It’s possible, but there can still be backsliding. My kid would go about 8 or nine days and I’d be thinking we were just about there and then several nights of not being dry. If you want to encourage it and not run the risk of tons of laundry, get a box of pull-ups and put them on over the underwear as a just in case. Since it’s just an external backup, you can use them several nights. You also can do the same for long car rides in the beginning. It will still take a while before a kid tells you he has to pee and you have more than thirty seconds to get them to a bathroom.

Night wetting is down to a couple of things, yes, including hormones and bladder size for *some kids*, but please don't take it to the extreme! Don't look at all the posts saying it's perfectly fine if your kid is still night wetting at age 5 or 6 and think that it's therefore alarming or impossible to stop before 2. It's not.

While biology is a a strong factor for some kids, some people in DCUM INSIST that you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT NIGHT TRAIN and IT'S ALL BIOLOGY and that just doesn't have any basis in fact as a general statement.

We started taking my kid to the potty upon waking when she was a newborn-- no pressure, just forming a habit (common in most of the world and throughout history)-- and she started waking up dry at 3-4 months, majority of the time by 6 months and always dry... I can't remember, but it was before she was fully day trained at 15 months.

I wouldn't universalize my experience, but we used cloth and she had clearly formed this habit without having to "think" about it. This would definitely not work for 100% of kids, but it worked for well more than half of kids for most of human history-- which I think tells us that it's not all down to biology and/or that biology is complex and can be influenced.

A version of this happened with my DS at ~23 months. But instead of going 11 straight hours dry, he started waking up in the middle of the night to pee. I was reluctant to ditch diapers completely since the day training was so new, and it sorta wore off after a couple weeks and he started peeing in his diaper at night again.

I am kind of kicking myself that we didn't ditch the diapers but I'm hopeful we'll try again for night training soon.

I trained my son at 2 and a month in, he was dry for naps and totally dry for nights a few months after that. I definitely got the sense we were super early on that from friends, but I certainly wasn't complaining.

My mother was also shocked how late training has gotten now. She said in the 80s when I went to preschool, the requirement was full trained for the 2 year old program and she didn't feel it was something out of the ordinary to require that.

He's reqdy. Some are just able to hold it for a long time early. Mine was just getting potty trained at 24 months for day but was waking up with a dry diaper for months before that and peeing first thing in the am.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was like this. It took one weekend to PT him and then that was it. He was dry overnight, too. Once he had an accident at preschool and I called the ped and said I was concerned because it was the first time since he had been potty trained that he'd had an accident, and the pediatrician blew me off, saying it was perfectly normal to have an accident at that age. I was like, yeah, but it's not perfectly normal for this particular kid. That was the only accident he had.

You called the doctor after he had a one accident in preschool...

I would call the doctor too. DD potty trained at 21 months and started preschool at 3.5. She never had an accident for two years - the majority of her life. If she suddenly had an accident in school, and there were no extenuating circumstances, I would absolutely call the doctor. Same as if I suddenly peed my pants.

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Stop! I almost reported this post. This is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard of--especially during a pandemic. OMG!

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was like this. It took one weekend to PT him and then that was it. He was dry overnight, too. Once he had an accident at preschool and I called the ped and said I was concerned because it was the first time since he had been potty trained that he'd had an accident, and the pediatrician blew me off, saying it was perfectly normal to have an accident at that age. I was like, yeah, but it's not perfectly normal for this particular kid. That was the only accident he had.

You called the doctor after he had a one accident in preschool...

I would call the doctor too. DD potty trained at 21 months and started preschool at 3.5. She never had an accident for two years - the majority of her life. If she suddenly had an accident in school, and there were no extenuating circumstances, I would absolutely call the doctor. Same as if I suddenly peed my pants.

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Anonymous wrote:According to my mother, raised in the 1950’s, pretty much all kids toilet trained, day and night, by two.

+1 life before the disposable diaper industry.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was like this. It took one weekend to PT him and then that was it. He was dry overnight, too. Once he had an accident at preschool and I called the ped and said I was concerned because it was the first time since he had been potty trained that he'd had an accident, and the pediatrician blew me off, saying it was perfectly normal to have an accident at that age. I was like, yeah, but it's not perfectly normal for this particular kid. That was the only accident he had.

You called the doctor after he had a one accident in preschool...

I would call the doctor too. DD potty trained at 21 months and started preschool at 3.5. She never had an accident for two years - the majority of her life. If she suddenly had an accident in school, and there were no extenuating circumstances, I would absolutely call the doctor. Same as if I suddenly peed my pants.

Mine did the exact same thing. Never wore a diaper again, day or night. It was great!

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was like this. It took one weekend to PT him and then that was it. He was dry overnight, too. Once he had an accident at preschool and I called the ped and said I was concerned because it was the first time since he had been potty trained that he'd had an accident, and the pediatrician blew me off, saying it was perfectly normal to have an accident at that age. I was like, yeah, but it's not perfectly normal for this particular kid. That was the only accident he had.

You called the doctor after he had a one accident in preschool...

According to my mother, raised in the 1950’s, pretty much all kids toilet trained, day and night, by two.

I wouldn’t bet on it just yet but yeah, it absolutely happens.

One of my kids was like this. It took one weekend to PT him and then that was it. He was dry overnight, too. Once he had an accident at preschool and I called the ped and said I was concerned because it was the first time since he had been potty trained that he'd had an accident, and the pediatrician blew me off, saying it was perfectly normal to have an accident at that age. I was like, yeah, but it's not perfectly normal for this particular kid. That was the only accident he had.

Anyway, here's hoping you have one of those on your hands, OP. They exist.

We potty trained DS a month ago but kept him in pull ups for nap and night diapers overnight. He has never had a wet nap-pull-up and for the last week and a half has had dry overnight diapers.

Will this change as he gets older? He’s so young I can’t quite believe he’s ready for this. Isn’t night-wetting all about bladder size? We can’t possibly be done with night diapers yet, right?