It is not unusual for your daughter to be wetting the bed at age 5 with about 15% of children still doing so by the time they start school. Typically children wet the bed because they fail to respond to the messages sent from the bladder to the brain to wake-up and empty their bladder or they produce more urine at night than their bladder can store. While problems with friends, family or school can be the cause of a return to bedwetting after an extended period of dryness they are rarely the cause of primary nocturnal enuresis. For many children the best cure is often time – as their nervous system matures they become better able to detect messages sent to the brain or their bladder capacity increases and they are able to hold on until morning. One of the signs that your daughter is moving toward achieving nighttime dryness is a reduction in the number of nights she wakes-up wet. The fact that she is waking up most mornings dry is a good indication that this is a phase that she will soon outgrow. In the meantime make sure she understands that this is not something she has a lot of control over and is something lots of kids her age experience. You can encourage healthy bladder habits by making sure she is drinking enough water during the day and that she fully empties her bladder each time she goes to the toilet as well as just before bedtime.

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