Many doctors recommend holding off until children are at least 6-years of age before seeking treatment due to the high spontaneous cure rate up until then. In saying this, there really is no absolute time when to seek treatment – the decision should be up to you and your son. Taking steps toward achieving dryness requires effort from both parents and child, so it’s helpful to choose a low-stress time to begin – after Christmas but before school returns may be ideal. The fact that he is only wetting a few times per month is a very good indication that he is going to stop on his own without the need for intervention so you may find that by Christmas his bedwetting is but a distant memory! If by chance it continues I would certainly recommend speaking with your doctor about introducing a conditioning alarm. In the meantime I would continue being as supportive as possible – be careful when it comes to using rewards as this assumes he has some control over his bedwetting, which we know is not the case. Failure to achieve the desired goal (waking up dry) may impact on his self-esteem. If you do want to use rewards it is best to use these for behaviours he can directly control like disposing of his own DryNites in the morning. Good luck!

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