When did your pre-schooler become toilet trained overnight?
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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When did your pre-schooler become toilet trained overnight?
He was only 3 in July!
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