Night time, no nappies, waking VERY early, what to do??

[mckenzie]

I have had some fantastic advice on here just recently regarding my DS who had taken to weeing on the carpet and I;m rather hoping you guys might be able to help on this little situation please (the carpet weeing has stopped now, yippee!.

DS, nearly 3, has been out of nappies since February. Apart from the carept situation he has been very good. We've taken to putting him to bed without a nappy on, taking him for a wee, albeit half asleep, about 10.30/11pm and then putting a nappy on him for the rest of the night but for the last few weeks the nappies have been dry in the morning. So, this week we (or make that 'I' decided to go without the nappy at all.

First morning everything was great, he woke up normal time and was dry and didn't even seem bothered about rushing to the toilet.
Second morning he told me as soon as I entered his room the he was wet and had done a wee (I didn't react, just cleaned him up).
Third morning he woke about 6am crying out "I dont like it". HE culdn't tell me wht it was he didn';t like but I just took him to the toilet and he did a wee. He got back into bed but didn't go back to sleep, just dozed and chatted.
Fourth morning, same thing about 6am also. Did doze I think (I did anyway) but was well awake by 7.15.

Now I know 6am isn't the end of the world but DS normally wakes up about 8 (he's in bed about 7.30) and for obvious reasons I'd really like to not be woken at 6am as I for one cannot get back to sleep even if DS could.

Any suggestions? I'd rather not put a nappy back on him as that will just confuse him wont it? He definitely wont be able to get himself up to visit the toilet as for one thing his room is completely dark and he also isn't very good at doing that during the daytime so goodness know what mess he'd get in during the night/early hours.

Any tips/ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance.

anyone got any advice for me for this evening? I so dont want to be woken up at 6am, especially on the weekend!!

Haven't got any advice, but i do know how you feel, as my ds2 always gets up early. Does he have alot to drink before they goes to bed?

Hi soulfly, he does have a small beaker of milk at bedtime while we read some books but not a great deal. I've heard though that we shouldn't curtail their drinking, rather allow them to strengthen their bladders over time. But heck, it's difficult isn;t it when it results in an early wake up call. I know full well that some people are being woken up at 6am every mornign and I am, and have always been, very very grateful that DS likes his sleep (it's swings and roundabouts I think, all our children have good points and bad points, they are just usually different points).

Anyway, back to the drinking issue, we could try and stop his bedtiem milk but it seems so unfair on him.

i would put nappies back on! my ds is 3 1/2 and started having dry nappies in the morning a year ago, they were dry for about 3 mnths(!) before i took them off him at night. he has never wet the bed ever but if he did start to i think i would put nappies back on him even now.