4yr old night training???

[Tiggerbaby]

Hi everyone,

A long time between posts for me but I was after some advice, DD is now 4 and pretty good during the day with her TT, we still have regular accidents when she is engrossed in thought or activity but that means that I am more vigilant about her reminders.
My Question is now that we are approaching summer, I'm thinking about taking her out of pull ups and using a product like this (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/EXTRA-LARGE-S...QQcmdZViewItem) with a nightie/pj's and her regular knickers since DS is for the most part sleeping through the night. I was going to buy a couple and see how she goes, does anyone have any thoughts or pointers on successful night training?
I've got a night light in the landing and a step for the loo, and am trying to (without dehydrating her) limit evening fluids and have a toilet bath, teeth and bed routine for her but she just isn't staying dry overnight.
I actively encourage her to go straight to the loo first thing in the morning and change out of the stinky pull up things but to no avail.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I apologise in advance for any typos or spelling errors in this post.
Leigh

[~*Rebecca*~]

Honestly leigh it is all down to when they are ready.

Neve was 5 before we were confident to take her out of pull ups at night and then summer came and no problems , she was dry all summer.

When winter hit we have probably one accident a FN or we get 3 in a row, you just can;t tell really.

We tried the getting her up to the toilet in the night, limit drinks. The only thing for us it she is the type of child that won't wake up to go to the toilet she has to be able to hold it for 12 hours.

Now we just give her a small drink at tea and then no more and a wee before bed and hope for the best.

You ask around it is not uncommon for kids to not be night trained for years.

From what you have said I would leave it till summer , the hot nights and not make a big deal of it , even though it is really frustrating.

[~*Bron*~]

for my eldest two, taking them to the toilet each night as we went to bed (so about 10ish) worked. after a couple of months, they would wake if they needed to go. a few accidents, but happened less and less.

with xanthia, who is 4 in november, it all seems to have happened naturally. she wears a bummis pants (can't even remember what they're called) but hasn't wet herself in a month or so. soon i'll be confident enough to let her go without the pants, but am reluctant as she didn't wake herself to go to the toilet when she needed to, she'd wet the pants.

[Tiggerbaby]

Bump

Ok its now summer and I have some beaut ME bed wetter pants, saving some $$$ on the throwaway things, I'm taking it slowly but are there anymore tips and also any more recommendations for a trim overnight pullup solution?

As always TIA

[pip]

Zoe was 4 in Sept and we have recently started night TT. In the end we got a mat for her bed and put her to bed no pullups. We had a wet night the first night and then 3 dry nights. We are now averaging 5 out of 7 nights. I think Zoe was use to having the pullup on that she didn't need to get up to go to the loo. She now gets herself up at around 10.30 and goes to the loo.

From what I read when doing some research it was recommended not to limit evening fluid intakes to much. The body needs to learn the full feeling and to wake up and go.

I like the look of the bed mats.

[Jo]

Good Luck!

Liam went really well for 2 nights, then a little wee on the third set him back, then he announced he likes having his water in bed and doesn't like me carrying him to the toilet in the middle of the night and will just continue to wear his pullups at night thanks.....

[poppychicken]

DD1 has just trained herself at age 4 after being day trained for 2 years. We tried a couple of times before this with all the "tricks" but she just wasn't ready. I put the ball in her court with lots of "no pressure" type conversations iykwim and she decided she'd give it a go with full success (touchwood). She's been dry at night now for about a month. Some nights I have to change her undies and PJs because she started to do a wee and then woke up but I still reckon that's pretty good.

[~karen~]

ally is in the fuzzi bunz ones (well one of the 3 works - awaiting resolution on the other 2 with no soakers in them) and sad to say huggies on the other nights - she doesn't like the throwaway ones (except the picture) as she doesn't understand throwing them away - lol. we tried the bummis ones but she just overflowed them
some nights she's dry, some nights not.
she has a water bottle overnight. and some nights she'll get up to go to the loo
after traumatic childhood bedwetting experiences here until quite late (i think i was 10 the last time) we're both expecting it to take a while and not putting any pressure on night toileting whatsoever - but that's cause i think it's something that can run in families.
we've got a waterproof sheet protector under her sheet too
good luck
hugs

[Pobie]

I wouldn't say that a 4 yo wetting the bed at night is a problem, its quite common up until about 6 for girls I believe and 8 for boys (somebody correct me if I am wrong).

The only thing I can recommend is to not worry about it. Take it as it comes, dont get yourself worked up about it (like I use to, it use to really upset me when DSS wet the bed at 7).

As somebody said, limiting water and taking them to bed doesn't make them train any easier. All it does it make their bladder empty so they dont need to go. As soon as you have a night where their is fluid in their bladder they will wet. They need to learn to wake themselves when they need to go which can take time, alot of time.

If you think it would help to have non stay dry nappies then try that. Otherwise just encourage her to go to the toilet first thing in the morning and take her own nappy off if she has to.

[mummygeorgie]

Emma only just 'got it' at 5 and we still have to remind her to go RIGHT before she goes to sleep. Now she wets about once a week but I'm ok with that & going without pull-ups because I should wash the sheets once a week anyway

She was wetting the pull-ups almost every night up until a month ago when she suddenly started being dry more than wet, so we switched to knickers. I don't believe you can really night train kids, you just need to wait until their bodies & minds are ready.