Five-year-old waking early to wee or tired after dream wee?

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My DD is 5. she goes to bed at 7, I do a dream wee at 9:30pm and she sleeps through until 6:15ish. this is great but she is very tired still and I suspect I am disrupting her sleep at 9:30. The only issue is that, If I don't do a dream wee, she is up at 5:30am without fail and rushes to the toilet. even if I limit drinks (which I don't like to do) this still happens. she sometimes wets herself in the night so I will sort her out and put her back to bed then she sleeps until past 6am. my question is.....Do I just leave her to sleep through until 5:30am without a dream wee if she stays dry in the night (wakes tired if she's up this early) or keep doing the dream wee at 9:30 so sleeps through til past 6am? even though she wakes tired this way aswell? It seems she just can't get a decent nights sleep. is this normal at this age? she is my only child so I have no experience of night time wees etc for the best nights sleep. Sorry if this post sounds silly just looking to get her better quality sleep until her bladder stretches and she produces more of the vasopressin hormone to help her sleep longer in the mornings. what did you do to help your child?

It’s not a ‘dream wee’, you are just waking her up in the night. I think she’s too old to dictate when she wees like this, I’d leave her to sleep

”Dream wee” teaches them to wee in their sleep and will hinder being dry at night. It also prevents the bladder from filling (as does witholding drinks) so they don’t develop the biofeedback mechanism where a full bladder wakes them up.

unless you wake her fully and she walks herself to the toilet? In which case no wonder she’s tired.

i agree with pp- push her bedtime. Try 8pm even.

This is what my gut was telling me. Thankyou for your responses. I will push bedtime later and leave her to sleep.