Nighttime dryness refers to the ability to stay dry during sleep without wetting the bed. It means not urinating while asleep.
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Rubber pants were actually frowned on, and blamed for rashes — wool was the secret
for nighttime dryness.
In fact, it's best to think
of nighttime dryness as a separate but related milestone on a potty training timeline.
In fact, you might want to think of daytime and
nighttime dryness as two separate potty - training milestones.
Lots of parents
think nighttime dryness should go hand - in - hand with daytime dryness, but toddlers and preschoolers simply aren't capable of staying dry at night.
Co-sleeping speeds
up nighttime dryness: If you are co-sleeping it is much easier to tell when your child is waking to go to the toilet thus preventing accidents and re-enforcing potty training with minimal effort.
Prescription drugs: There are prescription drugs that can reduce urine production, but they don't shorten the time it takes for kids to
achieve nighttime dryness.
It's completely normal for it to take months, or even years, longer for a child's body to mature enough for
reliable nighttime dryness.
In parts of Africa and Asia, toilet training can start in the weeks after birth, with babies achieving daytime and
nighttime dryness around 6 months.
Most often children wet the bed because their bodies are not yet physically capable
of nighttime dryness.
Overnight diapers, training pants, or washable or disposable underwear designed for kids who wet the bed may be the easiest option until her body is ready
for nighttime dryness.
Daytime and
nighttime dryness are separate potty training milestones.
In general, bowel control is achieved before bladder control and daytime dryness is more readily achieved than
nighttime dryness.
Think about a potty training timeline having two separate milestones: daytime dryness and
nighttime dryness.
Chances are that your child will stop wetting the bed just as soon as his body is physically capable of
nighttime dryness.
Daytime and
nighttime dryness are separate milestones, and they may happen months or even years apart.
You can't rush the physical development needed for
nighttime dryness any more than you can rush a first tooth coming in.
For many kids, the time gap between day and
nighttime dryness is so close that it seems like the same achievement.
Just like the timing of his first tooth,
nighttime dryness is a physical development that happens at its own pace and can't be rushed.