Dry at night?

[MissScarletInTheBallroom]

I keep reading that night time dryness is hormonal, but starting to have doubts.

My DS is 4 and has zero issues during the day but he still wears a nappy at night and we haven't attempted to remove it yet. The problem is that he sleeps very soundly for about 11 hours and he pees A LOT overnight. Quite often he soaks right through his size 7 nappy and his pyjamas are wet in the morning. We are trying to be more consistent about making him pee immediately before bed (he goes to the toilet for a poo before bath time/story time but we are trying to make sure he goes a second time) but even then he is soaking his nappy every night. I don't think he drinks that much water in the evenings, usually just a small glass with dinner.

When is it a problem? Is there anything I need to be doing to get him to be dry at night, or is it one of those things we have no control over?

His younger sister (2.5) is potty training at the moment, and sometimes she wakes up completely dry, which is making me wonder.

Speaking from experience:

DS was dry day and night at 2 (more or less the same time.

DD (high functioning autistic) is still in Drynites at 9 (nearly 10).

I don’t think it can be trained.

As I said in another thread, in my Mum’s 1980s parenting manual it says being wet at night is usual until 5 and not uncommon until 7 and advises either a rubber sheet or night nappies, whichever the child prefers.

That said, my Mum did the whole “lifting”
thing with me from about age 3 (waking me
up in the middle of the night to wee).

I don’t know if that is still recommended, mind!

Thanks for the replies. I haven't tried waking/lifting him at night. He sleeps so soundly and would be like a dead weight!

We have just started the therapee programme with my son. I had massive doubts but it has been great so far. He has gone from soaked through every night to having five out of seven nights completely dry and we are only in week 4. It was brutal the first week but has really helped and boosted his confidence. I didn’t think night dryness could be trained but it is clearly working for us.

edited to say my son is 5!

They don’t advise waking anymore as they need to learn to do this themselves.

my son is 8 and still not dry at night and one of the things we’ve learned about him is that he doesn’t drink enough in the day and has a habit of holding until last minute so his bladder isn’t stretching enough to then hold enough at night. Regular drinks and toilet trips in the day will help. Also no blackcurrant as this can irritate the bladder. My youngest is 4 and rarely wet at night but he’s back and forth to the toilet all day and drinks plenty in comparison so I do think there’s truth in it. The hormone needs to develop too. I wouldn’t worry at 4 as think it’s still pretty young. Some are dry by then of course but lots still aren’t.