Nightime Potty Training Poll

My daughter is 5 - never has had a dry night. Her body isn't ready - it is a developmental issue not a training issue. Buy some pull ups and wait until she's ready. Cutting liquids just makes them thirsty - in my opinion

My kids both night trained at 21 months. We eat dinner at 6, they go to bed at 7 or 8. They always go potty right before bed.

Night time dryness comes way after day time dryness. It's not at all unusual for a child to not be dry during the night until they're as old as 7or 8.

Night Time Dryness... is not something that occurs, consistently, until even 7 years old, and this is normal and per Pediatricians.

It has nothing to do with when a child ate dinner.
It is a PHYSIOLOGICAL thing, depending on their maturing organs/brain/bladder/myelin nerve sheath development, etc. These things, are not developed according to when a child ate dinner and when they go to bed. It is a biological, thing. It has to do with the organs developing. Of which, you cannot speed that up.

Now, ALL of my daughter's Teachers... from Preschool to Kindergarten to 1st Grade... ALL SAID UNANIMOUSLY, that kids these ages, still have accidents (day or night), and still wear night diapers, and it is normal. They know, because they are Teachers and know about development and because, the Parents, come to them and ask them about it.

My son is 5. He still wears night diapers. He is still wet. Normal.
My daughter at 5 years old was still wearing night diapers at night too.
My daughter, even at 7 years old, had night time accidents. No biggie.
All I did was, I got like 4 waterproof bed pads, from Amazon, and I put these under my kids at night. Then that way the sheets never get soiled, if they have an accident or leak. No biggie.

How do you know... that ALL of your child's classmates, are dry at night? Did you ask ALL of their parents?

My son was dry by about 3.5.
I never limited fluids or anything like that.
It happens when they are physically developed enough to hold it for many hours--it's not about 'training' for night time dryness.

My 5 1/2 year old wakes up dry every morning (and has since he was 2 or 3), but my 3 year old wakes up soaked every morning. I swear he can only wear pj's once before I have to wash them.

I'm not a fan of parents cutting off liquids at a certain time. I'm not convinced that has anything to do with anything. They will wake up dry when their own body is ready to. When my 3 year old's body is ready to wake him up or to slow down the urine production it will. Until then, he'll wear a diaper. I'm not going to deny him a drink at night.

We eat about two hours before bedtime. Both of my kids were night time potty trained at about four months after they turned three. We have never limited food or liquids with our kiddos. In fact they go to bed every night with a thermos full of water that often has to be refilled. The kids are like my husband...they feel dehydrated at night and need the water. So I am of the camp that food and liquids have little to do with it. We have friends who were nighttime potty trained by the age of two and we know seven and eight year olds who still struggle with this.

Our kids eat dinner at between 5:15 and 5:30 pm. Bedtime is at 8. Our son wakes up dry and has since just after he turned 2. Our daughter is 2 years and 5 months - she wakes up soaked every morning.

A friend of mine has a grand-daughter that drinks 12 oz of milk before bed and doesn't wet the bed. She is super active in the morning and waits about 30 min to go potty in the a.m. She is only 2yrs 5 mo.

I assume she sleeps in a diaper/pull-up? Our little guy was day trained but still slept in a diaper at night. He always woke up wet. One night we forgot to put on his diaper and he woke up dry. He would occasionally have accidents, but he would be dry for the most part!

We eat around 6, he goes to bed at 8:30. He drinks water with dinner, and milk before bed or vice versa. He usually goes potty before his bath and then again half an hour later right before bed, and gets up on his own during the night if he needs to go potty, so he's a master at staying dry. He'll be 3 in early April.

But if a child's body isn't ready, no matter how much or how little they drink in the evening, they won't wake up dry. He can wake himself up when he feels the need to go, has for a long time. My daughter stayed dry from 18 months, which shocked me at first, I was terrified that she was dehydrated but she simply held it until morning. But some children can't do this, and doctors usually aren't concerned until they're at least 7 or 8.

My son will be 6 at the end of May, and we still do not have consistently dry mornings. My son goes to bed at 8:30pm and I wake him up at 11pm to go again. He is dry about 4 or 5 mornings a week. But only with me getting him up at 11pm.

We asked his pediatrician about it at his 5 year old check up, and they said they wouldn't even consider treatment for it until he was closer to 7.

I have co-workers that had potty trained 2 and 3 year olds that stay dry every night.

So, yes, every child is different.

Dinner is 6 or 6:30, bedtime is 8:30 or 9. But my son (3) will occasionally wake up having to pee in the middle of the night.

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My son has been night trained since a month after he turned 2. We have never limited food or drinks. The only accidents he had in the almost 4 years was when he had sedation meds for tests. He even gets drinks during the night and rarely will potty during the night. Each kid is different

We eat at about 6:30 ish (sometimes a little later - never earlier). Bedtime is 7:30. I just have to make sure he pees beforehand and we're fine. The oldest can hold it for eons and I never had to monitor is fluid intake. My two boys, I only potty trained because they were staying dry through the night. The oldest was about 2.75 years old and the second was 2.5 years old.

I think it has more to do with your child's readiness than your dinner schedule. Both my boys wake up dry (4 1/2 and 2 1/2) or will wake up to go potty early and go back to sleep. We eat at 5 and bedtime is 8, but they have access to water all evening. A good friend whose son will be 5 in 3 weeks still wears a pull-up to bed and is rarely dry in the morning.

We eat around 6ish. I put my 4 year old to bed at 8...sometimes he does not fall asleep until 8:30-9. He will drink water before bed too (just a few sips). He started waking dry about a month before he turned 3. He had some accidents at night since then, but he is dry in the morning the majority of time.

We are busy and eat anywhere from 6-8pm.

My son was the same way, pretty close to 4 yo he just stopped being wet in the morning.

It won't be long mama, its definitely not unusual. You might speak to your pediatrician at her 4 year check up if you are worried.