Potty trained - but how do you get dry at night?

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DC is 3 and has been potty trained for months but haven't cracked how to get through the night dry. Tbh haven't really tried; so much stressful else going on in family. Don't know how to do it. Do you just take off the pants and hope for the best (i.e. only a few wet nights)

It is hormonal apparently, once they start producing enough of a hormone that stops urine production at night they tend to be dry at night - normally 4 or 5.

It happens when ready. You can't teach it.

always thought you couldn't do much about it - dd is 3.6 and has been trained for months and months; but not at night. Mind you, people of my generation (in my 40s) were dry at night much earlier than this - I was from 2.6 and never ever wet the bed. Not sure why this is

Just wait it out until you get several nights of dry nappies. My second and third dc were dry by the time they were both 3.3. My first was 4.5 but later admitted it was because he was too lazy to use the bathroom when he woke up . Either way we just left off the night nappy and put a waterproof sheet over their mattresses. We only had a few accidents after that.

The best way of getting a child at night is to wait until they get older :)

Some children never have dry nappies at night though, two of mine never did. We just stopped using them and hoped for the best! in dd2's case she decided at about 3.4 that she didn't want to wear them any more and was dry at night from then on, I guess she knew she was ready.

Jsut wait until they are ready. No point stressing over it! As the Dr told my friend who was worried about her 6 year old - you can buy night time nappies for older boys, so it must be common!

DS is a very heavy sleeper. We got him up (woke him, not lifted him in his sleep) and he was eventually dry at about 5 and a half. A friend in his class is still in nappies at 7. He will get it eventually.

It is hormonal. DS had an op and was catheterised afterwards. Nurses got a bit worried overnight when his urine production dropped right off, but the on call paediatrician explainrd about the hormones to us.

I read somewhere that half of children are stll wetting the bed once a week at 5 years old. Disposable matress protectors are great.

It cannot be 'taught'.

Dd and ds were both dry in the day just before their second birthday and dd was dry at night at the same time. Ds is eight and still in night nappies.

Phew! I feel much better now - thank you....DD v heavy sleeper as well. So I'll stop stressing quite so much