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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wakes up in the night (or his brother happens to wake him up..) and is kind of in a half-asleep state. I suspect if he really, REALLY made an effort--he probably *could* indeed make it to the bathroom when this happens, but for whatever reason, he really really doesn't want to.

He typically will indeed get up and go (to the bathroom) in the past while he was wearing pull-ups, but we've had times where he's actually woken up his twin brother, and asked him if it was 'OK' or if he would get in trouble, if he just peed in his pull-up. I assume this is where this is coming from, with the 'new' diapers. Which his brother told me this afternoon that he LOVES wearing.

They really do never cease to confuse me. I still love them though! :)[/quote]

Please take with a grain of sale, as I have no experience with this. My 3 LO's were dry at the same time they trained in the daytime.

It sounds like your boy is dealing with some nerves with the entire thing. Someone please correct me if this is terrible advice, but what if you were to sit down and have an honest discussion with him, and explain that pull-ups and diapers have different rules. With the hope being that you can eventually transition back to pull-ups down the road, when your LO is ready.

Why not say that, yes - it's fine for now if he goes pee in the diaper. That is, after all, what they're for! He may need that security, and that's fine. But make it clear that once you make the switch back to pull-ups or undies, the 'rules' change, and he needs to start treating those with more of a potty training mindset and understand that they are only for accidents while he's asleep.

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The problem is that there is no such thing as “night training.”   Your body produces a hormone to keep you dry at night and no amount of practice will make it produce that hormone if it isn’t ready.   So don’t worry about some future where the kid is peeing in pull ups because he is too lazy to get out of bed when that isn’t happening now and we don’t know that it will ever happen.   This kid has been through a lot and just needs to feel safe - worrying about a rule change when his entire family situation has changed is too much.   [/quote]

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