3.5 yr old still in nappies at night

[gubbysquidge]

please can you provide your successful solutions to getting child out of nappies at night - she's been out of nappies during day for over a year.

Gubby - what have you tried so far?

Oh piss of with your "stressed" rhetoric! It's so easy to wash a sheet in an automatic washing machine and then hang it out to dry. Or, as one helpful poster has pointed out, to buy a few reuseable pants off the internet. Using plastic nappies for years is basically sticking up your two middle fingers to the environment and saying f**ck you, I don't care if I litter you up.

DD is seven and has just been prescribed tablets by the doctors to help her get through the night. She potty-trained effortlessly aged two but simply doesn't produce the right hormone at night so has never had a dry night in her life. It's not a big deal really (& you've made your point Kiwiinkits )

What about the environmental impact of constantly laundering sheets and duvets? Plus that I don't particularly want my child sleeping in a bed of piss.

Wow someone is telling us to "piss off" over disposable nappies?

Now I've seen it all.

Calm down dear

Well, if you must hear it... "F**k you, I don't care if I litter you up."

Feel better now? Justified? Good grief.

For some people, reusable works, for others it doesn't.

Kiwiinkits
Finished your little tantrum?

Yes, thanks. I'm off to throw my cigarette butt down the drain to kill some fish
Pregnant at the mo so arsey about lots of things. Plastic waste is just one of my soapboxes at the moment.

DD (4)got up with a soaking full pull up every morning. I understood all about physical readiness as DS was a bed wetter for years, so was completely happy to leave her be.

A few weeks ago she decided/refused to wear a pull up to bed. I told her she could try for 2 nights without but that she couldn't have her bedtime milk anymore. This was a couple of months ago and she has had the grand total of one small accident in that time. I'm completely amazed! She is back having milk before bed and she is still completely dry. I can only assume she was just lazily weeing in her pull up because she had one on.

My first two were dry at night at 2.5 my third was dry at 5.5. Every child is different. We use re-usable too, so it's not that he couldn't feel being wet!

kiwi just out of interest love, what age to we go from ok to "gross" iyo?
So Id it ok to use disposable nappies for example, untill the chikd is 3 and after thst we are disgusting wasteful wankers?
Congrats on your pregnancy btw, let's hope your admiral convictions don't bite you on the arse one day soon eh, when u need to opt for convenience to save your sanity and make your baby comfy or safe quickly or unexpectedly,
Also wondering about the environmental impact of washing sheets and pjs every single night too.

Reuseable / washable nappies for two kids so far. And yes, supplemented by disposables when required for sanity. Will hopefully do the same for number three when he or she arrives. Reusable nappies (and environmental awareness) probably more common here in Nz than in the uk. Just guessing. But there's loads of literature on the impact of washables versus plastics if you google it. I try to use low impact detergents too, for what it's worth, but that's another battle. And a harder one to fight because the impacts are less direct.
Plastic use is gross when it's either done out of sheer lack of consideration or out of laziness. People can draw their own lines for their own behaviour, but ignorance of impact of the costs you generate in your consumption choices is no excuse in my view.

But why is it ok

A for you to use the odd one for your sanity? And not others for theirs?
B for people to use them until a certain time and then should their child need 1 a day for longer, be classed as gross?

My dc were all out of nappies by 2,5 but my last is still in a night one at 4.
I believe my nappy use is less than soneone who's child is not potty trained by 3-3,5 as some aren't.

Anyway, back to the thread. My dd also wets if she falls asleep in the car or on the sofa too, so shes obviously not ready yet.

8 years is when they need to see a GP about it. Obviously if a child not able to be dry at night despite training, there maybe underlaying issues that need to be addressed. Some children are just not ready or able aged 3,4,5,6

Probably the most environmental thing we can do is not have children in the first place! Never mind getting them out of nappies. There are loads of things parents can do to be environmental - using second hand clothes/equipment, walking to school/sessions, buying food package free or in recyclable boxes

Why do you use the odd disposable 'for your sanity'? Since washing sheets is soooo easy. Once you have three kids, get back to me about whether yet another load of sodding washing a day is 'not a big deal'. God, if there's one thing that pisses me right off, and I use the phrase advisedly, it is insufferable self-righteousness. In any case, if you care so much about resource use, why are you having three kids? Before being quite so keen to highlight the moral inadequacies of others, best to check you aren't living in a glass house first.

Incidentally DS isn't dry at night and he is 5. His big sister was dry by 3.5. Just one of those things!

Ha ha, yes, shouldn't have had three kids. I agree with that wholeheartedly. This one was a mistake, big time! But abortion wasn't an option, so.

Meh, if you're happy being a polluter just carry on. Everyone else does so why shouldn't you. Agree that being a hypocrite is insufferable. And I am a hypocrite with loads of stuff. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't all think of ways to consider our impact on the planet.

Well, full washing machine loads in a high energy washer and line drying your second hand reusables is very worthy, but can be hard in a tiny wee place with no outdoor space in the UK (and elsewhere), particularly if you don't want to/ can't afford to purchase the world's supply so that you only do full loads...

I used reusables (and I have three kids - one of whom was dry at night at 7, one at 2, and the other one still isn't at 13) but I have a bucket load of empathy to offer, rather than unmitigated criticism. It was nowhere near as trendy fifteen years ago, I tell ya. Although I am loving NZ as the epitome of the zeitgeist.

Kiwi, if you agree that you have contributed to the overpopulation of the world, and the extra use of extra resources and destruction of the planet, Why was abortion not an option?

Leave kiwi alone, she's taken it on the chin. I only use one nappy per day, in the grand scheme of corporate pollution I dont feel too bad .

tobysmum77, nappy round the knees by the end of the day?

The thread is about night nappies tomato:)