Not sure whether to leave DD1s pull-ups off for nighttime...

[beatie]

She's 3y 3m. She's been daytime potty trained from 2y 4m.

Initially, when she was potty trained during the day, she'd wake up with dry pull ups 2 days out of every 3. We thought it was to early for her to be night-trained so we left her in pull-ups and eventually she started to wee in them everynight. Over the course of the summer/Autumn we moved house/had a new baby/started dd1 at a new pre-school/got rid of dd1's dummy - so we didn't find a right time.

6 weeks after the baby came along, dd1 started to get up in the night to use the toilet instead of weeing in her pull-ups. With a 6 week old baby to deal with, this was not a convenient time for dd1 to ditch the pull-ups, as we weren't keen on dealing with accidents in the middle of the night.

So, now the baby sleeps through the night, we wonder whether it's a good time to take away the pull ups. She's never dry in the mornings. If we hadn't had a phase of her being dry in the mornings and a phase of her waking in the night to take herself to the toilet, I wouldn't even consider it.

I'm not sure what to do.

Hi Beatie

I waited until dd was dry at night for about 4 months (if not 6 actually) before leaving the night-time nappy off. She would have been about 3.9 at the time.

We had this with dd - she wet most nights and yet she had been dry during the day for over a year. I kept waiting for a run of dry nights to show me she was ready but they didn't come. in the end we decided to try her without a nappy anyway. We talked to her about it and she was happy. We put waterproof covers over the mattress (under the sheet) and we made sure there were plenty of changes of clothes and blankets available. Amazingly she only had about 3 accidents and then became dry and has been dry ever since. If you can bear the hassle of extra washing and a few broken nights its worth a go.

Beaty in exactly the same boat
DD never had an accident since day training at 2yr 5 m - but she used to wake up with a poo, every monring. She was awake I just think she liked laying bed snuggled up with her thumb.
So now we have sticker chart for her and it has been working. So I think we might try lifting dd at night before we go to bed, and protect the mattress and see....
I knwo for fact she would never be awake and poo in her knickers.
Part of you wants to just whip the nappy off and wing it, the other part thinks, oh god stripping the bed in the middle of the night arghhh

Oh yes - i forgot to mention that we lifted her when we went to bed but that was only for a few weeks.

I'd leave it a few more weeks - it's still a bit cold at night yet to have a wet bed!

I haven't waited till they were dry at all. With ds1, he was dry about 3 days after I started training him at 2.9 but it was on his 4th birthday ( lazy mummy!) that he said he didn't need it and that was that - never an accident since.

Ds2 is 3.3 and earlier this week we ran out of pull ups - only noticed at bedtime so just left him with nothing - so far, so good, no accidents since!! His pull up was pretty wet every morning so I'm quite surprised. 2 nights he's got up between 10 and 11 and gone for a wee himself.