Dry 3 mornings this week but woke last 2 nights wet...do I carry on?

[superme]

Ive posted about this recently....DS age 5 was waking dry most mornings so tookt he plunge and went to bed this week out of PJ pants.

Wedn, Thurs and Fri woke dry. Sat night and Sunday woke early hours wet.

Not sure if this is over tirdness due to w-end etc...

Should I contine you? I have been letting him drink lot in day time then stop at a certain time at night which was working.

Should I stick with it?

could you lift him and sit him on the potty when you go to bed?

Also increase the amount he drinks in the early part of the day. Not only will this mean he may require less fluids later on, but also that his bladder will expand, and is thus able to hold more liquid for longer periods, helping him at night.

Finally layer his bed with waterproof sheet, towel then sheet, and then the same combination again. If he wets you just need to strip one of the sets off, change his jammies and stick him back into bed with little fuss. I also keep a spare duvet & pillow already covered in dd's wardrobe in case we need a quick change of those too. I deal with all the washing in the morning

Yes, stick with it. dd was wet at night a few times during the first month of potty training, maybe 6-8 times? i forget. Now, 4 months in she hasn't had a wet night for well over a month.

Good luck

Dont want to do the lifting as he's a light sleeper and Im sure this will wake him also dont want to do this would rather stick it out and deal with it.

OK will keep at it then....will also increase drinks earlier on in day to help.

We are going on hol in a few weeks so hoping to crack this then - will be taking the sheet with me!

I would say go back to pull ups. You can't 'teach' a child to be dry at night. Their body does it naturally when they are hormonally ready. You could reward for dry pull ups just to keep it in their mind that dry at night is good but I really so no reason why you should let them risk wetting the bed when there's a perfectly reasonable method to keep them dry.

DS1 is 5.5 and has been 'dry' and out of pull ups now for a good 6 months. He has very occasional accidents, say once every 2 months. He chose when to use pull ups and when to take them off. We felt this put him in control and bed wetting has just never been an issue in our house. Who needs all that washing, confrontation and hard work...imo

well wet again in the middle of the night and first thing this morning - not sure what to do as I stopped his drink in take very early yesterday.

Anymore advice as Im on the verge of PJ Pants again (he is just 5)

have decided to try one more time tonight then will resort to pull ups again if wet again.

HAd a chat tonight with ds and he doesnt realise he is doing it, so I dont think its fair to put him through this as he asked for a pull up tonight I think he is starting to feel nervous which tells me he isnt quite ready - although we did do 3 dry mornings....all very confusing stuff!!!

i think you'reprobably doing the right thing. If he doesn't realise he's doing it, and isn't particularly worried about doing it, then he's probably not quite ready yet. Good luck, it will come in time. My sister wet the bed until she was about 8. I think it is quite common, particularly for heavy sleepers.

Bees ... Im really torn as part of me says I should stick with it like you said earlier.

Will see what tomorrow brings!

I asked DH this morning and he reminded me that at the beginning we used to ask dd if she wanted to wear a nappy or not. We used to tell her that the nappies are not that good, and so she should try and wake for a wee, we als used those "feel it" nappies which are just as absorbent but allows the wee to sit a little longer thus making it feel a bit damp and uncomfortable. Although I'm not sure they do them in bigger ages?

I know a couple of people with boys who have been dry in the day since they were 2 or 3, and they are not yet dry at night and one is at school. So you are not alone. It can take boys a lot longer to gain proper control of their bladder (and then they most likely los it again when they get to teenage years and start drinking ). But they do all get there in the end

Finaly, my sister used the eneurisis clinic which was run through the ealth visitor, and she used to have an alarm in her bed which went off whenever she weed. The aim was to wake her up so she would finish the wee on the potty. It never woke her up. I used to have to go and find mum and dad and tell them her alarm was going off

Me again!!!

Well ds woke at 4am and said he wanted a wee put him on toilet, went back to sleep. Woke dry this morning.

so once again going with it!!!

excellant!! well done superme's DS!!

wet bed last night!!!! Gosh it seems to be every other night. so far weve had 4 dry and 4 wet so if we can get more dry nights I'll keep on at it if not will go back to pull ups and re-try in a few weeks perhaps he's not 100% ready yet

rubbish! does he seem bothered int he middle of the night whilst hes waiting for you to change his bed? or is he rally not bothered? If he's not bothered I can't imagine he'll do much to try and stay dry (if that is even possible). If he seems concerned and wants to try but fails, then perhaps he just isn't ready like you say. It shouldn't be long though if he's having so many dry nights.

Woke last night at 11.30pm asking for the toilet put him on it and he then went back to sleep, woke dry this morning.

No he's not bothered when Im changing his bed seems ok about it all.

Will plod on Im feeling a bit more optomistic now!