My DD is just about to turn 12 and whilst we don’t use night underwear day to day anymore she’s not quite immune to the occasional accident. For times when it would be really embarrassing for her if she had an accident (sleepovers, vacations etc.) we just use Goodnites and they seem to do the trick fine.

Think it’s only happened twice this year, so we’re getting there. But one of those was when a friend was sleeping over, so the Goodnite meant she wasn’t embarrassed and friend non the wiser.

Now she’s older I leave it up to her, there’s a pack in a seldom used closet so she can just help herself when she decides she need to wear one, takes care of it all herself and just asks me if I can “order her something from Amazon” if we’re running low.

Unless there is another problem it is not concerning for children to wet until age 8 or sometimes age 10 or 12. I think it’s about 15% of children that this happens with. More often boys but sometimes girls.

FWIW, our 6 year old son is still wearing them at night.

If it were my first kid, I suspect I'd care more? But, honestly right now we just appreciate that he's a sound sleeper, and no one is bothered by it.

His twin sister was dry at night at a week after they turned 2.

I've answered this question on other threads about betwetting. My DS (about to be 9 next week) wet the bed until we started using the Therapee alarm system. We started in November and it has been slow going. When we started the alarm was going off 2-3 times per night and I would go in, change the sheets, change him and get him back into bed. Then we got down to 1 time per night. Then the one time per night started getting later and later. We then started getting the occasional dry night. Most recently we had a full two weeks of dry nights. We then had 2 nights of wetting the bed and this past week we are dry again.

He was a super deep sleeper and still is. What we have found is that he now gets up to use the bathroom at night even not fully awake.

It has been a long process. I wanted to get my son dry so I could send him to sleep away camp that he wanted to go to. I am hoping that by the summer it is consistent.

My DD with two when we potty trained her, and after that day, she never woke up with a wet pull-up, even after sleeping for 12 hours.
My son wore pull-ups for ages. My friend son were pull-ups until he was about 12, and he is totally fine now. The pediatrician told her that if it doesn’t click around five, then it usually isn’t until they’re about to start puberty that it actually works. She tried everything. Finally around 12 he totally stopped and never had an accident again.
I do think it’s normal for boys to be in pull-ups for years

Does he wake up after having an accident or does he sleep through it?

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Anonymous wrote:Do a search. Lots of parents here have kids in nighttime diapers. The older generation think it’s odd, but kids are progressively getting daytime trained and nighttime trained later and later these days. I’m sure a poster will come along and say how it’s normal and not a big deal. And it is normal - here in the U.S. It’s not normal in many other countries.

Bc Americans are so lazy, everything is about immediate convenience. They're too lazy to wash sheets or help the child to the bathroom so just keep them in diapers??? WTH

I can't imagine having so little going on with my life that I would trade a good nights sleep to do all-night potty patrol for an issue that will resolve on it's own eventually.

Anonymous wrote:No child goes off to college wearing pull-ups. Your child will be ready when he is ready. Worrying about it only gives you age lines.

One of my aunts continued to wet the bed occasionally after her marriage… Vacations were always where she could stay with family…

It happened, just wasn’t talked about outside of the family.

DS did night pull ups until 10. DH did until 5/6. It’s fine, confirmed by pediatrician. Some kids take longer, are sound sleepers, etc…

They will be ready when they are ready. Don’t stress about this.

Anonymous wrote:My kids were all potty trained by age 3.

My youngest is in third grade. I cannot imagine any kid in her grade in a diaper unless SN.

Ability to stay consistently dry at night has nothing to do with potty training. It’s not unusual for an 8 year old to still not be dry overnight and having them wear a diaper is better than waking up in a wet bed.

My kids were all potty trained by age 3.

My youngest is in third grade. I cannot imagine any kid in her grade in a diaper unless SN.

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between diapers and pull-ups? I also thought the pull-ups thing was a gimmick to sell the same thing at a higher cost.

It could possibly be a gimmick, but it was somehow easier for us to find pull-ups in bigger sizes than diapers, plus pull ups are easy to get off if you do wake up during the night and can get to the bathroom.

Our 6.5 year old still wears them. He now wears maybe only 1 out of 10.

He’s a crazy deep sleeper (practically dead!), so we need to keep them on him until he’s probably 8. He has some developmental issues and ADHD (not medicated).

What’s the difference between diapers and pull-ups? I also thought the pull-ups thing was a gimmick to sell the same thing at a higher cost.

OP, as you can see, lots of us have kids that needed to have pull-ups until Middle School. We were the same. And my pediatrician didn't stress about it so we didn't either. Like many PPs, it was an issue, until one day it wasn't. DS simply outgrew it sometime during 5th grade. He has ADHD though, and he has been a little like this with all milestones. Seems like it takes him longer to reach a certain point. Then one day it clicks and he's totally fine. He went from not speaking at all to speaking in complete sentences within 5 days of saying his first word. He never really developed what one would consider a good crawl, and then suddenly he was walking. Kids just develop at their own rates. As long as you're having them regularly checked out by your pediatrician and the pediatrician is not worried, you should be fine. And yes we did delay sleepovers until the night time wetting stopped. But most of his friends weren't really having sleepovers in the younger years, so wasn't that big an issue.