Almost 5 Year Old Still Needs Pull-up at Night

[Anonymous]

My son also needed nighttime diaper until he was 7 -- the pediatrician said it was completely normal and not terribly unusual. He said usually they stop right around 7 and he stopped needed it right before he turned 7. It will be fine as almost all the others here have posted - completely normal.

Ignore the poster talking about peer pressure - she is uninformed as others have indicated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at a loss of what to do. She is such a deep sleeper, she has no idea she’s peeing. Some mornings she’s dry, some mornings there’s a good bit of pee in the pull up. Pediatrician has said to not push it, so we haven’t. But she’s about to be 5...

Check the pull up 30 minutes before she wakes up in the morning. If it’s consistently dry, she’s peeing during wake up twilight sleep because it’s easier. If she’s wet, she is peeing at night in her sleep and you just have to wait it out.

This. Another alternative is just to leave her w/o a pull-up for a week knowing that you may have to come in and do clean up. If, at the end of the week, she is still wetting the bed, you just have to wait it out. But my DH, who is a pediatrician, says that, IHE, about 50% of parents who try this at 4+ will discover that their kid is dry and actually was biologically ready to potty train, but just peed by habit.

This is very good advice, OP. Double up your sheets (fitted sheet, waterproof pad, fitted sheet) or have her sleep right on a waterproof pad and see if it clicks.

[Anonymous]

I feel like this is one of those parenting things no one tells you about ;(

[Anonymous]

Nephew peed his bed until 11 or so. He grew out of it. He even went to sleepovers, his mom worked with other mom to make it private and unembarrassing for him. No friend ever knew. Hang in there!

[Anonymous]

I just got my youngest out of pull-ups at 9. I bought an alarm system since with everyone at home it wouldn’t matter so much if we got woken up in the middle of the night. Worked like a charm and within a couple of weeks she was dry and has been for a couple of months now. The first couple of nights I slept in her room and had to wake her up because she was sleeping through the alarm, but after that it woke her up as soon as she started to pee and she would get up, go to the bathroom, and change. Highly recommend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why potty training should be all at once, day and night no diaper while the child is focusing on it. If you miss that opportunity by doing pull-ups at night, then you just have to wait until peer pressure kicks in, years later.

Just because your kid was able to do it all at once doesn't mean every other kid can. You sound very ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m at a loss of what to do. She is such a deep sleeper, she has no idea she’s peeing. Some mornings she’s dry, some mornings there’s a good bit of pee in the pull up. Pediatrician has said to not push it, so we haven’t. But she’s about to be 5...

Check the pull up 30 minutes before she wakes up in the morning. If it’s consistently dry, she’s peeing during wake up twilight sleep because it’s easier. If she’s wet, she is peeing at night in her sleep and you just have to wait it out.

This. Another alternative is just to leave her w/o a pull-up for a week knowing that you may have to come in and do clean up. If, at the end of the week, she is still wetting the bed, you just have to wait it out. But my DH, who is a pediatrician, says that, IHE, about 50% of parents who try this at 4+ will discover that their kid is dry and actually was biologically ready to potty train, but just peed by habit.

This is very good advice, OP. Double up your sheets (fitted sheet, waterproof pad, fitted sheet) or have her sleep right on a waterproof pad and see if it clicks.

OP said her child is a heavy sleeper. This may not work if child doesn't wake up when he/she pees. Mine didn't.

[Anonymous]

Mine was / is a deep sleeper. If I stayed up to midnight to take her to the bathroom she’d practically sleep through it and even then sometimes would wet the bed and sometimes wouldn’t. My sister and mom kept shaming me but our pediatrician said just to wait. It got to the point where DD didn’t like that she was peeing and was embarrassed about pull-ups but still couldn’t manage. And then about a two months ago she just started being dry. We did nothing different. A month ago we stopped pull-ups and she’s been fine. She’s 7.5 years old!

She’d had stretches (up to 3-4 days) dry but now seems to really be over it, fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

Get an alarm underwear. My son is going to be 6 and was waking up with a wet pull up no matter what we did. We got the Rodger wireless alarm a couple of weeks ago and he was dry in less than a week. He is still wearing it to sleep just in case. He also tends to get constipated, so we work on that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why potty training should be all at once, day and night no diaper while the child is focusing on it. If you miss that opportunity by doing pull-ups at night, then you just have to wait until peer pressure kicks in, years later.

This is a bunch of oh crap!

My dd potty trained early and easily-but wet the bed till she was 6. She didn't want to, but her body wasn't caught up till then. She had pullups-I never pressured her about it, and she grew out of it. It was really No Big Deal.