Night training a 6 year old boy

[Rocky12]

Help! My just turned 6 year old son still wears a pull up at night. He is dry during the day. I believe the problem is that he sleeps so deeply that he just doesnt wake up. His pull up always has a couple of pee's come morning time.

Has anyone any suggestions. He also NEVER gets up in the middle of the night for anything, no bad dreams, no complaints of being cold etc etc. We have tried a star chart with a prize at the end but unfortunately the prize is still waiting to be claimed.

will watch with interest but have n advice. DS1 is 6.4 and still in a pull up at night - like yours, he sleeps very deeply and never wakes up in the night.
I was just going to wait a few more motnhds and see if he decided that he didn't want a nappy anymore. I don't think you can force it. DS2 has been dry at night for over a year and has never had an accident - I think they just can or can't do it.

You guys make me feel better that I am not the only one. My DS is nearly five - dry in day and yet NEVER dry at night.It seems as if all other children we know are dry. We have truly tried everything.He wees before bed and we always lift him at nine-ish yet still he is wet. Again, a very deep sleeper. If he doesn't wear pullups he will def wet bed - we have tried a couple of times - he will sleep all night in a wet bed and not wake up.Last night he filled three pullups!! No exaggeration!I agree with Tommy that they just can or can't do it as DD is 2.5 and dry at night.I also read somewhere that there is a hormone that has to kick in - don't know if this is true??
My next step is the alarm thingy which apparently can work well. I don't want to make a big deal of it with him but it does really worry me.

there is nothing you can do.
nothing at all, except stress him out about it. he wont get up to go d o a wee, until serotonin production in his brain is at the appropriate level. until then, there is nothing that can be done to stop him wetting himself.
this is perfectly within the range of normal nt functioning.
put a plastic undersheet underneath the bedsheet. use pyjama pants, as pull ups tend not to hold the copius amounts of wee a six year old produces, or get some motherease bedwetter pants. show him how to use the washing machine, and dont make a fuss. eventually he will grow out of it.
at age six, something like ten percent of all children are still bedwetting. health professionals wont refer till age seven, and even then, they will only suggest what i have suggested. check out the eneurisis website for more info.

relax, it will resolve itself eventually (ds1 wasnt dry till 5.5 and ds2 not till 6.6)

We are also in the same situation. DD 5 next week, still wets at night- like you guys I think she's a deep sleeper. She's been dry in the daytime for years but night time is another story. I have heard about the hormone too. Looked for eneurisis on the net and found some info

My second child is 3.5 how will I know when he is ready? I don't want to 'baby' him just because his older sister is still not dry.

just do the potty training as usual.
dc3 was dery at night within a few weeks of being dry during the day. a good three years before her older brother.

I wouldn't have thought showing a child how to work the washing machine is the answer. To me, that sounds like punishment - ' clean up your own mess'.
My Ds is almost 10 and up until about 18 months ago, he still had the odd accident in bed. I didn't make a big deal of it until the last couple of times when it happened twice in a very short time(think I was pg and hormonal). I don't think you can seriously make a huge deal of it in general though, that just makes them fearful of wetting and shameful and could possibly lead on to all kinds of psycological problems.
I made the rule of no drink after X time and ensured he went for a wee before bed and when he was wetting, I got him out of bed before I went to sleep for him to go to the toilet.

on the contrary.
ds would be upset in the morning, and i would say, dont worry about. he would then take wet stuff to washing machine downstairs, and have a shower to clean himself.
much less fuss than me doing it. and sorted faster than anything if i did it. simply part of the morning routine. i would make thebed up later in the day.
the point is to make as less fuss of it as possible. to ensure child does not feel punished for it. and calmly sorting thejmselves out is the appropriate approach

would you yell at a four month old for wetting themselves? no. i dont think so.

My son is 7 and still occasionally wants to wear a pull up. He is also a very heavy sleeper.

I feel for my 4 year old daughter as she wants to be dry at night and says she never will be. (She wants the chocolate man.)

I agree with stitch. FWIW my DS2 was dry at night long before my DS1, even though DS2 is two years younger. But DS1 did eventually get there - it just happened when he was 7.

I would stick with the pull up and not stress him out over it.

Just read your message today - maybe you have your problem resolved but I thought I would give you my thoughts. When my DD turned 5 she wanted to be a big girl and not wear the pull-ups. I was up nearly every night changing the bed and her. The School Nurse then advised me to give her loads to drink during the day or up to about 4pm and then only about half a cup of milk or water - not juice with the evening meal and make sure she went to the toilet before she went to bed at 7pm. This worked great for us. We noticed a big change. She is six now and the past year has been great with very few accidents - maybe only on the odd occasion when she goes to bed overtired. She too was a deep sleeper. All the best. Hope you get it sorted but if not don't panic. The health professionals say it can take up to age 7.