TT: when to be concerned?
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Topic: TT: when to be concerned?
Posted By: busymum
Subject: TT: when to be concerned?
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 9:18pm
Hannah is still not dry at nights, in fact is usually quite wet  It's probably early days yet but nagging in the back of my mind is a girl in the family who night TT at 7yrs and a couple of boys up to 12 or 13yrs. When should I be concerned if/that night TT doesn't seem to be happening?
She did get all excited the other night when it felt dry, unfortunately it was just soaked through (so less fresh IYGWIM) and drawn away from her skin. Still soaked 2 FB inserts. -------------  |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 10:05pm
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Have you tried getting her up at about 10.30pm to get her to go to the toilet and then see if she is dry from then on? We do that with Andrew most nights (there are the odd nights we don't get him up but he's still dry) and it works for him. I think if she is 5 and still like that then I would be concerned and then seeing the dr about it. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 10:36pm
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Teresa.. we have not even tried Paris at nights yet, and Hannah is younger than she is. She is such a deep sleeper that we think she probably would not wake. She does have day sleeps and stays dry, and we are planning to try overnights this xmas break (which is also when we will be tt-ing Ayja) but i really don't think you have anything to worry about there. We have just been focusing on staying dry during the day with paris as she forgets and wets while playing because she gets so caught up in her games.
lol...maybe we should implement night tt-ing at the same time this xmas.. then we can support each other! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 10:52pm
I'll join in on the Christmas night time TTing 
Ella was dry at night before we went to the US, it was too hard to keep her dry over there so I put her back in nappies. Don't know when I should try again! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 27 September 2007 at 11:18pm
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yep Brooke took ages to get rid of the night nappie (well pull ups) I know she was over 3. As some one suggested try getting her up around 10.30 for the toilet.. thats what I did and it does work. ------------- Ann 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 28 September 2007 at 6:58am
| yeah i would think around 5 then i would be pushing the issue a bit more but its totally common for kids not to be dry for ages. I know my 5 year old neice has only just become dry at night. |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 28 September 2007 at 7:34am
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Alyssa was only night trained this year, just before her fourth birthday, when i got fed up with her wearing pullups to bed and said NO MORE. lol mean mummy. I think we had about 3 or 4 nights of accidents and i was going to give up but my DH wouldnt let me ( I think she is a very deep sleeper). Then she got it. And (touch wood) she hasnt had any since. And Jayde has just night trained herself. Told me she didnt want nappies anymore. I just leave a potty in her room and she goes in it when she wakes up in the morning. YAY YAY no more nappies in my house.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 28 September 2007 at 8:18am
Thanks everyone for your replies. Janine, yea I think Briona will be TT this summer too 
Yes we tried that and it made no difference  ------------- |
mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 28 September 2007 at 9:19am
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Teresa, Kiya had only just started to night TT at Hannah's age, although she had been day-trained for about 6 months... then she broke her arm, and we decided it wasn't worth the work to keep TTing her when we had to keep the cast dry, so she went back into night nappies until the cast came off 6 weeks later. When Kiya got the hang of consitently staying dry all night, she was nearly 4yo.
Kiya is a deep sleeper too, and it just took time. She was a (comparitively) late day TTer too, as she was over 3 before she started showing signs of being able to stay dry. I would say you've got nothing to worry about! Hannah's still young, there's not really a huge rush if she's not ready yet. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 11:19am
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I thought the age was around 7 to be concerned? I know someone with a 7 year old boy who still has dry nites I would start being concerned by then. I was lucky that Braedon was a late ttrainer at 3.8 years but he got it all with in a week, now my miss m might be a diff story she like the idea of sitting on the potty but I'm thinking closer to christmas as well and I might not be so lucky with her at night who knows. good luck this is one of the partenting roles that completely frustrates me LOL ------------- 
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Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 1:21pm
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My middle daughter was still having a few accidents until about seven. I can't really remember how old she was when we took her out of night nappies but she would have been about fourish and we still used dry nights if she was staying away from home. When I started asking around my friends I was amazed to find out that allot of them had the same problem. I guess it's another one of those things people don't mention. We did find that taking her to the toilet when we went to bed helped but she was a bit older than Hannah is now. She is still a very heavy sleeper she can sleep through just about anything but thankfully no more wet sheets now. ps In the huggies web site it says night wetting is normal up to six years. So I'd say she is a normal kid. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 1:22pm
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yep, we still get a bit frustrated with Paris cos she wets, usually at least 3 days of the week if not more she'll have 1 accident during the day due to forgetting. when we're out it's fine, she'll go, but at home, even if we remind her she'll forget.
I am thinking that Ayja might be hard to tt as she tends to be the kid that will happily walk around with the dirty nappy if no-one picks up that she's done it. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 6:47pm
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hehe Janine miss m is the same could have a poop bum for ages if we did not smell her! -------------
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Posted By: buzimumto3boys
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 8:50pm
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Kaleb is almost night trained... he is 5 in feb.. we still put pullups on him just in case but he rarely wets them now... only if he has been up super late and is really tired... the only problem is he wakes early with a full bladder - sometimes he is really tired but wont go back to sleep!
But he was TTrained very late.. he refused to go on the toilet or the potty or anywhere, so has only been trained since around 3.5 and was having odd accidents up until just before 4. I wouldnt worry too much until school age really - then it can become a problem. |
Posted By: bumblefoot
Date Posted: 29 September 2007 at 11:28pm
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Levi is 7yrs old next month, and has only been fully night dry for about 6mos. We tried taking him before bed, and even getting him up later but that only upset him further as he felt embarrassed about the situation. He was day trained since he was 4yrs old, and I think the fact that he too is a heavy sleeper was what prevented him from being dry at night. But he gets up in the night now and takes himself to the loo to pee. It is far more common than most realise for some kids to not be night dry up until 12yrs, and even 15yrs in some extreme cases. (thinking of another family member here, again a male) I wouldn't be too worried, would be my advice, especially if she is day trained. Thats half the battle, so you are half way there. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 12:49pm
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Maya has only just night trained in the last 6 months, yet she was 100% day trained at 22 months. And she was never, ever dry at night, right up until I night trained her. I think she wet in her pull ups because she *could* rather than because she wasn't making the connection when she needed to go at night, coz one night I didn't have a dry night trainer for her so I told her she'd have to go without and since then she's refused to wear the night trainers and we've only had a handful of accidents. I did used to wake her before I went to bed and take her but now I just poke her enough that she stirs and ask her if she needs to go and she usually says no. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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