Night time - should we go for it?

[Jasmum]

Hi, DD is 3.4 mths and has been toilet trained in the day for about a year. Her pull up is not dry in the morning (I don't really get chance to check it as she takes it of and puts it in the bin, but I know it is wet). Every now and again and more so recently she says she doesn't want to wear a pull up at night, am managing to convince her for the moment and occasionaly she says it stings her when she wees. I'm wondering whether to take a chance and see if she can do it at night. She already has a potty in her room.

What is the best way to tackle it? She has a bedtime drink of milk - shld I not let her have a drink after a certain time? Shld I put a night lite in so she can use her potty? She has phases of getting up in the night and refusing to go back to bed so do I risk saying she can use the proper toilet?

I hope someone can help with some advice as to abandon this plan or go with it!!
I don't want to hinder her natural development by insisting she wears a pull up if she doesn't need to...but don't want to be up and down all night either or is that inevitable?

Thanks......

bump - I relly hope someone can help....

I will watch with interest. My ds is 3.8 and I don't know how to tackle this either!

DD is also 3y8m and despite being day time dry since 24 months (and very very quickly) she has not yet mastered night time. Thought we'd cracked it last summer and she went 10 nights dry with no nappy, but then it just fell apart again and not been dry at night since. She is desperate to be out of her bed pants and she gets sore too, but no success at all.

I know that she definitely uses the bed pants through laziness once they are on. However it isn't as simple as that as she will also wet if asleep without them - and it doesn't wake her up when she does so. For example she went tosleep at 7:30 tonight with no bedpants on (they were still wet and I'd forgotton to dry them). At 9pm she was still dry. When I checked at 10pm she was wet but sound asleep.

So will read with interest...

another one reading with interest but no answers I'm afraid - DS1 is 4 next week and has soaked bed-nappy/pants every morning...

Hula what are these bed pants? My ds just wears norm al pull ups.

Not an issue though till age 5 I beleive.

Go for it. She sounds ready. Talk and talk and talk about it, warn her about using potty so she knows what to do. Maybe a small treat if she is dry in the morning etc. No big deal if she isn't.

I would definitely stop giving milk last thing -- have it at teatime. Stick her on loo after her story last thing, and leave a nightlight for potty use at night. Get mattress protectors just in case, and make up bed with protector/sheet underneath so you just have to tear the first layer off it it goes bellyup at 2am.

DD dropped her nightnappy around this age after being dry by day for a year . But we 'lifted' her onto the loo around 10pm at first for a few months, to help her get through the night. I remember that awful bungee feeling of 'is she ready', but it was surprisingly OK once we binned them.

She had one or two pretty minor accidents in the first few days without the night nappy but I thought it would take longer; she was obviously ready.

Northerner - DD wears Motherease Bedwetters. They are like reusable pull ups. The idea is for me to save money in the long run! The first set did as the 3 pairs lasted me over a year and I sold them on for 2/3 what I paid for them new.

dd ebcame dry at night just before her 4th bday fo her own volition. She ahd had the odd dry pull up and had wnated to leave them off a motnh beofre but we were due to move and didn't feel the timign woudl wiork so we agreed ot wait until afterwarsd. Thoguht she might relapse on startign shcool btu she's been ok. She has had the occasional accident(used Pampers mats to begin with), usually when she's had juice in the evening so we avoid it after 6pm. She decided to dropp her bedtime milk long beforehand.

We have rarely been up at night and currently she'll sleep between 11 and 12 hours at night, waking up and needing a wee first thing and taking herself to the toilet. Occasioanlly she'll do the same in the night. Think it is a case of, if they are determined, try it but they also need to be physically ready to wake in time.

hth

DS has Huggies dry nights (age 4-7, so we can't be alone in this!) - he grew out of the normal pull ups

ds who was 4 in July has just had 6 dry nights. I too was reluctant to take the plunge. Eventually when he stayed with his grandmother last week he said that he didn't want to wear a pull up and so she went with it. He hasn't worn one since. He gets up in the night to use the toilet if he needs to-but more often than not he sleeps through.
He told me the other day that when he was wearing pull ups he would get out of bed and stand to do a wee so it didn't feel so uncomfortable!!! had I known this he could have been out of pull ups a lot sooner.
I would advise you to go with her if she is keen to ditch her pull ups
good luck

Jasmum, how did you get on? Your post could have been written by me!

I'm going to try no nappy tonight!

Dd1 has been potty trained for about 16 months but I've been putting off attempting the nights for a long time. She is 3 years 3 months. I've got 10 days more of maternity leave with dd2, so I'm going to use it to wash bedding every day! I've put a rubber sheet on the matress, and then a huge big towel on top of that.