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My almost 7 year old son is still in pull ups overnight. Our pediatrician isn’t concerned yet. We will revisit it during the summer but she said some boys just take longer than others to stay dry at night.

They have to produce an enzyme that makes them produce less urine at night and they need to be able to wake up and go.

My 5yo (6 in June) is like this too but he’s never woken up dry. He’s a super heavy wetter and there’s no way a pull up would hold his pee, so we’ve been using Good Nites. It just takes time.

@mrsbookworm: I feel you. My 3yo daughter is ready to be out of diapers at night. My son notices, too.

I was waiting for my son to wake up with a dry pull-up before I tried not using them. One day at age 5, he came home and his friends in Kindergarten apparently talked about how none of them used pull-ups anymore so he announced he didn't want to use them either. I was strongly opposed to the idea because I foresaw him waking us up numerous times with incidents, etc. However, my husband convinced me to let him try it and he woke up dry and has ever since. My point is that waking up wet isn't necessarily a sign that they aren't ready. Sometimes they just know they can pee so they will versus it being a need. Literally, the day he decided he was done he had woken up with a super wet pull up earlier that morning.

@KT326: We tried the same. He was actually dry for a few nights and we were ecstatic! It was a fluke......