What to use after size 6+ nappy

[ChloMorgs1]

DD is 4 and still wears a nappy at night (perfectly normal at her age, have no concerns) however the nappy is starting to get a bit tight on her. We are using mamia nappies from Aldi, any recommendations on other brands to try?

Aldi do a size 7 nappy too

Also, I know you said you're not worried. But please don't stress about her being in nappies at night at 4. Being dry at night is hormonal, you can't train it, some kids get it as soon as they are day time trained, some kids don't get it till much later, both are normal.

My dd is 5 and still in nappies at night what dry nights are people talking about because in my local Sainsburys all I can find is ones for toddlers or ones for teens?

back to the op pampers size 8

Do Pampers last all night on your DD? I think they are quite expensive but if they last then I would be happy to buy them

This is completely outdated. Night dryness is hormonal and there’s nothing to do except wait. It’s years too early for an alarm.

Too old for nappies and pull ups. At 4 my two DDs started school. Can't imagine them wearing a nappy to bed at that age.

Thankfully we aren't stressed, this is my eldest so first time I have dealt with night time wetting but it doesn't bother us. I know Mums who's 6/7yr olds aren't dry and DD has only turned 4

Wonder why they have pull ups going up to 15yrs old in supermarkets

Yes they do I never used Aldi or lidls as don’t have one local so have only ever used pampers

DD is nearly six and the biggest size pullups in Aldi fit her fine.

As PP said, it's hormonal and doctors aren't fussed until they're 9 or something like that. In the old days kids were taken out of nappies then a fair proportion of them just wet the bed a lot and were shamed for it. Not sure that was a better system really.

Don't be silly.

Night dryness is hormonal and you can't train it. You just have to wait.

They have pull ups for older children as some kids with complex needs are incontinent and some children without complex needs don’t have bladder control or have continence issues. There are also links with autistic children and bowel and bladder issues.

Still wetting at night is a hormonal issues and until the body recognises this then it’s a case of just waiting. Older children can have medication to try and keep them dry at night. It’s got nothing to do with ‘being too old’. That’s just ignorance.

For children with diagnosed medical issues obviously. Did I miss that on your post? Does your child have a medical issue?

Are you being horrible because you’re embarrassed that you’re completely wrong, or are you just like that?

My DS was in KS2, exceeding academic expectations, attending a professional football club's junior academy and starting to learn a musical instrument, going on Cub camps .... the production of the hormone that allows night-time dryness to a sufficient level is completely unrelated to other physical and mental development.

Also nothing to do with parenting - my other child was dry at night at 3....

In terms of 'diagnosed medical issues", DS was referred by the GP for bedwetting when he was 7, but the specialist advice was basically 'keep doing what you are doing and wait'. 9 was a minimum age for e.g. prescription of desmopressin, and then only really to avoid embarrassment or inconvenience for sleepovers, not because this was a "medical issue".

I ran residentials for 9-10 year olds for many years. At least 2-3 children from each group were not reliably dry at night .

Why are people so judgmental?! OP wasn’t asking your opinion on her child wearing a nappy or pull-up, she was asking where she could get a bigger size! Also, if her child had medical conditions/SEN is no one’s business but hers!
We use Asda 6+ nappies on our 5 year old overnight and Pampers 7 or 8 pull ups during the day (before anyone says anything, he has SEN!). As others have said, you can’t train overnight dryness

I haven't thought about Asda nappies, we used them when DD was smaller

@ChloMorgs1 DS is stocky and the Asda 6+ nappies fit fine overnight and we never have leaking. I think they are bigger than the Aldi ones which stopped working for us when he went into size 4/5

This www.eric.org.uk/advice-for-children-with-night-time-wetting is informative on the reasons for and possible approaches to deal with night-time wetting.

I'd say their estimate of 1 in 15 7 year olds still not being dry at night indicates that a 4 year old still wearing nappies at night is WELL within the normal range of development!

I was advised to use pull ups for overnight as soon as daytime potty training commenced. Dd2 was dry at night as soon as she was dry in the daytime, dd1 however was 3 years later before going on meds and still has accidents as an adult (autistic). You can buy much larger sizes of pull-ups easier

Don't be ridiculous. I have one DC who was dry at night at under 3 and one who still isn't at 6.5. Still well within normal range.

Night and day dryness are totally different.

Terrible advice. Most of the time night time accidents are related to physical development, which happens at different ages for different kids. If they are consistently having accidents and not waking, at 4 years old they probably aren’t ready, and ‘training’ unlikely to work/ creates undue stress over something they can’t yet control. Nhs guidance is to speak to your gp if not dry at night after 5 years of age.

Tbf, we always found pull-ups absorbed less and could not be adjusted as much at the waist as nappies (DS was a solid toddler but stretched into a very tall, thin child). As DS's cause for bedwetting was lack of vasopressin hormone (which downregulates urine production at night), he produced large quantities of dilute urine and so capacity was definitely a consideration!

Alarms are recommended for those who bedwet due to 'full bladder' signals not waking up the sleeper. Hormone treatment (eventually) for those who do not produce enough vasopressin. Constipation treatment for those who have low bladder capacity due to constipation. Other medication works for irritable bladder.

Saying 'you should use an alarm' is ridiculous - yes, it will work for some, because it is a treatment that matches the cause. For all other causes, it will dramatically reduce sleep while having no good effect.