Needing advice on an almost 5 year old peeing to bed/in her clothes while awake!

Any advice would be appreciated… my step daughter who is turning 5 in March is peeing to bed every night and some times even peeing in her pull-up in the morning while she’s awake, now she’s starting to even pee in her underwear… she was potty trained for a couple years and then she just started peeing to bed at night, and it’s just escalated as I said. She does it with us and her mom. She stopped completely for about a week about a month ago and then just started again and that’s when she started even peeing in her panties… when you try to talk to her and ask her why she will start crying and say I don’t know and there pretty much no way to get an answer out of her… we don’t really know what we can do, we know she can’t help it at night when she’s asleep but she can help it when she’s awake… we’ve taken things from her, given things to her, made charts with treats, made it clear how proud we are when she doesn’t pee and nothing…

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Just continue to follow through on one specific plan. Be patient, in time it will resolve itself.

Honesty, there is nothing that you can do. My daughter is 10 and she wets the bed sometimes too. Sometimes it’s just because they’re heavy sleepers. I started cutting off drinks after 7 and I wake her up every night around 11 pm to use the rest room and that has helped. I also have her help me wash her sheets, and I don’t make a big deal out of it because it’s just an accident.

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It happens… Most likely she’s just a heavy sleeper so try not to give any drinks before bed time. She probably gets really distracted in playing that she doesn’t notice she needs to go to toilet and maybe that’s why she has also created accidents while awake.
You just got to be patient.