Any other parents have there kids wear diapers or pull-ups at night at older ages ?

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old son still wears goodnites to bed and wets most nights . My mil and mom both think he's way to old to be wearing them . I personally don't think he is but is anybody else's kids in the same boat ? Or is this a problem?

[Anonymous]

I think my oldest, a boy, wore them for that long. He is a perfectionist and did not want to be wearing them. Meaning it was frustrating for him. The alternative was a lot of middle of the night sheet changing and tears.
At the time I read there was something in the brain that turns on to wake up from deep sleep to use the bathroom. It's a brain maturity thing. And one day, he didn't need them anymore.

[Anonymous]

Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.

[Anonymous]

If you're pretty sure he's not just lazy peeing in them at 7am because he's comfy and doesn't want to get up yet, absolutely it's good that he's still wearing them.

[Anonymous]

It's more common than we assume because no one really talks about it. I have a now 16 year old who had regular overnight accidents until about 9. One day it just stopped. My current 8 year old very recently stopped wearing goodnites, but still uses the bed cover things only because he's less of a wild sleeper now.

[Anonymous]

My youngest did until he was about 8. We called his summer camp to make sure it was okay and taught him how to change them in his sleeping bag, and here he wasn’t the only one at all.
We got one of those bedwetting alarms at some point, thinking it would take a month to get off of them, and he was done in two days.

[Anonymous]

Is it mostly a boy thing? My daughters stopped needing pull-ups at 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it mostly a boy thing? My daughters stopped needing pull-ups at 2.

I'm the PP above with 16 and 8 year old sons. I also have 5 and 2 year old daughters, both who have never worn pull-ups and no accidents. I don't know if it is truly a girl or boy thing, but in my case, it has been. My best friend has a 7 year old son and a 3 year old daughter and is proving to be true for her as well.

[Anonymous]

Ped says they should be dry by 7 or 8 years old.

[Anonymous]

No, not normal at all. My daughter just turned 8. I can’t imagine her or anyone in her grade still wearing diapers.

[Anonymous]

I have heard that boys' kidneys develop more slowly, and they're just too small to hold a full night's worth of pee until they're older.

That said, my DD is 6 and we're trying to wean off nighttime pullups now. Not an issue of trying and not being able to train, just sheer laziness on our (parents') parts. So far we've offered a treat if she's dry in the morning for a week and she's been dry 3 times - I don't think it will take long.

[Anonymous]

My 6yo son is wearing them. He started a medication about six months ago that made him start peeing again at night.

[Anonymous]

I’m too lazy to night train. My 3.5 year old is dry all night then pees in it when she wakes up. I don’t want to deal with sheet changes. I figure she can wear them until she’s embarrassed and willing to get out of bed to pee reliably. Easily day potty trained at 2.

[Anonymous]

My 7 and 6yo boys wear them. My 3yo boy does not. Pediatrician said it’s very normal and she would recommend trying anything until between 8-10. I’m not willing to do the whole “dehydrate your kid for hours before bedtime” because it doesn’t make any sense to me - but we will probably try the alarm in the next year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, not normal at all. My daughter just turned 8. I can’t imagine her or anyone in her grade still wearing diapers.

They do. They just don’t talk about it because they know you will judge them.

My kid is 12 and has never had a dry night. Even the prescription pills can’t keep him totally dry all night. You would never know from talking to him - he does his own laundry, is a mother’s helper to neighborhood kids, great grades. Just a deep sleeper who doesn’t make enough of a particular hormone (like his uncle and grandfather). He will eventually.