Nighttime "training" - worth persevering

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DS, 4 in January, has been dry in the day for over a year now but has always wet at night, sometimes soaking through a nappy.
He is, however, very keen to get out of nappies at night (and I am equally keen to stop buying nappies). WE have done four nights nappy free and he has wet once each night. He is very keen to carry on (he is after the reward I promised him) but is it reaslly just a sign he is not ready? Or do these things sort themselves if we just keep trying I am a bit in the dark about this, we just took DD's nappy off when she was dry in the morning but she was much younger).
Thanks.

He isn't ready if he's soaking each night. Every child is different, so no point comparing. When he has a run of dry in the morning nappies you can try without. He needs to be producing a hormone that regulates urine production during sleep, no-one knows when it will happen, HCP's won't think night wetting a problem until a child is 7.

Some DC are actually dry during the night before they are dry in the day, which demonstrates that a child cannot be 'trained' at night, it is purely developmental.

Thanks, his ADH levels are fine (he had a hormone panel for another reason) so biologically he is able, but behaviorally perhaps not yet.