Is there any way to speed along night training?
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Anonymous
| My son is 8 and still in pull-ups at night. He is getting invitations for sleep overs that we decline because of this situation. Is there anything we can do to help speed up this process? He pees right before bed and he doesn't have much to drink in the evening. Our doctor said this is within the realm of normal and that the alarms and the midnight waking does nothing but make everyone miserable. The doctor won't prescribe anything yet. I just don't want him missing out on fun stuff because of this. |
Anonymous
| Why can’t he wear pull ups to the sleepover? Give him a ziplock bag to put it in when he changes in the morning. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Humiliation, teasing potential. I think that is worse for him than missing sleepovers. |
Anonymous
If you mention it to the parents, you will be surprised how many say, “Larlo wears a pull up too! No problem, we can handle that discreetly.” |
Anonymous
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I'd just say he isn't ready for sleepovers. It's really ok to just wait on this. Once he's older he can handle putting it on and off discreetly much more easily than at age 8.
I promise he's not missing much during sleepovers at age 8. |
Anonymous
| Just say you aren’t doing sleepovers yet. Many parents don’t allow sleepovers at the age. No way would I send a kid in a pull-up. |
Anonymous
| I dont think missing sleepovers is a big deal at that age. |
Anonymous
| Try wear underwear inside pull up so it keeps train kids brain to wake up for potty. Don’t give milk at dinner time and limit water before bedtime, potty right before going to bed but don’t wake kid up for potty after they fall in sleep. DCs are night time ready about age 7 and 5, and myself was about 12. |
Anonymous
| Our pediatrician said that at some point, the bladder will become big enough to hold liquid all night. That happened around 9 for us. In the meantime, he did offer a medication to slow things down for something like a sleepover. We didn't use it and just waited it out. |
Anonymous
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My doctor said the only method with proven success is the peeepee alarm
Send him to the sleep over in a zip up footie PJ, nobody will see the pullup. He can change in the bathroom, bring it home in ziplock baggie as pp suggested |
Anonymous
Tell me you don’t have an 8 year old without telling me you don’t have an 8 year old! |
Anonymous
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At age 8, if your kid wants to be done with pull-ups, you could try a bed wetting alarm. We had great success with a similarly aged kid. There are some pretty expensive models out there but we used a reasonably priced one from Amazon. Kid was consistently dry after 10 days of using the alarm. I remember looking up some studies on the subject and went with whatever duration used in the largest one that I found, so we continued using for a month or so after. There have been no relapses since, kid is 10 now and reliably wakes up to use the bathroom if needed overnight.
At first you need someone to sleep in the same room as the child, so that you can haul them to the bathroom as soon as the alarm goes off. I believe this is what trains the brain to wake up to a full bladder. These devices are understandably designed to not have a snooze function, you need to manually reset it, which could be difficult for a kid woken suddenly from sleep. |
Anonymous
https://www.childrensplace.com/ca/p/Boys-Long-Sleeve-Space-Print-Fleece-One-Piece-Pajamas-3041575-IV?utm_source=googlepla&a=1&cid=Google-_-CPC-_-G_TCP_CA_PLAs_Standard_Shopping-_-157196215393-_-&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsbvbneDlhgMVsDXUAR2wxQspEAQYBCABEgKHk_D_BwE My son wore these to bed last night |
Anonymous
Huh?? My son wears Minecraft footie pjs to bed multiple times a week. My youngest wears nothing but underwear. Kids are different. |
Anonymous
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He can wear pull-ups, but it's not okay to pee in them. He should be woken up to pee at least once every night, if he still wet his pull-up.
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