What Age Do Kids Stop Wearing Night Pull-up?

Being dry while a child is sleeping is NOT something that child has any control over. There are kids 12-14 that still wet every night, even with medical intervention.

Kids wear pullups so parents don't have to live with tons of laundry every day and have worn out blankets and bedding. It's silly to have to wash pee laundry every day.

Kids have NO CONTROL over what their body does while they are asleep. None at all.

Please don't "LOL" about a kid who looks 12 on a box of pull-ups. LOTS of kids (my own included) deal with not being able to stay dry at night. My 9 1/2 year old daughter wants SO BADLY to not wet the bed. We tried all the tricks years ago, and finally talked to the pediatrician. She is not physically able to control it right now. She has avoided sleepover invitations for years. Last weekend she was invited to sleep at a friend's house. She wanted to go, but she asked me, with tears in her eyes, "What do I do about the pull-up? Should I bring a bag to tie it up in in the morning, so no one notices?" It made me so sad that she's embarrassed. She went on the sleepover. The next morning when I was helping her clean out her overnight bag I saw the pull-up, wet, and wrapped in a plastic grocery bag. She didn't even want to leave it there, for fear someone would find it and make fun of her.

I'm sorry if you feel that I'm easily offended. But the thought that other moms out there may also be "LOLing" about older kids in pull-ups breaks my heart and makes me want to cry for my daughter.

My daughter was 5, but potty trained at 2.5, both boys were 3 and it happened at the same time as potty training. So it is different for each kid.

My younger brother wet the bed until he was 10 or 11....so it really depends.

My kids have a double whammy...both my husband and I were night wetters til about 10-12 years old. Our parents never had us using pull ups. We just did a lot of laundry.

Our oldest stopped wetting when he was 11.

Our daughter is 10 and still wets at night.

Our youngest just turned 7 and still wets at night.

They all potty trained by 2 years old with no day time issues.

Night time wetting is entirely different...there is no conscious choice to use the toilet. It is merely left up to the brain to trigger you to wake up. There is a hormone that increases to tell the brain that the bladder is full. The doctors have said that it takes some time for the body to create enough of that hormone...and in my kids' cases...a LOOOONG time.

Other factors against my kids...my kids are deep sleepers. They were sleeping through the night by 8 weeks old and we trained them to sleep through all kinds of noises. They are also very tall for their age...all close to 100% percentile. We are tall people.

Soooo, with all that against them..they don't wake up through the night easily no matter if we restrict drinking,wake them up through the night, keep the pull ups off or use a sticker chart. They don't wake up!

The doctors have told us that we need to not worry about this. It will all happen when their body is ready. Sure enough by age 11 our son started waking up on his own. Halelujah!!! He is 13 now.

Our daughter attended a school sleep away camp this past June. She took her pull ups with her and was able to discretely take care of business.

Soooo, just be patient. It will all happen when your child's body matures. Talk to your pediatrician...that helped us to better understand this issue and that is wasn't laziness. You don't have to use pull ups. As my kids get older...I teach them to do their own laundry. It makes them feel more power over this powerless issue.

Good luck and best wishes!!

It really depends. I don't think "potty training" is possible - it's not a teachable skill. Kids develop when they develop, and the "Bladder is full, better wake up" signal to the brain can be late in arriving. I shouldn't even say "late" because that sounds like something is wrong. Some kids walk at 8 months, some at 15 months. Some talk early, some not until 18 months.

The reason those big kids are on the package is that the manufacturer wants everyone to know that these products are used well past the age of 4! A lot of kids go well into elementary school and occasionally some (particularly boys) aren't reliably dry until 10 or 11. (There is a medication that can help when absorbent underwear is no longer socially acceptable - we wound up doing that because our kid never slept a full night, never could go to sleepovers, and so on.)

Kids don't "learn" to control wetting during the night, their bodies eventually produce the hormone vasopressin, which slows the production of urine while sleeping, resulting in less pressure on the bladder. That hormone kicks in at different ages, usually between 2-12, though sometimes later or earlier.

Yeah, kids are all very different. Some are able to respond to those cues for using the toilet while sleeping, other kids aren't.

We were lucky. When Kiddo was about 3.5 yrs, he asked to stop wearing diapers to bed. We trusted him, got the 'rubber' sheets for his bed, and let him wear undies. But really, I know kids who used help at night until they were nearly ten, so there's a broad spectrum.

My son is about to turn 5, was day trained at 3.5 and now is finally night trained.

It is not thier fault that they wet the bed. Many different reasons contribute to them wetting the bed. ADHD/Sensory/small bladder etc... So this is not something that they can necessarily control.

I know 8-10 year olds that wet the bed.. and 2 year olds that don;t ..

Totally depends on the child and when they are physically mature enough to stay dry at night. Night time dryness has nothing to do with wanting to it not, it's all 100% biological. My boys could not stay dry at night until around their 5th birthday. My daughter just turned 4 and is not dry at night yet. It is still not unheard of at 8 even.

All kids are different, yes... my son was day and night potty trained at 2 1/2 (to none of my credit; he did it by himself). My daughter wore pull-ups until she was 7. One difference for mine is that my son is a light sleeper and my daughter could sleep through a bomb going off. Even now (at 9) she very rarely wakes up at night to pee, and usually just goes before bed and in the morning. But it took quite a wile for her bladder to be mature enough to hold it all night.

We never used pull ups, why add another stage, and extra expense, to the process?
Started with potty training undies/rubber pants during the day, diapers at night for the first several weeks. Once they had some level of control accidents were few and far between.
Three kids, boy, girl, girl, last one ADHD, all potty trained between 22 and 26 months. Boy was the easiest :-)

Our son was finished with them at night when he woke up for 2 solid weeks in a row dry.
He was 7 1/2 yrs old at the time.
Some of his friends were 11 or 12 yrs old before they stopped wetting the bed.
Ask any pediatrician and they'll tell you it's quite common.

We never used pull ups but my daughter was night time trained at 3.5. My second daughter turned 3 in April and she wakes up dry. We still put her in a diaper because I haven't gotten a mattress cover yet but I'm planning on getting that this weekend. My niece is 4 and she uses pull ups at night. My nephew just turned 5 and recently stopped needing them at night.

My son never wore pull ups to begin with, and hasn't wore a diaper since just after his 2nd birthday. I can count how many accidents he's had on 1 hand and only because he was sedated for medical tests. My daughter is only 17 months old and is well on her way to being day time potty trained, and does wake up dry so I suspect she will be like her brother.

my son 3.. my daughter still wears them at 7

never used pull-ups. I consider them a waste of money.

with both sons, they were night-trained about 6 months after daytime success.

My son was 3.5 when he stopped wearing them. My daughter is 7.5 and just stopped using them last month. Every kid is different.

My kids never wore them because it just seemed to defeat the purpose...that and my kids were dry all night months before they were ready to potty train.

My 6 y.o. DS still needs them at night and my 3.5 y.o DS stopped using them several months ago! Everyone's different, even within families!

Somewhere between 2 and 8yo.

When they consistently woke up with a dry pull up. All of ours were about 3 or 3 1/2, I think.

I used cloth full time with my oldest. With my son, we used disposables at night. But as soon as he started using the toilet consistently during the day, I switched him to cloth at night.

They both night trained at 21 months. We never used pull-ups. Both kids did get up a few nights a week for a good long while after that. In fact, my 3.5 year old still gets up about once a week to go in the middle of the night.

My daughter had just turned 2 when she was fully day and night potty trained. Literally with in a week of her birthday she was sleeping in her underwear.

My son was about 4. He was day time trained just after turning 3 and night time just after turning 4. He was a bit harder to potty train than my daughter

I'm going through this right now with my almost 4 year old. His older brother was fully potty trained at 18 months and night at just after 2, but my middle kiddo was not ready at the same age so we didn't push it. He was day trained at 3 (after lots of hard work) and still has accidents when he is very distracted. I recently decided to try to help him with night training ( he recently had his tonsils out for sleep apnea issues which is supposed to help with the night wetting issues in some kids) so I spent the next month waking him up ( and me) at 1am and 5am... and after a month of sleep deprivation, I finally asked my mom for suggestions. She told me to just let it go, that it will happen differently for every kid but there is no forcing it on a sleeping kid, they have no conscious control over that yet ( which I knew) and to stop worrying about it so much... plus waking him up would just perpetuate the problem because he needs to let his body learn to either wake up itself or hold the pee until morning. So I'm doing just that... not worrying so much and letting my son's body do what it needs to do, giving it its own chance to mature outside my timeline. My daughter on the other hand seems to be following her oldest brother... she's 15 months and already wakes up dry many times... though we haven't trained her yet for day because she hasn't quite showed readiness yet. Anyway, it truly is different for each kid even within a family ( glad to hear I'm not alone though) and actually some is genetic too ( most of the boys in my family wet the bed until 5-7, some later than that)! So hopefully your kiddo stops wetting the bed sooner, but if not, know you aren't alone either! :-)