How long before LO woke up dry?

VTbride05 · September 2011

DS is a great water drinker.

That's the good thing.

But he can not "hold it" at night. He wears an overnight pull up and wakes up SOAKED. We do not limit his fluids as every night he plays baseball after dinner and gets very hot and thirsty. But I monitor it after dinner and he doesnt have a whole lot. I have him go pee twice b/w dinner and bedtime.

I don't really mind that he pees at night. It's not a big deal. But I wish that he could hold it a little. Do you think that it teaches them better to wear undies to bed?

Just looking for thoughts/other experiences (this stems from DS's two younger cousins now wearing undies at night...).

TIA!

Mrs Manners · September 2011

Ds is completely dry during the day and has been for months (maybe 6?). However, he is so wet at night that he has to wear a diaper PLUS a liner made for incontinent men (like a pad crossed with depends) and often his diaper still leaks onto his sheets. We do cut off his fluids after dinner and he goes potty twice but it doesn't matter. He's not physically able to wake up at night and know that he needs to go. I figure it'll be sometime next year probably before we start getting dry nights.

VTbride05 · September 2011

-auntie-:
Most kids are unable to be consistently dry until 2 full years after they acheive daytime dryness. This is developmentally and neurologically determined. He'll get there when he gets there.

Stop comparing him to his cousins.

Good info to know, thanks!

And yes I know, I shouldn't compare. But it happens. I wasn't worried and like I said, it is fine that he wets at night. I was just curious about others.

anna7602 · September 2011

I really think it depends on the kid. I don't believe in witholding liquids and I definitely don't believe in making a kid sleep in a wet bed to "teach" them to hold it (not that you're saying that, but one person I know IRL suggested this to another mom once, yikes!).

DD was waking up dry for about a month straight last summer, when she was just a little over two, and that's when we switched to underwear at night. I take no credit for it. She can just go an unnaturally long time without peeing. I envy her since I still wake up at least once a night to pee. She drinks a ton of water in the evening and drinks one full sippy cup throughout the night since our heat is cranked up in the winter and we don't have air conditioning in the summer. This doesn't affect to her ability to hold it in all night.

Some people I know set alarms at regular intervals to get their kids to the potty duing the night. That seems like an awful lot of work to me, but I think they got the idea from some book that lays out a methodic game plan and has your kid waking up on his or her own eventually when s/he has the urge to pee during the night.

jerol · September 2011

My second was 3.5. My first is 5.5 and is still soaked in the morning. She is a hard sleeper and will not wake up in the middle of the night for anything!

jnksmom · September 2011

I think it depends on the child. Some children develop the ability to hold it overnight earlier than others.

DS potty trained during the day at 25 months. He turned 4 in April and started staying dry at night in May and has not had an accident since the middle of May. FWIW, we did limit his liquid intake after dinner(very little to no liquids between dinner and bed) and he peed before bath and before bed. It did not seem to matter.

DD potty trained during the day at 19 months and slept in a pull up for 2 weeks(was dry every night). She has had 1 accident overnight in 1.5yrs. We have never limited her liquid intake because she wakes up if she has to pee which happens about 1 night a week.

June2007 · September 2011

I do think that switching to underwear at night for a week will help you judge weather or not he is truely capable and ready. We started a sticker chart with 20 squares and told DD that she could go pick out a big toy from TRU if she could fill it up. Then we ditched the night time pull ups (she was waking up dry a lot before this but would go back and forth) and switched to panties. She had maybe 3-4 accidents in the first week and have been great ever since. We had issues limiting fluids too much after dinner too because we typically go swimming or on a long scooter-trip/walk every night. To help her learn to wake up to pee we would get her up and take her potty in the middle of the night. This was easy for us because DH is a night owl who goes to bed late, so he would just take her before coming to bed. We only did this consistently for a few weeks and now she wakes up maybe once or twice a week on her own but she is completely diaper/pull up and accident free!

CD+AL · September 2011

DS has been completely day trained for almost 2 yrs, and he still wakes up SOAKED. He wears a regular Huggies diaper plus a diaper doubler, and still leaks from time to time. I read about someone having their DC wear underwear under the diaper for a similar effect w/o such a mess, so I tried it. Um, yeah...It leaked on the first pee. It was a disaster, so don't try that. Wink

But I don't know...I know eventually he'll get there. I'm thinking he's just not ready yet? I wish he'd get there soon b/c he really needs to move up to size 7 diapers, but they're so hard to find. The pull-up kind of diapers that come in bigger sizes don't hold as well, so I can't just switch him either.

lami22005 · September 2011

Hi!

Daughters-both potty trained a couple of months before 3 years old-dry at night within a few weeks to a month at night. My son on the other hand- a year and 2 months later, still wears a diaper to bed. If I don't put one on= wet sheets. I forgot to put one on twice last week-ugh! I figure I didn't have to "train" my daughters at night-so it's a waste of time to try and "train" my son. I figure I will know when those diapers start ending up dry in the morning.

bim38106 · September 2011

DD1 has been PTed for over a year now during the day.

She still wakes up with her pull-up ready to explode in the morning.

I've always heard you can't really "train" them for night. It's more of a developmental thing where they either can or can't hold it for that long..

futrkingsley · September 2011

You'll know he's ready to wear undies to bed when he consistently wakes up dry.

My 3 year old DS has been dry about 90% of nights since he was 20 months or so. He can hold insane amounts of urine for insane amounts of time. It took no training on my part at all. We first started noticing it when he was in diapers and he stayed in diapers until 27 months when we decided to go cold turkey to undies. We moved to undies at night after several more weeks of dry pull-ups at night. He's had maybe 6 night time accidents while sleeping since then, including one last night. They certainly aren't fun but one accident requiring changing of sheets a month isn't enough for me to keep him in diapers or wake him up to pee every night. We don't limit fluids but insist (to his annoyance) that he try to pee before bed very night.

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