how to get dry at night?

[donbean]

ds is 4.
we have stopped drinks after 6pm.
he has a wee before bed.
4 nights out of 7 he is dry in the morning so i am very encouraged by this.
what else could i do to get him 100% dry do you think?

Hmmm, I await the perfect advice as dd is also 4 and never dry in the morning. She gets upset if we mention it let alone try

You simply wait.

Unless there's some reason you want to be changing wet sheets in the middle of the night

thnks soupy....perfect advice.
twill happen when it happens...

DS1 was wet every morning at 4 until the night we forgot to put a nappy on him and he woke up dry. He never wore a nappy again. I think he had been using it for convenience - couldn't be bothered to get out of bed in the morning so did it in the nappy. We had no way of knowing that so assumed he wasn't ready when clearly he was.

DS2 (also 4) can go for 10 days with a dry nappy every morning and then the minute you say lets think about dropping the nappy he has a week of wet ones.

I agree totally they are ready when they are ready but knowing when that is is very difficult. You can't rush it though - they have no conscious control whilst they are asleep - you just have to wait for the physical development to take over.

I might try just 'forgetting' the nappy again in the spring or summer and see what the results are. Somehow I don't think DS2 is going to be as easy as DS1 though.

Sounds like you DS won't be long though donbean.

thanks niecie x
spring summer sounds good because you can get your washing out on the line and not have pissy sheets draped around radiators! lol

I wasn't being flippant, honest There is an element of being physically ready for being night dry, it's not the same as day training. They have to produce some hormone that stops the bladder filling up so quickly at night as well as be able to wake up if they do need it. I'm told you can tell if they've weed in it on waking as it'll be warm (lovely!) in which case they're probably ready for no nappy.

Both DSs were night dry about, er, a year after daytime. I think. A bit before 4. We asked DS1 a few times if he wanted to wear ordinary pants at night instead of pull ups and eventually he said he did. A few occasional wet nights but nothing major. DS2 insisted on going without pull ups and I don't actually recall him having any accidents whatsoever.

A surprising number of their classmates weren't night dry when they started school and, IIRC, the age the professionals "worry" about it is as late as 7.

Oh,one tip I remember is to make the bed up twice so you can just whisk the wet sheet and waterproof sheet off and not have to make it again. Unless your child has strayed off the waterproof bit [sigh]

There are some aspects of parenting/development which I see as not worth rushing. Night training was the biggest of these