what age should I try to get dd2 dry at night?

[Enid]

shes only 3

can I leave it until 4 without feeling guilty?

you can leave it till 7 IMHO without feeling guilty

DD is 3.5
She has some dry nights, but whenever we try and leave her nappy off, the bed is wet.
Wonder if a reward chart doodah would work?

wicked!

(that was to twiglett btw)

I agree with twiglett.

Leave it until her nappy is dry every single morning for at least three months. That's what I did with dd1. Since then she has never wet the bed.

(God, I will jinx it now, won't I? )

dd was just under 4. Left it until she decided she was ready - ds was roughly same age.

Yes I agree with Twiglett - leave it til she's ready.

DS1 was almost 5, ds2 was 6!

course you can. we've been trying regularly with dd (4) since she was potty trained (2), still no sign of it being remotely time. Have got stressed about it, but other than the cost of the nappies there's no other reason for worrying really... (yet)

I want to leave it

dh has crazy idea it will be good to get her dry at night before the baby is born

wtf?

surely much easier to whack her in a pull up for the first year of babies life

My dd's 4.5 and still in nappies at night - I don't feel guilty, because it's either nappies or a soaking wet bed three times a night. As it is her bed is soaking in the morning because her nappies won't hold it all.

It's not something you can force in my opinion; it won't happen until she's ready.

Thanks everyone. I refuse to worry about it anymore. My only problem is DD telling me 'I am a big girl now, I don't NEED nappies' Then coming into our room at 2am with soaking wet 'jamas.

Madness, enid, I agree.

I really don't see any incentive whatsoever to push them out of nappies/pull-ups at night, I mean who cares? People don't even need to know in RL, you could tell them she's been dry for years!

Too right Enid. No way do you need to be changing sheets in the middle of the night as well as feeding a newborn! Plus if she isn't in a nappy you've got to let her out of her room to use the loo at night and she can wander into your room to get some of the attention.

Leave her till she begs. And then get those pull-ups where the picture appears (or is it disappears?) when they wet and tell her she's got to have 7 dry nights in a row before she is allowed to try without nappies.

10% or more of year 1 classes aren't dry at night.

my ds is almost 4 & has been dry in the day since 2.5. no way is he ready to go without a nappy at night. am i bovvered....?!

You leave it until they're ready! DSs were happy inpullups so I left them until they regularly had dry ones in the morning and asked to stop wearing them. Happened at about 3y 9 months IIRC.

No point "training" them IMO - just makes for sleepless nights for all and it's far less trouble to change pullups than a bed. (we went for pullups so that if they woke up and needed the toilet they could go by themselves)

DS1 is nearly 4 and has a massive full nappy at night-dry as a pound in the day-not loads to drink before bed-just not ready yet! No perfect time-go with the flow,as it were!

god yes, my DD1 was completely dry at 2 and a half, DD2 is showing no signs of giving up the nightime nappy and she's just 3...

I'm pretty sure it depends on their bladder size, and how deeply they sleep. Both things that have nothing to do with learning or skill or sticker charts, and everything to do with age and biology.

I agree there's no point in rushing it.

Isn't there also a hormone that they begin to produce that suppresses urination overnight? Until that kicks in there's not a hope of getting them dry at night.

yup WWB thats what i was gonna say... until that homone kicks in (and with some childnre it can be 5 years old even a bit later) theres no chance.

leave em until they seem ready and at least have SOME dry nappies in the morining IMO.... for the sake of EVERYONE sleeping well!

WWB-Never knew that!

DD is 3.5yo and has same problems. She was dry during the day, within 2 days of PT, aged 24 months. But nights are another thing entirely.

She actually went, earlier this summer, 2 weeks dry at night with no nappies. But then regressed one night and not managed it since. In her bedpants she will occasionally have dry mornings, but leave the nappy off and she is wet. Have tried lifting when we go to bed, etc but makes no difference.

I refuse to worry about it now though. I have bought her the next size bed pants and we will just take it at her pace. If she is going to uni in bed pants, I'll worry

Was just coming on this thread to post the very same thing wigwambam! dd2 was still in nighttime pullups at 5 and a half - I was taking her on school trips still in them at night! Poor child, we had three abortive attempts at getting her dry at night, it was never going to happen