Progress Report...2 bed wetters, or 1??

Yippee!! It's been a week of this new bed time routine for Miss5 and we are having so much success it's ridiculous.
The meeting was an absolute disaster but it has made a big difference. We have had 4 out of 6 nights dry and not many complaints at all.

I've always thought that Miss5 could be night time trained easily. For her I think it's more in her head and a control issue rather than an issue with her downstairs area.
For years now Miss5 has struggled her anxiety and part of that anxiety is her absolute need to have control over everything. To the point she will tell her younger brother what he needs to be doing (and before you all say every older sibling does that, this is past the point of normal older sibling rivalry) she also frequently tells myself and her dad what we need to be doing-such as when to change lanes while driving and when the lights are red or green and how fast we need to be driving.

For awhile now I've been thinking that the bed wetting could be more of a control issue than anything else. And her behaviour in the meeting last week cemented that fact for me.

So I really didn't have much faith in her staying dry this week. I thought we would be met with arguments at every corner. I thought there would be screaming matches and me locking myself in my bedroom to escape the drama.

It's been so easy-I'm loving it and Miss5 is super happy and proud of herself and I'm not spending $20 a fortnight on pull-ups for her!! Win-win-win situation :-) :-)

But it's meant that my fantastic Mr3 has ramped up his bed wetting. It's like the dryer his sister is the wetter he is. He wears a pullup to bed and has been ready to be dry for ages. But last summer/winter he went through this disgusting stage of pulling his willy out of his pull-up, weeing on his bed and laying in it. As though it was his comfort thing. So while we dealt with that grossly embarrassing stage we decided to leave the staying dry stage for another time. I'm thinking once Miss5 gets the hang of it I'll give the brolly sheets to Mr3 and he can follow the same routine until he is dry as well.

Over the next few months there is so much happening and a lot of MAJOR changes coming to our family, which is usually the time for kids to go backwards in bedwetting. But considering both kids chose Christmas time (our busiest time of the year) to day time toilet train themselves I have total faith that we can do it.