To ask how long it took for your DC to be dry at night

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DC1 is 5 and a few months and not yet dry at night. I had been waiting for dry nappies in the morning, but it hasn’t happened yet, and they are very aware that friends don’t now wear nappies so are asking not to.

It’s been about ten days so far, and every night has been like clockwork: fine and dry all night until 5.30-6am, when they come in to say that they have done a wee.

I was just wondering how long it has taken other DC to learn, and if we should just keep on as we are, or if there is something else I can do to help them?

(Sadly I am aware of the very persistent piss troll, so would ask that people don’t give any actual details about their DC that he might enjoy, just how long it took/anything else I can do, thank you so much!)

DS was almost 8. We tried a few times before this without pull ups, on his terms, but he didn't even wake up after weeing let alone before.

DD was 2- she just did it at the same time as being dry in the day, we didn't encourage it or even mention it, we expected it to be a few years away!

dd1 was around 4 , potty trained at 3 years old. DD2 was as soon as she was dry in day which was at 2. I honestly think you just have to wait till they ready.

Total piece of string, and one of those when they’re ready they’re ready.

DD was about 2.6, around 3 months after day time training. But she had the odd accident until she was around 5.

DS on the other hand was dry at night at 23 months, shortly before he was potty trained. He has never had an accident either.

As you can see from this thread there's a huge range of normal.

My oldest two boys were 9 & 8 before they were reliably dry at night. The youngest was dry at night at the same time as he was in the day, at two and a half.

Daughter was 3
Son was nearly 7

My son was dry at night from before a year old. But wasn’t toilet trained until almost 3.

The reason I think this is the case is that urinating at night isn’t a toilet trainin issue: rather it’s a hormonal issue: so probably check in with a HV/ GP, but I suspect at 5 it’s nothing to worry about

DD was 3.5 when reliably dry during the day, 6 at night.

Try not to worry op, i remember people badgering me to potty train at 1.5, 2, 2.5. She just wasn't ready

This is reassuring! One was dry day and night by 2.5, the other is 8 and still wearing pull-ups. Doc has said all other aspects of development fine and to wait and see. Funnily enough he has been dry all over Christmas, with later bed times and mixed up routine so I’m going to try and work with that... he’s obviously fine for around 8 hours and the problem is after that. In term time he sleeps 830-7:15 but is going to bed a lot later this week

Ds1 was 8
Ds2 was 3 (and was born with bladder and kidney issues) which we thought would of been an issue.

DD pretty much at the same time as training in the daytime (by 3). DS turned 7 this summer still with a wet pull up 50- 60% of the time so we started working our way through the steps recommended on the ERIC website. I really recommend this as it's aimed at helping you work out whether there is another physical issue (eg constipation), whether they are physiologically nearly there with the hormone etc.

For us it looked like he was potentially nearly there, so we got an alarm (the Astric bedpad one) and saw immediate improvement and completely reliably dry after a couple of months.

Having read threads like this I do slightly resent the scaremongering that I got about leaving potty training last 2.5. She was ready as it turned out but it is obvious that lots of kids do naturally only become dry at night at 5+.

*past

Ds was dry at night by 2.5 years whereas dd was 3. Ds cracked the daytime routine quickly but had 3 -4 episodes of nighttime bed wetting before he was dry whereas dd was the opposite. I never used nightie nappies, I used absorbent pads underneath the sheet to protect the mattress and layered it up.

My DS just turned 7. He's still not dry at night consistently. Sometimes he's soaking, sometimes he's almost dry. We're definitely going in the right direction. He doesn't seem bothered. He'll get there at some point.

My younger two were dry immediately - but dc2 because he got up and took himself to the potty at 5am from his first night without a nappy (which followed his first day without a nappy) and then considered the day to have begun in full force, and dc3 because he was still waking 3, 4, 5 times a night, never having slept through, so he just started going to the toilet when he woke in the night, then turning his Audiobook back on and going back to bed...

DC1 took months, but until I realised she rather enjoyed me having to get up in the night and change her bed and reassure her it didn't matter and chat... Once I started making her bed with multiple layers of waterproof sheets, towels and regular sheets and changing it without comment she was dry within a week.

Id say a 5:30 start to your day is on the cards...

Minecwere all under 4 (DC2 was 2, the other two 3.5), but that's unusual. They were also all light sleepers (two very early risers, one night owl but waking multiple times per night and only sleeping more than 90 minutes at a stretch in the early morning).

DS is just turning 4 and is getting there, he is dry most nights and was dry for about months straight in the summer.

Before we would stop pull ups though we have really focussed on good habits- he knows he must go last thing before bed & first thing as soon as he wakes.

He is sensitive to certain things. Overtiredness = wet bed. Excitement (Christmas eve!). Blackcurrant squash is a dreadful irritant.

Oh and my DS is a very deep sleeper. He doesn't wake at all if he goes in his sleep so we havent been able to stop pull ups often - if he goes some time after we check him at 11pm and lies in a wet bed all night he gets a rash on his skin.

First DC dry at night until same time potty trained age 3.

Second DC still needed night -Time nappy until aged 7 or 8, but at that time Third DC had become dry at night (when he was only 2). That was a bit awkward initially but middle child did come to terms with his little brother not needing the night time nappy when he still did.

As I understand it, it is all about the production of a hormone that concentrates urine (so you don’t need a wee during the night). It is a physical process with no emotional or psychological component, so it is not something that can be worked on or speeded up, so be as relaxed as you can about it and do not it along.

4.5 for my DS. However, he never went dry by himself. He was accident-free during the day by 3.5, but for night time his pull ups were always full in the morning.
When he was 4.5 when weather got better I took pull ups off and sent him to bed in underpants. I bought pads to line his mattress so if he wetted himself it wouldn't have soaked through.
For the first few nights he soaked the sheets and duvet. Luckily he realised soon and has been dry at night since. If I waited for him to have dry nappy by himself, I am sure it would have taken much much longer.

I agree with pp that say every child will be dry when they are ready. My dc's ages when dry at night from eldest to youngest are, 3, 4, 2, 4, and 9. All perfectly healthy and normal, just different.

DD was 3, a few months after she was dry in the day. DS was 2.5 went dry day and night the same time.
But my niece was 5, and my nephew was 7. All totally normal, I believe it's a hormonal thing.

I haven’t rtft but I have just had success with a nighttime alarm with my DS. He is 8 and has SEN. My other two were just over 2 and 4. It took five weeks of wearing an alarm for him to stop wetting the bed. I think partly he had got used to going in his pull up and also the alarm trained him to wake if he needed the toilet. Honestly it has worked like magic. It’s been a couple of months now and he’s not wet the bed once!

One of mine was almost 5. My youngest was out of nappies during the day really early, 20 months, but, at 5, isn't dry at night yet.

Eldest was 5 , youngest was about 2 or 2 and a few months .