Still not dry through the night at 6

lianne84

Yeah i do have a mattress protecter (after having to buy a new mattress due to accidents!) which helps alot with washing etc, i have tried taking them off him but just ended up having to wash his bedsheets every day so thought it wasnt such a great idea in the end! Thanx i will have a word with his friends mum and explain im sure she will be fine cos she's lovely, went docs today and he said its classed as 'normal' until the age of 8, so if it carries on until then i should take him back and they will look at helping him.

pigpen

It is advised you don't wake them and take them to the loo as they are not properly awake it reinforces the bladder to think it is ok to wee in the night and can make the problem worse.

aliasojo

Two Consultants told me that if children are not dry by the 'usual' age, then it goes in cycles and the next cut off age tends to be 7, then 11.

They were right in my sons cases, one was 11 and the other was 7 before they had night time control. We had all the usual alarms, Kylie sheets, this that and the other, even drugs. They helped manage the issue to a certain extent but nothing cured it until the boys bodies were ready themselves.

I remember the constant washing well.

Thankfully my daughter had no problems and was dry at an early age.

It'll pass OP. Eventually.

mummyroysof3

i took my soon who is 6 to the doctors recently as he wets the bed 1-2 times a week and also seems to go to the toilet very frequently during the day and other than testing for a water infection she didnt think it was a problem and her suggestion was to not talk about it or anything so as to not make it into a big deal and assures me he will grow out of it when he is ready

pigpen

aliasojo wrote: »

Two Consultants told me that if children are not dry by the 'usual' age, then it goes in cycles and the next cut off age tends to be 7, then 11.

They were right in my sons cases, one was 11 and the other was 7 before they had night time control. We had all the usual alarms, Kylie sheets, this that and the other, even drugs. They helped manage the issue to a certain extent but nothing cured it until the boys bodies were ready themselves.

I remember the constant washing well.

Thankfully my daughter had no problems and was dry at an early age.

It'll pass OP. Eventually.

My son was about 6.5/7 when he stopped wetting too.. and my daughter is 11 in December so time will tell.... after that I believe the next cycle is 14... fingers crossed.. the idea of periods and pullups does not fill me with joy!

Nefertare

Not sure it'll help but my cousin went through this and ended up seeing a consultant who said it was because her bladder wasn't big enough. She wasn't drinking enough in the day to make her able to hold it all at night. So they made sure she always had water with her throughout the day and that sorted it out.

shop-to-drop

Just to reassure you one of my 3 sons took much longer than the other two. It is very common, I work at Tesco and lots of parents I know with older children have nighttime pants in their weekly shopping. I think the laid back approach is by far the best in this situation.

lianne84

Thankyou for all the great replies, i think i will go with the laid back approach and just see what happens hopefully he will just stop himself!

lollipopsarah

Haha boys are lazy, my youngest was in nappies (day and night until 4) .
I remember joking with him that if wanted birthday pressies, then he should at least stop using daytime nappies.
was a long time ago now but it didn't take long for him to to outgrow them, I think he just decided to get on with it, and we only had a few accidents.
good luck and best wishes
x

jackieb

pigpen wrote: »

if he out weeing the standard toddler pullups .. we use the pampers underjams as DD regularly out wet hers and these have been so much better.. we stock up when they are on offer which is fairly often.

We had medication, alarms, all sorts and nothing has worked.. she still pees every night. She even slept through the alarm!!!!!!!

My eldest used to just pull the alarm out when it started going off! He stopped wetting the bed when he was 14. My middle 2 were both dry at night by the time they were 3. My 15yo daughter still sometimes wets the bed. So 2 of mine have wet the bed, and 2 others haven't, and i've done nothing different with them. We've tried everything - alarms, sprays, restricting drinks (which was later not recommended, etc). I even had the health visitor tell me that it was probably because I was putting her in pull-ups. So I stopped. I got fed-up after about 6 months though and started giving them to her to wear again.

My advice is to get a good mattress protector, some Kylie sheets, and try not to make him feel bad for doing it. I was told that my 2 were just deep sleepers with small bladders - not a good combination.