When Did Your Child Sleep Through the Night Without Pull Ups?

My son has been dry through the night since he was about 2. He is just about 3 now. Now, we can NOT get the kid day time potty trained...so I really think his bladder was just biologically ready to hold it all night. He wakes up and immediately pees. Never used pullups, though.

depends. technically, it could be to age 7 or longer. Both of mine were age 4. My son still changes himself sometimes. His bed isn't wet so I am guessing his underpants get a little wet when he realizes he has to go.

Our son was done with pullups when he woke up dry every morning for 2 weeks in a row.
He was 7.5 when he finished.
Some kids are very deep sleepers - their brains do not get the signal that they need to wake up to use the bathroom.
Other kids just take a long time for their bladder to mature.
There is nothing anyone can do to make a bladder mature any faster.
So waking kids up in the night, putting them in under wear and making them change bedding - it's just cruel.
Most out grow it by 12 but a very few take a bit longer.
Just be patient.
The vast majority do not go off to college still wetting the bed.

Night time dryness is not the same as daytime pottying.
It is a physiological development of the organs/bladder/brain connections/myelin nerve sheath development, etc.

It can take up until 7 years old, for it to occur.
And is normal.
My son is 5 and still wet at night.
My daughter when she was 5, she was still wet at night.
Both were in night time diapers at that time.
They do NOT get "confused" about wearing night diapers and underwear during the day. Because I simply explained to them about their body.

My daughter even at 7 years old, had night time accidents.
No biggie.

I also have, waterproof bed pads, to put under my son at night.
That way the sheets do not get soiled.

Every child is different.
Night time dryness has to do with the body's organ development.

Both my boys were around 5-6 years old before their body was able to keep them dry through the night. They both have had at least 1 or 2 accidents long after that, mostly when sick.
S.H. said pretty well everything I was going to say so I will not retype what she did.
I have a waterproof mattress pad I bought at Target that go under the fitted sheets to protect the mattress. I still have it on there because while we don't have pee accidents it has come in handy when the stomach bug sneaks up on them. It doesn't make the bed any less comfortable.
It can be well into puberty before a child's body is mature enough to not have nighttime accidents.. It has nothing to do with their mind. It all has to do with physical developement.

My oldest was in 1st grade probably 7 ish when he stopped but my oldest 9 1/2 still does. He is a very heavy sleeper we have not yet done any theropy with him but my nephew that is 16 now they tried everythign with and sometimes has issues. My brother I think was 10 or 11 so unfortunatly it's genetic. But I would not worry about it too much. When he's ready he will quit.

Good luck and God Bless!

My son was try at 2 1/2 at night. He potty trained himself at night by himself. That is just how his body works. He has a strong bladder and eventhough he drinks a lof of water, he only goes to the bathroom every 6-8 hours. He did have 2 accidents a night though since then and that was because of laying on his stomach. It's all about biology and what the body is ready for.

4.5 years. We discussed it a few times and I talked about a bigger boy we knew who decided one night he didn't want pull-ups anymore and never needed them after. Then, for a few weeks, I woke my son up just before I went to bed and took him to the potty. After that, he seemed to know when to wake himself up in the night if he had to go. He's only had one accident in the past year. Not sure if that method would work for really deep sleepers, but he's pretty down-for-the-count at night and it still worked well for him.

A lot of it just depends on your kid. My son was dry 95% of the time starting a couple of months before his 3rd birthday (before he even potty trained). He potty trained during the day right when he turned 3 and was in underwear 100% of the time (nap and overnight) about six weeks after that. He could have probably worn underwear at night sooner, but he was scared to try!

Ds #1 - at 12 he is still wearing one
Ds#2 - at 10 he is still wearing one
Ds#3 - 4 years old he stayed dry
DD - at 3 years old she is still wearing one.

My husband has a big family history of bed wetting....until teens. Been to the urologist....its just a 'body being ready thing' and I guess my two older boys just are not there yet. We also have tried alarms, waking them up...nothing worked. My oldest has the prescription meds....but hasn't taken them and we only got them for overnights at friends or camp.

I was told never to use pull ups .... the child knows its "ok" to pee in them and it makes it harder for them to feel it.. For my now 8 yr old and 3 1/2 year old...I would just put one of those large waterproof pads under them at night and if they pee'd the bed in the middle of the night, i would just get them up and kindly put them in the shower explaining what happened... change to new clothes, new pee pad and back to bed... For both of them, that only had to happen a couple times and they didn't pee the bed anymore. For my 1st it was about 2 months before she turned 3 years old... And for my 2nd, she was just over 2 years old, but she had a set back ... Dry all night though before she turned 3... good luck :)

My oldest son potty trained at 2 1/2 and has had 3 night time accidents since. He is almost 8.

My youngest son is almost 4 and he just potty trained in the Fall and he wears a pull-up to bed and has only been wet a handful of times.

My kids were totally dry at night at age 3, however the youngest would every now and then pee the bed. I just kept a plastic cover on the mattress for such occasions.
Sometimes when you "trust" them to be grown up, they will act it. 5 seems pretty old to me to still be wearing diaper pants... not good for a boys esteem.
I'd help him out by limiting fluids an hour before bedtime and make sure he pee's before going to bed.
Tell him "you are grown up now, but we are going to put this plastic on your mattress for "accidents", but you are not wearing pull-ups anymore and if you need to go pee in the night, just get up and do it".... make sure you have sufficient night lights for him to find his way to the bathroom.
I feel that if his fluid intake is low before bedtime, and he's a heavy sleeper, he probably can hold it through the night and might be wetting right before wake up time. Might be a good idea for you to set the alarm about a half hour before his normal wake up time and wake him up BEFORE he wets the bed.

Both of my boys were dry day and night within a month or two of their 3rd birthdays. . . one slightly before, one slightly after. One is 3 and one is 5 and both get up at night by themselves to pee. I think this is pretty normal. I don't know what to tell you for a solution but obviously there is some sort of issue going on. I would talk to you pediatrician. And my heart goes out to your cousin. . . poor kid. I know there are alarms that wake kids up when they start to wet the bed. You might want to give it a try for your child.

My daughter was a week shy of 3 years old when she was nighttime trained. She begged me not to wear a pullup to bed, so I let her...inevitably, she wet the bed. She was hysterical when she woke up. I was nice about it, and let her go to bed in panties the follwing night, and she woke up dry. Thats the way it has been ever since. She is almost 5 now.

My son was 28 months. He was virtually never dry in the morning in a diaper (we did NOT use pull ups). But one day we just decided to try it (he was daytime trained at 25 months). He wet his bed 3-4 times the first week and then maybe 2-3 more times (those were when he was either sick or exhausted). Now - his aim during night time trips to the bathroom does leave a bit to be desired.

My sons had both been potty-trained for a month or two (2 yrs 9 mo and 2 yrs 2 mo).

But we never used pull-ups. They are a scam to keep you buying for years on end.
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It really depends on the child, you can't "night train." Doctors aren't concerned until children are 7 or 8. Some children are sound sleepers and don't wake up.

My guy trained day and night at almost 27 months, the day I worked with him on, the night he did on his own, I didn't care if he had accidents. He just got up and used the potty, without calling for me and has gone on his own ever since, he'll be 3 in a couple of weeks.

The only thing I can say may have helped him is that we used cloth trainers, (with plastic pants over them at night) not pull-ups.

my daughter was 2 years old when she was day and night time trained. My son had just turned 3 when he was day time trained and 4 when he was night time trained

They don't wake up to go pee, they are just like grownups who sleep through the night and don't wake up. Occassionaly it's different, even I wake up sometimes to go but not very often, maybe 2-3 times per year.

Kids brains tell their kidneys' to stop producing urine at some point. Then they start staying dry. Once that happens you know it if you look for it. I get up and as soon as I am vertical I feel my bladder filling and need to go. My friends daughter can go all morning without going to the bathroom though. She drinks tons of water too.

for us it was 5 1/2!! (about a month ago!) we just went to chuck e cheese monday night to celebrate 3 full weeks of dry pullups.

we tried and gave up several times before it "stuck". it's just one of those things they have to be ready for. the first couple times i tried, i hoped that underwear (especially wet) would help him wake up, but it didn't. we bought a mattress protector thank goodness...and he'd sleep right through till morning, soaking wet.

it wasn't until he had three or four dry nights in a row (WITH pullups) that we started the chart, and even then we kept using pullups. luckily we had almost a full package (for my peace of mind), although he didn't need them once he got going this time. he has never been one to wake up to potty. he didn't stay dry until he could go all night without going.

*HAPPY DANCE!!!* hopefully yours will be ready soon too! :)