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when should they be dry through the night?

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lolliepops · 13/09/2006 10:20

i have a dd who is 3.6 she was toilet trained by the age of 2 her insistance not mine! and latley she keeps taken her bedtime nappy off i put it back on before i go to bed, so sometimes she wakes and has wet the bed. she still takes a cup of milk to bed so i havnt tried to get her dry through the night till i stop that. do you think with her resistance to wear the nappie i should knock the milk on the head and give it a shot?

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Medulla · 13/09/2006 10:24

DD is about the same age as yours. A couple of months ago she decided she didn't want to wear her nighttime nappy (like your little girl she had been dry during the since 2) she still has her milk at night and now will get up to have a wee if she needs one. We leave the bathroom light on for her. I would go with her, you might have a couple of wet nights until she completely sorts herself out. I still have a protective sheet just in case but she's been dry for ages now - so much cheaper!!

Mum2Ela · 13/09/2006 10:29

Personally have found this a nightmare - and it continues to be one!

DD (just turned 4 last week) was dry in the day just before she turned 2. Just after her 3rd birthday she was very insistant that she didn't want to wear nappies during the night anymore, so we gave it a go. It wasn't working out (wet 50% of the time) so decided to go back to nappies - DD though had other ideas and there was no way she was going back into them!

Even now we will have weeks with no wet bed and them she will have accidents every day for a week! There really is no pattern.

So, no advice unfortunately just good luck!

poppynic · 13/09/2006 10:40

I think you should definitely give her a go. Lots of children manage dry nights by her age. Absolutely, definitely get a protective bottom sheet. We started off without one and it is such a relief now to have one.

I think kids vary in this aspect just as much as any other. I know of a little boy who decided he didn't want nappies, day or night, when he was two, and was dry from then. Another friend's DD managed dry nights at her grandmas (but not at home) from when she was 3.

DS was toilet trained by 2.5 and stopped wanting a night nappy at 3. Now he is frustratingly dry for about a month and then has a bout of wet nights and then back to dry again.

DP wasn't properly dry until he was 8! oh no!! and his nephew wasn't dry until about 7. The nephew was taken to a bedwetting specialist doctor. They usually don't consider a child to have a problem needing specialist intervention in this area until they are 8. So that leaves a pretty wide range.

Good luck.

poppynic · 13/09/2006 10:42

Hello Mum2Ela - my partner in washing......

Mum2Ela · 13/09/2006 10:51

Yup, know the feeling!

We now have 2 quilts and pillows for DD so can alternate them and wash those too! They get soooo wet!

throckenholt · 13/09/2006 11:01

Even now we will have weeks with no wet bed and them she will have accidents every day for a week! There really is no pattern.

we had that for months - it gradually faded away until now wet beds are very rare.

In response to the first question - I think it is something to do with a brain chemical that tells the body not to wee while you are asleep - it is not something you can "train"- (as in the daytime stuff where you can teach them to recognise the feelings) because they are asleep. So basically they can do it when they can do it - and you just have to spot the time.

My DS1 is was between 3 and 4, my 3.5 year old twins are not there yet.

poppiesinaline · 13/09/2006 11:28

both my older two were dry a week at night before their 5th birthdays (although they both potty trained in the day at 2). Only ever had 3 wet beds between them. Wont even be thinking of doing the whole dry at night thing with DS2 until just before his 5th birthday. Cant be doing with the hassle.

BUT a friend of mine lo was dry at night the same time she potty trained at 2 1/2. They are all so different.

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lolliepops · 13/09/2006 13:14

i think i will leave give it another ago i just hate wet sheets i have too much watshing as it is!
The plan is get to the bottom of the current washing probley in a day or two then give it a go i know she wants a dora trampet so might put one up for grabs if she manages a coupl eof dry nights?

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muffincat · 29/09/2006 11:10

My dd is 5 in January and we have been going through weeks of dry nights and then wet nights - sometimes she will come and tell me in the night she has wet the bed, other times she will just sleep in it all night long!!! We are trying the "wake up when you go to bed" technique and it seems to work to a certain extent. She goes to the toilet before she goes to bed at 7pm and then we wake her up when we go to bed around 10.30 and take her to the toilet again (when she usually does another wee!) and 8/10 times she will then go through the night. I have asked her on a number of occasions why she doesn't get up to use the toilet if she feels she needs a wee in the night to which she says "I don't know I need one!".

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