4.5yr old DS still not dry at night

[mousemole]

Ds was toilet trained just before he was 3 and it went really well. I tried at the same time to get him dry at night but it was too early. Every few months I try taking the nappy off but he still cant go through the night. I have tried reducing fluid intake in the evening, lifting him before bed etc. Nothing is working and I am beginning to think he will be wearing nappies at night time when he is 10. The children in the school year above him have started having sleep overs and I dread an invite like that as there is no way he could go with his nappies.
DC3 is due in July and at this rate I will have 3 children in nappies at night !
Please please help !

I still, despite my best efforts, have two children in nappies, one 4.5 one 5.5. I simply cannot have a 6 yo in nappies at night fgs. But apparently it is more common than you might imagine. No advice I'm afraid...

sorry to hear you are in the same boat moodlum..its quite depressing isn't it !

I used to work at a boarding school looking after 7 and 8 year old boys and about 10% wet the bed every night with most of them having an accident at some point. For the boys who had nightly accidents, I used to put an extra pair of identical pjs in their side table for them to change into if they woke up wet and used a terry-type material sheet (with waterproof mat underneath) to try and keep the wee away from their skin. You'd need to speak to the host parent obviously but would this be an option if he went to a sleepover? The other children need never know.

HTH
Z x

Hi,

My DD1 has just turned 7 and was still in nappies at night. I went to see the doctor and he suggested getting a bedwetting alarm before trying the medication route. I was really dubious as to whether it work or not, but after 1 week she is now dry at night.

The fist week she would wet herself once or twice a night. The way the alarm works is that the special pants are really sensitive and the alarm will sound with the first few drops of wee, so she had to get up to switch the alarm off and change her pants. I did have a waterproof pad in her bed so if it got wet she could change that too and she went to the loo to finish her wee.

It seem to have sone the trick though as we are at week 3 of being dry at night.

The alarm we bought is the Rodger wireless alarm bedwettingalarm.co.uk/aboutrodger.html

Hope this helps.

handbag that alarm sounds great - I will give it a go I think. I am not making a biog deal of it in front of him but he is really keen to be dry as well. His cousins stayed over Xmas without nappies and he wants to be like them - bless. Ziggy, your approach sounds great and very dignified for the boys - thanks for the tips. Sorry for the delay in replying - been stuck in London for 2 days due to the snow !

We never made a big deal of it even when we bought the alarm. It is important that they don't feel embarassed about it. The alarm has been remarkable I honestly didn't think it would work, but it has last night was her fisrt night in normal knickers and she was dry all night.

handbagqueen I will have to check that out - ds1 is 9 and still wet every night! Ds2 has been dry since just turned 5. He virtually never wets the bed. Strange thing about dsa he was dry at night between 4-7yrs but after moving house has been wet practically every night. I know I need to sort it out but it is just easier for me to stick him in a pull up.