3.5 year old heavy wetter at night

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My 3.5 year old is toilet trained in the day bar the occasional accident and a general aversion to going to the loo unless he’s absolutely desperate. However since he’s been dry in the day he’s been very wet overnight (still in nappies/pull ups overnight) as he seems to wee loads in his sleep. I’m assuming he’s just not weeing enough in the day, we make him go for a wee pre bath and just before putting his nappy on for bed but a lot of mornings he’s got wet pj’s and bed as the nappy just hasn’t held all the wee. I’m happy enough with the fact he needs nappies in bed as I know this is something he will grow out of and I can’t train him out of it, but I don’t want him being wet through. It doesn’t wake him or cause any issues with his skin luckily.

I was wondering if anyone had any help in trying to limit the overnight wee. I don’t want to go back to making him go to the loo every couple of hours in the day like the beginning of potty training but I may need to (I doubt pre School would be able to do that either when he has full days). What are the best overnight nappies/pull up pants for absorbency? Should I even put on a nappy and a pull up? He’s a big child and more like a 4-5 year old. I’ve been using 6+ nappies.

Any help appreciated!

I would change his nappy in his sleep as you go to bed. Should stop the leaking. We had to do this with DS for a while.

I’ve ordered size seven nappies from amazon as my ds who’s the same age as yours wakes up with very full nappies too although he’s dry during the day.

We used to get DD up to put her on the loo when we went to bed. She was in nappies at night until 5 or so, iirc, because she was such a heavy sleeper that the urge to go just wouldn't wake her. She'd flood a nappy, hence getting her up to pee at least once. She wouldn't wake up fully, but would pee when you sat her on the loo and told her to go.

That combined with nappies and a waterproof sheet. It's a pain, but I never worked out any other way of tackling it. She's a teenager now - it does pass.

He sleeps well enough now but he hasn’t slept well most of his life so I have been loathe to wake him under any circumstances 😂 but I think perhaps changing his nappy/pull up would work... I think if I woke him enough to get him to the toilet he’d go mad at me and possibly be too awake! We have waterproof sheet etc and I am able to do the washing easily luckily.

I’ll check out size 7 nappies.

My dd was in pull ups until about 4.5 years. The only ones that held it were the Aldi ones in size 6. I read somewhere, apologies I don’t have links or anything, that they will only usually be dry overnight when a certain hormone has developed in their system (something along those lines anyway). One night she announced she no longer needed to wear nappies, I explained why she wore them etc but she was adamant and to this day has been dry.