To think this is actually very harmful rather than beneficial

[TheLadyEvenstar]

Was talking to a few mums earlier and discussing whether our dcs were dry of a night. I was quite upfront and said "No ds2 is nowhere near dry at night but it will come in time"
Another mum then piped up that her family do not use nappies on their dc of a night time as the feeling of a wet bed will "Make them dry quicker"

I have to say I was and didn't know what to say.
Surely they can see in the long run its got to be bad for the lo's skin?

It doesn't make them dry quicker.

Mine would be classed as late to be dry at night but I don't care. It isn't a race.

All that extra washing and the smell they clearly don't realise it's about hormones.......

I don't know about that but think of the amount of extra washing! And the potential for wet, smelly mattresses.

Ugh!

i dont think its mean if the kids are school age they probably dont even realise they are wetting if in nappies

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I'm sure they don't mean they let their child lie in a bed.

i never put nappys on the dc once they were dry in the day. They feel the bed get wet as they have an accident and it wakes them up.

Of course it means lot of changing sheets during the night but was worth it cos all mine were dry at night within 2 weeks

How on earth does she know what quicker is in that senario?
How long has she been doing this? a week? a month? a year?

If this is her mentality, did she not child proof anything dangerous in her house, you know, so the child will learn quicker not to touch a hot stove, or put their fingers in a socket quicker?

what a loon.

Doubt it's particularly harmful.

Well DS is in cloth nappies (too young for any toilet training yet), so he technically has the feel of wet cloth around him all night. Doesn't bother him or do his skin any harm.

But I do think the woman is crazy because of all the washing :-)

It doesn't make them able to be dry quicker but it can make them quicker to actually do it once they are able

I feel I left nappies too long on my dd, she was potty trained at 2 but in night nappies till 4. It was only when she realised she was wetting the bed (and it was immediately changed ) that she made sure she took measures to stop wetting, like going plenty of times in the day and properly trying before bed

Its alot of nappies in landfill to leave a child in nappies for years on end

Rhian82 - I used washable nappies with all mine and as I said before they would probably be classed as late to be dry at night.

Memoo you are so wrong.........many children are dry at night very quickly after daytime drying but some are not and it's not to do with training it's to do with the hormones we produce during the day which enables wee to concentrate overnight so your bladder can contain it. If you don't produce enough hormone then there is physically too much for your bladder to contain overnight.

Erm... I thought getting them to not wet at night was one thing you can't really train at all, you have to just wait it out for a while.

My sister put my Dnephew to bed minus nappies at 3. A year later he still wets his bed every night, despite his mum insisting he is ready for this. I suspect it's more to do with not buying nappies for 2 DC. Don't see how she's saving money though what with washing bedding every single day....

Our 2 were dry at night within days of being dry in the daytime. (With the exception of the very occasional accident- perhaps 2 apiece). This was not thanks to any planning on our part- both DCs are stubborn as mules know their own minds and insisted on being without a nappy at night. We thought it would be disastrous but went with it and they proved us wrong. Don't know whether that's just luck or whether somehow the situation helped them to learn quickly.

How could Memoo be wrong? She was just giving her experience, not generalising across all children everywhere.

It doesn't read to me that it was just particular to her children it reads like "if you do it this way then they will be dry at night quickly like mine" when it doesn't in fact work like that.

My dd2 was dry at night before potty trainning her self at 20 months. Still put a nappy on her so that I could sleep better (co slept) maybe this was selfish?

My ds was also dry at night before the day, we finaly got him dry at 3 years and a couple of months. We used the brillaint wet dry mats that go on the sheet and wash and dry v quickly, no need to wash the whole bed

Memoo is wrong because she claims taking their nappy of made them dry, when it was just a coincidence, that they were developmentally ready within a couple of weeks taking the nappy off.

DS was dry at night before he was dry in the day and never wet the bed.

DD was dry during the day at 2.4 and appeared to be dry at night for a few weeks then. It actually took her another two years to be properly dry at night, with weeks of being dry then weeks of accidents.

The child I am talking about is 2.7yrs old. He has been dry in the day for 2 months so they want him dry of a night as well.

How old are the children you were talking about?
I was told at the enuresis clinic that children needed to feel themselves wetting. DS wet the bed every night for years!
Just dry now, at 13.

They are between 2.5 years and 3yrs old.

why not?

DD was probably ready to go dry at night ages before we actually stopped putting her in night nappies (i waited until after our caravan holiday, as didn't want the upholstery endangered) - i reckon she hadn't been wetting in her sleep at all for months, but choosing to before and after sleep because the nappy was there to catch it - andbecause that was the option available.

if you want them to go dry at night you have to take the nappy off some time. They will probably have a couple of wet nights after that - it doesn't necessarily mean they can't go dry. I doubt they are just removing nappies and not making other steps (no late drinks, bedtime and morning toileting etc)

and anyway - nappies are crap for skin, a wet bed which is promptly changed would be much better.

I ended up making an effort at night training DD1 at 20 monthsish because of nappy rash....(which didn't stick, the rash got better, mind you if I'd been arsed with persevering it could have worked...you never know)

so YABU.