night time PT

amiamish

Jake still wakes up wet at night. We try to limit his water/fluid intake but I don't think he's *ever* woke up dry. He can stay dry during the day for nap time with rare accidents. When should he be night trained? Is there any way we can train him? Does it work to let him wear underwear to bed and wake up wet, or will that just cause a lot of laundry for me?

and advice?

Starr57

From what I've read, it takes a good one to two years for most kids to be night PTed. DS still isn't there and I'm just biding my time.

justEK

I don't know the answer, but we dream pee. It used to be dream feed, and now this. She goes right back to sleep and never remembers it!

r9stedt

I've been working on this for about two months now.  You know that though.    The last two nights I haven't even dream peed him and he has been dry.  I just jinxed myself though!  He will piss the bed tonight!

Mominator

There is some good advice in this post

https://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/52828624.aspx

amiamish

  how the hell do you "dream pee" ??! I don't think I could get DS to get up out of bed, stand at the toliet, and pee, without waking up.

r9stedt:

I've been working on this for about two months now.  You know that though.    The last two nights I haven't even dream peed him and he has been dry.  I just jinxed myself though!  He will piss the bed tonight!

actually I thought L was fully night trained. I hope he doesn't wet the bed tonight

justEK

Well, I have a girl, so I have no clue! I'm not there with DS yet.

amiamish

Mominator:

There is some good advice in this post

https://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/52828624.aspx

very helpful, thank you!

Mickschick

Nathan and Morgan have been daytime trained for a long time now (well Nathan has the battle of sh!tying his pants but he's slowly getting better @ that..). They wore pull ups at night and never woke up dry. One night I just decided with Morgan I was going to let her sleep in her underwear because I think she found out a friend from preschoolbslept in underwear. She's only had a handful of accidents. Nathan wearing underwear to bed about a week later. Again- he never woke up dry either. He's had about double the accidents she has- but they are far and few between and not everynight. I did dreampee both of them- although now I just dreampee Nathan. I carry him into the bathroom (not easy since he sleeps on the topbunk) and sit him on the toilet and point it down for him (or he pees through the crack and I get covered in pee). So I'm in the "try it and see what happens" camp. Good luck!

jen5-03

I told E if her diaper was dry 7 nights in a row that she could wear panties to bed. She can make it about 4 nights and then wakes up wet. The thing is, I know when she pees. About 5am I hear her cry out over the monitor. She doesn't wake up, she just pees. When sleeping in grandma's bed, grandma confirmed that she could smell pee then. So she's making it through most of the night, just not quite all the way.

Anyway, last week she was really going on and on about sleeping in panties so I let her sleep in them even though she hasn't made it 7 nights in a row. So she's been dry 3 out of 4 nights. If it's just one accident a week I guess we'll keep up with it.

jlw2505

Day and night training are totally different and not at all related.  A child just needs to get mature enough (not really the right word) to have his mind wake him up when he has the sensation that he needs to go.  This can be very hard for some kids and can take years.  I know a few kids that trained between 2-3 and at 5 are still not night trained.  My nephew who is a very deep sleeper was not fully night trained until her was around 10 which is rare but does happen.  It is very rare for kids (like my older DD) to day and night time train at the same time or close to it.  My younger DD has been day and nap trained since March but is no where close to being night trained.  You can't train this and waking kids to go at night does nothing as far as the training part - just makes for tired kids/parents.  You just have to give it time.

BethPSU

I think with overnights it is a physical developmental thing.  I was fully expecting DS to take a long time since my MIl always talks about how long it took DH to not wet the bed.  However, he was fully day trained at 21 months and stopped wearing pullups to bed when he was about 27 mos. I think.  I guess he takes after me instead of DH.