How long before you dared leave off the pull up at night?

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Anonymous wrote:My son will be 6 late this month and still wears a pull up. I know, I know.

No shame, PP. night training is a biological thing, not something kids can control. And it often happens much later for boys. Whatevs.

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I think it was about a month of dry pull ups before we switched. There have been maybe 3 accidents in the year + since then. No big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:My son will be 6 late this month and still wears a pull up. I know, I know.

I have twins. One was daytime potty-rained at 2.75 and then fully potty trained at 3.5. The other daytime potty trained at 3, but had nighttime problems until he was 8. He was a deep sleeper (he rolled off his bed several times and did not wake up until morning) and could not wake to use the toilet. Nighttime training is harder because it isn't a conscious decision to use the bathroom or not. For some children, it takes their body longer to control some of the bodily functions like nighttime bathroom training.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a good process (e.g. plastic sheet/layers of sheets/whatever) for preparing for the possibility of nighttime accidents?

One of the things that helped us with nighttime training was to double-sheet the bed. We put first plastic liner, first fitted sheet, then second plastic liner and second fitted sheet on the bed. If he wet the bed, then you strip off the top two layers, put the child back to bed and dump the soiled linens in the laundry room or bathroom until daytime. Then during the daytime, you clean the liner and sheet and put it back on, so that you have two layers again for the next night.

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Once both of my kids are daytime trained with no accidents, they both are dry at nighttime few days in a row. That is the timing I ditch the pull-up, and put a layer of waterproof liner underneath, cosleep with them, take them to bathroom the few seconds they wake up in the morning or in the middle of night. First kid (boy) had 2 accidents at nighttime since I ditched pull-up at nighttime, and second kid h
( girl) had zero accident since I ditched pull-up at nighttime. Both potty trained day and night by right before they turned 3.

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One night around 2.75 my son suddenly stopped completely peeing out his overnight diapers and woke up dry. Basically never peed at nighttime again. It took me a good 3 months to convince him to stop wearing diapers just because I think it was his routine and he doesn’t like change. I finally told him once the box in the closet is empty, no more diapers. Once he decided to wear his underwear once it was over and done. No accidents. So weird how some milestones come so easily and others are so incredibly hard. Anyway, from reading this forum I’d suggest you switch to underwear sooner rather than later. I’ve read on this forum of kids who are dry overnight keeping their pull ups and eventually getting lazy, and starting to pee them in the morning rather than get up to go potty. I wouldn’t want to risk it.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the responses! A couple of points of note:

1. She wants to do no pull-up at night! I would not push it if she wasn't interested, but she's been asking to try without a pull-up and I have been saying no because she usually wasn't dry in the morning/it's only been a few days and I don't want to deal with middle of the night messes. I'm figuring I'll at least finish out the pack we have open, I'm just trying to start planning ahead because I wasn't expecting the dry pull-ups (she went from having maybe one dry one every few months to every single night consistently just last week).

2. I don't think buying a few months or even years of pull-ups is going to have even a noticeable effect on climate change, realistically. But they're expensive and bulky and super annoying to get home (I don't have a car) and I feel vaguely guilty putting them in the trash effectively unused anyway. Honestly both competing factors are largely trivial in the grand scheme of things.

3. Thanks for the waterproof sheets link; I will check them out!

I just layered sheets and waterproof pads on the bed. If she wets the bed, you just strip off the top sheet and pad, and it's already made underneath.

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Never used pull-ups. They are the diapers with another name. Everyone I know with kids who couldn’t potty train easily used them so I didn’t.

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OP, please report back with tips and how things to. My DD is 4 and has been dry in the morning since Thanksgiving, every night except for one. We haven’t stopped Pull-Ups yet but plan to in a couple weeks when our jumbo box runs out. Nervous but think we are both ready

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Anonymous wrote:OP, please report back with tips and how things to. My DD is 4 and has been dry in the morning since Thanksgiving, every night except for one. We haven’t stopped Pull-Ups yet but plan to in a couple weeks when our jumbo box runs out. Nervous but think we are both ready

Well I'm ordering the pad things PP recommended and assuming this keeps up for another week or two we're going to give it a try soon. Good luck and hope it works out for both of us! Starting out on a new aspect of development (especially potty training) is always an adventure.

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Thanks! You too. I’ll check back for your update and hope your little one does great!

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My 11 yo still wets the bed; whereas, after I day trained my 3 yo, I just stop putting pullups on her at nap time and then a few days later at night and she hasn't had a single accident.

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I just waited until the box was empty and jt was more than a week. Just a smidge over 3 year old. And then we threw out the diaper trash can since we are DONE with diapers and it was an amazing day.

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My older DS trained during the day a few months before 3, but needed night pull ups until he was just about 4.5. We waited until he had 20 straight days dry at night. He’s now 7.5 and had 1 night accident ever, and that was when he was sick and super tired.

Younger DS is 3 years 3 months and seems to be on about the same path. He’s not dry in the mornings yet because he’s not ready. He’ll get there some day.

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I waited a while. I think after like a month or two of waking up dry. DD night trained herself fairly early (24 months) and I wasn’t really in a rush and was scared of taking away the night diaper. In reality I think a week or two is fine.