Our son is 4.5 years old. He is potty trained during the day- although he does have slight accidents when he waits too long to go because he is playing. However, he is far from night trained- he has never woken up dry, and completely drenches his pull up every night. This is very confusing for my husband and I as he does not even come close to urinating this much during the day. We are trying to determine if this is an issue of him not having the ability to control his bladder or something else driving it. We are trying a couple of different methods to help him get better during this- but was hoping other Mom's might have some tips or tricks to share!
My son is also 4 and a half. We are doing the alarm thing also. I see one other post that they said they tried it. We are going on three months. My son is a very heavy sleeper, and used to wet through a pull-up every night also. Since we got the alarm he is down to waking up once or twice a week and is dry the rest of the time. Because he is a heavy sleeper, he still can't quite wake up before he goes, but it does seem to be working.
This question comes up frequently on this website. Wetting at night is VERY normal up until age 6 or older. There are many resources describing this as normal. Here are two: http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/commonproblems/bed...
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/par...
There is NO NEED to treat this behavior until after age six or later. 8% of all eight year olds still wet at night.
My daughter was potty trained by age 2. She continued to need to wear pull-ups at night until she was 6. She gradually had more and more dry nights. At 7 she does not wet at night anymore. There is nothing you can do to speed up the process of your son's body developing to be able to be dry at night. Say a thanks for Pull-ups, use a water proof mattress protector, and make sure he does not think there is something "wrong" with him.
When my granddaughter was at this phase (and if she spent the night with me) I would get her up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. It was no big deal for me because half the time I needed to get up myself to go pee and thankfully, both of us would go right back to sleep.
We went through the same thing with our son a couple of years ago when he was 5. What we tried that finally worked was having him wear an alarm at night that clipped to his underwear and went off (loudly!) as soon as it got wet. It was a pain at first because someone had to sleep downstairs on the couch so that we were close to his room to go take him to the bathroom when the alarm went off, but I would say that it took less than 2 months until he was completely dry at night all the time. I was a little skeptical at first because our son was a heavy sleeper and would be absolutely soaked every time he got up in the morning, but this really worked! Good luck--I know it is frustrating!
My 4 and 4 month old little girl has been wearing night-time diapers (pull-ups) since she was potty trained. We tried no diapers at night but, because of the occasional accident, she feels safer with a diaper at night. I figure, at this age, there is no need to push the training at night until they feel very comfortable and secure. I think if your son can go for a couple of months without a wet diaper at night then he's ready.
Good Luck!
I limit liquids around 6pm. My daughters bed time is around 7:30pm but since the Christmas break at school she had been going to bed closer to 9. Then I make her go to the bathroom before bed. She is down to maybe 1 accident a week.
At first I worried about our daughter who will be 5 in May. She is still not going the whole night. She has been daytime trained for almost three years now with no problems. She goes the occasional night...maybe two times a month where she wakes up dry otherwise she has a full pullup. From what I understand and ready especially with family history we are looking at an age closer to six before we start having dry nights. She tries; she knows she gets rewarded if she goes the whole night, she is so happy when she does...but she is just such a heavy sleeper she doesn't wake up to go. We could take her to the bathroom every night before we go to bed, and we would probably do that for a few years but would rather not take that step right now and just see how she does. We do limit her fluid intake at night. Nothing past 6 and just about an ounce or so for bedtime.
i have a daughter that turned 6 in august and she still wears a pull-up at night and wets it every night. i just asked the doctor about it 2 weeks ago at an appointment and she said it's a hormone that they have not developed yet. she said you can try cutting back on fluids a couple hours before bedtime and have them go before bed and then wake them up before you go to bed to have them try again, but it won't completly resolve itself until the child developes that hormone (i forgot what hormone it is) she assured me that she will develop the hormone and won't be wearing a pull-up forever. i talked to an ecfe teacher who has a child in pull-ups at night that is 9 so as frustrating as it is, you may have to wait a while and there's not much you can do about it
Hi Carrie,
I am having the exact same issue. I was told to put my son on a multi-vitamin. Something other than Flinstones and then take him to get an adjustment with a chiropracter. We have done the viatmin thing but haven't tried an adjustment yet. If you hear of any other ways to help with this problem, would you be so kind as to let me know. I am tired of doing laundry constantly. Thanks!!!
T. D
