nightime training in 5 year old

[Oh the Irony]

Hello,

I could use some tips from the Collective Wisdom on how to handle a nightime potty issue.

My son, who is 5 and will be 6 in two months, has not gotten dry at night yet. He had a hard time with toilet training in general and we actually just ignored the nightime issue--we would just put him in a pullup and let it ride. For the last year and a half we were living in a motorhome and doing some travelling--we did not push the issue because laundry was not always an option. We have trained him to just go in a diaper.

We have settled down now and are living in an apartment with laundry facilities. How do we start working towards him being dry at night? Do you think clother diapers might help in the transition? Any thought would be greatly appreciated...

He is a very sound sleeper if that matters.

Paula

[TiredX2]

DD just turned 5, but has been day dry over 2.5 years and there is no real signs that she is going to night train anytime soon. I'm trying to just let it ride out.

Does DS want to make it through the night? I think that's the first step, and while DD is *kinda* there, not enough yet.

Kay

[AnnMarie]

I wouldn't push it. We just talked to my son's dr. (NP actually) about this because my son (Who's 6.) would like to be able to make it through the night. She said they don't give medication until they are 8 (Don't think I really would want to go that route anyway.), and she's only known one person to try the night time monitor and they didn't like it. She gave us some papers on it and one of them said you could measure their urine to tell if their bladder is too small and if that's the reason. If it is, over time they will grow and be able to make it through the night. If you are interested I can see if I still have that and give you more details. I hope I didn't throw it away.

[Ruth]

Wolfmama,

My dd is about your ds's age. What I do is take her to the bathroom in the middle of the night and sit her down and she pees. Then I take her back to bed. I have done that since she was itsy bitsy. The other night she wet the bed because I was too tired to get up, but that was the first time in about 2 or three years. On very rare occasions, she will sit up and say "PEE" and then I take her to the potty.I don't know if that would work with a boy or whether that would work if she was a very sound sleeper.

I wouldn't try cloth diapers with him. I would think he would not want to wear them, at age 5, and if you insist, then you have a problem.

My sister wet the bed until she was a teenager or something, but I think it was because my parents scolded her so much about it. My dh tried to scold my dd about wetting the bed when she was really little and I abosulelty refused to let him do that. The very few times she has had an accident, I tell her that accidents happen to everybody and that all we need to do is clean up and go back to sleep.

I remember she wasn't even 7 months old yet, she would squirm, I would take her to the edge of the bed, put an extra cloth diaper under her, she would pee, and then I would change her diaper. At 7 months, I started sitting her on the potty, day and night. It was pretty easy to potty train her.

[Oh the Irony]

Thanks all,

sounds like everything is going okay.

He doesn't really seem to care about it. It's not a big deal to us either, just had been thinking we were slack...
Paula