6yo wet every night

[Ellemeg82]

My 6yo still isn't dry at night. Has been dry during the day since 2.5.
I know they can't help it but as I load another lot of sheets into the wash that are now hard to dry as it's cold and wet out (I don't have a tumble dryer) I dread heading into another winter like this.

We've tried every brand of nappy and pull up. Supermarket brands and the expensive ones. They all leak. I don't give drinks after 5pm. He goes for a wee before bed. Some nights I even change the nappy about midnight if it seems wet and yet we still have a wet bed every night.

I tried reaching out to the nurse at the doctors who said they couldn't help as he's under 7 and doesn't have special needs.

He's a deep sleeper. I've never tried waking him for a wee at night as I read that doesn't help your body learn to wake for a wee.

Can anyone who's older ones took time to be dry at night give me some advice? Is there a brand of nappy/pull up that will keep him dry, what tips and tricks are there or do I have to wait it out.

All my friends who have the same age kids say they were dry at night years ago now.
Any advice gratefully received.

I just wanted to pop another update on here incase it helps someone looking at this thread in the future.

So all of a sudden a month and a half ago ....without doing anything different in our daily or nightly routine ....we had a whole week where he was dry all night. Started with a day, then another day then another day until a whole week had gone past!

So we took the brave step of trying a night without a nappy (but I did have waterproof cover on the bed and those disposable bed mats just in case) and we're now in week 6 of being dry all night!

So I wanted to give a positive update, as only a few months ago I was feeling like things were never going to improve by themselves and I was knee deep in washing bed covers every morning.

Give them time. Took my boy until nearly age 6.5 despite being dry in the day at 2.5.

My son is feeling confident and sleeping better.

Reading this with an almost six year old still not dry at night is really giving me hope. Thanks for updating and I’m so glad for both of you that he is hopefully through it!

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Long time ago for us but we did lift both our boys for an extra wee at 10.30 ish - whenever DH was going to bed - he woke them v gently and made them stand and pee and eventually our oldest started getting up himself at about 10.30 (age 4 ish) so it was like his bladder was trained to empty at that time - our younger was lifted every night until age 7 though and then he just 'got it' our GP said some boys just cannot until that age so not to stress - we did try an alarm for the younger but it woke us all up like a fire alarm ( total panic feeling) and the bed was still wet so it didn't help us much