[amylynn3]

...he or she stayed dry overnight? My son has been potty trained for pretty close to a year now, but still needs a diaper overnight. He is 3 yrs. and 3 months. He wears underwear for naptime. We tried underwear to help him learn to wake up when he has to go or at least feel the wetness. After weaking up soaked three nights in a row, he went about 10 days staying dry or almost dry (drips in underwear). Then he went downhill from there. We have gone to having him wear underwear, but putting a diaper over the underwear so he can feel the wetness (but not make a mess of his bedding). He is dry some mornings, and wet some. We do the underwear and diaper thing because diapers are cheaper than pull-ups. We can't afford pull-ups.

So, how about your child?

[mommytoEli]

my middle son was exactly 3.5. he was still soaking a pull up EVERY night...lol, but had been completely day trained for months. dh just got tired of it one night and said to him, "no more diapers, you are done, and you will not wet the bed." lol. ds said "ok." went to bed, and has been dry every night since. lol. i guess he just needed a push. but he was NEVER EVER not once ever dry at night with a diaper on.

now eli, nearly 3 years, 2 months, really has NO interest in training at all. he'll sit on the potty once a day, and he is SOAKING wet every morning despite going potty before he goes to bed. i don't know when he'll be ready, but i hope it is soon.

all that to say, for 3 years 3 months ...your little guy is doing well by my standards. lol. hopefully he'll be ready soon. but i know it takes so much longer for many little boys.

[Suzeb1]

I'm interested in hearing thoughts about this. My dd (almost 4) has only gone a handful of nights dry, so I'm starting to think we may want to try wearing panties and seeing if it's the pullups that are causing her to wet. My only hesitation is that if she wakes up completely, she has a terrible time falling back to sleep. Sleep doesn't come easily for her, so I'm very protective of anything that gets in it's way

Susan

[DPline]

My DD stayed dry pretty much from the time she potty trained at 2.5.

My bio son is 10 and is now just starting to stay dry some nights. We gave gone to doctors and tried every 'cure' out there except drugs and the general agreement from all the doctors is that it is just a matter of him outgrowing it. And that he will. And I know several of his friends his age who still wet and several more who only stopped in the last year or two. So it is pretty common in my experience.

My 5 year old son is inconsistent. A lot of days he does wake up dry, but if he has had a long day and was really tired he wakes up wet.

Like MommytoEli said, some kids do it with just a push. But after much research and doctors and such, I also know that some kids just can't and no amout of pushing the issue is going to work. My son would LOVE to stay dry and it has caused him a lot of stress over the years, but it is also just not something he can control.

Good luck!

[pvanabel]

Our daughter is 3 1/2 and soaks overnight too.

Our son who is almost 6 has gone 2 1/2 months without wetting a nighttime - 2 weeks with underwear on and no wetting. And one night in there where we wet. We do get him up when we go to bed and have him pee just in case. I think it is different with each child and how hard they sleep too.

[dilgra]

Our DD was day trained right around 2 but wore pull ups (over underwear) at night for a couple months but was still dry most nights. she is now 31 months, no more pull-ups and hasn't had an accident for several months. I don't think that is normal though because I know a lot of little ones , 3-4 yrs old that are still wearing pull ups at night. It just takes some kids longer. I was a bed wetter myself until 8 or 9 .

[pvanabel]

I never thought of underwear under the pullups, I think I will try that at night.

[Suzeb1]

This is so helpful!! At this point dd doesn't have any stress about being wet at night because we've never made an issue of it and I've wanted to stay away from doing anything that would feel like being wet was a "failure" because with her personality she would be very stressed about that.

Thanks so much!

Susan

[andreab1223]

I appreciate this thread for a few reasons. My ds is 21 months and dry nights seems years away---anyway i wet through 5 nights a week until i was 13---and i am in no way accusing anyone of punishing--cause i know you dont---but as a nurse and someone who was punished by a babysitter for wetting--i have learned that in some children the bladder can remain quite small as a child grows unable to hold a large amount of urine---it will get better

[cmfayz]

Matthew day trained and night trained at the same time. He was just over 3. It was not my intention to night train, but he refused to wear pull-ups or diapers at night because those were "for babies". I bought a plastic sheet for the mattress because he was having accidents for the first couple of weeks. He does not get up at night to pee, but we just make sure he does not drink too much after dinner. He gets a little drink of water at bedtime. I think some kids just have bigger bladders and can hold it longer.

[DPline]

Originally Posted by cmfayz

I think some kids just have bigger bladders and can hold it longer.

I think that how the child sleeps is a factor also. My daughter, who stays dry at night is a light sleeper in general. My oldest son who doesn't stay dry sleeps like he is in a coma and always has. We have tried the sleep alarm a couple times for the wetting, and when it goes off I practically hit the ceiling. To me it is so loud I expect car alarms to start going off and dogs to start howling and we are at opposite ends of the hallway. He sleeps through it and never even flinches and it is next to his ear.

[alyssa&avery]

Both of my kids potty trained at around 3 1/2 years old. My DD didn't night-time potty train right away and we used Huggies Good-Nights for her. If I remember correctly we only went through 1 1/2 packs and then she was night-time dry.

My DS mastered daytime and night-time at the same time. Not anything that I intended or tried for, it just happened that way.

One of my nephews was 14 and entering puberty before he was able to stay dry all night. It wasn't something that he could control and it did cause him some stress. Not because of anything that his parents said to him, but because he felt that he should be able to control it. He tried having his parents wake him at night to go and limiting his drinking during the day and after supper, but nothing worked for him. According to his doctor there is a hormone that the body produces to tell the body to stop producing urine at night and he was probable not producing enough of it. He said that almost assuredly by the time he entered puberty that it would resolve on its own.

So, while I feel your pain of having to shuck out money for pull-ups or diapers just know that night-time dryness will happen at some point. It's just not really something that you can "train" your child for it just happens when the time is right for the child.

[SKL]

My daughters both trained day and night around age 1.5. We donated all the diapers at that point. There were occasional wet beds for a while, but the fact of wearing underwear made them feel like they were supposed to "hold it" until they got a chance to go in the potty. They don't pee in their sleep (and they sleep about 11 hours), but they need to visit the potty reasonably soon after they wake up.

[Alexismandyjr]

J.R. was completly potty trained at 3 years and 3 months. He wakes up in the middle of the night, goes to the restroom, flushes the toilet and jumps right back into bed... Shocked me and my dh, no one every told him to do this but if you can remember I've posted before that he is a clean freak and can't stand getting or being dirty!

In having seven children, I can tell you that they are ALL different and every single one of them has their own timeline for everything!

[ERAmy]

Initially at 2.5 yrs.
But then Nora came home 6 months later and he started bed wetting again.
After a month trial this past summer (after her being home 5 months) of wearing undies at night, mommy got sick of washing sheets at least 4 times a week and put him back in pullups at night.

He will be 4 in March. He has his good weeks and bad weeks now but I still have him in pullups. We reuse the dry pullups until they are wet.