[jaysay]

My 4 year old DS has been out of nappies at night since last January (when he was 3.5) when he was dry for 3 weeks and so seemed like he was ready. All fine for a couple of months then he started wetting the bed - a couple of times a week and sometimes not for a week or two. When he does wake up before an accident then he'll go to the loo (and transfer himself to our bed).

I know this is totally developmentally normal, but wondering if anyone has some advice or just reassurance that he'll just get there?

We avoid too many drinks before bed, he rarely drinks anything but water, he's a chilled kid with no anxieties and doesn't have accidents in the day time. He has just started school but this has been going on so long I don't think it's related to change.

TIA

My 8 year old dd still has the occasional bed wetting accident. Up until a few months ago (which we have been dry for ,touch wood) some weeks it may be one accident, other weeks it could be 5, sometimes she would be dry for 5-6 weeks then start again. No pattern, no anxieties that we knew of, no changes to routine, no bullying that we or the school suspected. Dr earlier in the year said that 1 in 10 children still have the occasional bed wetting incident up to the age of approximately 8. Fingers crossed we are at the other end now as washing bedding multiple times a week gets tiring.

Hopefully your son gets there soon, mattress protectors are a god send.

We recently night trained our kids (4 and 6)

We try to get them to drink more in the day and only reluctantly let them have small sips of water after dinner. They have two wees before bed - one when getting pyjamas on and again at lights out time. They have to sit on even if they say they don't need to go.

Apparently blackcurrant is also a factor, even in the daytime, so we don't give blackcurrant squash any more and try to just give water most of the time.

We double sheet their beds so can strip off the wet stuff most of the time and they get back in their beds, but need a wet wipe or shower off and dry pyjamas.

Some friends I know keep a potty in the bedroom so the child can get to it easily in the night, if the bathroom is quite far from their bedroom.

He will get there, this is normal, but it's within normal behaviour for kids to wet the bed much longer than you'd ideally like, so 9 or so. I have a friend who wet the bed into her teens and needed hormone treatment to help with it.

If it happens regularly enough to disrupt sleep while he's starting school, I'd be tempted to put him back in pull ups or get some reusable sleep pant things to ensure he gets enough rest.

Layer up the bad with alternative sheet and waterproof, then you just pull off the top 2 layers and he can go back to bed. Asda sell cheap waterproof sheets for this. Other then that no advice, he'll grow out of it.

I actually realise I had some reuseable pants from potty training days. They only just contain the wee though as he usually floods them unfortunately