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What age do you think a child should be out of nappies day and night?

My youngest was out of nappies during the day at 3 but she is still in them at night 9 months later. I am not worried that she is still in nappies at night as they are still heavy in the morning. We did think about lifting her but my husband tried the other night and she wouldnt budge. Is britain obsessed with children being out of nappies at any early age? What is your experience with toilet training?

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1. Around 10 I'd say
2. i took my son out of nappies at 3 and had many accidents he is now 10 and still has the occasional accident. my youngest we waited until he was dry at night 2-3 nights with a dry nappy and he was dry at 3 with no accident
3. i have a 3 year old son he is in the exact same position as your kid he is out of nappies during the day and hasnt went he pants in a couple of months but he is still in nappies during the night. my mother as advised me that if you ask them if the want to sleep with no nappy on for the night and they say no then put a nappy on them but if they say yes just make sure you have a bed protector and let them go for it its the only way they will learn and mum says that is how she taught me and my sisters and i got 3 sisters.
4. personally i think a child should be out of nappies by 2, 3 max my son has been out of nappies night and day since just before 2 i was so proud but every child is different i was told by mothers to girls that there harder to toilet train then boys. the time will come keep it up make sure she does wee wee b4 bed and dosnt drink to much b4 bed goodluck
5. My daughter is dry day and night and has been for a couple of months. (She's nearly 3.) My friend's little boy was the same. Another friend's little boy is only just 2.5 y/o and is dry day and night. It just depends on your particular child. (Are you sure she's still using the nappy during the night and not as soon as she wakes in the morning? I only ask as that was my own concern about doing it at night but I tried taking my daughter's nappy off one night and she went right through til morning.)
6. my youngest was out of diapers at 2 1/2 he had some accident at night he has learned to wake himself up and go pee in the middle of the night. PLUS i wake him up before i go to bed (2 hours after him) and ask him to go pee in the toilet. you just need a routine to help her learn to go pee at night. also maybe stop giving liquids past a certain time and have a lil cup (just big enough to hold a sip or two of water) of water by her bed in case she does get thirsty at night.
7. We in Britain are obsessed with this. Each child is different. I have 2 sons and remember bein obsessed with this with my first child and I made him very anxious (and my mum and mum in law were making me anxious with their views on what was right). My second child was easier as I didn't set myself a time limit. Any method that you decide to try, just try a few times and if it doesn't work leave it for a month or two and then try again. You will know when it seems to be working and it will happen all of a sudden and you will wonder why you were so worried about it.
8. All children are different. I have a grandson, now 14, that was almost 5 before discarding the night time nappy, Girls are usually quicker so try not to be anxious if it goes on a bit longer than you feel it should.
9. My older three were all trained day and night by age 3 however my youngest trained during the day at 2 1/2 and still wets every night at age 8! We've had him to the doctors and had testing done but the doctor says it's common and he will outgrow it. So for now he just continues to wear goodnights pants to bed. We tried everything including taking him during the night and nothing to drink after dinner and going more often during the day....nothing works, he wakes up wet every morning. In fact there is a medication that our little cousin takes and it works for her. It's called Desmopressin. I tried it for my son but it doesn't work on him even with the maximum dose. So I will just wait it out. Most doctors won't even worry about it until after age 7. That is why we finally tried the medication because my son was passed 7. Just try limiting drinks if you haven't already and you can ask your doctor about Desmopressin but they usually don't like to try those sort of things until the child is older. The main reason for bed wetting is that many children don't produce enough of the hormone called Arginine vasopressin (AVP) which is a hormone that all people produce at night to slow down the production of urine during sleep hours. The medication Desmopressin does what the hormone is supposed to do which is why it works on many children but obviously lack of that hormone must not be my sons issue because the medication didn't work on him. We thinkhe is has issues with spasm of the muscel that holds in the urine.
10. my son is two and he is in sleepy pants because they hold more but i did try him with no nappy of a night time and he was dry but its just as he wakes up that he wets . he is toilet trainned i started him when he was 12months old but we do have accients every now and then but really its up to the child when they are ready to have no day or night nappy
11. My little boy was dry by the age of 2 but only because he'd shown signs of being ready, it was when he was 3 1/2 that he stopped wearing nappies at night and again it was only as he showed the right signs, we had successive dry mornings so decided to try him with a potty in the room and haven't gone back to nappies since.
12. my daughter was out of diaper at 2
13. All of mine were out of nappies before they were 2, my friends son wasn't ready at 2 and she was getting really stressed about it because my son was exactly the same age, she thought there was something wrong with him. All kids are different, I once knew a strange woman who tried to toilet train a 6 month old and she used to get stressed too, no matter how many times we told her it was near on impossible to toilet train a 6 month old.
14. Get the kid out of diapers before kindergarten. That's what we do in the US.
15. Some kids need them for a long time. I never felt the urge to go pee in my sleep so I wet the bed until I was about 8. I WISH I would've had training pants!
16. both my girls girls were dry day and night the month they turned 2,they were just really easy and hated having a nappy on,if i thought they had a big drink and fell sleep i used to put them on the toilet while they were fast off and they would wee!
17. my daughter was out of nappies by 2and a half. my son who is nearly 3 has shown no interest in potty training what so ever. so i guess it is when the child is ready, there is no set time. it does take children longer to be dry at night to. perhaps cut back on drinks an hour or so before bedtime.
18. Our eldest girl was 3 and 4 months when I started to potty train her and she was dry day and night within a week. I still used to carry her to the loo just before we went to bed until she was 4 and she'd go whilst she was still fast asleep.
19. My daughter was out of nappies in the day by the time she was two but couldn't grasp the 'night' thing until she was 4. So it really varies from child to child. I have known some to be dry both day and night by 2 and some to still be in nappies in the day at nearly 4, but I personally find that a bit nasty.
20. It all depends on the individual...all children develop at different rates, She will get up through the night when she is ready. I think Britain is obsessed with children being out of nappies at an early age and not just that but with children growing up before their time e.g. padded bras for 9 year olds!!! Why can't they just let children be children?! Rant over :) Good luck with your little girl x