[DelMarie]

Our daughter has been potty trained since 3 years old. She may still have an occasional "slight accident" if she waits too long-mostly when playing outside. Otherwise, no problems. She is now 4 years 3 months old.

Night time she has made NO progress whatsoever. She may have a dry diaper 1-2 nights per week, other nights just saturated. Even though we stop giving her fluids about 1-1.5 hours before bed and she fully empties her bladder before bedtime.

I know that this is not uncommon-I know some kids are very heavy sleepers and others the bladder is not developed enough to stay dry all night.

Any suggestions or should I just not worry?

My husband wants to send her to bed without a diaper and just put a plastic matress pad on the bed. I think we will be changing LOTS of sheets during the middle of the night.

[tigger44]

This is the one area of "potty training" that I do not worry about or give my DD a hard time about. Although she is dry more nights than she is wet, I don't fret about letting her sleep with pull ups for as many years as necessary.

I was a "bed wetter" until the age of nine or so, and just wish that the pull ups and night time "diapers" for bigger kids had been available back then. The numerous mornings of waking up in wet sheets was so humiliating and very limiting (I didn't spend nights with friends but rarely, and it seems that every time I did I wet their bed). I say let her wear the pull ups to bed and see if her bladder matures as she gets a bit older.

[Sidney_Ivan]

My nephew has had problems with this also. He is now nine. My sister has set up a system where she puts him to bed about 9:00pm, and wakes Phil up right before she goes to bed to make sure that he uses the bathroom. (That is roughly 2 hours later.) That seems to have effectively curbed the frustrations for the most part.

I just saw a commercial for Pampers Underjams. That might be another possibility if your standard pull-ups hold a bad connotation in your household.

[GCS]

I wouldn't worry about it. Some kids just take longer to train at night. Some are growing faster than their bladder can keep up with. Some are just deep sleepers. Eventually you'll get a good month of dry nights and that will be that.
DS was probably about 4.5 when he got out of pull ups. DD was earlier at about 3.8. Its easier to keep the pull ups on than to deal with the clean up the next day!

[MatveysMama]

One of our girls had a difficulty until nearly six. We limited fluid after supper, got her up before we went to bed, and mostly didn't worry about it too much. When her body was ready she quit needing a pull up. The limited fluid and very sleepy trip to the potty just before mom and dad went to bed, helped her not to wet through the pull up. She was completely unaware and I think waking up to a wet bed daily would have been really tough on her.

Melissa

[votemom]

absolutely do NOT quit using the pull-ups. talk about stress on everyone! (there, that's my 2cents!)

one of my boys trained early but needed pullups at night thru the end of kindergarten. he didn't pee in them every night, but 2 or 3 nights a week until it tapered off.

just recycle the dry pull-ups and let her sleep in peace.

hang in there.

[DPline]

Just wanted to second (third? fourth?) the above advice. My bio son is almost 10 and still wets most nights. When he is sound asleep it is completely impossible to wake him up so it is not a surprise that his body isn't able to wake him. I talked with the doctor as recently as a couple months ago, and have talked with other doctors in the past, and they all agree that he will grow out of it. One day. I am just so glad there are GoodNights we can use. And now the Pampers Underjams. Unless you think she is waking in the morning and purposfully wetting instead of getting up (my almost 5 year old did that sometimes) I would let it go and accept that she will grow out of it.

[MamaChinch]

I would not worry about it, she is still young. My daughter has been fully trained since last summer at age 2.5. Same thing, no problems at all during the day. She can even hold it if we are not close to a bathroom. She can nap without a pull up, but she goes to bed at night with one. I am not even concerned at this point about it, even though she has been almost potty trained for a year.

She has some dry nights, and I have tried to cut back on her liquids close to bedtime and going potty is part of our bedtime routine, some mornings her pull up is super full! It's really hit or miss at this point. If she is awake, she will get up and go potty. She is only 3 1/4. I am figuring within the next year she will start staying dry at night, since she has no other issues.

You will be fine, she will be fine! Good luck !!

[angelkisses0102]

I didn't read the other responses but I'll share our story. DD had kidney and bladder surgery when she was 13 months old and was under the care of a pedi urologist until recently. She self daytime trained at age 28 months. She just recently night time trained...and she will be 7 this summer. The pedi urologist would not do anything until after she turned 7. 10-15% of kids aged 6 will still wet at night...totally within the realm of normal. We do wake her once during the night to go potty now...some days she awakes on her own...but no more pull ups needed.

So don't worry...

[karla-k]

Our DD is 9 and still wakes up soaking wet in the mornings. Our pedi says the wet sheet/shame them method is a very bad idea. She said a lot of kids don't have full bladder control at night until puberty. It is frustrating though, and we have found that the White Cloud training pants by Walmart are cheaper and just as effective as Pull Ups

[TweetyMom04]

I had both Boys in Pull-Ups for several months after potty training.
DS-L has had no accidents in bed at all. Insisted on wearing Big Boy Pants at bedtime.

DS-G has had numerous accidents. He wakes up and realizes he needs to go and can't get there. He's also admitted to needing to go and doing nothing about getting to the toilet. Other times, he sleeps right thorugh it and only the wetness wakes him up.

As for the sheet thingy - I had the same concerns. The mattresses already have the plastic covers zipped around them. I put a beach towel on top of it and before the fitted sheet. (They sweat if right on top of the plastic)

I went to a store here and purchased Maternity Bed Mats. They are made to go on the bed while a PG Woman sleeps. In case of 'water breaks' or leakage, etc. Some are disposable, I purchased 5-6 that are washable, but can't go in the dryer. They are super - absorbent and a real life saver at 2am.

This goes between the fitted and flat sheet. As for the top sheet and or blanket, we go with minimal amount. Sleeps in PJ's and doesn't really care for the layers. Yes, there is still washing of PJ's, Undies and Pad. Not always is the top sheet wet.

For the carseats, I purchased a pkg of Dog Piddle Mats when training Dogs or for PG Dogs. Never had to use them in the car, but it might work in the bed?


Good Luck

[angelkisses0102]

Percentage of Children That Wet the Bed According to Age:

Age ................... Percentage
5-year-olds ................... 20%
6-year-olds ................... 12%
7-year-olds ................... 10%
8-year-olds ................... 7%
9-year-olds ................... 6%
10-year-olds ................... 5%
11-year-olds ................... 4%
12-year-olds ................... 3%
13-year-olds ................... 2-1/2%
14-year-olds ................... 2%
15-year-olds ................... 1-1/2%
16-year-olds ................... 1%

[ddahl]

Why do the daddies always come up with these brilliant ideas? Then again if its a plastic style sheet and she gets sweaty she will stick to the plastic sheet.... then if she wets as well you could just open a window and drag the garden hose in for easy clean up! Too funny! I am waiting for my husband to come up with something equally amazing!

[DelMarie]

Thanks for all the feedback about night time wetting. I will definetly continue with the night time diapers. We have had to "switch" to the older kid type because she absolutely saturated the pull-ups and the odor was terrible-plus her skin was breaking down.

Hope I didn't sound like I was knocking my hubby! I just didn't want to deal with the mess at night and I truly didn't think her shame at wetting the bed would help her improve in this matter. I have to agree with you all-she is a really heavy night sleeper and I will try to get her to go on the potty around 12 or 1 a.

Thanks,

[beckyww]

DDAVP - prescription drug. Worked for one of our girls every time. Just take it at bedtime. Doesn't hurt them at all. Particularly important when they're doing sleepovers. Or when you're just sick of doing laundry.

Becky
The Woodworth Family in Beautiful San Antonio TX