He's eight! I never ever guessed my son would still be wetting the bed at age eight on a regular basis. We have checked to see if something else could be wrong so many time...he's fine the doctor says. This is normal. He's a deep sleeper and he will grow out of it. I consult other moms to see if there children are still wetting the bed...nope. All of my friend's children stopped wetting the bed in the normal time frame. My son just has pushed through to the other side and is still wetting the bed in the post normal stage. At least it feels that way. He is growing so there is no doubt in my mind that his bladder is big enough to handle the overnight control. We control liquid intake and make sure he "goes" before bed. We wake him two hours after he goes to sleep to "go" again. 
We wait and grow impatient for his little body and mind to catch up to the other children so we can be part of the club. That exclusive group that seems to be eluding us so fully right now. The one that is just out of reach the fully potty trained club. I feel completely helpless in this because there is nothing that I can do to make this go any fast for him. He is going to get it on his own.
We recently tried a medication to help him sleep better and it was also suppose to help him over the hump with his bed wetting. Much to our disappointment he is still wetting the bed and he is back in pull-ups full time. They are costly, a pain in the butt and God help us if one gets into the washing machine. He seems to not mind so much what is going on and is not so much worried that he is still wetting the bed.
I wonder about this off and on...I think it is strange that at one point he was almost completely done with bed wetting and now we are back to every night and completely needing the pull-ups. Someday...I have hope and I will keep the faith! Until then we will keep telling him to "go" before bed, take it easy on pre-bed drinks, and waking him up in the middle of the night for a midnight trip to "go" again.
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