4 year old weeing multiple times a night!

[Ifancyabiscuit]

Hi all, I am so frustrated!
My 4 year old DD has regressed at night time - sometimes multiple times a night she totally wets through both hers and our bed. She doesn't have accidents really during the day but at night it's like we've taken a huge step back.

I don't want to put her back in night nappies as I don't want to confuse her, but does anyone have any advice?

It's definitely affecting her sleep and ours! She says she's even awake sometimes when it happens too. This has been going on for about 2 weeks.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

Honestly just put her back into night time nappies. She won't be confused and it will be a heck of a lot better than her being super tired every day and having to change two beds every night.

She's only 4 it's perfectly normal for her to still not be dry at night.

She can’t help it. Being dry at night requires a hormonal change, it’s not just something you can train them to do. Put the poor kid in pull-ups at night time. It must be horrible for her to keep being in a wet bed.

If it's affecting everyone's sleep, I'd go back to pull ups. Night times are completely different to days, so it won't confuse her.

I know friends with six, seven, eight year olds in pull ups overnight. All of these children are fine during the day, but overnight dryness is hormonal.

I had no idea it was a hormonal thing! Our washing machine hasn't stopped, of course she never stays in a wet bed, it's fully changed each time.

Pull ups might have to be the way to go. I just didn't want to confuse her, since she's been out of them for almost 6 months.

We've started a sticker chart with a promise of a visit to the ice cream place if we can get through a week, and that's gone down well.

Thank you so much for the advice!

Ok, but the sticker chart isn’t really fair if she’s wetting the bed because she can’t help that. You’re setting her up to fail. Loads of kids continue to wear pull ups at night long after they have potty trained. I know 6 year olds who do.

My 4 and half year old is still wearing pull ups at night while my friends son was dry overnight before his 3rd birthday. Nothing wrong in either scenario just different hormonal developments.

Yes, don't worry about it.

One of mine needed pull-ups at night until he was 8. Another until he was 5. My other 2 both came out of night nappies when they were 2, same time as day nappies.

The other thing you can do is double the dry sheets on her bed - so, make the bed normally, waterproof then sheet, then a 2nd waterproof sheet and cotton sheet on top. Leave dry cover and dry PJ's close by. That was what I did when my eldest was 7 or 8 and still bed wetting, instead of a pull-ups, so we could just quickly pull the wet things off and he could hop back into bed. He sometimes did it on his own. But honestly, at 4, I would just put her in a pull-up (and call it Night Pants if you want to save her dignity).