Please help! 6-Year-Old at Night

[Person100]

Our 6 year old Ds is potty trained during the day, does great in school, has hit all his developmental standards otherwise, but we have 2 problems at night.

1. He still west the bed every night. We have tried everything (no fluids, potty breaks at night, bed wetting alarms, doctors, etc.). Now we have resorted all the way back to a size 8 pampers diaper.
   
   
2. He still won’t sleep without pacifier. This one for me is the more abnormal. But even when we get them out of the house completely, we have had to go to the store in the middle of the night to get another paci.
   
   Any advice is welcome!

[Kwasi]

If he’s being woken for toilet breaks in the night, he won’t be able to hold his bladder while he sleeps.

[Hopeful16]

Bed wetting (especially in boys) is stopped by a hormone that develops in them- he obviously doesn't have that yet.
The dummy (pacifier) is probably a comfort thing due to his disturbed sleep.
Perhaps try the doctor again and ask for advice about the tablet form of the hormone needed although I feel he may be a bit young for this and maybe chill out a bit and let him see if he naturally decides he can sleep without the dummy.

[ViveLaOeuf]

The ERlC website is fantastic for all childrens poo and wee issues

https://eric.org.uk/childrens-bladders/bedwetting/

I'd also try the doctor again, and you could also contact your local school nursing service for help?

[OrangeStringer]

ERIC website is brilliant. Basically we produce a hormone called vasopressin which slows urine production at night, meaning the bladder doesn't get full so no need to wake to empty it. Children develop this at different rates so are dry in the day but still wet at night because of this hormone. Ds2 was fully dry before 3 and Ds1 wet at night until he was 10. We did the whole alarm, monitoring intake and output and the only thing that worked was giving him Desmopressin which is the artificial drug of vasopressin. It was prescribed by the GP when he was 8 as he would start school residential trips. We were not prepared to medicate our child every night, only on holiday, so just got into a great routine of changing the bed out.

There are waterproof mattress covers, duvet covers, waterproof pads etc you need to go onto an incontinence website to source them. There is still a stigma attached about bedwetting so no one talks about it.