Would a bedwetting alarm help here?

[Metalhead]

DD2 is coming up to 6 and still not out of pull ups at night. Last summer she had about a month of dry nights, so we took the pull ups away, and she carried on being dry for a couple of weeks until she suddenly started wetting the bed every night, so the pull ups came back. Fast forward to this year, and recently she’s had another month of dry nights, so we thought great, she’s finally ready. Took the pull ups away, and as soon as we did, she’s wet the bed again! She wakes up when she’s done it, but obviously not in time for her to go to the toilet. We’re at a loss as to what to do - would a bedwetting alarm help in this situation?

We’re already limiting drinks just before bed, and she goes for a wee every night. (And I know all about the hormones they need to produce etc, but surely if she’s consistently dry in pull ups she should be dry without them too?!)

Stop using the pullups despite the wetting. The pullups are part of the problem.

It's obviously fine to use nappies for babies but for older children who don't have SEN there is a cognitive part of becoming dry at night and using pullups interferes with developing the needed control.

There are several issues here and there are probably more than one of them in action. Just treating one of the issues without establishing whether the other 2 are also contributing could be frustrating and ultimately unsuccessful.

(1) size of bladder. Give her a lpt more drinks in the mornings and encourage her to wait for ever-increasing minutes between first needing a wee and actually going.

(2) hormone production - nothing you can do to make it happen. You can get pills prescribed

(3) sleeping so deeply that she doesn't wake for a wee. An alarm can help with this, and wearing pullups stops the brain from developing a connection between the "I need a wee" sensation and the "I had better get out of bed and go to the bathroom" response.

One of mine was late to being dry at night, and we did two things.

1. Gave her a drink with tea at 6pm, then no more drinks unless she was thirsty, and only as much as necessary.
2. We ‘lifted’ her when we went to bed. Woke her up and walked her to and from the loo.

Thanks for your comments. She does drink throughout the day and we usually say no more drinks for the last hour before bed. As she can go a whole night without weeing I don’t think bladder size is the issue, but I did wonder if it may be more of a psychological issue now, i.e. she subconsciously relies on the pull-ups and so doesn’t wake up in time when she needs to go.