Night training a four year old

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My DS is 4.5 and still in nappies at night- how do I try to get him out of them? What worked for you? I'm not sure where to start

Totally normal at that age and your DS needs to be making enough of the hormone vasopressin to control urine output overnight. It can take up to age 7 for it to kick in fully. Have a look at the ERIC website but it might just be too early. My DS is 5 in December and isn't dry at night.

Two of my boys were still writing at night until well past 7. My youngest was dry by 4.

As @YouBoggleMyMind says, this isn’t something you can ‘fix’. Just double sheet the bed and use puppy pads (I think they’re cheaper than nappy pads) if he doesn’t want to wear a nappy or pull-up.

My 5.5 yr old is still wet at night despite all interventions. My 3 yo is dry. To echo, there’s not really a lot you can do. We invested in a peapod mat for the bed which was pricy but is easy to wash

Nigh-wetting is hormonal and nothing to do with training - you've just got to wait it out and try and make it as comfortable and pain-free for everyone I'm afraid!

Go to Eric website. There are some helpful tips.

I had the same query a few years ago my ds was 6 when dry at night, eventually it juat happened.

I stopped offering drinks after 6pm, she got what she needed when she asked for it, and we lifted her. And it worked.

DD was nine before she was reliably dry at night, and we still have the odd accident aged 11.5 years old. As PP have said, night time dryness has nothing to do with daytime dryness and it happens pretty much naturally when the time is right. Some kids are not dry at night until LONG after they master daytime control. No clinician would suggest intervention until at least age 7 and perhaps not even then unless the child is distressed by it. Just keep on with the pull ups and night time and don't make a big deal of it so your child doesn't sense that they are doing something 'wrong'.

You can do things to achieve the illusion of night time bladder control, such as restricting fluids and 'lifting'. But it's not recommended and all you're doing is preventing the bed from getting wet. The child isn't actually 'dry' until they're drinking freely and staying dry WITHOUT parental intervention. I.e. they either don't need to go at all during the night (because vasopressin levels are high enough) or they wake to get up and use the toilet of their own accord.

Have you tried them without a nappy? My 4 year was waking up with a wet nappy so I wasn’t sure he was ready but after 2 or 3 accidents he got the hang of it and is dry every night now. Just get a waterproof cover for the bed and some spare sheets and give it a go.

My DS is 6 and still not dry at night. A couple of months ago we decided to try for a week but he wasn’t even making it dry to 11pm ish when we would go in to lift him. We went back to pull ups and will try again in another few months, maybe with an alarm.

Although my DS is happy to wear pull ups still he does sometimes leak out of them and I bought a couple of washable bed mats which are great as they save the need to change the whole bed.

I didn’t night train - just stopped putting her in pull ups after she’d had a week of them being dry in the morning. She was 6 I think.

My ds was 8 before dry at night. We finally had a consultation with the gp and a hv because it was beginning to impact on cub camp, sleepovers etc. We tried various methods but eventually, Ds was prescribed desmomelt and within a matter of weeks he was dry and never looked back.