Newbie here - 5 yo and bedwetting - advice needed

[Coopsters]

My five yo requested to stop wearing nappies before Christmas. He was never 'dry' in the morning, but we agreed. He managed a few good spells of dry nights, but since the start of Jan, we are back to the beginning. He wets up at 3 times a night and doesn't manage to get himself up when he needs to wee. He functions fine during the day, and we don't see evidence of stool withholding. We do 'lift' him about three hours after bedtime but he is normally always wet by morning. We get him to drink actively during the day and withhold liquids an hour before bedtime. I've submitted the form to speak to someone from ERIC as I can't get through via the helpline. Any tips? I am stressed and finding it so hard to watch him struggle like this. I think he's just accepted being 'wet' is OK. Thanks all.

[Yaleamanda]

he is still only young, essentially you are waiting for the hormone vasopressin being produced and that's something you can't control. There are things that you can do to help though, ensure that he drinks plenty of water during the day, this will help to train the bladder to hold more liquid, do not lift to take to the toilet at night as it only manages the issue and not deal with it, but do take him to the toilet before bed twice and make sure he completely empties his bladder, count to 30, you will be surprised how much wee comes out again. Don't restrict liquids after a certain time, it doesn't actually work . Have a read of this article bbuk.org.uk/wp-content/uplo... . Bedwetting is extremely common, i think in a class of 30 children (primary age) 1in 3 will still be wetting at night.

[Loubielou46]

Hi, my daughter was 8 before she was dry at night. We followed every rule with drinking, and training your bladder. We also tried the bed alarm and saw the continence team who prescribed a drug, which is the synthetic form of the hormone vasopressin, to see if that helped, but unfortunately none of it worked. As she had no underlying medical reason for this we were simple told to wait and it would happen, and just after her 8th birthday it did. She just stopped wetting the bed at night. Your son is still young, and it may be that the hormone just hasn't kicked in it. Keep doing the things you are with how much he's drinking. It was the one thing they said that would encourage the bladder to expand and hold more. At some point it will happen, but I know it can be difficult getting to that point x