Night Time Potty Training for a Boy

In short, you can't. His body has to be ready. It has nothing to do with whether or not he wants to or how hard he tries. He has to be physiologically ready. Many kids aren't until 7 or 8 years. Hang in there and just buy stock on Pull-Ups. He'll be ready one day.

I just went through something like this with my 4 year old, and the solution I found was to have him sleep naked from the waist down for a while. It seems to make their brain more aware of going to the bathroom. After a few dry nights doing that, he started sleeping in pj pants but no underwear. That was last week we started, and we haven't had a wet bed since (before it was every night or every other if we were lucky). The couple nights we forgot to have him take off his underwear he wet. Don't know why it works, don't care. I just know I wash a LOT less sheets now. Oh, and we tried the waking up to potty before I go to bed too - this worked better.

children, for night time dryness... it does not physiologically occur, to even 7 years old.
It is NOT like daytime pottying.
This is normal.
My daughter was 7 and still having night time accidents.
I just use and got from Amazon, waterproof bed pads, to put under both my kids, at night.
My son is 5 and still in night time diapers. And this is normal.
His body is not ready yet to be dry.
I explain that to him and he understands.
BOTH my children, NEVER EVER got 'confused' about using underwear at day and diapers at night.
Because I explain to them it is about body development.

It is all about brain/body/organ/nerve development and myelin sheath nerve development. Not, age.

You don't "night time potty train"! It's a physiological readiness that he may or may not have now. He might be physically able to stay dry all night, next month, next year or when he's 7. But it won't be because of anything you do or don't do right now. It will be when his body is ready.
Sooooo....you can continue to limit fluids, wake him up before you go to bed, etc., etc., but it's all just going to be to make life easier.
Let him wear a Pull up at night, layer waterproof pad, sheet, waterproof pad, sheet, etc to make sheet changes easier.
But there is no such thing as "night time potty training"!
When he has a dry pull up for about 10 days in a row--his body is ready.
Good luck!

This is something he has little or no control over. I don't think you can train him. If it were me I wouldn't make a big deal about it at all. It could be years before he is consistent with this.

I suggest you stick with the pull ups at night and don't worry about it. Reuse them if you can. Just put this out of your head until he is several months dry.

I can't say I'm in the exact same boat, but I am frustrated that at age 3.5 my son wants to wear diapers at night. He doesn't even want to wear pull-ups or try to wear underwear.....

So I just wanted to post that you could maybe put 'puppy pads' under his sheet. They actually make a flat pad in the adult diaper section. At my store, they were cheaper than the puppy pads. If you did a couple layers of mattress, pad, sheet, pad, sheet, if you had a middle-of-the-night-accident you could just remove one sheet, one pad, and go back to bed. It may not help with training, but may help with your sanity at 2 am.

Once they are dry, that should be the starting point of them going to bed without a pull up. Have you tried putting him to bed without a pull up or underwear, just pajamas? Both my boys almost 3 and 5 are full potty trained and have been since about 2 1/2 and both don't wear underwear, just jammies to bed. Not sure if it would make a difference but worth a try.

Kids become fully night "trained" anywhere between the ages of 2 and 7, sometimes even older. My nephew was 8, my cousin was 12. It is not behavioral. If he has been waking dry you can try undies again, but he could go back and forth a couple of times before his body really gets it down.

I remember asking our pediatrician. And she said that the bladder is still developing and this is one item that you cannot rush or train. That said once my trained daytime, he was ready for nighttime. He requested to stop wearing pull-ups. On occasion, we had wet items the next morning. And our mantra was "listen to your body". He is 6.5 now and so far one accident over the last year though the next morning he told me that I did not go to the bathroom before bed as he was tired and just wanted to go to sleep.

We kept my son in pull ups until he refused to put them on, around age 4 1/2. Even if we forced it he would pull them off when we left. At that point I would tell him that it was ok to have accidents at night (some kids do until age 7) but if he continued to have them and wouldn't put a pull up on then he would need to change himself (at that point he was also sleeping on the floor- so my carpets were getting stinky). I think it took about 2 weeks and then he was able to stay dry. You could put a little potty in his room as a reminder. I do think that some how not having the diaper on and the freedom some how stimulates them. Hang in there. It will happen soon.

My son is turning 6 and still wears a diaper with an extra pad inside. Most nights he is dry but maybe 4-5 days a month he soaks the diaper and leaks all over the bed. We have used the saddle style mattress protectors so we don't have to change his entire bed, just the protector. It's been a life saver. He knows he can get up to pee but he's such a sound sleeper he doesn't even know when he's peeing. So we just work with him and assure him that it's ok. He's obviously concerned especially b/c his younger sister is already nighttime potty trained but we tell him that his bladder just hasn't developed yet.

We had a similar issue when we started letting my son, then 3, wear underwear to bed rather than a pull-up. I think something about the night air hitting them differently makes them pee even when they never did. We just stuck it out and after about a week, he started staying dry again. I think he just had to teach his body about the new sensation about being in underwear during sleep.
We had some extra mattress pad covers from our crib that I would fold and put under him for extra protection. I hated the laundry but it was worth it not to use all of those pull-ups!