Night time wetting at 4

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DS just turned 4 and is still wearing a nappy at night and still wetting quite a bit with the odd dry night. I was never in a rush for the old potty training either.

Just wondering if there are many still in nappies for bed at this age or is it quite unusual?

quite normal - I think about 10% are still wet at night at 5 (my twins included - and I wish they weren't!).

Not much you can do about it - they get dry when they do.

well we got ds out of them at night at about 4yr 2 months and when I mentioned it at his preschool, alot of the other mums said their dcs were still in night-time nappies, which I was quite surprised at.
DS still occasionally bedwets, we get him up for a wee before we go to bed at night and this seems to help. We also use a mothercare mattress protector which works pretty well with the occasional accident.
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You're definitely not alone. My daughter will be 5 in June and despite being dry in the day for 2 and a half years, she shows no sign of staying dry at night any time soon.

I don't worry about it, I'm in agreement with Throckenholt that it will happen at the right time for her. We briefly tried waking her to go to the toilet when we go to bed but it made no difference and meant her sleep was even more disrupted than it usually is (she's a light sleeper & sleepwalks).

We do make her go to the loo before bed but that's all. They all get there in the end.

It is very normal for a 4yo to still be wet at night. Don't worry about it and it is very likely to right itself within the next 3 years.

Almost all children are dry at night by the age of 7 years, and doctors are very relutant to be involved before this anyway. It is so common.

Besides, not much you can do about it anyway. You simply can't do night time training.

DD has only been consistently dry for the last few months and she has just turned 6y. It wasn't for lack of wanting to be dry as she so desperately did. For ages. She was daytime dry from 24 months so not linked to that either. It just happened in the end.

I can strongly recommend the Mothercare bed protector square things. They are about £14 or £15 each I think but they are fab. They are large squares that go over the top of the sheet, and child lies on it directly. If they wet in teh night, just whip it off, put another underneath and all sorted. We had 2 and they did us fmously for a couple of years or so.

Maybe time for them to go now I guess...