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Oh! What a cute picture! I'm sure he is going to love that when he is a teenager... LOL!

That's a very funny and cute little picture!

So sweet to see Yehoshua so small and cute. It's so funny how they grow up and you just get used to them as a big boy - then see a photo and remember, yes, once he was that little!

I don't think real experts in urinary tract and bladder health do recommend limiting drink at night anymore - it concentrates the urine and the bladder empties more than with dilute urine, apparently.

I have to say that alot of what you wrote are my exact feelings. I too would rather change a wet diaper in the morning then to have to wash all the sheets in the morning. BUt that is just me.
I have a 4 year old and a two year old. My four year old has gone through "spurts" off and on for two years now where she will stay dry at night consistantly for a while (about a month) and then she will start wetting again. I have tried waking her at night to go, it doesnt make a differnce either way. My hubby refuses to buy into the pull up gimic so, we do use a diaper (ones that we have for our youngest of 10 months ) and if she is dry in the morning we just reuse the same diaper.
I am like you and dont limit water intake before bed. Alot of kids have troubles with night time wetting .. into age 8 for that reason my husband wont allow me to pressure her in anyway to stop wetting at night. He feels that it will come when it comes. so i respect that, and we allow her to go along at her own pace. We do encourage her to wake up, we do cheer and get excited when she wakes up dry, but for HER its not happening yet (actually i only know a couple kids her age that DONT wear something at night so maybe she isnt all that abnormal?)

on the OTHER hand, my son, who is two, potty trained himself in a couple days. he started taking his diaper off and saying "i gotta go potty" so i started allowing him to, one day it dawned on me "hello, maybe he is ready" tho denial had me for a bit. I put underware on him one day and he has had htem on since with virtually NO accidents (cant even remember the last time). Every night he would wake up dry and i was in denial about that as well. how could HE be dry every night and my 4 year old not. but finally i gave it and let him go to bed in his underware. SURE ENOUGH he has been dry every night....
its all an individual thing. I am not sure what i could do differently for my daughter besides punish her and dh and I neither one think that is appropriate at this time. she is not doing it out of rebellion, she is doing it in her sleep.
ok, didnt expect a book did ya?

I would agree that kids need no pressure when it comes to nighttime dryness. My five year old still wears pull ups and they are very wet most nights. She is such a heavy sleeper that she just doesn't wake up. If she is up for some reason in the night she does go potty and then often after that has a dry pull up but usually she doesn't wake up. My sister wet the bed until about age 8, and was a very heavy sleeper. We decided that it is easier to buy pullups than do a load of laundry everyday. We used to use cloth diapers on the kids but she was getting so wet at night in them it woke her up. That was when we were still trying to get her to sleep all night. We had to get the Huggies overnights to keep her comfortable. My MIL bought us one of those bedwetting alarms to try when Je is ready; my SIL used one with my nephew at age 7 and it worked for him. We were going to borrow hers but them he had a relapse a ($90-100) so MIL took care of it. We talk to her about it and when she is ready to try it we will use it. It trains them to wake up everynight when it senses a bit of wet.

We use pullups at night too. And both my 2 and 3 yr old are day time potty trained. We go through spurts of dryness and my little guy will wake me up to use the potty. My oldest WILL not get up, he wants to sleep. I don't let him sleep with a sippy cup, but will bring it to him if he wakes up and asks for it. My little guy sleeps with a sippy with Soy Milk. I know it will happen when they are ready. I know I myself as a child did not wet the bed, and would wake up every couple of hours to go.

I read recently that it is better to not limit fluids, but instead build up their bladder size during the day.

I have two sons, my youngest turns 2 in a month. This afternoon, I put him down for a nap and he kept yelling "zundernare!" from his room. I finally went up and he had taken his diaper and shorts off and was trying to tell me he wanted underwear!! HUH?! He's starting to show the signs and I will be SO glad when this little guy is potty trained. We don't do cloth diapers (though I totally admire those who do) and since he moved up to a size 6, it is PRICEY!

Another thing to remember is that some children just have small bladders...I was 7 when I quit wetting the bed and my brother was 12 before he stopped completely! My Mom said I stopped when she threatened to spank me...I guess she thought I was not really trying. LOL, it worked.
My brother was a different story, he just couldn't seem to wake up- a very heavy sleeper. My Mom taught him at a very young age to wash the sheets, clothes and blankets, that way it would discourage it, but not make him feel guilty. M
y Mom said that her brother was 14 when he outgrew it!!! I hope my children don't inherit my family's bladder. :P

I just have to say... that picture is too cute!!

I think it has something to do with how soundly the child sleeps. My daughter, now 4, had an easy time daytime training when she had just turned 2. But she still has to wear a nighttime diaper. She will occasionally have a dry diaper in the morning, but not usually. Her friend, on the other hand, had a much more difficult time day training (she was probably 3 1/2 before she had no accidents), but she stopped having accidents at night almost as soon as she was trained. My opinion is that the sounded your child sleeps, the more difficult it is for them to keep from having accidents at night. I'm not pressuring my daughter about the wetting since I can tell that she's not doing it on purpose. She hates having pee on her. I've heard that it's quite common for kids to have bedtime accidents at 4 and even older. I should try waking her up, like you suggested, just to see if it helps. Thanks for the idea!!

Well my sister is 12 1/2 and still wets the bed but my other sister and i were waking up dry by the time we were 2, so yeh i guess it just depends. btw cute pic!

That picture is adorable, Tammy!

Night time hasn't been a problem for us, it's the day time that is. He doesn't want to stop what he's doing to go potty! We're lucky, I guess, that he has always stayed pretty dry during the night - even though he always gets a drink right before bed.