I hope I'm in the right place.. DD being lazy

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This is not potty training realted as luckily mine or now trained.. day time anyway :(

My 5 year old has never been dry at night and her sister is the same. The doctor told us that until she 7 or above they won't look into it any futher. We have tried bed wetting alarms, lifting etc, nothing has really worked. We used to use bed mats but they didn't really work too good for my girls and we would still have wet beds, so we switched to pull ups.

This has been fine but recently, maybe once a week my eldest will use her pull up on purpose after she gets up. :( How common is this and what is the best way to go about stopping it? The biggest problem yet has been that last weekend she didn't just do a wee in it! I tell here off when I notice and encourage her to chnage out of it as soon as she gets up, but she gets up before me and my husband at weekends, so I can't always catch her as she will pretend it has happened in the night :( Anyone else had any dealings with this? I hope everyone has a very happy Easter/long weekend. Take care :) x

Hi there hope you are well, my son who is 5 is also doing this as well. We have three kids so we normally get them ready for bed at the same time so I normally put his nappy on about 45 minutes before he goes to bed. Recently I have been noticing that his nappy has been wet whilst up watching tv before bed I haven’t challenged him yet but I am going to ask him about it as I tell him if he needs to go before bed to get me so I can take his nappy off. The best way to tell that they have done it in the morning is if you feel the nappy/ pull ups and it’s warm. Everyone has their own opinion but me personally I don’t think their is any harm in my son doing a morning wee in his nappy for the reasons it’s already wet, it’s not like he is going to do it forever and he uses the toilet perfectly in the day. Like your daughter she gets up before us on weekends so that’s only when it occurs and then when I wake up I will change him into pants. Too avoid it completely wake up before her and put her on the toilet. DS like your daughter does do a poo from time to time in his nappy and I do get annoyed at him as he has no problems and it is pure laziness to ask to change him in the morning. Maybe even try without the pull up and use a bed sheet. It depends how
much of a problem it is too you. Hope this helps and happy easter x

You could start a star chart for dry pullups in the morning. Or you could casually mention how you'd love to buy her some particular toy she's been having her eye on but having to buy pullups all the time means you can't afford it (if you'd normally reuse a dry pullup the next night). Or if you take her shopping, when you put the pullups in the trolley make a comment about how much they are, related to something she knows eg that costs the same as two blocks of chocolate.

Or you can make her more involved in cleaning up - if you currently wipe her up instead she has to wipe herself and then have a shower to clean up anything remaining. That's a lot less fun than just going to the loo in the morning.