When do nighttime accidents end ?
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Anonymous
| Son is 5 years old he's been daytime trained since 2 . He still wets at night he still wears a pull-up to bed . Should we try without it ? How do we get him trained at night when does bedwetting end ? |
Anonymous
| It’s biological and there’s not a lot you can do. I know people who wet at night into their teens. (There’s medication that can stop it, which they used for sleep away camp and sleepovers.) But I found my kids often wake up dry and then pee because they don’t feel like going to the bathroom so I would offer a chocolate chip for a dry pull-up in the AM. |
Anonymous
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Pediatrician told us that they try to have kids night-trained by 6 but many kids are older, particularly boys.
Contrary to popular belief (some popular Tory training books included), you can’t truly night train without the child being ready for it. And you can’t “make them” ready. It’s hormonal (and genetic) whether they can both make it through the night and be able to wake up in time to recognize what’s going on. Your kid being 5 and not night trained is still very much within a typical range. You can encourage him and try without the pull ups for a week but you may be driving everyone insane for no reason if he truly isn’t ready for it yet. |
Anonymous
Ugh sorry this has typos, am on phone. This guide is very useful btw: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bedwetting/ The most important thing to know is waking your kid up in the night to pee or focusing intensely on night training or punishing for “bedwetting” is NOT helpful. Some books like Oh Crap push a night training method that many doctors do not like at all and lead to unrealistic expectations for night training. It’s really entirely different from day training and while some kids can get both in short order, it is very common for it to take years to be night trained. Boys are more affected. |
Anonymous
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One of my kids had this issue. Our ped at the time said it was considered within the range of normal until around 7th birthday (at which point we would discuss options- whatever those may be).
Sure enough, my DS was eventually dry every night around age 6-6.5. Wore pull ups until then. We did try things like limiting liquids close to bedtime etc but that never worked. My DS just needed to grow out of it. My other 2 DC were night trained shortly after they were day trained. I wouldn’t worry about this for another year, at least. Just put him in pull ups at night. |
Anonymous
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One of my kids wasn't dry at night until 6. All of a sudden, she was dry. After a few days of that, we tried no pullup at night and that was that-she was dry. It was just her body maturing enough, and every kid is different-my other kids were dry much earlier.
This dd graduated near the top of her class and just got a big promotion at her job, and is happily married-being dry late hasn't held her back LOL. |
Anonymous
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Mine was also trained at 2 durian the day but not at consistency until 8. She was a very deep sleeper, it’s biology.
We did the alarm, limited liquids, dream pee at midnight, all the things. In the end it was just time. |
Anonymous
| I’ve babysat for kids older than 5 who still wear diapers at night. It’s very common and not something to be concerned about. Some kids don’t outgrow it until they are almost 10 years old. |
Anonymous
| My son is 8 and still wears a pull-up at night. He sleeps so deeply that his bladder does not wake him. |
Anonymous
| I have an 9 year old daughter that still wets. She stays dry maybe 2 to 3 nights a week . We're just using goodnites for now . |