However, she has been known to be dry in other environments. What reason or reasons might you attribute this? I have always allowed her to wear DryNites and have never pushed her to be dry or punished her for wetting. She was still daytime wetting up until a little over a year ago, which we now know was due to encopresis.
If her encopresis was a result of chronic constipation, then her bedwetting may also be a result of poor bowel habits. If this is the case then you need to address her bowel habits before you can treat her bedwetting. It is not unusual for parents of children who wet the bed at night to comment on the fact that their children are able to stay dry when on holidays or attending sleepovers. While there is no clear medical explanation for this it has been suggested that children may sleep less soundly when away from home and therefore wake more easily in response to a full bladder. While it can be incredibly frustrating, it is often helpful to keep in mind that children rarely wet the bed on purpose as they tend to have very little control over their bladder while asleep. One of the best indicators that a child is moving toward nighttime continence is an increase in the number of nights they wake-up dry so the fact that she no longer wets every night is a very encouraging sign!
Regards,
Dr Cathrine
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