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This sounds like a difficult position to be in, but if the wet diaper isn't uncomfortable enough to wake him up, I would let him sleep. If you end up doing this several nights in a row, just make sure to check carefully for developing diaper rash or infections. In the mean time, have you tried overnight or extra-absorbant diapers?

Some useful steps we used: Try to move her liquid intake earlier in the day - sounds like you have been trying to do this, but it is what will really make a difference at this age Make sure she visits the toilet just before bed - possibly encourage her to do this both before and after cleaning her teeth. Sometimes trying twice can help a child relatively ...

It is certainly not a willful behaviour at this age, especially in the middle of the night. So it won't help to explain your expectations, it will just frustrate her more. Was there any substantial change lately in the child's life? E.g. birth of younger sibling, starting kindergarten / preschool, problems in kindergarten / preschool, mom / dad starting / ...

He has been checked to see if there is anything physically causing the problem. By whom? It sounds like it's past time to see a specialist about this, or a different one if you've already seen one. For our daughter (7 right now), we have to use a multi-pronged approach: Controlling liquid intake: No more than a sip or two of water after dinner. ...

Pediatrists and psychologists believe that children cannot be trained to use the toilet or stay dry at night. The body and brain have to develop the ability to recognize the physiological signals that the body needs to urinate as well as the ability to hold urine during the night. Both developments cannot be forced or quickened, and they occur at different ...

I have four kids. My youngest two (twin boys) are four, my daughter is six and my son is seven. Of the four, my youngest son (youngest by two minutes) has absolutely no problems staying dry through the night. I honestly don't remember the last time he had an accident. His twin brother is the exact opposite and always needs diapers/pull-ups at night. My ...

Aside from some physiological or psychological factor another thing to consider is that during potty training you probably (if you were like us) followed a very specific bedtime routine. No water after x:00pm, pee before bedtime etc. After our now 5 year old was all trained, we started to get a little lax on the routine. Sure you can have a drink, I will ...

We were having a similar problem and a combination of three things helped: We switched back to brand-name diapers. We'd bought a box of generic ones from Costco or Sam's Club that worked fine all day but leaked overnight. Pampers helped. We ensured the diaper was on perfectly, specifically that nothing was folded under the elastic bands around the legs and ...

Why are the sheets wet? Are you not using a diaper? Assuming you are using a diaper and the sheets are not wet, I would suggest you leave the wet diaper on. Our nightly routine with all 5 of our kids included changing the diaper right before bed time (unless it was still crunchy) and leaving it on them until the morning. Yes, it may be wet, but the diapers ...

I would recommend not stressing out about bedwetting in general because that might cause anxiety for your daughter. "Serious long-term emotional problems can result from angry scolding or punitive attitudes towards accidents or resistance" (The Baby Book, pg. 585). Prep your mind mentally in advance because accidents WILL happen. It's part of them figuring ...

It's totally normal Don't worry. Many children do experience setbacks like this. It's totally normal, only to be expected, and almost certainly temporary. Keep calm, don't give a payoff My eldest had this problem when he was 4. Here's what we did. If he weed in the night, we just kept everything super calm and changed everything, all the sheets and ...

I sleep in the same room as my 4 year old son while my wife sleeps with our 6 month old. One pattern that I have noticed is that he will start to cry out in his sleep and get very restless when he needs to go pee. I will then wake him up and ask him if he needs to go pee. It can be hard to get him awake enough to answer the question and sometimes he gets ...

At 3yo she may not be ready to be 100% toilet trained. My daughter took a lot longer than that before she could reliably go through the night without wetting herself. The body can just take a while to develop the necessary feedback loop. We tried all the things Rory mentioned, including midnight toilet runs. Didn't help. She was ready when she was ready. ...

Tangential answer because I don't have comment rights: Perhaps you should look at how his diet influences his night time peeing? I recently noticed that if I limit my carbs in the evening to slow starches, then I'm not as thirsty and I don't sweat at night. (so no sugary goods or even fruit juice, just potatoes, rice, that kind of thing - for me that boils ...

My son had the soaking through the diaper problem when he was younger. I just switched brands to a more expensive one. I noticed the Wal-Mart or Target brand diapers didn't hold in the pee. The only brand that worked was Pampers. Luvs didn't even hold it in. Like others have said before, change right before bed, and hopefully just switching brands will ...