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Struggling to night train

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Needaholidayplease · 02/12/2021 14:16

My son is 3 and 2 months. He's been toilet trained for almost a year in the day, but were struggling with night training. We left it for a while because he didn't seem ready, but tried again recently. Even if we take him to the toilet when we go to bed/ cut of lots of fluids before bed, he still seems to need the equivalent of 2 or 3 wees in the night (in his nappy- he doesn't wake to go to the toilet unless we wake him). Is it just an age thing or are we going wrong somewhere?

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Hullabaloo31 · 02/12/2021 14:20

My son toilet trained in a couple of days at 3yo, wasn't out of bedtime nappies until 6.5! It's an age/hormone thing, not a lot you can do about it!

SRK16 · 02/12/2021 14:20

Could well be age related. I think there’s a hormonal element to nighttime dryness also?

SleepingStandingUp · 02/12/2021 14:23

You are going wring, but only in thinking that you can train him like you did in the day. They need a hormone to kick in that reduces the sleep weeing.
Leave him be, there's no shame or worry in a 3yo bring in bed nappies

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Shmithecat2 · 02/12/2021 14:25

As per pp, night time dryness is physiological, certain hormones need to start being produced - you can't train for that. Just put a pull up on them and leave them to it.

Wnikat · 02/12/2021 14:27

Just leave him in nappies till he’s dry at night. It’s fine. Mine was 5 before we could ditch the pull ups

piglet81 · 02/12/2021 14:28

Yeah, my 6 year old is nowhere near. Only had two or three dry nights in their life. Apparently doctors won’t do anything until they’re at least 7.

orinocosfavoritecake · 02/12/2021 14:29

There is nothing you (or he) can do before his body starts producing the right hormones.

idontlikealdi · 02/12/2021 14:50

It's hormonal. Dts day time trained in two days at 3, weren't dry at night until 5

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Needaholidayplease · 02/12/2021 15:22

Oh ok, that's really helpful thank you! My expectations were too high!

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Bonheurdupasse · 02/12/2021 15:54

I don’t understand how in other countries / generations ago kids are / were toilet trained much younger than in the UK nowadays ?

We’re all human after all.

SleepingStandingUp · 02/12/2021 16:38

@Bonheurdupasse

I don’t understand how in other countries / generations ago kids are / were toilet trained much younger than in the UK nowadays ?

We’re all human after all.

www.eric.org.uk/blog/why-are-children-potty-training-later

The move to an older age isn't some weird British phenomenon caused by British parents being uniquely lazy and awful, it's a Western at least shift based on changing attitudes to parenting and less supoort

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