I am night training both my children and my house smells of pee

[colditz]

Ds2 not utterly reliable in the day

Ds1 not reliable at night

I can't train one and not the other - my children just don't work like that.

My whole house seems to smell faintly of urine.

Apart from washing things ASAP (not always an option!) and cleaning wherever I see the pee, what can I do to shift the whiff?

Hope the waking at 10pm does the trick of keeping the beds dry until the hormone kicks in!

Best thing for encouraging sufficient hormone production is to get them to drink more during the day, certainly worked on me - realised I probably needed to get up in the night to wee because I was dehydrated, since increased my fluid I no longer need a wee in the night.

I have 4 boys past the nappy stage now. This is my experience.I never did the potty training thing, never made a big deal out of it. All of them came of nappies for both day and night straight away.i would put the potty in the room beside them at night and made them pee before bed. I did put a plastic sheet on their bed but two of them never needed it and the other two just once or twice. Putting a nappy on at night just confuses them and leads to later bed wetting. Every child is different but I really think people make such a big deal out of it with stickers and musical pottys etc. When you were doing your driving test did you slip of and do it quietly or announce to everyone that it was coming up?I've been in peoples houses when they've announced to every visitor that little tom can use the potty! People clap for a child who uses the potty, talk about putting the pressure on! Its not rocket science and the more low key its kept the better.

4plus1 -we did the same - no fuss and my kids were toilet trained at 2 within a couple of days. Had no more than three accidents between them. In the day time. One of them (twins) was dry at night at same time - age 2 1/2. The other, age 8 is still struggling. Sometimes it's just physical - nothing to do with parental pressure or how it's handled. Their bodies are different.

My son is usually dry with 'lifting' (he walks to loo but is so sleepy he never remembers,) but recently was ill and wet the bed twice a night every night, including duvet while we had guests. It was exhausting. MY DP got him some nappies, which he'd not used for over a year, and had to explain they wouldn't sell them for 8-15 year olds if boys his age and far older didn't have this condition.

OP - the best smell killer I've found is green apple dettol spray. I spray it on the mattress if it's soaked through, then put a towel over the damp part before the clean sheet goes on if he needs to get back into bed to sleep. Next day I air it to dry it. Also, if wet stuff has been left on bathroom floor overnight because washing machine is loaded, then I dettol spray that too so the smell is zapped.

Personally I've never found bicarb does any good, and it's messy and faffy. Quick zap with nice smelling strong antibac is fastest way to get rid of the smell. I avoid any air fresheners or fabric fresheners as they just mask it and when it comes back the smell seems worse.