dry at night?....

[morninggirl]

at what age is average for a child to be dry thru the night?

I'm not sure there's an average, I think it varies hugely.

DD was a few weeks short of her 5th birthday.

ds just turned 4 and is still wet most nights and i'm not sure what/how to handle it... thanks

Mine were both dry by 2 years old. I used cloth nappies and never pull ups so that may have been a factor.

Have you tried her without a nappy? Dd's nappy was always sodden every morning which I took as a sign that she wasn't ready - but having read on here that that might not be the case I tried her without. The first time around her 4th birthday was a disaster, but when we tried again a few months later Bingo!

It just happened - I didn't do any lifting, restricting drinks or anything like that, it was just that she was ready.

I agree with Surfermum. DD1 had a bit of a regression (dirty protest!) when DD2 arrived and I started her back in some very expensive funky nappies....she was wet every morning. After a couple of weeks we had words and I left her without - no wet bed since!

I think that psychologically just having a nappy on lets them know that they can wee IYSWIM?

Remember that some children cannot be dry for physiological reasons. My friends son had drugs when he was about 6 I think but before that the HPs advised no lifting etc.

Another friend has a 6 year old girl who was dry briefly but then one night went back in a pull up (was sharing bed with a relative)and they are back to square one.

I was very lucky with mine I think.

My top tip is to buy a wee sheet thing from Hippchick. They are very good and if you get a big one you could cut it in half and have two on the go.here. Maybe you could then try going cold turkey for a week and see how she goes? Do it now whilst you can dry the sheets on the line if she wets the bed.

Morninggirl, DS is 5.4 and still needs a nappy at night.
We realised we had run out yesterday at 7.30pm so put him to bed without.
DH lifted him at 11pm.
I changed the bed at 2.30am and 5.30am.
He finally woke up dry at 7am.

I was wondering about going cold turkey to see if he was just used to having a nappy. But now I think I'll wait a bit longer.

I'm with surfermum. My Dd was dry during the day since 2.5 but we kept nightime nappies til 3.5 - as they were often wet. We came back from holiday and I'd run out, so I just said "oh you're getting a big girl now and don't need a nappy anymore", making sure there were plenty of clean sheets and since then she has only had a handful of accidents (now 4.5) We did put her old potty in her bedroom and occasionally she will wake up and use that - thankfully mostly for a wee....

DS1 is 3.4, he always wakes up in the morning with a wet nappy. Last night was his first night without a pull up and he stayed dry all night .
We thought we'd give him a try now as me & DH are both off work for a couple of weeks and the weather is nice for line drying .

Just hoping that last night wasn't a one off!

Good luck all of you. Here's to a nappy free summer!

My DS is 3.11 and we are on about Day 6 of trying him at night with no nappy. He has managed 2 nights in a row with no accidents after I lifted him before I went to bed but this is a nightmare as he gets really upset and in turn wakes up DD (14months). Last night I woke him, he did a huge wee but had three further accidents in the night. We seem to be going backwards rather than forwards, I am shattered from the broken sleep and today went and got some of the Night Shorts but when I got them home they are to all intents and purposes a pull up with crepe paper round them and I just know that if I put it on he will think it is a nappy and wee in it rather than get up. I am undecided as to whether to give up thinking he may not be ready or to just persevere and leave him in just PJ's and keep on washing...from reading everyones comments I think I may just carry on regardless and stop limiting fluids and waking him for a wee. I suppose he has to learn to do it for himself...

ok, my ignorant side is about to show...

what is lifting?

(ps: thanks for all the responses!)

It's when you wake them and take them to the toilet.

We've just had our 2nd dry night .
We're not lifting him but he does have a potty in his room which he knows he can use if he needs to.

We just started this last week with DD (3.3) when we finished a nappy packet I said that that was it (I hid a couple of them for emergencies).
DD was never dry in the mornings while wearing a nappy, but we've had 3 dry nights so far.
DD's biggest challenge was that she hates doing poos in the toilet, so would always wait for the nappy to do them. Now she has to do the toilet. So far it's working ok, though I'm sure we'll have a horrible pooey bed at some point in the future...

My big tip is to put a waterproof sheet down, then a normal sheet and the do that again, so that if you have to change the bed in the night, you just whip off the top sheet and the bed is already made underneath. I also bought a 2nd duvet which is ready in a cover so that bed changing takes seconds and DD doesn't have to wake up too much.

Good luck!

Dry for the 3rd night in a row!
100% success rate so far

-nods- thanks otherside....

is that something that's common to be done at this stage? i'm still a bit ignorant i think!!

I don't know how common it is. I heard about it on here.