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My DS is 3.75 years and still wakes up in the morning with wet nappy (we use nappy pants). He has been toilet trained in the day for over a year now. So was wondering if I should be concerned that my DS is not toilet trained at night yet? What's normal for this age group? Should I be doing anything to try to encourage dry nights yet?
I'm not a great indicator but my 7yo has just recently become dry overnight reliably. While she isn't a typical case she's certainly not one that's uncommon.
My 4.5 is still very wet at night.
My 4 year old is not night trained yet, has been using the loo during the day for well over a year. I believe that it is normal until the age of 7 years old.
Yep, what Hestia said! The official 'worry time' for medical professionals is around 7. DS is dry overnight (3.5yo) but he's the only one of his friends to be. . Some of them are nearly a year older. He has been day trained for just over 6 months. Not at all unusual to still be wet at night for some time yet.
My DD1 (2 yrs 8 months) started toilet training early September. She is day and night trained already. We are lucky. About a week after starting she just started waking with a dry nappy. We started putting her in knickers overnight just over a week ago.
I was 'late' to be night dry, around 7 so was all prepared for a long haul but DD1 decided to go into undies just after 3 and was surprisingly fine. I wouldn't have worried till 7 though, I consider 3 or 4 early lol but that's looking through the eyes of my personal experience.
As long as it isn't a big deal to the kid then it isn't a big deal. When it becomes a big deal for them (it never bothered me, I remember wearing nappys to school sleepovers, it seemed normal to me then too, I'd recall the memory and others would think it weird, I'd never thought to till then lol but it can come to worry others), look further then and work it out together, let them have the ownership of it.
My DS just turned 6 and is still wetting every night without fail.... So much sometimes the nappy pants can't hold it and it leaks all over the bed (usually on a nice wet day so I can't dry his sheets!) my 3.5 year old has been dry day and night for a year, will get up at night if she needs to go. Spoke to doc about DS and she said by age 7 if he's still wetting, it's time to get it seen to. I don't make a fuss, just keep dishing out the dollars for dry nights!
For my first child he was still wetting the bed until he was about 7. For my 2nd child he was night trained not long after his 3rd birthday. For my 3rd child I honestly can't remember lol.
I can't really remember with my first two, though I know my daughter was fully night and day trained before she was 2 1/2. I have just gone through toilet training DS2 who is 2 2/3, and he's night trained himself too. I still put a nappy on him because he sometimes doesn't make the toilet his first pit stop of the morning and wets it first thing, but if I manage to catch him and send him to the loo on time, he is dry from the night before.
DD was a struggle to TT during the day - we started too early (rookie mistake!) and she wasn't reliably TT day time til 3yo. We started around 2.5. We didn't even bother with nights until she asked for it - she would wake in the morning with a sopping wet nappy until just recently. She began to ask to wear undies at night around 4 and a bit years, we made her have 5 dry nappies before we tried her in undies overnight, now we are in the process of having ten dry nights and a reward as she was getting lazy and weeing in her bed, first thing in the morning. She's up to eight dry nights :cheer:
DS1 we didn't even try until he showed interest. We kept asking him if he wanted to wear undies and he kept saying no. Then right before 3 he had some sort of penis infection (not a UTI, something else) and I told him it'd help if he wore undies and to my surprise he agreed. He had one accident on the first day, one on the next, one on the fourth, that was it. Then a week or so later I realised his night nappy was consistently dry and I asked if he wanted to wear undies at night and he said yes. And he's had two night accidents since :) He was only 3 in July!
Strange kiddies!
DD was dry at nights about 12 months from when she was day time trained. Reading this there is such a massive variation! We took DD to the toilet before bed and then before we went to bed for several months then she kinda just clicked with it. Like others have said, I think there is a long time before you need to look into it further.
Mine all stopped wetting overnight when they were day trained. DD1 would wet her bed every now and hten until she was about 4.
DS is 5, he has had one dry night and Im pretty sure that was a fluke anyway. He has been day trained from around 2.5 years. I was a very late night trainer so its no surprise really.
I have one who is 7 and still wetting every night been day trained since 2.5. Second child night trained at 4.
DD1 was a nightmare for TT but once she got day time sorted, she had night time sorted in about two weeks. She was 3 1/2.
DS1 was night dry from 4. Night of his 4th birthday he said didnt need nappy now as he was a big boy, and we have 2 accidents in over a year!!. He did not day train till 3 years 7 months!!
DS2 he day trained at 3 years 1 month and is not night trained or anywhere near it his nappy in morning is so heavy and full, (does not poo in toilet yet grrr another thread!)
Night TT is a developmental change and some kids can be 7 and beyond. Most drs wont even invesitigate until 7.
Don't stress good luck
DS was night trained the same as day (2yr 8m) we went cold turkey without nappies as didn't want to create a thought that it was ok to wet at night but not during the day. We didn't toilet train though until his night nappies were pretty dry. Seemed to work. Talking to friends there is a massive variation. A friends DS slept over on sat night and he still wears a night nappy at 4yrs and it was wet the next morning so every kid is very different
DD1 was night trained around her third birthday. She hardly pees though. Even during the day.
My middle child was night trained by 3 but a few months later the twins were born and he started wetting once a week. Since moving interstate 2 months ago hes been wetting pretty much every night. 6/7. He refuses to wear a pull up and he gets up once or twice a night to use the toilet too. It happens early in the morning. :( I figure he'll get dry in his own time again
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering the same thing. My DD was trained at Christmas time (4.5 yrs) but since starting prep has started wetting at night again. I was getting concerned about her age, but feel more relaxed now. I have tried seeing an alarm at about 11:30pm, but she sleeps right through it! ! I just put her in pull ups and have a plastic mates protector. I have taught her though that is her bed is wet just move to the lounge and she doesn't wake me up! Bonus!
Our almost 4.5 year old is just going through the continuous dry nights stage now :D She still wears pull ups but has had roughly 4 wet nights our of 28 in the past month. We used her last pull up last night and although she actually wants to keep wearing pull ups (bless her!), I think we'll just try knickers tonight.
We were told by many friends, our doctor and health nurse that bring dry at night is actually a major development in the brain and kids don't learn it just by force. We let DD go and sure enough, she's just become dry in her own time :D
DS was day trained at 2y2m and fully night trained by 2y8m. I'm sure he has a bottomless bladder as he holds on overnight + 2-3 hours after waking!
My older girls were about 3 before fully dry. DD2 has the occasional accident and she's 6
My dd1 is 5.5 and not night trained. She still has a nappy that is full in the mornings. The other night we forgot to put one on her and sure enough she came inti our room crying because she woke up in a puddle. Her younger sister (4) night trained just after she turned 3, pretty much the same as their older brother.
Hopefully it will click soon, nappies are getting hard to put on and she refuses to wear pull ups.
DS was just over 3, DD1 is still in night nappies at 4.5 and DD2 was 2y 3m - refused night nappies not long after she was in knickers during the day. Still having an accident every couple of weeks but pretty good.
DD1 was toilet trained night and day by 2.5yrs old, never an accident and was so easy to toilet train
DD2 on the other hand is 3yrs 3mths and has been toilet trained during the day since 2yrs but is still wetting of a night time, we can go a week without wetting, than she will start wetting again. We wake her every night before we go to bed to take her to the toilet but that doesn't always help.
Which I hope you don't mind but that brings me to a question...... Would it be bad of me and bad for her, to put her back in pull ups? she hasn't been in them for ages but I am slowly getting over the washing of sheets, and yes we do have protectors on etc......
We've only just gone nappy free at night, at 3 years 2 months. We'd tried a couple of times, but she was getting up to go and then couldn't get back to sleep on her own. This week she made the decision to turn her back on nappies for good, and I think it'll last. I was pretty determined to let her get there in her own time, like she did with day times.
Before he was out of nappies, he was dry at night most nights. Maybe from 2.5, certainly before 3. (He preferred nappies, it wasn't me being lazy!) His last bedwet was age 5, but they were unusual once he started having bladder control.
It can be different for all children. DS1 toilet trained at night at age 4. He was lazy, on a couple of occasions I forgot to put on night nappy, he woke abt 4am telling me he needed his nappy, refuse to use the toilet, then wake at 6am with a very wet nappy. DS2 was 2 yrs old, once the toilet training penny dropped he was day and night trained within days. He would wake, wearing his nappy, refusing to use it and only go on the loo.
2.3 years. She was night trained the same time as day trained. I had bought heaps of nappy pants thinking we would be using them for ages and I did put them on her but she didnt wet them!
DS2 made the decision of not wearing pullups at night on his own. One night I went to put them on and he said, no I don't need them. Okay we had the occasional accident but I had a brolly sheet so it wasn't too much of a drama. I would bounce out of bed as soon as I heard him stir to get him to the toilet.
He was stil having accidents when one day he refused to let me put the brolly sheet on his bed. He said he didn't need it anymore. After weighing up the pros and cons between an argument and the possiblity of changing sheets during the night I let him have his way. It was like someone switched on the light. He has not wet the bed since.
Kids are all different. Follow their lead.