Bed wetting help

thriftlady_2

My dd is 8 and has been a long time achieving night-time dryness. She has all but cracked it in the last couple of months. However, she has the odd accident (despite being taken to the loo by us when we go up to bed).

On camping trips in the past because she was wearing dry-nights a wet sleeping bag hasn't been a problem. This time though, we don't really want to resort to dry-nights as we think she will come to rely on them again.

Does anyone else have experience of camping with a bedwetter ?
What do you do -make child sleep with a bin liner tied round their waist:rotfl: use dry-nights, take spare sleeping bags, put up with wet sleeping bags -what?

izoomzoom

Last year when we went camping DS (then 8) agreed to wear drynites again, but I didn't bring them out until it was bedtime the first night, as there was no way he would have been dry ... wet cold windy nights were disincetive enough.

He is on medication now, so don't know what we shall do this summer, as he still occassionally has accidents.

Perhaps risk it on a night by night basis, and have a pack there if they would prefer to wear them. Washing a sleeping bag wasn't the, end all, that I feared it would be (a drynite often wasn't enough)

Have you taken DD to a enuresis clinic to investigate the matter further ?

miserly_mum

I know its not ideal but given the circumstances I think the dry nights might be the best idea. A lot easier to pack into a car than loads of extra bedding.

Also unless you do washing everyday (a nightmare at campsites) you are going to have Piddly bedding lying about which isn't nice.

Just an idea but now shes a bit bigger and almost dry at nights maybe you could try the larger size lady tena pads inside her pants(just in case) Just while you are away. More discreet for her and easier to dispose of too.

thriftlady_2

Thanks both I think drynites are probably the answer as you say. If we make it worth her while not to rely on them again back home then maybe a few nights with them won't matter too much.

Izoomzoom, I haven't gone down the enuresis clinic road yet as she really seemed to turn the corner this January. This is after never being dry at night and always having sopping drynites in the morning despite being taken to the loo. Now she is dry about 85% of the time which is a huge improvement.

bubblebathgirl

How about a potty for a late night before bed visit, you could convince her she was been super cool as lots of people take them to festivals.

leoetal19

have you tried kylie sheets at all-great sheets that mean the bed wetter stays dry 9and often the sheet does too) the sheet holds the fluid-maybe not ideal for camping but gr8 for home x

prettypoppyknickers

hello all

my nearly four year old is perfectly fine all through the day when it comes to toilet training but he goes to bed at 7:30pm goes to the toilet then and usually we put him on the toilet at 10pm when we go to bed, but recently he has been wetting himself at 9:30pm but doesn't even wake himself up when he has wet himself so when we go to bed we find him in ours which is wet through

how can i get him to stop doing this as it is becoming a regular hassle?

liney

I was told not to give him blackcurrent squash, as apparently it makes you 'go'. Not sure how true it is of course.

Pampers do a under the sheet absorbant pad to help with mess if that helps.

Ultimately he will just grow out of it.

mrcow

Not meaning to sound negative, but at 3, could he not go back into nappies at night until this phase passes? Maybe give it a couple of months and then try again or just remove the nappies once he's 100% dry.

You shouldn't have to wake kids up to go to the toilet. If you're doing this, then they're not really "dry" at night.

It would be a lot easier for you - sometimes these things just take time and have a way of working themselves out.

At aged 3, he's still very young.

prettypoppyknickers

he'll be four next month so he really is nearly four.

he refuses nappies but is like me when he is asleep he is asleep.

arhino30

We have exactly the same problem with our almost 4 year old boy. He has been toilet trained for over a year, and as dry at night straight away...but for the last couple of months, we have had at least 3 out of 7 nights where he is waking up wet. We brought a quilted protective sheet from Dunelm Mill for about £8 so avoids spoiling the mattress.
Is anything bothering your lad? Our sons problem seems to be accompanied with not wanting to leave the house to go to nursery. He's happy to be there, just doesn't like the process of getting there.
I am sure he will grow out of it though, I am not too worried about my son, as my DD2 was almost 7 before she got out of this habit. It will get less frequent in time.