Night diapers for 5+ year olds

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Anonymous wrote:When he wakes up in the morning does he lay in bed for a while before he actually gets moving?

My daughter is a bear to get up in the morning. I have to ask her a good 10 times to get up.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.

Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.

How many of them brought pull-ups with them to camp? Did the parents give you advance notice that their kids still wet at night?

I'd say about half of the families would give advance notice, maybe a touch less? A lot of the time we found it was kids who everyone had thought they'd sort of outgrown bedwetting back at home. But, the circumstances of camp (being worn out tired each night, drinking more during the day than they would back at home etc) would sort of ramp up the odds that someone would have an incident, who otherwise doesn't back at home.

Pull ups were fairly common. We actually had a package of each size kept in the camps infirmary office at all times, and now, they actually keep a package in the sort of supply closet for each of the shared boy's bathrooms (they didn't back when I was there). Just because a lot of the time, the kids are grateful to be able to have them after a night or two.

We also had mandatory health/medical forms, that specifically had a section for parents to check if bedwetting was a concern. But, again only about half of the time would that actually be checked we found.

I am assuming none of the kids brought diapers or there was never a supply of them other than the pull ups? With my daughter, she would probably get home sick and wouldnt last 2 nights away from home at a camp. She has no problem staying at grammas house for extended stays.

Pull-ups are just a different style of diaper. Kids know they are the same thing. The only difference is that the side fastening diapers have different designs on them.

My 8 yo daughter know the difference between a pull up and a diaper. She gets mad at me when I accidentally refer to them as diapers. I will say they don’t work near as good as diapers from what I can remember.

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How is it going now?

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Anonymous wrote:So my 6 year old is still in a pull up at night. We started training him a little over age 2 and while pee was easy, poop was a DISASTER. Rounds of constipation. Years of MiraLAX. Withholding. Pooping in his pants. Tears. It was a SCENE. Finally succeeded at just over three years old, just in time for PK3.

For us, night training just wasn’t a priority. He sleeps a solid 12 hours a night, very soundly, and wakes up with a VERY full diaper. He tends to drink a lot of water/milk with dinner and given his history of constipation, I do not want to limit fluids. Honestly, we just haven’t bothered. We’ve been focusing on things like chores and table manners.

He turned six about a month ago and we started trying at night for the first time, but we’re being low key about it. Moved him from a diaper (with a sposie pad) to a Goodnights pull up, put a little potty next to his bed, encouraging him to use it, offering a gummy bear if he wakes up with a dry pull-up. He’s made huge progress - he’s definitely getting up to pee first thing in the morning and sometimes at night, and he’s earning that gummy bear about 3 times a week. He’s pretty motivated. I feel fine about it, and am not in a huge rush.

His little sister is 4.5, and I’ve never tried with her at night. She’s still in a regular diaper. She potty trained in about 48 hours at 2.5. Would have trained earlier but we were coming off such a bad experience with her brother we made her wait.

So in our case, for better or worse, it’s really a parenting issue.

I wouldn’t reward if he wakes up with a dry diaper because that’s not in his control. If he wakes up wet he doesn’t get the reward but it’s not his fault. Kids that are heavy sleepers often do not get the signal to wake up to pee. You should only reward for daytime training.

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There is no such thing as night training.

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Anonymous wrote:We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.

He can still fit the same size at age 6?

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My older kids are 7 and 4.

The 7 year old has some mild SN. He was potty trained at 3.5 (was very difficult.) night trained at 4, but had a regression around 5 due to medication. He night trained himself again at 7 when he was ready and able to wake up at night to use the bathroom.

My NT 4 year old potty trained around 2-2.5 and isn’t night trained yet at 4. Sometimes dry, sometimes not.