6yo night time toilet training

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Our DD has never had dry pull ups and we haven't pushed the issue. We've had a couple of tries without a pull up with no success.

She now says she wants to stop wearing them (chat in her peer group about sleepovers soon!). We've done a week now with only 1 dry night.

She seems to be peeing when she wakes up. I'm seeing progress in that this has gone from 4am to 5 to 6 and she isn't up yet today. Should I go in and get her up / take her to the loo or let her get there by herself? My gut feel is that lifting her may be easier in the short term but will drag out the process by meeting to withdraw the support at some point.

bored of washing sheets and duvets. Why must she wrap herself in the duvet?!

My DS is just 7 and starting to have success with a wee alarm. I say success, at least it wakes him straightaway so I can sometimes rescue the duvet in time!
A few nights he’s gone all the way through and he never did with pull ups or cold turkey.

Just coming out the other side of this (we hope) with a 6yo. I bought incontinence sheets from amazon and a slightly waterproof mattress protector.
Its not easy. We started off OK, had 3.night, 5 night, a week rewards (tiny things) Hit a blip and it all went downhill. There was a run of washing bedclothes every single day. I even dipped her pee to make sure she didn't have any infection. Was panicked at one stage she was diabetic. She wasn't. She's just a little kid.
Only reintroduced pull ups for stays at granny's etc over the summer. Sips only from 7pm. Sent to pee about 7pm, and then again before bed. She will get there, its not always overnight.

You can't "night train" a child (unfortunately)

Our bodies produce a hormone that prevents us from peeing when asleep. It can take up to the age of 12 for this hormone to kick in. In fact, our GP advised that a specialist won't even look at a child under the age of 8 for this reason. 6 is very young still and certainly not an age for you to be worried about it yet. Better to focus on how to deal with the night pants than stress about wet PJs and bedclothes. A chat with the sleepover-mum about it should help put a plan in place so that others aren't aware.

Two things that you can do to help things along though - firstly make sure the child drinks plenty through the day so that they are getting a full bladder regularly and then emptying it. And second, try not to give blackcurrant squash as this affects their ability to hold it in! I don't quite understand the science behind that but we were told by the consultant and I've heard it many times so it must be true!

We are currently in the same dilemma - our just about to turn 6yo DD wants to wear normal pants at night, but her pull ups had been absolutely sodden every night - even if we did a bedtime wee etc. I knew about the hormone thing so I hadn't been worried about it, and I've even explained it to her so she understands that it is nothing she is doing wrong, we just need to wait till her body is ready.
We have been waiting until she has had a run of 7 nights with dry pull ups before moving to pants - she had never got past 1 or 2 in a week, and never consecutively, with nights in between where she would wet the bed through the pull ups.
Last night was night 6!!!! We've now told her that we'll see if she can get to Friday and then we'll go pull up free.
If you can wait it out I would, it takes the pressure off you both.

I've had a gut feel that she's peeing when she wakes up out of habit / laziness.

I woke her at half six this morning and chased her into the toilet and the bed was dry. This supports my theory.

I'm going to persevere with waking her at 6.30 and see if we can get a few nights in a row.

And I knew about the hormone. I've been arguing about it with my mother for 3 years . She'd have gotten rid of the pull ups years ago if she's had her way!!

My DS is the same although a bit younger at 4 1/2. We've been using disposable bed sheets (can get them in the nappy isle) to put under the top sheet. Also washing the quilt with cover on, then tumble drying it as one as well. We have two quilts made up at all times. One on the bed while the other gets washed. Makes the washing easier.

Sadly otherwise it's a waiting game as the hormone will start working when it's ready. We try to make sure DS is well hydrated during the day so he's not drinking loads before bed but know when he's really tired that we will wake to a wet bed.