Night diapers for 5+ year olds

[Anonymous]

Mine potty trained daytime at 22 months. At 7 she is still in pullups at night. Just a super heavy sleeper. Dr is not concerned.

[Anonymous]

Not in my opinion. My first (boy) PT at 3.5 years both day and night, didn't need to wear a diaper at night. He was not ready before.

[Anonymous]

I don't think there's a correlation. Daytime is a voluntary choice; nighttime is instinct. Two of my kids had little trouble at night; other is 9 and still has trouble because he's simply a very deep sleeper.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s very uncommon to have 5-8 year olds who still wear diapers at night.

[Anonymous]

My 7 yo son is also in goodnites still. He is a very deep sleeper and won’t even wake up if he pees all over himself.

[Anonymous]

Another with a 7yo who still has night diapers. She also sleeps heavily and will not wake up even if the sheets are soaked.

[Anonymous]

My older DD had the hang of peeing in the potty with occasional accidents a few months after she turned 2. It took us another year (around 3rd bday) to consistently have poop in the potty and almost never have pee accidents / not have to prompt her to use the potty.

She just turned 6 and still wears a pull-up to sleep. It embarrasses her but she just can’t stay dry.

The pediatrician at her 6 month check up suggested we talk when she’s not in the room but (in DD’s case) theorized it’s linked to other anxieties - she worries a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another with a 7yo who still has night diapers. She also sleeps heavily and will not wake up even if the sheets are soaked.

This is my daughter, too, down to the age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was potty trained successfully right at 2. She wore Goodnights until two months after her 5th birthday.

Your DD was successfully potty trained at 62 months.

[Anonymous]

No correlation. DS was day trained before 2. He still soaks through a pull up nightly and doesn't wake up to wet clothes or pajamas at age 5. It doesn't matter when egoestobed, what he drinks, or if we wake him up. He sleeps so deeply that he just isn't aware. I was the same way, and my father was the same way. I suddenly outgrew it one night at 13, my father at 10. It's a genetic thing.

[Anonymous]

DD, fully done with daytime diapers before 2.5, is just now at 6 showing readiness to be out of overnight pull-ups. We’re waiting for 7 consecutive nights Of dryness. DS, now 2.5 and out of daytime diapers for a few months already, is frequently dry overnight. My sample size of 2 leads me to believe there’s really nothing to “do” about overnight wetting other than change sheets or wear pull-ups. I suppose I could do a “dream pee” but I never really saw a need and trust it will happen on its own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean - good for you that yours was night trained so early? I just don't get what you're aiming at with your post. Both my boys were day trained at early 2. One was night trained at just after turning 6 and the other 4.5. Once has nothing to do with the other, but I'm super happy that you find pride in your kids' bladder capabilities.

I am sorry I upset you by my post. I was simply satisfying my curiosity and from previous responders see that there really isn't a correlation.

+100 Weird post. My #1 was not dry till 8. My #2 was dry at 2. This is not a parenting issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean - good for you that yours was night trained so early? I just don't get what you're aiming at with your post. Both my boys were day trained at early 2. One was night trained at just after turning 6 and the other 4.5. Once has nothing to do with the other, but I'm super happy that you find pride in your kids' bladder capabilities.

I am sorry I upset you by my post. I was simply satisfying my curiosity and from previous responders see that there really isn't a correlation.

+100 Weird post. My #1 was not dry till 8. My #2 was dry at 2. This is not a parenting issue.

This. If you had posted because you were concerned your child was not dry at night yet, that would be one thing. But instead, OP posts that her children ARE dry at night at a young age, which basically becomes a humble brag, given that the title of her post would lead those of us with children still wet to open it up. The original post also invites all the abnoxious moms on this forum to tell the rest of us how we are terrible parents and doing something wrong if we still have children who wet the bed (like the ones who are saying it's just not common without actually having real knowledge of this because most of us keep this information private!). DH wet the bed until 9. There weren't overnight pullups then so my mother in law changed sheets most nights. My 7 year old is still in GoodNites at night. Doctor is not concerned. It is not about parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s very uncommon to have 5-8 year olds who still wear diapers at night.

Percentage of children who wet the bed at different ages


If you can read a graph you can see that over 15% of 5 year olds and 5% of 12 year olds have issues with bedwetting.

That is not "very uncommon".

My eldest is still in overnights at 10
My middle child has been dry since 3
My youngest is in overnights and at 5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My first was trained easily just after 2 but is still in pull ups for nighttime at age 5.

My second trained around 2.5 and night trained himself a few months later at 2.

My first has been really jealous that he still has to wear pull ups and his little brother doesn’t. He’s tried hard to stop but he just needs them still.

Nanny here. I’ve seen this several times. Several of my charges were very, very deep sleepers, and they wet the bed until 8-10. Younger brothers who were lighter sleepers would wake up and were fine. If they want to try, I’m all for trying no diaper. But after a month of wet beds practically every night, we put it off for a little while. I sympathize with the boys, but short of sleeping in a chair in their room, so that I can wake them up in the middle of the night, or help them sleep walk to the bathroom, there’s not much else I can do.