I’ve talked about our trials and tribulations of getting J to the stage when he is dry at night. It hasn’t been straight forward and at 9 he isn’t reliably dry yet.
We have moved forward. He no longer wears nappies or pyjama pants at night unless we are staying overnight somewhere away. Generally he does then (unless it’s at Grannies) because it saves on potential embarrassment. It does mean though that he hasn’t gone on cub camps and so on because he is worried about either wetting the bed or been seen wearing pyjama pants. Kids can be cruel.
We’ve stopped lifting him too. I was never a big fan of lifting as I just felt it was cheating and potentially unhelpful. We only did it because he was keen to avoid the pyjama pants. It helped with that and seemed to help his self-esteem.
Now we have little phases where he has a bad patch, but he might go a few weeks without an accident. Generally, I’m feeling that he is growing out of it. We have seen a lot of progress. I think his body is now reducing urine production while he sleeps and maybe his bladder has more capacity too. The final hurdle seems to be around not waking up when he has the urge to wee.
Yesterday morning I went in and he was fast asleep, but the room smelt of wee. It was soon clear he’d wet himself. This morning he came in to tell me he’d wet the bed, so he must have woken up afterwards. So he can sleep through weeing still and that is the major problem. I think generally the incidents are happening early in the morning – say from about 5 as I am rarely woken to change the bed before then. As he gets up at 6 we are nearly there. The only thing is that if he manages to make it through to 6 because of increased bladder size or something, then would that just be disguising the not waking problem? Not sure. Another thing that puzzles me is that even if he hasn’t wet the bed he doesn’t go for a wee first thing, in fact it can be an hour or so after he wakes. I find that a bit mystifying.