When am I supposed to get ds2 dry at night? Am I supposed to? What do I do?

[SorenLorensen]

Ds1 was never dry at night (eneuresis clinic, alarms, finally dry at 7+) so I have absolutely no experience of this. Ds2 was 4 in December and is still in a nappy at night. It's usually pretty wet in the morning though we have had the very occasional dry one. Am I supposed to be doing something? Waiting for dry nappies (that's what I did with ds1 and it never happened)? Or is that old hat?

hi this is my older sister's advise as my two are 2.5 and 4.5 anyway, for my other sister they have to learn to when they are needing the toilet. so therefore no nappies at night. no drinks very little after 6pm and definately made to go to loo before bed. get the pampers nightime square. star chart as a reward for not wetting and big incentive new bla bla or going somewhere important to them. good luck hope this is helpful.

With ds1, dh just kept forgetting to put him in pull up pants at night as he'd been dry through the night for a couple of weeks and pull up pants weren't 'to hand'. This was at about 3, within a month of being reliably dry during the day. So we sort of waited for him to be dry and sort of went cold turkey...

personally... I wouldn't bother unless it is bothering either of you
jsut because it didn't happen with ds1 doesn't mean it won't this time

my ds is just 4, & still has soaking pull ups in the morning. i am simply not thinking about it! his cousin is still in night pull ups at 6. my mum thinks i'm very remiss for not stressing about it....

You could try taking it off and seeing what happens? You can always go back to the nappies if things aren't working out. I sent mine to bed nappiless as an experiment I think they were around 3.5 but I forget) and they've been more or less ok ever since. Is it easy enough for him to get to the loo at night if he needs to?

SL, I'm in exactly the same situation as you.

Like your DS1, my DS1 (now 7.5) is only just dry - since early December. We went to the enuresis clinic, but decided against the alarm, and he did just become dry.

DS2 (4.5) is also still in Pull-Ups and sometimes dry in the morning. I'm not sure whether just to wait or to take him out of Pull-Ups for a bit and see whether he can manage.

Was it on MN that someone posted that they discovered their 4 yr old DS had been getting up in the night, standing to wee in the Pull-Up, and then going back to sleep? Perhaps both our DSs are doing that!

If your going to take his nappy off and put him in bed I would very simply say...Oh weve ran out of nappys now, time to wake up when you need a wee wee...Worked for my two. No fuss, just pretend you know its gonna happen

I got fed up of waiting for signs that ds would show any inclination towards potty training, so I went cold turkey in the day first, then at night after he had been reliable in the day for 5 months. Peer pressure worked, by seeing his best friend going to bed in pants, it made up ds's mind that he wanted to wear pands not nappies. If there is a familial link to late training though, my bold approach may not work. Good luck!

what worked for my ds1 was to send him to bed without pj bottoms (weather permitting, found this easier when its warmer or keep heating on) - may subconsciously feel elastic around waist is nappy and safe to wee into? again being very matter of fact and non-judgemental just put potty right next to bed with nightlight and reminded him just before sleep where it is

Thanks guys - I appreciate all the replies (I wasn't sure I'd get any as this has probably been done to death). I think that's clarified what I thought anyway. I will try him without a nappy when the weather gets a bit warmer and just see how he goes. His bedroom is next to the bathroom so that's quite handy for him. I'm not going to stress if it doesn't work though - I'll just leave it.