Night nappies on residential

[madmadmum66]

My DD aged 10 has got a letter home from school saying you child can go on a one week trip to an activity centre when she saw it she immedetly asking me if she could go , but when she realised it was over night it was another matter entirley.

The promlem is my dd wets her bed 2/7 days a week the doctor says she it is not a health prolem and she will grow out of it in her own time. at the moment she wears night nappies and has managed to dodge sleepovers.

she will not wear pajamas and insitsts on wearing a nighty with nappy underneith. but how could get nappies on in secret and they are very big so she thinks people would notice. and you know how boy are looking up skirts and dresses and nightys so one of them might see it an tease her.

I know she really wants to go it is so annoying

any ideas of how to get nappies on scretly or waht to do???

She will have to get pj's and either put nappy on under bedclothes or go to the bathroom to do it with her washbag towel etc

What about a nightdress/pyjama bottom combo? I often do this, wear a nightshirt and then put some cropped pj bottoms on underneath.

I went on a residential trip to an activity centre (ok, it was back in the dark ages!) but the boys and girls were separated at bedtime so there was no messing. What are her teachers like? Are they nice and could be told so they can keep an eye out? soremummy is right, she just needs to take a rolled up towel (or big washbag!) to the bathroom.

I don't know your DD's history so this might be too harsh an approach but from your op it just sounds like a case of 'if you want to go, this is what you have to do, end of'.

Some people have put the clean nappies in the bottom of the sleeping bag so they can put them on once in bed - however, for a week, there would be issues with how to dispose of the used ones.

Dd went on the school residential with incontinence pads. She had a meeting with the incontinence nurse at the GPs surgery before the trip to discuss practicalities. Teachers were told. ot a problem.

Wouldn't have thought there would be any problems with disposal: remember some of the other girls will be having periods at this age, so there must be disposal arrangements of some sort. Your dd will presumably put her pads on in the bathroom, like the menstruating girls with their sanitary towels or tampons.

When my 10yr-old ds has been on residential trips he puts his Dry-Nites on in the bathroom. In the mornings he puts the used one in a plastic bag and the teacher disposes of it for him.

What about wearing a dressing gown over the top of the nightie, if she's worried about people being able to see?

Like everyone else has said, get her to wear something more 'covering' and tell the teachers. I am sure that they would be happy to throw a plastic bag away for your DD if she is willing to hand it over. When we had a Brownie sleepover recently, two of our girls wore nappy type things and I was happy to deal with them.

Thanks for advice i'll see what she says about telling a teacher

would girls be having periods at 10 [hmm0

Thanks for advice i'll see what she says about telling a teacher

would girls be having periods at 10 [hmm0