Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 15:10     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
When he wakes up in the morning does he lay in bed for a while before he actually gets moving?
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2026 10:28     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.


If he wakes up during the night will he try to use the bathroom? Does he ever need to use the bathroom when he first wakes up in the morning?


He is a very deep sleeper and doesn’t wake up during the night. In the morning he is fully capable of taking it off to go to the bathroom.


My 8 yo is also a heavy sleeper and doesnt wake up all. Once she is asleep, she is out till morning. She hates waking up in a wet bed and she is not a morning person as it is so having an upset 8 yo first thing in the morning isnt fun at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2026 10:00     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.


If he wakes up during the night will he try to use the bathroom? Does he ever need to use the bathroom when he first wakes up in the morning?


He is a very deep sleeper and doesn’t wake up during the night. In the morning he is fully capable of taking it off to go to the bathroom.


Does he still have to go to the bathroom in the morning if he already had an accident? Do you wake him up or does he wake up himself?
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 16:18     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.


If he wakes up during the night will he try to use the bathroom? Does he ever need to use the bathroom when he first wakes up in the morning?


He is a very deep sleeper and doesn’t wake up during the night. In the morning he is fully capable of taking it off to go to the bathroom.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 16:15     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.


If he wakes up during the night will he try to use the bathroom? Does he ever need to use the bathroom when he first wakes up in the morning?
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 14:24     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
We still put my 6 yo in a diaper at night. He could care less if it was a pull-up or side fastening diaper. My youngest is still in them so we just buy the one kind for them both. Its not an issue at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 12:07     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
I don’t know why you all are so nonchalant about putting your 9 year olds in diapers. Are you so laid back about your kids in general?

If it was my child, I would take them to doctors until the bedwetting issue would be resolved.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 11:58     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



How many of them brought pull-ups with them to camp? Did the parents give you advance notice that their kids still wet at night?


I'd say about half of the families would give advance notice, maybe a touch less? A lot of the time we found it was kids who everyone had thought they'd sort of outgrown bedwetting back at home. But, the circumstances of camp (being worn out tired each night, drinking more during the day than they would back at home etc) would sort of ramp up the odds that someone would have an incident, who otherwise doesn't back at home.

Pull ups were fairly common. We actually had a package of each size kept in the camps infirmary office at all times, and now, they actually keep a package in the sort of supply closet for each of the shared boy's bathrooms (they didn't back when I was there). Just because a lot of the time, the kids are grateful to be able to have them after a night or two.

We also had mandatory health/medical forms, that specifically had a section for parents to check if bedwetting was a concern. But, again only about half of the time would that actually be checked we found.


I am assuming none of the kids brought diapers or there was never a supply of them other than the pull ups? With my daughter, she would probably get home sick and wouldnt last 2 nights away from home at a camp. She has no problem staying at grammas house for extended stays.


Pull-ups are just a different style of diaper. Kids know they are the same thing. The only difference is that the side fastening diapers have different designs on them.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2026 00:13     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



How many of them brought pull-ups with them to camp? Did the parents give you advance notice that their kids still wet at night?


I'd say about half of the families would give advance notice, maybe a touch less? A lot of the time we found it was kids who everyone had thought they'd sort of outgrown bedwetting back at home. But, the circumstances of camp (being worn out tired each night, drinking more during the day than they would back at home etc) would sort of ramp up the odds that someone would have an incident, who otherwise doesn't back at home.

Pull ups were fairly common. We actually had a package of each size kept in the camps infirmary office at all times, and now, they actually keep a package in the sort of supply closet for each of the shared boy's bathrooms (they didn't back when I was there). Just because a lot of the time, the kids are grateful to be able to have them after a night or two.

We also had mandatory health/medical forms, that specifically had a section for parents to check if bedwetting was a concern. But, again only about half of the time would that actually be checked we found.


I am assuming none of the kids brought diapers or there was never a supply of them other than the pull ups? With my daughter, she would probably get home sick and wouldnt last 2 nights away from home at a camp. She has no problem staying at grammas house for extended stays.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 19:33     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



How many of them brought pull-ups with them to camp? Did the parents give you advance notice that their kids still wet at night?


I'd say about half of the families would give advance notice, maybe a touch less? A lot of the time we found it was kids who everyone had thought they'd sort of outgrown bedwetting back at home. But, the circumstances of camp (being worn out tired each night, drinking more during the day than they would back at home etc) would sort of ramp up the odds that someone would have an incident, who otherwise doesn't back at home.

Pull ups were fairly common. We actually had a package of each size kept in the camps infirmary office at all times, and now, they actually keep a package in the sort of supply closet for each of the shared boy's bathrooms (they didn't back when I was there). Just because a lot of the time, the kids are grateful to be able to have them after a night or two.

We also had mandatory health/medical forms, that specifically had a section for parents to check if bedwetting was a concern. But, again only about half of the time would that actually be checked we found.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 18:12     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



How many of them brought pull-ups with them to camp? Did the parents give you advance notice that their kids still wet at night?
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 16:01     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:Day training age and night dryness age are not correlated.


This is correct. My daughter had dry diapers overnight at two years old before she was potty trained. Because of that, I knew that she would not have nighttime accidents when she was potty trained.

My son was potty trained at two, but he could not hold it all night until he was six years old. We just put him in good nights overnight until eventually he just stopped. It was not in his control. His ability to hold it overnight just happened much later than my daughter.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 15:57     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



It's absolutely more common in boys and it runs in families. My father and brother were bedwetters, as was one of my sons. Both my father and brother stopped when they hit puberty. My son stopped with the help of an alarm at age 8.

FWIW, my brother was an incredibly deep sleeper (also sleepwalked occasionally). He was a big kid (not heavy but tall and strong), and I remember my parents trying to wake him once and my mother saying to my father, "my god, if we ever had a house fire we'd never get him out of here." My DS2 was also a super heavy sleeper. When he first started using the bedwetting alarm, he slept right thru it. Loud enough to wake the dead and vibrating hard enough to shake him, and I went in and he was sleeping. It was pretty amazing actually.


I was also told by my dr that the chances of your child wetting the bed increases if one or both parents wet their bed growing up. I believe I was day/night trained at around 3 and my daughter is 8 and is nowhere close to being dry at night.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 13:03     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.



It's absolutely more common in boys and it runs in families. My father and brother were bedwetters, as was one of my sons. Both my father and brother stopped when they hit puberty. My son stopped with the help of an alarm at age 8.

FWIW, my brother was an incredibly deep sleeper (also sleepwalked occasionally). He was a big kid (not heavy but tall and strong), and I remember my parents trying to wake him once and my mother saying to my father, "my god, if we ever had a house fire we'd never get him out of here." My DS2 was also a super heavy sleeper. When he first started using the bedwetting alarm, he slept right thru it. Loud enough to wake the dead and vibrating hard enough to shake him, and I went in and he was sleeping. It was pretty amazing actually.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2026 12:15     Subject: Night diapers for 5+ year olds
Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more common for boys although there are some girls who have it also.


Back when I was younger, I was a camp counselor at a large overnight co-ed resident camp. Started out as a counselor, then it ended up snowballing to me being the assistant camp director at 7 seasons working there. I saw and learned a lot over the years, but one thing that I can 1000% confirm, for whatever reason - this is absolutely for certain much more common with boys.

Our camp ranged from 8 to 18 yrs old, and every year without fail - we'd have at *least* a half dozen boys in the youngest 8-10 age group that would be bedwetters. Then there's also be occasional kids in the higher age ranges where it would happen on occasion as well. NO idea why it seemed to be more of a thing with the boys, I'm no doctor. But, you're very right.