Nighttime potty training 5 year old - help?

[Newdaynewnames]

Hello, I’m not sure if potty training is the right term for night time, but I’m trying to get my 5 year old out of nappies at night.

We’ve had 1 dry night out of about 6 so far - and a lot of laundry!

He seems to wet himself in the night, rather than in the early hours, which makes me wonder if he’s physically for it? If it was in the early hours I’d feel like it was just a learned laziness to shift him away from.

Can anyone shed any light on how to know your child is ready? And how long should it take until they work it out and (mostly) stop wetting the bed?

Thanks for any advice or ideas!

He isnt ready.

In my experience, it's totally unrelated to daytime toilet training, and there isn't that much you can do, except be patient. I read somewhere it's do with hormonal maturity?

There are drugs/alarms etc but in the majority of cases, so long as it's primary bedwetting (never been dry at night more than a few nights consecutively) not secondary bedwetting (used to be dry at night for 6 months or longer, then started bedwetting after illness or trauma)... they will just get there when they get there.

All 4 of mine were reliably toilet trained during the day by age 2 and a half. 2nd and 4th one came out of night nappies within a few weeks of coming out of daytime nappies, and pretty much never wet the bed. Oldest child and 3rd child were not reliably dry at night until about 8 years old.

I used to put them in pull ups at night (called them "night pants" to make it sound less humiliating) when we were away from home. At home, I doubled up the sheets - waterproof sheet with a cotton sheet, then a 2nd waterproof sheet and cotton sheet on top, clean pj's and a laundry basket close to the bed so we could quickly strip the top layer and wet pj's and get them back into bed in the middle of the night.

Just wait. It’s hormonal.

Thanks all, I was wondering if it was just the hormones and he wasn’t quite ready. I think we’ll give it a rest for a while and save ourselves all the extra washing