So how do you go about night training then?

[DuffyFluckling]

Does it just happen naturally when you twig that the nappies have been dry every morning for a while?

Dd isn't there yet. She usually has a dry nappy in the morning, but when she does wet she doesn't wake up at all.

Is my aim to get her to wake if she needs to wee? Or to get her to not need a wee all night?

Just wondering.

It just happens naturally most of the time. Some people put their children on a potty in the middle of the night, others just wait until their children always have a dry nappy in the morning.

Some do a "dream wee", go in about 11 and put them on the loo hopefully without waking them too much.

Oh I don't think I fancy the idea of dream weeing her. Surely the only advantage of that is fewer nappies to wash? She'd still not have learned to either wake herself for a wee, or not to need a wee.

Wait until they have a dry pull -up for a number of nights running - I reckon about a week. Both my boys reached that stage at about 4 years of age. I didn't bother with any of this night waking because I have a bad back and can't carry them. IMO they reach the stage at their own pace - why hurry - I don't know any adults still in pull-ups!

It happened a lot earlier than I was expecting with DS - about 6 wks ago when he was 2.7, had been out of nappies in the daytime for a few months. He'd had the odd dry nappy in the morning, other times he woke up either drenched (having overflowed the nappy) or asking to go to the loo.

We just put him to bed one night with no nappy and a potty in the corner of his bedroom. We've only had one wet bed, which I think was down to the fact that he was v tired that day.

We encourage him to have a wee before his bath and again just before lights out.

dream weeing isn't really recommended - as you say it doesn't actually help them learn how to wake up themselves for a wee, or how to go through without doing one.

It's all hormone based, so not something you can specifically "train" them to do and hence all reaching it at different ages/stages. Not even considered a problem medically speaking until they're 7yrs old.

Thanks all.

Hooray! The answer is that I don't have to do anything. My favourite sort of parenting.