Lifting at night - is it counter-productive?

[CountessDracula]

My dd 4.3yo has been dry at night (other than the odd accident) for quite a while (10 months? then she got a bad cough a couple of months ago and I think the night cough mixture made her sleepy and she started wetting the bed due to not waking up when she needed a wee.

Since then she has been wetting the bed maybe twice or three times a week but dry the rest of the time.

I have now started putting a nappy on her again at night. If I lift her she is dry all the time so should I just do that instead? Or is it counter-productive?

Does it make any differnnce whether you put a pull-up on at night or not? The nights when she is dry she still gets up and has a wee so I can't see it's doing any harm.

I don't think putting a pull-up on makes a difference. We lifted DS1 for ages, because he was fiddling with his willy before going to sleep, so it was never pointing into the nappy. It didn't stop him from being properly dry at night at 3 or so. (DS2 is already dry at night, at 2 years 3 months! Not dry in the day, though, nowhere near. )

Lifting at night is supposed to be counter-productive as they don't get the feeling of a full bladder which is then supposed to wake them up.

Wearing a nappy is meant to be 'wrong' too as the child knows it doesn't matter whether they stay dry or not.

Yes I thought that but it seems to make no difference to how often she is dry or not

You could look at what she's drinking and cut out fizzy drinks and brown drinks. Tbh, I'd probably just put her in a nappy at night and not worry about it - unless she's unhappy.

But then I'm coming from a perspective of having a much older dd who's just about dry at night, so from my point of view, your dd's doing very well!

she doesn't drink anything fizzy or brown!

No she isn't unhappy
I thin I'll leave her in nappeis for a bit longer
thanks

My dd2 hasn't wore nappies for about 2 years but still wets,everytime she starts to be dry she gets ill and starts wetting again.
She has a cough atm and wets everytime she has a coughing spell.
I know normally she always wets between 10.30-11 so I usually lift her 10.15-10.30 then its a time she has a full bladder and I wake her enough that she is aware of whats happening.

Have had 3 children and lifted all 3.
All 3 were dry day and night by 2 and not through anything i did-just never agreed with encouraging use of a toilet in the day and then telling them its ok to pee in a nappy at night.
As soon as they were dry in the day,which i let them do when they were ready (although have a feeling terry nappies helped ! )that was the end of nappies entirely.
We still lift ds 3 out onto his potty at bedtime-he doesn`t even open his eyes.He drinks lots of water overnight and has started getting up for a wee if he needs one later.
Lifting always worked for us-much nicer than a wet bed so if it works for you why not ?

My dd has been day dry since 22 months and night dry since 23 months - was actually night dry about a week after day dry but kept nappy on an extra few weeks as we were in the middle of moving house and was worried that the move would poss upset her and make her wet. Have had (fingers crossed) 1 wet bed so far and she is 24 months. Mind you she still has odd accident in the day (too frightened she might miss anything exciting and she is honest in her reply to why she wet herself). I always lift her on my way to bed and occasionally she gets up in the night for a pee. I personally think it can only confuse a child who has not worn a nappy to bed by putting one back on same goes for night and day - i think being nappyless at bedtime should follow fairly soon after day dryness - i know its not always that easy but i def think it should be given a try. My young brother in law wore nappies to bed til he was 7! In my opinion MIL was just too lazy to persevere with him and change the bed if he had an accident - which lets face it most children do have them.

sorry dd is 34 months!