Bed wetting in over 5 year olds

My friend has had the same problem with her daughter who is now 8yrs old. She went to the Dr & asked for some tests & they have just found a problem that can be corrected...nothing major....but after yrs of this problem & thinking she was just being lazy it is good for her to know what is going on.

Not at all saying there is anything wrong with your DD.

My DD is still wet every night. She had a couple of months where she was dry and wearing knickers. She wet maybe 3 or 4 times during that time? But then she just starting wetting again every night and is back in pullups. It is a little frustrating but I figure it will hopefully click one day soon. We have tried getting her up when we go to bed but she just gets upset and won't pee lol.

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can you find out what it was that your friends doctor found was the problem, and kean to have all ideas/advice opinions, no offence takin. my doctors all say not to worry about it, but I dont want the years to creap by and her still be wetting at 8 or 10 if there is something I can help to get her dry earlier, does that make sense?

Regarding medical problems, my sister had a duplex kidney system (more specifically, she had an extra ureter which was causing urine to flow back up to the kidneys from the bladder) that was not picked up til she was four or five, and I know that that can cause bed wetting. It also causes a lot of other urinary issues (e.g. a lot of UTIs), so I'm not saying this is what your daughter has, but I just thought I'd let you know of one example of a medical issue that can cause bed wetting.

Girls Rock, my DD is 5y1m.

thanks for advice keep it coming please.....
but have tried washable cloth pull ups, didnt make any difference to her to wake up etc, she is very slim and found them very bulky and uncomfortable, she is so slim I still buy her the size 4 for 17kg+ up packs of pull ups as the age 4-7 night time pants or whatever huggies call them are too huge for her and pee seams to leak out the leg holes, gustit too wide etc. too big around the waist

Bed wetting doesnt run in our family, she has never had UTI or day time wetting problems.

Have fullsize waterproof underlays, then sheet then brolly sheet. so 2 layers on each bed. unfortunately when she wets she manages to wet the duvet cover, duvet inner and top sheet, she has twin beds, so she will go into that one, big washing rigmaroll, but I dont make her feel bad for it. actually had to upgrade the washing machine to one with no agitator to fit in the duvet cover and buy a 100% cotton inner (x3) for her beds

Docts/pharmacist/nurse/peads all say its normal to wet at 5 esp as she has no history of day wetting or urine/bladder problems.

Current method of trial starting this week has been back to BRIBERY, mean I know but worth a shot and what do you know a dry bed pull up this morning, Of course we have tried bribery / star charts so many stickers then a trip to buy a toy on numerous occasions in the last 3 years. worked once she had 10 dry nites in October last year, got her toy then went back to wetting so who knows......

KH25 or anyone else, have the issue is that the younger sibling is dry and older one isnt??dry bed pull up this morningdry bed pull up this morningdry bed pull up this morning

Just adding another POV on the alarm - my brother was a bed-wetter for a long time (actually, a few of my siblings were, but all except him managed to grow out of it on their own). Mum hired him the alarm, and he was really glad she did; he was at the age where he was embarrassed by it too, just incapable of waking up when he needed to wee. Im sure no-one likes getting buzzed awake (don't we all hate alarm clocks) but it was what he needed to reinforce the idea in his (sleeping) head that when you need to wee, you wake up, and he stopped wetting the bed really fast. He was stoked with himself and thought the alarm was the best thing out.

ETA that I'm not recommending an alarm for a 5-y-o, just thought I'd comment since there had only been negative comments about them so far, and our experiance was very positive.

Edited by Hopes

I had this problem until I was about 10 and it did make life rather difficult at school camps etc.. My younger sisters never had a problem with it. I think from memory the alarm was really good for me and it certainly worked. Also a bit gross but to try and test the medical side of it my Dr had me measure my output in the mornings. For some weird reason this programmed my brain to be a bit stoked with myself if I had loads of urine in the mornings! Whether it was coincidence or not it was at that point I stopped.

Good luck! The poor poppet I can sympathize with how hard this is