Night time dryness

[SummatAndNowt]

My son turned 4 recently and has been out of nappies in the day for a year+. Haven't really tackled the night time issue until this week because he wanted to go without a nappy (they're cheaper than pull-ups!) and with the warm weather there would be no duvet to wash.

He's wet himself every night. If it's about 4am he'll wake up and go to the loo and go back to bed. But I think he sleeps too deeply the other times. Last night we tried getting him up at 11, but he didn't need to go then and just wet himself later.

I'm not bothered because I wet the bed till I was 5, but I'm not sure whether I should persevere or just wait.

I would wait, you cant make them. It's a physiological thing about when they can do it. If he's trying but can't, you don't want him to feel like a failure just because his body isn't ready.

ds has also just turned 4, also out of nappies in the day for well over a year, also still in them at night. We've had some general chats about the concept of not wearing nappies at night so as to plant the idea in his head but other than that I'm doing nothing just now.

Experience with ds shows me that he does everything in his own time, when he's ready, so I'm just going with that for now.

Thanks muchly. Back to nappies it is.

DS was 5.5 before he stopped wearing pull ups at night, nowhere near ready before that.

DD dry day and night at 2 and 3 months.

goes to show it is nothing to do with parenting and everything to do with when they are physically ready to do it.

I have a 5 year old dd and 3 year old ds. The 3 year old is dry and doesn't wear nappies, the 5 year old has a full nappy every morning.
They are all different aren't they.

Rosylily, I m so glad that didn't happen to me.

My older DS as out of nappies at night before the younger DD was, there is a 3.5 yr age gap between them. He would have been upset if she had 'beaten him to it'.

Is your 5 yo ok with it?

She is resigned to it. I don't make too much fuss but I acknowledge that it is disappointing for her. She's okay.

There is a hormone that kicks in at some point, and before it does you have no hope

For some it comes really late )like in my family, where most of the boy children are still in pull ups at 8 or 9 or 10 or 11

so don't stress it at 4