It will naturally happen. Stop worrying.

OP we tried everything you did. I actually returned the alarm to Amazon because it went off one night because it detached from underwear so gave the “ wet signal “ alarm and had DD in tears in the middle of the night. It honestly just takes time.

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Anonymous wrote:So, I have a 9yo who has struggled with this. We have pinpointed that having an indirect light source keeps her from falling deeply asleep enough to pee herself, but she still sleeps soundly enough to be fully rested. In her case, she has a double door closet, and we keep both doors about a foot open, with the head of her bed about 5 feet behind one door. It's not direct, or she won't sleep, but it's working to stop the night peeing now (unless she forgets, then she's soaked again).

That seems cruel.

Since it's her choice to wear a night pull up or have the closet light on, no, it's not cruel.

Anonymous wrote:So, I have a 9yo who has struggled with this. We have pinpointed that having an indirect light source keeps her from falling deeply asleep enough to pee herself, but she still sleeps soundly enough to be fully rested. In her case, she has a double door closet, and we keep both doors about a foot open, with the head of her bed about 5 feet behind one door. It's not direct, or she won't sleep, but it's working to stop the night peeing now (unless she forgets, then she's soaked again).

That seems cruel.

Anonymous wrote:So I’ll dissent. My two girls day trained easily and quickly at age 2. They were awesome sleepers so I didn’t want to mess with thar or end up with early wake ups so left them in night diapers. By age 5 or so I became convinced that my children were not peeing while sleeping but rather waking up in the morning, and either feeling lazy or out of habit, peeing in their pull-ups. (I would sneak in 30 minutes before they would usually wake up and feel their pull-ups - DRY.)

So, a few mornings in a row, I’d wake them up early with a dry pull op. Made a big deal and told them it was time to stop pull-ups. We did and it was fine if I kept waking them up. When I let them sleep, the first few mornings they wet the bed, but eventually realized they needed to go to the bathroom in the morning and not just pee in the bed. It was a week of a lot of laundry, and then it was over.

There's nothing to dissent. OP's child is a heavy sleeper. Completely different situation than your kids.

STOP, OP.

This is not something you can train. I had one child (also a heavy sleeper) in nighttime pull-ups until age 6 and another who night-trained when she day-trained at 2 1/2 (well, she woke up in the middle of the night to pee for a year before she was able to finally hold it all night). You just have to wait until they are ready. And please don't shame your child, this is nothing to be embarrassed about.

And seriously, f*ck all these people saying your child is peeing out of habit, is being lazy, whatever. Just trust your child's body. She will get there. Heavy sleepers have a hard time waking up to pee, so you have to wait until their bodies are ready.

I did the alarm for one boy- worked in a weekend.

Tried it for the other boy and it didn’t work- he just grew out of it.

It takes a while. Sorry, OP. It’s a drag. But they will! Eventually! (Get a script for the medicine you can give them occasionally-a pill- to suppress it for overnights etc)

There is a difference between being awake and deciding to pee in a pullup and a child who wets their pullup while sound asleep. This is the case of the majority of children - you know this because if you put them to bed without pullups on, they wet the bed in the middle of the night. many children and adults are woken up in the middle of the bed - the children are wet and call to get help changing sheets.

It's a waiting game for most children - and for the poster who said she wet the bed until 9 or whatever, probably your children will wet the bed until later, too.

And for the 9 year old who was night trained and reverted - that could be anxiety, and there is certainly lots of upheaval, anxiety and whatever with covid. I mean, kids were sent home on a Friday from childcare/preschool/school and they have never returned - how weird is that?!?

My nephew potty trained by 3 years old, all good, but wet the bed consistently (and wore goodnights) until about 6 years old. Then he wore underpants BUT when he was stressed for whatever reason (the 2 weeks before each new school year, fight with a friend, excited about birthday/christmas, worried about school) he'd wet the bed a few nights, then be fine for months, then go back to wetting the bed a few times..... he has ADHD and generalized anxiety so that wasn't surprising - he finally stopped wetting the bed EVER at 11? 10? 12 ? I don't remember.

My 6.5 yr old still wears pullups at night. We've tried the potty alarm but after 2 months of everyone being tired and limited success last spring, we stopped it. Lately, she's been overflowing the pull-up, so we're doing the potty alarm for the first half of the night to get 1 to 2 trips to the bathroom and stop having wet sheets.

So, I have a 9yo who has struggled with this. We have pinpointed that having an indirect light source keeps her from falling deeply asleep enough to pee herself, but she still sleeps soundly enough to be fully rested. In her case, she has a double door closet, and we keep both doors about a foot open, with the head of her bed about 5 feet behind one door. It's not direct, or she won't sleep, but it's working to stop the night peeing now (unless she forgets, then she's soaked again).

Normal, particularly with boys. 7yo and still not night trained...

I tried waking him up 1.5-2 hours after he went to sleep. I would basically have to torture him by spraying him with water to get him to wake up AND still struggled getting him to get out of bed to go pee. Wasn't worth it.

Pee alarm seems to work. 4 weeks in, it still goes off, which likely means he peed a few drops to get his underwear wet, but not extensively. But he wanted to do this, which counts for a lot. First week he fully peed the bed 2x/night and it's tapered off to maybe a little spot on the pad, now to a tiny spot on his underwear.