DSS was in drynights until just recently, he is almost 11 and he would wet pretty much every night, usually it wuld be 1 or 2 dry nights a MONTH
We tried EVERYTHING
waking, wetting alarms, no water before bed, set an alarm for the time he was most likely to wet, medication, counseling , star charts, medical consults, there are other things, but cant rememeber them all.
His situation was complicated, but he was an exceptionally heavy sleeper and sometimes wouldnt even know he was wet until the morning and he would be freeing if he had no nappy on, so it may have been hours.
We decided that we would not have him in a night nappy as there was no way for him to tell that he was wet and it also 'allowed' him to wet as it would only be the nappy.
We had a similar thing as mum3girls mentioned, I use them in hospitals all the time for incontinent pts and basically you can just whip the 'pinky/kylie' off the bed and pop a new one on if it was wet and there wasnt a whole bed to be changed.
Wearing a nappy gave him less confidence and he was more likely to wet. If your DD is vocalising that she wants to try without a nappy, let her, she is more ready than if you were forcing the issue.
Also get her to take responisbility for the wet bed clothes, she may no be able to make a bed or set a washing machine, but she would be old enough to get rid of the wet clothes and help you remake the bed.
Try not to be negative about it either, dont mention it in the morning, let her tell you whether she had a wet or dry night... loads of encouragement and positive reinforcement if she is dry, and try not to really say much if she is wet, maybe something along the lines of 'oh well, im sure you tried, maybe tonight will be better'.
If she is visibly upset about wetting the bed, however, make sure that she is reassured that its not a hassle and its something that everyone has to learn, some poeple learn really quick, others take a while.
With DSS there is nothing that we can really pin point that made him stop... other than his Mum and we stopped asking how he went at each others place, but i dont think that was the only factor.
Sometimes they just have to be ready.
It can be a long hard slog.
We were told that we were not meant to wake DSS in the night, but this did help for a while.
the other thing we did was talk to him about the toilet dreams, you know, like when you cant find a toliet or they are all broken or something, and thats your body trying to wake you to go to the toilet, he found that once we talked about them, he started to realise he was having these dreams.
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