(Posted over on parenting, then realised it might be better here!)
My DD1 was potty trained early, but had trouble getting dry at night. We tried lots of things ourselves over the years...lifting for a late night toilet trip, wearing pull ups, not wearing pull ups, even fitting a deafening wet alarm. Nothing worked. It sounds like we bounced from one idea to another quickly, but in reality this was the last 6 years and we tried each method for months at a time.
The problem was, my DD sleeps like the dead! She would sleep in a puddle and not wake, and when the alarm was being tried it didn't last long at all. After the first couple of nights waking everyone up (inc probably our neighbours it was so loud) yet not making her stir, it was abandoned.
After two trips to the docs at 8 and then 9 we got a referral. We've been at the aneuresis clinic for the last year and have had a lot of (sometimes conflicting and quite limiting) advice.
No late drinks, no dark drinks, no acidic drinks, no milk late in the day etc etc etc.
Finally, something seemed to click and we've been able to do away with the pyjama pants and get by with the bed mats and just one or two accidents a week. On nights she does have an accident she will wake herself up, get up and strip her bed, then go and sleep in her other bunk.
What made it worse was her anxiety about going into y6 next year and the residential trips that are planned. And to compound things, DD2 was dry at night the instant she was dry in the day and has slept for the last 3 years without pyjama pants.
At several points I thought it was a never ending road, so to all of you who may be going through the same thing, there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.