My summer born, speech delayed four year old started Reception in September. She's pretty vocal about wanting to go back to Nursery in the morning, but other than that seems fairly happy there. Only problem is she won't drink much during the day or use their toilets, they have to take her to the Nursery toilets a few times a day instead (there is a loud hand dryer in the Reception loos which scares the bejeesus out of her). But she does go happily. She's been potty trained since she was 3.5, and dry at night since about March, with the odd bedwetting incident if she's drunk a lot before bed, or if she's not been to the loo before bed. She's wet the bed every night for the last three days, which is really unusual for her. She doesn't seem dehydrated or otherwise unwell, but she had nothing to drink for an hour before bed last night, went to the loo before bed and was still wet this morning. Doctor isn't interested because she isn't running a temperature so he thinks she isn't likely to have cystitis or anything like that.
A colleague mentioned that her son is wetting more often, and she thinks it's because he's tired having started reception? Has anyone else experienced this? I wondered if maybe lifting her in the night might help? I'm really loathe to go back to pull ups (DH's preferred option) but I can't face changing her bed every night as she's in a double and it's a lot of washing. We use bed mats, normally under the sheet, but now going to put them on top of the sheet in an effort to avoid changing sheets as well, but this morning she just lay in it, so her duvet was soaked too. She doesn't really talk well enough for us to discuss it, she just told me she had a little accident with no more comment then that.
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4yo bedwetting suddenly - linked to starting Reception?
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MummytoMog · 23/10/2013 11:00
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