Night time toilet training

[MerryLou]

My 3 years and 9 month old has been toilet trained for a year but started having a prolonged regression. It seemed having pull ups on at night was an issue so to try to check if giving him independence at night would help the day, I committed to night time training. It's clear he's not ready but I've shot myself in the foot because he refuses to go back to pull ups at night now. Daytime has got better which is great but just need advice for nighttime. I feel he thinks I'm punishing him trying to get him back in pull ups so I'm giving in before bed and letting him sleep without. Should I just keep going and see it as night time training and he'll get there at some point or do I keep having the fight before bed with pull ups and start at a later time?

You can’t train night dryness as it’s hormonal. Can you put a nappy on after he‘s asleep or might he agree to wear one with pants underneath?

My son also refused nappies at night as soon as he was potty trained, at 2.5yrs. I made sure he’d done a wee before bed and then used to take him for a ‘dream wee’ at about 10/11pm before I went to bed. This saw him through til morning. Would that help?

He wasn't up for having both on, he had the same melt down to just nappy but that's a great tip to wait until he's asleep. Thank you! I'll give it a try however, not sure if it was fluke but he had a dry night last night so will give another few nights to help us decide.

We did a couple of visits to the toilet before bed last night and it was a success so we shall see! How long was it for you before you thought yours was ok at night, or was it from 2.5?

My son was day trained at 27 months but we only took the night pull up off about 3 and a few months I think, when he'd been dry for a couple of weeks in a row. It took a good 2-3 months I'd say before he was really reliably dry.
He then went through a phase of wetting again every night despite having been dry for 6 months! Of course like yours he point blank refused a nappy and I wasn't sure it was the right thing to do anyway.
Good that you've had a dry night, fingers crossed!
We have found we have to be really strict with fluids after teatime, ie allow sips only. If he guzzles which he sometimes does anyway, you can almost guarantee a wet bed. If we're staying away somewhere we mitigate for this by waking him at 11pm to go. And insist on trying for a wee as the absolute last thing before lights off.

We day trained at 2.5, and from that point on he just refused to wear a nappy at all, day, night and naps. I could have forced it, but because the dream wees were working out fine, then I saw no need to distress him. I would never had night trained at 2.5 – it's unusually early. His twin was happy to wear a nappy for sleep, and she was then dry at night from 4yrs old. I can't remember when I dropped the dream wees ...