My daughter is nearly 4 and still needs a night time nappy, should I be worried?

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Sorry this is a bit long!

She was dry by day by 2 1/2, and now takes herself to the toilet during the day and rarely has an accident, but in the morning she wakes up with a wet pull-up nappy.

We have cut down her evening drinks with a view to ditching the nappy later. She always goes to the toilet just before bedtime and on waking, but still manages to wet her nappy during the night. (Though if she does a poo in the night, she will use the toilet for that).

We had another baby 8 months ago and didn't try to toilet train her then as I have heard that having a new sibling can make them regress. Also, nappies were easier while we had a new baby! Nappies are no hassle, but I still think she should be out of them by now.

Is there anything else we can do to try and get her out of nappies soon? I don't want to pile on the pressure, there will be enough of that when she starts school.

Or if she is quite normal, please reassure me that she will do it in her own good time!

Mine is over 4 and still in a night-time nappy.

I'm not worried at all

Night-time bladder control is hormonal, apparently. Search some old threads, they will be useful reading

until a hormone kicks in (which happens any time between 2 and 7 years, there is nothing you can do and no need to worry...

in most english supermarkets you can buy night nappies for 15 year olds so i wouldnt worry yet

There's nothing you can do to "train" them at night time - it happens when it does. There's a hormone which kicks in to suppress urination overnight and that can happen at any time up until they are 7 - and until that happens they are physically unable to stay dry during the night.

Cutting down evening drinks doesn't help; I've seen it suggested that it actually causes more problems because the bladder shrinks due to the reduced amount of fluid that it's getting in the evenings, and is therefore not capable of holding onto as much liquid overnight.

Dd was six and a half before she was dry at night ... it was no big deal.

completely normal.
read my thread here about my 6.5 year old.

completely normal.
read my thread here about my 6.5 year old.

It's fine imo.

I'm not sure you'd describe my ds(3.10yrs) as night time toilet trained as we take him to the loo at 11-ish before we go to bed but he doesn't have accidents although there's a pampers baby dry mat under his sheet jic.

OK thanks everyone. So she could be at school and still in nappies?! It sounds as though there's nothing I can do about it. I do hope it doesn't take until 7 though, I keep hoping each pack of pull-ups will be the last!

My DD is 4.6 and is in night time nappies, sometimes dry,sometimes wet, no rhyme or reason to either.
I am not sweating it!! she will be dry when she is ready.

My dd is 5.5 years and is still in nappies overnight. I have recently been given the advise below from the clinic. This thread is a comfort to read. nice to know we are not alone.

In a word "no" you shouldn't be worried - nearly 4 is still very young in terms of being dry at night.

Yes, she could be at school and still in nappies at night.

So what? Who else will know?

The figures are something like one in five 5-year olds and one in six 6-year-olds are still not dry at night so she wouldn't be the only one.

Relax. There's nothing she can do about it so you might as well stop worrying

i bought a mattress protector seven years ago. it has been in constant use ever since. first ds1 used it, then ds2 who still uses it. i merely moved it from one bed to another.
relax about the pullups, and buy several packs whenever they are on offer

agree with previous posters - dd1 only came out of night nappies when she was a couple of months of her 6th birthday.

DD1 stopped using night nappies just after 6 and a few months on I take her to the toilet at about 10.30. Her sister hasn't needed a nappy at night since she was 2 and doesn't need to be lifted. Some of dd1's friends still wear nightnappies, it's very common just not something people discuss very much.

Stiil very young. My ds was still in daytime nappies at 3, and still in night time ones at nearly 5. And don't cut down on drinks (sorry if someone's said this before) because it makes the pee more concentrated, irritates the bladder and makes them more likely to pee) Have a look here for some useful stuff

4 is still OK to be in nappies/night time pants.
DS has just turned 5 and up until Xmas we put him in night time pants. He decided he didn't want to wear night time pants. Now he has a Hippy Chick mattress protector. We get him up to the loo b4 we go to bed. Sometimes he wets the bed - usually around 3:30am for some strange reason! Not to worry...these things happen!

Don't worry. If you make a fuss about it, she'll get more stressed about it!

My dd is 3 1/2 and still in night time nappies. We went through a stage of her nappies being dry and thought we might go for it, but then they started being wet again so we are just sticking with the pull ups.
Every day she says she wants big girl pants at night but just told her that her pull ups need to be dry before we can so first thing she does in the morning is check to see if the pictures are still there or not!
HV told me that anytime after 4 is most common to become dry at night, but as the others have said, its the hormone that needs to devolop so it's just a waiting game!

I wouldnt worry about it, my son isnt reliable during the day at 4 yrs so I still put a nappy on him whenever we go out. He's in terry squares and recently had to buy some larger toddler size ones !

My issues is slightly different but wondered if anyone could help. My daughter is just 4 and has been dry at night since she was 3 years old, however the last month she has wet the bed most nights. She did have a UTI but had anti biotics but doesn't seem to be able to be dry again at night. I don't want to put her back in pull ups as she has been dry for over a year but don't know what else to do??
Thanks