Ds in nappies at night and no sign of being dry

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He's almost 6 and yes I know not to worry until he's 7 but I'm wondering if it's worth trying him without and how to go about it. Dds both just magically became dry within a week or two of being dry in the day aged 2.5/3. Ds has been dry in the day since he was 3. Twice I've forgotten to put a nappy on and he's still been dry at 11pm. I've tried lifting him out for a wee then but it didn't go well at all and he got upset and disorientated. I always get him to have a wee before his nappy goes on at bedtime.he doesn't have much to drink after dinner at 5pm. How do I go about this? They are pull up nappies just to clarify.

Leave it. Having made lots of attempts it just adds a lot of washing and stress with no benefit. There is a difference between a child who is ready but having accidents and a child who just wees multiple times a night.

I have more than one child like you, so am confident it’s nothing I’m doing or not doing that has caused it. It’s just one of those things. At 7.5yrs we’ll try an alarm and then meds if that doesn’t work. But until then we just try the first two nights of every holiday as a test. If there is progress we keep trying. If not, pull ups go back on.

Might be worth giving it another shot. We used to lift son out of bed at 11pm and carry him to toilet initially. He did wet bed quite a lot for a while but then was suddenly fine.

Could it be black current juice or other cordials with artificial sweeteners that is causing it?

I was a Ribena junkie as a kid and my parents never made the connection between blackcurrent juice/ cordials and my late bed wetting.

They were not cruel about it in any way and let me wear night nappies to bed so as to avoid soaked sheets (there were no Pull-Ups or DryNites then), with occasional periods of “trying without”. I wore nappies to bed far older than your DS is now.

Fast forward and both DD’s had the same issue as me and I just assumed that they had inherited my bladder issues.

I didn’t want to stress either of them out and they both wore DryNites without getting embarrassed or upset (the fact that they go up to age 15 and say so on the pack helped, I think!)

Then a friend told me about blackcurrent juice and how it irritates the bladder causing it to empty by reflex and how other cordials and “juice drinks” with artificial sweeteners have the same effect.

We experimented, initially for just a week, with just water and milk.

It was like a miracle cure. Almost overnight the bed wetting stopped and after a few nights of dry DryNites we donated the remaining supplies to the food bank.

We added fresh fruit juices back into the mix as an experiment a few weeks later and that didn’t cause any problems but neither have cordials any more, and neither has wet the bed since.

My eldest was eleven at the time and had never been dry.

We had already done the whole experimenting without the DryNites for a few nights, cutting out fluids after 6pm, even the alarm thing (which we ditched after less than a week because it woke us all up) and GP hadn’t identified any issues. Both are NT, no disabilities or anything like that.

So if he has cordials (blackcurrent juiced and Fruit Shoots are the worst) try going to just water and milk for a week and see if it becomes your miracle cure too.

I wish my parents had known this as they would have saved hundreds of pounds on night nappies if they had stopped me having Ribena and had I tried this earlier I might have also saved hundreds on Pull-Ups and later DryNites!

I’ve posted this on other posts here because I’m a bit of an evangelist- it was like a miracle cure for mine and I hope it is for yours too.

Good luck!