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My 8.5 DS still wets the bed. Most nights. Several nights per week he soaks through a pull-up, his PJs, a folded up towel, a waterproof mattress protector onto his mattress. He is a big child, wears 12-13 year old clothes, needs teen pull-ups, etc... so it is a lot of wee.
Been dry in the day since 2 years old. No day time accidents. No period of dry nights previously so it's not a new thing. I don't know what time of night he is weeing.
He is just not aware he's doing it. He can get up in the morning and realise he's wet, but equally can get up and have to check.
I got him referred to the local continence team in Mar 2024, they said the waiting list was 7 months long. On chasing them up, they've said they are only seeing children who were referred in Nov 2023 so he's nowhere near being seen yet.
They sent me lots of info and said they have spoken to the GPs (blanket advice email to all surgeries) re: stage one interventions, one of which is medication. My GP's won't do anything as they said they haven't received anything from the continence team. I've chased them up, still waiting to hear anything.
He has a 3 night school trip coming up in March and wants to go, so we need to make some progress with this quickly. He only drinks water/milk so no blackcurrant squash to cut out. Drinks well in the day but I've had to enforce less drinking before bed but when he is at his evening clubs, they are active and he needs a drink.
In desperation and following the advice from the continence team, I've bought a bedwetting alarm and tonight is the first night trying it.
I know all about the vasopressin hormone kicking in but am confused to how that works with the alarm. The alarm trains them to wake up but if they still don't have the hormone, won't they just keep wetting the bed?
If anyone has any experience, knowledge or tips about this, please let me know! Thanks!