Night diapers for 5+ year olds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Thank-you. They do not have a big shelf of GoodNights in every grocery store because it is highly unusual to need them. You are just not aware of kids who do!

[Anonymous]

OP - you don't have to be a genius to do a google search and learn that a child will nighttime potty train when he/she is physically able to do it. There's no correlation/causation with when the child was potty trained. Mine potty trained at 2 1/2, but at 5 1/2 still needs a pull up. We've tried a handful of times to night train her, using different methods but she's just a really deep sleeper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Thank-you. They do not have a big shelf of GoodNights in every grocery store because it is highly unusual to need them. You are just not aware of kids who do!

Oh geez, PP, you completely missed the poster's point. Needing Goodnites is NOT highly unusual.

Anyway, who buys diapers/pull-ups at the grocery store? There's not a good selection of diapers of any size at any of the grocery stores I go to - the only people who buy at the grocery store are people who need them last minute so of course they don't stock everything. Any Target has an entire aisle dedicated to diapers/pull-ups and will have a decent selection of Goodnites in all sizes. I'm not saying the Goodnites section will be as big as the diaper aisle, but it's there because people buy them because it's totally normal for a 5 or 6 year old to still need them. There is nothing wrong with that, and anyone who is going to shame a child for needing a pull up has their own problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What's your problem, PP?

[Anonymous]

I agree that age of day training has relatively little to do with age of night training— but I tend to believe that method has *some* effect. My kid started waking up dry in the morning at least occasionally at 3 months old, more than half the time by 6-8 months, and always by 15 months. Hard to believe that had nothing at all to do with the fact that she wore cotton diapers and we took her to the potty every time she woke up, from close to birth. Definitely anecdote, but it kind of defies belief to think that absorbent disposable diapers have nothing to do with the increasing lateness of night training (on average).

[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.

Ditto. My 7 yo uses Goodnights. Her 4 yo sister will likely be night trained sooner. (Heavy v light sleepers)

[Anonymous]

My DS was day PT at 3. He wore pull-ups/ good nights until age 6 when he started to wake up dry consistently. My DD day PT from age 2 and finally was totally dry during the day at 3. She wet the bed every night until age 6 when she asked to do the alarm. She was finally fully dry at night by age 11. FWIW, I wet the bed until age 14, so both my kids did better than me. DCUM always seems to make this into a competition. I’m in the “who cares” camp. Kids night train when their bodies are ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Thank-you. They do not have a big shelf of GoodNights in every grocery store because it is highly unusual to need them. You are just not aware of kids who do!

Oh geez, PP, you completely missed the poster's point. Needing Goodnites is NOT highly unusual.

Anyway, who buys diapers/pull-ups at the grocery store? There's not a good selection of diapers of any size at any of the grocery stores I go to - the only people who buy at the grocery store are people who need them last minute so of course they don't stock everything. Any Target has an entire aisle dedicated to diapers/pull-ups and will have a decent selection of Goodnites in all sizes. I'm not saying the Goodnites section will be as big as the diaper aisle, but it's there because people buy them because it's totally normal for a 5 or 6 year old to still need them. There is nothing wrong with that, and anyone who is going to shame a child for needing a pull up has their own problems.[/quote


Yeah..so go back and READ my post. Aside from your OT sentences about where to buy diapers...you are agreeing with me! Lots of kids take a while to be dry overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently realized that wearing diapers at night is not that uncommon for kids over the age of 5 or even 8. If your kid still wears diapers, I am curious at what age you started potty training them. Wondering if there is a correlation with starting late and then having trouble dropping the night diaper.

Mine were fully potty trained by 18 months during the day and by 2.5 at night.

There isn't necessarily a correlation. Case in point:

Kid #1 began potty training at about 20 months, and was 95% reliable during the day and at night a few weeks after turning 2.

Kid #2 began potty training at about 20 months, and was 95% reliable during the day by 24 months. However, he has yet to be "trained" at night. He is now 10 and still needs a Pull-up every single night. Everything has been tried, but the pediatrician says it might take puberty for this to change.


Some kids just have different circumstances and bodies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What's your problem, PP?

I think the PP is trying to point out that her kid wasn't toilet trained until she was 5.2 years old. It's odd to say a kid is potty trained if they still need a diaper or pullups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What's your problem, PP?

I think the PP is trying to point out that her kid wasn't toilet trained until she was 5.2 years old. It's odd to say a kid is potty trained if they still need a diaper or pullups.

Night and day training aren’t the same thing though.

[Anonymous]

I had no idea it was a thing for neurotypical 5 year olds to not be potty trained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea it was a thing for neurotypical 5 year olds to not be potty trained.

Well hopefully reading all the previous posts will enlighten you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea it was a thing for neurotypical 5 year olds to not be potty trained.

Well hopefully reading all the previous posts will enlighten you.

It has shown me there are a good number of lazy parents who just decided not to night train their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that age of day training has relatively little to do with age of night training— but I tend to believe that method has *some* effect. My kid started waking up dry in the morning at least occasionally at 3 months old, more than half the time by 6-8 months, and always by 15 months. Hard to believe that had nothing at all to do with the fact that she wore cotton diapers and we took her to the potty every time she woke up, from close to birth. Definitely anecdote, but it kind of defies belief to think that absorbent disposable diapers have nothing to do with the increasing lateness of night training (on average).

Agreed. Somehow the average age for potty training in the prior generation was 1.5. Just about everyone was potty trained by 2. Nowadays most people don’t even try until their kid between 2 and 3. Then you add in absorbent disposable diapers and it’s no wonder we’re creating all these potty training issues that people convince themselves are biological. Funny how they weren’t biological for previous generations...