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Potty training

Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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any spontaneous night time dryness after 5ys in boys, or is it all down hill from here?

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dandycandyjellybean · 03/03/2011 20:08

Good news please... Dry in the day at 2.5, have tried about 5 times now in the intervening time to achieve dry nights, lifting etc, but even lifting twice a night we still end up with a wet bed.

He has a very occasional dry pull up, but mostly wet, and sometimes sodden. He is 5.5 and getting to the age where he is embarrassed about his pullups and also would no doubt like to do the having a mate for a sleep over thing, but he won't at the mo coz of his situation.

Bought the dry nights in 7 days book, and although it makes sense i haven't yet tried it (am a bit scared/skeptical). Any suggestions, advice? I just can't see anything suddenly changing...will he still be in pull ups at 10?

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feedthegoat · 03/03/2011 20:38

We got rid of pull ups about a month ago. Ds is also 5.5.

We never had dry pants and we hadn't tried before either.

He just got up one day and said he didn't want to wear them anymore. I was nervous given that his pull ups were always sodden but he's done really well. I think we have had 3 accidents since he started.

I tried lifting for the first week or so until he started objecting. I know just leave a potty in his room.

I think the important thing for ds was being in control and making the decision when he was ready. I'm sure your ds will get there in the end.

Mumleigh · 03/03/2011 20:41

sorry no suggestions but went through similar with my DS - we went with lifting as I was fed up with paying for pull ups.Like you we still had wet nights even after lifting but.We never made a fuss about the bed wetting. He would come in and tell us he was wet and we would just say ok ,don't worry and would then change the bedding and kiss him goodnight.Gradually we had more dry nights than wet and so on the night before his fifth b'day we decided to stop lifting.He was dry and apart from one accident he has been dry ever since ( 5 months now).Good Luck

kayjayel · 03/03/2011 20:44

DS is 5yrs 7mths, we tried at 5 yrs and needed to wake him and get him to the loo twice (at 10pm and at 2am) to keep him dry. He was exactly the same, embarrassed about nappies, worried about sleepovers, so wanted to try. We tried 3 weeks ago, in the first week he had 3/7 accidents, we take him to the loo between 10-11pm, and since the first week no accidents, he's so proud! This includes a sleepover last week.

There's still no way he'd take himself to the loo, and he doesn't wake up well, but we're all so glad to get rid of the nappies. We do no drinks after 6pm (which helps encourage him to drink more in the daytime, another problem). I've no idea what changed, and am still a bit worried about accidents, but hoping he can keep it up.

We never praised him for being dry, but for getting up and going to the loo when he wanted to stay in bed, so he was being praised for something he could control, rather than being dry (which I didn't think he was in control of). I still think he just sleeps too deeply to wake up.

Hope that helps with positive news!

deepdarkwood · 03/03/2011 20:59

As someone with a ds who wets nearly every night at 7, I'm not going to be the voice you want to hear - but I know of lots of others who have become dry in the intervening time...
Tell me more about the book - what's the plan?

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dandycandyjellybean · 04/03/2011 12:13

thanks, sorry for delay in replying, and thanks for all your input. The book is based on nlp techniques, and the idea is that you spend those 7 days working really intensly with your child, getting his to visualise what life will be like, draw pictures of what it will be like when he's dry, what things he will be able to do, etc.

Also working with the imagination, getting him to imagine that his bladder has a gate and imagine shutting that gate tightly at night, and also other things like preparing the way to the toilet, nightlights etc and getting him to 'do the walk' with you several times in the dark with the nightlights so that he is familiar with the route, adn i beleive there is even a download for him to listen to as he goes to sleep.

Part of me thinks if all else fails I might give it a try, but it seems a bit ott for now. Will try a lnk to it

www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Bedwetting-Days-step-step/dp/1904312705/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299240638&sr=8-3

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