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Night time potty training 4.5yr DS

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CornishCreamPuff · 02/08/2014 23:13

DS aged 4.5 has been dry during the day for 2 years but still wakes up with a wet nappy every morning. He is absolutely desperate to get out of night pull ups as none of his peers wear night time pull ups. Every morning he wakes up and then feels sad when his nappy is wet.
Feeling a bit clueless about the whole thing as we'd also like to stop buying nappies for him.

Is there anything we can do to help him along? He's always been a good sleeper, doesn't really wake up at night and is in his room for 12 hours a night.


Feeling like we've hit a wall and need some advice in how to proceed..

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OutragedFromLeeds · 02/08/2014 23:19

Don't give him too much to drink before he goes to bed.

Lift him onto the the loo before you go to bed. You don't need to wake him up properly, just put him on there and he should go.

Other than that there isn't much you can do, if he isn't ready he isn't ready.

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CatWithKittens · 03/08/2014 11:48

We were told not to lift ours unless we woke them properly as it can encourage a child to learn to wet in his or her sleep. We were also told that there is both a genetic and hormonal contribution to later than usual night time dryness - to to be more exact the lack of a hormone contributes to the problem. What we were really told was just to abide in patience, use nappies for so long as a child did not feel demeaned or "babied" by them and to settle in for a long haul. It was a long haul but we've eventually got there with the older ones. Like most other apparent problems, this one is not as bad as some and it will pass - I speak as a mother of 5.

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Sleepyfergus · 10/08/2014 22:57

My DD1 was day time trained at 2.8yrs but is now 4.9 and still in pull ups at bedtime.

My mum foolishly persuaded me a few months back that "dd1 was old enough to not wear a nappy at night", so we stopped nappies, started lifting her at 11pm and had limited success. Up until that time, her nappies were still pretty wet and heavy in the morning. After a few weeks of wet nights and me washing sheets every day, we put her back in pull ups.

I had also read about lifting not actually helping, and that it's actually a hormonal thing, so you can't 'train' them as such. Compounded with the fact that dd1 is a very heavy sleeper once she's out and unlikely to wake if she needed the loo. Plus it helped knowing that 4+ is not so unusual an age to still need nappies at night.

Fast forward to the last week, and I've noticed her nappies getting lighter in the morning, and the last 3 mornings they are dry. So I'm hoping this is the start of progress for us. I think her body is starting to learn to hold anything until she wakes. Mind you, this is helped by the fact that I wake her some mornings and ensure she goes for a wee first thing.

I'm a lot more relaxed about it now, and will be for when dd2 starts potty training. And I won't be listening to my mum! (Who means well, bless). Each kid is just different.

Good luck!

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