Advise please on being dry at night

[sunlitbays]

My dd is almost 4 and has been dry in the day since she was 2 and a half.Until a few weeks ago she has never had a dry night. This is probably my fault as, until a few weeks ago I gave her a drink of milk just before bed. I took the advise of a friend and stopped giving her a drink after 5.30pm and she suddenly started to have dry nights. So after a couple of weeks of dry nappies we discussed it and she said she would like to try without a nappy. She had two dry nights and I was beginning to think that it was really easy and couldn't believe I hadn't tackled it before. However, on the third night she wet the bed and has done for the last 4 nights.

Is this normal? and Will she suddenly get the message after a few wet nights? or is she not ready yet?

What are your experiences of the situation?

dont worry some children takes ages to get dry at night and it does go in fits and starts. dont make a thing of it perhaps have those pads in the bed. she's still quite young.

Have you tried lifting her when you go to bed and putting on loo to wee?

My dd wasn't dry at night till she was over 5. I kept telling her that it was okay, that it was more important to get a good night's sleep than have a dry nappy. Eventually she took the initiative herself and said she did not want to have a nappy on at night anymore - this was after quite a few dry nights - and she was so proud and it went great. She is now nearly 6 and she quite often gets a little wet in the early hours of morning, but she always wakes from it, gets up to the toilet herself, changes her knickers herself and goes back to bed.

I think you should look at how many hoursyour dd sleeps at night - my dd sleeps 12 hours so I honestly don't expect her to go through every night without needing a wee. Ask her if she wants a nappy on just in case.

For my dd, it never helped to take her to the toilet in her sleep when I went to bed. I think many children need to be at a point of physical maturity where their bladder wakes them, so to speak.