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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.

It depends on the child.  A child who deals with constant constipation and is a very heavy sleeper may not be able to wake up.  Also, there’s a genetic predisposition, especially among boys, so if DH wet the bed until 6-8, it’s highly likely that the same will happen with your children (boys especially).

With that said, several of the above work well.  Double sheeting and wearing nothing to bed work well for cleanup.  Limiting liquids works for limiting the impetus, but more important is limiting carbs and sugars at dinner.  It takes a lot of liquid to break them down, hence there’s more urine.  Try to make dinner less carb-heavy, and skip dessert (or have it earlier in the day, perhaps at snack time).

Additional things that have worked for me:

A dribbler is not capable of holding back during the night, so I’ve done potty trips with the child every two hours until the child’s body acclimated to the two hour window, gradually widened to three and then four hours.  This was a mix of dream and awake peeing.

For a child who has control of their bladder while completely asleep and completely awake, a bad dream and the waking period are the only two “dangers.”  So, I’ve done dream pees around 11 to midnight, just to make sure that their bladder is almost empty if they’ve had a bad dream.  To deal with the half-awake peeing, the only solution I’ve found is to figure out exactly when they start to surface and go wake them up and take them straight to the bathroom.  Do it enough and the child learns to go practically from asleep to awake and in the way to the bathroom, keeping themself dry.

If your child WANTS to try, I’d suggest double sheeting, the dream pee at 11-midnight and taking the child straight to the toilet as soon as they start to wake up.  It means less sleep for you for a week or two, until your child is night trained or until you decide it isn’t working.

One of the other things you can do, if your child is one who sleeps too soundly AND deals with constipation, normalize night “diapers.”  There are disposable “diapers” aimed at older kids who set the bed and at elderly; when people need them, it’s just as simple as that.  One of the companies that does the ones for older kids has “underwear” with a pad that can be changed every night.[/quote]

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