Some advice please girls in how I can toilet train my son for night time?

[Twoterrorsmum]

Hi girls:wave:
I have a 4 yr old DS and would really like to have him toilet trained for night time. He wears Dri-nites to bed.
I have heard so many things in what to do in training them to wear pants for night time but I'm still a bit unsure in how to go about it:confused:
I've read before that when your childs nappy is dry, for a week or so, when they wake up in the morning it's one sign that they're ready to wear pants to bed. The only prob is that DS is quite wet when he wakes up.
Just lately, he has also said to me a few times that he wants to wear pants to bed but I haven't tried him as yet.
When I do put him in pants do I wake him up, say just before I go to bed, and make him go to the toilet? Or do I not wake him up in the middle of the night to go?
He has a plastic mattress protector over his mattress but is that enough protection for when he does wet the bed, I'm sure there's bound to be a few accidents.
I hope you can give me some advice on this girls :thumbsup:

[the_queen]

Night dryness happens when the brain starts releasing a hormone which concentrates the urine. When this happens, they can go 12 hours between toilet stops.
So it's physiological, not behavioural, and there's no way you can speed this physical process up. Most kids are night-dry by age 5.

[sarah81]

I don't have any helpful advice really. But I just wanted to say my DS 3.5yrs has been night trained for about 2months.

He went from soaking wet nappies to being completely dry in a week. One night he got up and asked to use the toliet and didn't want his nappy back on. We had a few accidents in the two weeks after but I guess that was his physiological change that PP mentioned.

You could try if he is interested. There are methods for bedwetters but I think they are for much older children. Maybe give it a go and if it doesn't work out. Don't worry he is only young.

Good luck :fingerscrossed:

[Rhoxie]

Ask him if he thinks he can keep his drynights dry over night.. ask him if he can have a couple of goes at it. If he can't then he can't and there is no point stressing the issue or removing the nightnappy as then he will just wet the bed which is alot of hassle and stress for all involved.

My eldest boy didn't fully night train until he was in year 1 and even after that he'd still have the occasional spate of accidents. The sad thing was he was very keen to be dry at night he just couldn't do it. (His little sister ended up night training at the same time he did & then went on to have very few accidents)

To help us with the unforseeable accidents we purchased a slumber dry mat which is a quilted soft and super absorbable mat with a waterproof backing that sits on top of the bottom sheet so if the bed gets wet the child can remove the mat and wet pjs and go back to a dry bed. If your child is a long term wetter and gets to the stage where they refuse to wear a nightnappy this can be a sanity saver. :thumbsup: