By age four years, most children are reliably dry in the day. It's normal for night-time potty training to take longer. Most children learn how to stay dry at night when they are between three and five years old.
While you should wait until your toddler is dry in the day, it can take months or even years for some children to master night-time dryness, so don't take away bedtime nappies until you feel he's ready.
Although many children are dry at this age, it is common to need nappies at night until school age. However, even beyond this age, bedwetting is common. Up to 1 in 5 children aged 5 years, and 1 in 10 children aged 10 years wet their bed at night.
It usually takes a little longer for children to learn to stay dry throughout the night. Although most learn this between the ages of 3 and 5, up to 1 in 5 children aged 5 sometimes wet the bed.
Your toddler can wear diapers or pull-ups until he or she is ready and receptive to begin daytime toilet training or until he or she becomes dry at night. There is really no reason to eliminate diapers or pull-ups during the day until s/he is developmentally ready for successful potty training.
By age four years, most children are reliably dry in the day. It's normal for night-time potty training to take longer. Most children learn how to stay dry at night when they are between three and five years old.
Explain to your child what they'll need to do in the night now they no longer have night nappies/pants. Talk about going to the toilet – be encouraging and offer lots of praise and support. Let it be an adventure – let your child feel excited about being grown-up! Try not to apply too much pressure.
Don't wake your child up to pee when you go to bed. It doesn't help with bedwetting and will just disrupt your child's sleep. When your child wets the bed, help them wash well in the morning so that there is no smell.
If your baby is sleeping, you do not need to change their diaper. A dirty diaper isn't bothering them, so it shouldn't bother you either! If your baby wakes overnight, whether it be to eat or just a typical overnight waking, try to limit stimulation and skip a diaper change when possible.
Once your child has mastered daytime potty training they can then work towards dry nights . Most children will take a while longer to learn how to stay dry at night. It's helpful to wait until your child shows signs that they are ready for night-time potty training .
Pull-ups can be effective in reducing the mess of bedwetting, but in general, will prolong the problem. Pull-ups are, at best, a stop-gap measure, while we try other things.
If you're still awake an hour or two after your child's bedtime, think about waking them for a quick bathroom visit. (Or if your child is older, they might be able to set this habit for themselves.) It won't stop bedwetting, but it can reduce the amount of pee that might end up in bed.
Your child's bladder may not be developed enough to hold urine produced during the night. Inability to recognize a full bladder. If the nerves that control the bladder are slow to mature, a full bladder may not wake your child — especially if your child is a deep sleeper. A hormone imbalance.
Plenty of three-year-olds and four-year-olds still need a night nappy, and bed-wetting is considered to be normal up to the age of five. Among five-year-olds, one in five still sometimes wets the bed. If your child is older and still wetting the bed, don't despair.
Plenty of children age three years and four years still need a night diaper, and bed-wetting is considered to be normal up to the age of five. One in six five-year-olds wets the bed either occasionally or regularly. Disposable training pants are an option at night, just until your child is trained.
Tips for Nighttime Potty Training Success
Limit drinks one hour before your child's bedtime. Help them use the potty a half-hour before they go to bed—and again right before bedtime. Wake up your child to use the potty before you go to sleep. Tell them to go to the bathroom any time they wake up during the night.
Use Training Pants
Using nighttime potty-training pants rather than diapers allows children to differentiate between the stages of potty training. Plus, children can wear these pants as long as needed, as they can pull them up and down on their own.
Lower your expectations.
Most kids aren't able to stay dry through the night until they're 5 or 6 years old or older — either because their bladders are too small, they're genetically predisposed to wet the bed, they're constipated, or they sleep very deeply and aren't able to wake up in time.
Nocturia is a condition that causes you to wake up during the night to pee. This condition is also called nocturnal urinary frequency — having to pee more often at night. Nocturia becomes more common as people age (usually older than 60) and occurs in all genders and sexes, sometimes for different reasons.
Most children are between 3 and 4-year olds before they are regularly and reliably dry at night, and many will continue to have accidents up to the age of five or six. This is normal, and nothing to worry about. Where children have a medical condition, it might take a little longer.
Mostly it is simply maturation of the urinary system. For most children, around the time that they are trained to use the toilet, they naturally fall into the practice of staying dry through the night too.