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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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). [/quote]

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...[/quote]

My husband wet the bed until he was 10.  There were no pullups, they just had to change the sheets a lot.  It happened in previous generations too, just people didn't talk about it or have the accommodations of pullups.[/quote]

Of course! I'm the original PP here. There have absolutely, without a doubt, always been some kids who wet the bed far past 2 or 3 or 4-- and have been, forever. My aunt wet the bed until she was 8 or 9 and she was born in the 1940s and "potty trained" otherwise before she was 2. But the *average* age of night dryness has risen quite a bit in the past 50 years. That really undermines the credibility of all these pediatricians (not necessarily well-trained on the subject) claiming that night dryness is "100% biological" and it's "totally normal" for the *average* kid to be wearing a night diaper at age 6 or 8. I don't think it's usually conscious-- although I've heard of more than one parent realizing their kid waited until waking up to poop or pee their pull-up. I think it's more of a biofeedback thing, even in one's sleep. Of course, that's just for most kids, and it's *also true* that if it's not causing problems in your household and it's easier for you to keep your kid in a night diaper until they're "100% dry for 2 months" (or similar, as I've seen recommended)-- then go for it. Except for a small amount of additional landfill fodder, I don't see how it affects me. I'm just not going to be convinced that *for most kids* nighttime bladder control is impervious to absolutely any sort of outside influence.[/quote]

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