if you are interested in a toilet training guide I would recommend that you visit the Huggies website (www.huggies.com.au) – you can find tips on how to know when your children are ready to toilet train as well as strategies to use to make the process go more smoothly. I’m not sure whether your twins were born prematurely – many premature babies reach milestones a little later than other children so it is important to keep this in mind. As with walking and talking, nighttime bladder control is generally determined by children’s physical development, which is why there is such variability in the ages at which children achieve nighttime continence. It is very common for 3-year-olds to be still wetting at night – with about 1 in 5 children still wetting the bed by the time they start school. Unlike daytime training – it is much more difficult to ‘train’ a child to stay dry at night. Training usually involves more formal interventions like conditioning alarms. Children who are younger than 6 may not be physically or emotionally mature enough to learn to stay dry at night. I would recommend waiting a few years before considering any formal treatment – in the meantime it is highly likely that they will become dry on their own! You can use absorbent pants like DryNites at night until your daughters become dry – this will lessen your workload and reduce any stress that is often associated with constant wet beds.

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