How Old Should a Boy Be Before He Is Potty Trained at Night?

Hypercalcemia (high blood calcium levels) will contribute to night wetting.

Stop all dailry products after4 pm. You should see some improvement on night wetting.

I have 3 boys and they are all different. 1st trained at 3 and never had an accident EVER - The other 2 if I am not on top of what they drink and don't wake them up before I go to bed they will have an accident. I wouldn't stress about it. I wouldn't even do pull ups. They are so expensive and a waste. I just put heavy duty mattress covers and it seems to be happening less and less. Good luck!!

NIght-time 'dryness' and nap dryness... is not something that is attained... BIOLOGICALLY... until even 7 years old. Normal.

Night time dryness... is entirely DIFFERENT from day time toileting.
NOT on the same time line.

Just get a waterproof bed pad.... and put it directly under him... to make clean up easier, for you.
I have like 4 of them, that I got from Amazon.
I used that for my kids. My kids are 4 and 8. And I still use it under them.

Night-time diapers... can be and are still to be used at this age. Normal.

My son is 4.... still wet at night and naps... still leaks, but I change him one time during the night, to prevent an overloaded diaper and leaking. My son sleeps for like 11 hours at night... and that is a LONG time, to be in 1 diaper all night.... it will get overloaded. Then leak.

My daughter, was in diapers at night... even when she was 5 years old.
She is now 8... but even at 7 years old... she still had pee accidents at night. Normal.

Night time bladder control... is biological based on the body's biological maturity.... not the child.... doing it on purpose.

Don't stress your son about it.
PLUS he is having to share his room with the baby.

Boys... are often, later in attaining full biological control, and having night time or nap time dryness.

No biggie.

all the best,
Susan

It totally depends on the child. At night it is all about physical development and maturity. It has nothing at all to do with mental ability or anything else. Mine were both around 6 years old before we were 100% night time dry and no accidents.

Some kids, especially boys, wet the bed regularly until even 5 or 6. My son (7.5 years old now), has only stopped wetting the bed in the last year or so.

It just takes time for his body, especially the nervous system, to figure out how to hold it in at night, or to wake him up if necessary. The more you worry about it, the worse it will be, so I would stick with pull-ups until he stays dry at night (and then, you may want to invest in a plastic matress protector after that, just in case).

I have twin boys who are 5 1/2 (they were born full term so there is no developmental delay) and neither is night time trained. Some nights one or the other will stay dry but I chalk it up to just not being ready yet. I've seen some women on this site that have the mentality that something is terribly wrong if they are still wetting at this age but I'm ok with it....probably because I have a 12 year old daughter who I wasn't so patient with about the subject and I'm ashamed how I made such a big deal out of something that she would master in her own time. So, if you are finding yourself overly concerned, I would say you shouldn't be. He'll get it permanently under control when his body is ready :-)

Nighttime dryness is totally different than daytime. He isn't "regressing" b/c of the baby I assure you. My son still had nighttime "accidents" until he was about 9 yrs old. The frequency was up and down all the time... so I had to be really vigilant about having him go to the bathroom RIGHT before bed, and also keeping an eye on how much he had to drink in the last hour or so before bed. If your son is a very heavy sleeper (mine was and still is) then he just doesn't feel the sensations he needs to in order to wake up and go to the bathroom. Different parts of the body mature at different rates. Your doctor was right on when she said to just leave him in a pull-up at night for now and not worry about it. I wouldn't push the issue with your son. He isn't doing it on purpose and you could end up damaging his self esteem if you lead him to believe that he can control something that he has no control over.

Don't make a big deal over accidents, help him clean up and by all means, when you do get rid of the pull-ups advise your son what to do if he wakes up wet. Because it will happen and he needs to know what to do. Whether it is to come wake you up, or take his wet clothes to the bathroom and put them in the bathtub and wipe himself up with a washcloth and get dry clothes, to where he should lie back down to go back to sleep...

Trust me when I say this is perfectly normal and LOTS of kids, boys especially for some reason, go through this.

Unlike daytime potty training, night dryness is not a behavioral issue, it is a physiological one. At some point the bladder matures to the point where a child will either hold the urine all night, or the body will wake the child up to go. Waking a child at night to "train" will not work, and will only make everyone tired, and pushing the issue when the bladder is not yet mature is only setting the kid up for heart break and disappointment. The average age that night dryness is achieved is between 2 and 5, with 6 or 7 not uncommon. For some kids it is even later, my nephew was 8 and my cousin was 12. Keep your son in pull ups until he has woken up dry every morning for a month.

My son was day trained at 3 1/2. It took till he was 7 before he was night trained. He was too deep a sleeper to wake up to use the bathroom. When he could wake up and be dry for 2 weeks in a row, we finally got rid of the pull-ups. Some boys can't manage it till they are 11. It's normal for a lot of kids.

I would try putting him in underwear at night. You will find out fairly quickly whether he is urinating in his sleep or whether he wakes up, feels he needs to go and knows it is ok to go in the pullup. DS was daytime trained at 26 months and we didn't try night time until ~28 months (he would consistently go in his pull up at night). We switched to underwear and voila, we were done. Probably he would have been fine when we did the daytime training but we were nervous.

What time do you cut off liquids? my son had a few accidents after 2yrs old but he was pretty much potty trained before 2- but all children develop differently AND having a Baby in the same room may delay his PM potty training. Have you tried waking him up in the middle of the night to go potty?? we did that too- and a pre-nighttime Pottie.. he did have accidents but mostly if he drank after 7pm- bedtime for my son is at 8:30 and he's 5

We fought night time wetting until our son turned 8. At that point he was ready to try an alarm. We got one that clips to your underwear and beeps when it gets wet to wake them up. My son now stays dry. I've heard that some have tried the alarm at earlier ages so you may want to ask your pediatritian about it. Our insurance covererd the cost of the alarm otherwise I think they are about $80.

Good Luck

I have a 5 yo boy who still wears pull-ups. He goes through stages of being dry for quite awhile, (like 5 or 6 days) and then it's back to lots of wet ones. Part of our problem is that we don't eat dinner until 6:30 since DH gets home from work then and bedtime starts at 7:45 so we can't cut the liquids more than 45 min. before. I posted this question on my adoption board and everyone said they will do it when they're ready. Their bladder just isn't strong enough to hold it yet.

Listen to your pediatrican. What have you learned to do (deliberately) in your sleep? He will do this when his body matures. He is in good company, do a search on this site, it is not uncommon, nor anything to worry too Mich about, especially since you have consulted his pediatrician, as long as there is no medical problem, just wait and do not stress.

M.

i still enforce parents to recheck the liquid habit..
Perhaps stop liquids EARLIER, i mean like 3-4 hours before bedtime...
and allowing just tiny sips if necessary after that.
That ought to allow any residing fluid from the day to be pee'd out just before he's tucked in.
GOOD LUCK!

I knew that both of my children were ready to get rid of the pull-ups at night when they went 2 weeks without soiling their pull-up during the night. Because it's a physilogical thing and something that they can't really control, I didn't really look at their age but rather what their body was doing to be my guide.

If I gave my husband stickers not to snore...... I would have a book of stickers..he would still be snoring... Can you control what you do while U R asleep????? I wet the bed until I was 12, not because I wanted to wake up in a pool. The most damaging thing anyone did to me was make me feel like I could control it, and punish me for doing it.

Not joking, not making light of the situation. He won't be able to stay dry at night until later. Maybe even up into elementary school. If you took him to a Pediatric Urologist they would check for constipation and tell you to make sure he still had enough to drink so he wasn't getting dehydrated. If there is no build up to wake them up they don't feel the urge, if they sleep too deep they don't wake up, their brain has a switch that turns on one day and then they start holding it better and finally they start staying dry.