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How old when out of nappies at night?

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Uwila · 05/04/2006 08:55

DD is 3, and has been potty trained during the day for months. I'm just begining to ponder when/how to tackle night time nappies.

So how old were your kids when they went to bed in pants rather than nappies?

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Belo · 05/04/2006 09:21

bump for you. Got the same issues myself!

GDG · 05/04/2006 09:24

Hi Uwila.

With ds1 I was very lazy and didn't tackle nighttime at all . He was dry in the day from about 2.9 (left it late and he cracked it in days - no accidents ) but it was on his 4th birthday that he announced he didn't need it - we left it off and he's never had an accident since.

With ds2 - again, trained him quickly at 2.9ish. He's 3.4 now and a couple of months ago we were getting them ready for bed and found we'd run out of pull-ups. He said he'd wear pants so, with trepidation, we just let him go without a nappy and again, he's only had about one accident.

With both of them, their pull-ups were not by any means dry in the morning so I don't think this is always an indicator that they are ready. Theirs were quite full tbh but once they came out of them we had very few problems.

Why don't you just try it and see? If she's not ready and you get a lot of wet beds, go back to pull ups for a while.

We never did that lifting at 10.30pm thing either. Ds1 just went straight through, ds2 sometimes gets up on his own about this time when we are coming to bed.

Good luck!

SenoraPostrophe · 05/04/2006 09:24

dd was 2, but it was at least 6 months after she was dry in the day. 3 is not at all unusual as far as i know - my friend's dd was 4.

I can't remember what it's called but young children simply don't have the ability to hold their wee when they're asleep. There's no real point in training them - you need to wait until the nappies are dry in the morning.

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Feistybird · 05/04/2006 09:26

DD2 3.4, is just so erratic - she can go 4 nights dry, followed by 3 wet. Exasperating.

DD1 was dry at night at the same point as she was during the day (2.5).

blueteddy · 05/04/2006 09:26

DS1 was dry in the day from 2 years 10 months, but wasn't dry at night time until he was 4.5 years!

chocolatequeen · 05/04/2006 09:28

Good tip I got on here - make up the bed with a bottom sheet, then a protector one, then another sheet. If there's an accident in the night, you've got a sheet on already so you don't have to arse about in the night trying to make up a clean bed.

DS1 was dry at night simultaneously, so may be worth a try - as GDG says, worth a go?

I didn't lift as a habit, but would occasionally get DS1 up if he'd had a lot to drink at supper and hadn't weed before going to bed.

Good luck!

Bozza · 05/04/2006 09:30

Don't agree with having to wait until nappies are dry in the morning. I think some children psychologically if they have a nappy there they will wee in it. When we took DS out of them we didn't put him in pants, just pjs so that he wouldn't feel as though anything was there IYSWIM. His pull-ups were still wet in the morning, but he went to being fairly reliable very quickly. He was 3.6, but I think could have been done sooner if I had not been pregnant/had newborn meaning I couldn't be bothered.

Northerner · 05/04/2006 09:31

My ds is 4 today and has been dry in the night for about 4 weeks with the odd accident here and there. Again his pull ups were not dry in the morning at all - we just ran out of pull ups and sort of fell into it.

Being dry at night is a whole different ball game, wee before bed and no juice after 6pm works in our house.

HTH

DumbledoresGirl · 05/04/2006 09:32

All of mine were dry at night the minute they were dry during the day, but I tended to potty train late: ds1 - aged 3, ds2 - aged 2.9, dd - aged 3 and ds3 - aged 2.6.

I don't know who you would train a child not to wee at night as mine just never did do it. I have read here that they won't ecome dry at night until a reflex has developed within them, so perhaps you would do best just to wiat for a week's worth of dry nappies each morning.

GDG · 05/04/2006 09:33

Totally agree with Bozza.

That's the reason I was lazy with both too Bozza - always had a small baby at around the same time as training!

juuule · 05/04/2006 09:34

Have had 2 that were dry day and night at just 2yo.
Had another who was dry in the day at 2.5y and took until 8+ to be dry at night.

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Uwila · 05/04/2006 09:35

So, did you guys restrict bedtime drinks? DS (10 months) has a bottle before bed. So DD wants one too. I sometimes give in and give her 1/2 a cup of milk. DH still encourages a big cup of warm milk (which she loves) but I'm afraid that this could interfere with being dry at night.

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hulababy · 05/04/2006 09:35

DD is 4 today and still in nappies at night, albeit reuasable ones. She had a fab patch last summer but since then nothing. She was dry during the day at 24 months, and that took just a couple of days. But we have tried the night time lots and not successful. DD has annouced today she no longer needs her bed pants. We will see. I am not concerned though. She'll do it ewhen she is ready. I don't know any 18 years ols off to uni and still in nappies after all

GDG · 05/04/2006 09:38

Uwila, I didn't restrict drinks that much tbh - they still both have a cup of milk before bed and it doesn't seem to be a problem. I probably don't give them quite as much in the cup but they won't go without for the same reason as your dd - ds3 still has a bedtime milk (not in a bottle cos he's 19m).

We don't even make them wee before bed either - they just go when they want.

Honestly, if you want to, give it a go and just see what happens. No harm in going back to pull ups. I did this with ds1 and ds2 with daytime training -tried them at one point and got nothing in the potty for 3 days but a few months later they cracked it really easily. It's just a case of trial and error I think.

Miaou · 05/04/2006 09:40

GDG there's a thread on active convos from me to you

Miaou · 05/04/2006 09:41

Btw, dd2 was 5 before we dropped the night time nappies and still wets the bed about once a month. some kids just don't manage it. Dh was still a bedwetter into his teens (!) so we kind of expected it.

Bozza · 05/04/2006 09:41

Actually DS (who was daytrained successfully at 26 months) went through a patch of being dry in the morning at about 2.9 and I think I could have seized the initiative at that point but I was so tired with my pregnancy I couldn't be bothered and he started wetting again.

Tommy · 05/04/2006 09:43

DS1 is 4.3 and still in them. Hasn't had an accident during the day for over a year. We tried on Monday night to go without and he had 3 accidents - 2, 4 and 6 am zzzzzzzzzz
So last night we went back into them cos I just can't be doing with getting up that much at the moment.
I'm hoping he will suddenly decide that he doesn't want them but his nappy is always completely soaked every morning.

Bozza · 05/04/2006 09:44

DS doesn't drink a lot anyway so I have never restricted drinks. DD (22 months) has not had bedtime milk for ages now (although still insists on morning milk) so there is not that issue. He did once have an accident after a quite spicy curry (so obviously drank more than normal) so on subsequent occasions when we have been out for an Indian with him we have lifted him.

Mercy · 05/04/2006 09:45

I didn't restrict drinks at all with dd. I don't think children can be trained as such to be dry over night, it's more to do with the physical development.

I waited about 4 months after dd was dry at night, most nights, before I got rid of the nappies.

SenoraPostrophe · 05/04/2006 09:52

Oh OK - outvoted (other than by mercy!)

What I should have said was that physical development plays a great part, and while some kids may feel comforted by a nappy and wee anyway, some kids simply physically can't stay dry at night until they're 4 or so. If you have one of those, don't get too frustrated!

Bozza · 05/04/2006 11:29

Oh yes agree with it put that way sp.

serenity · 05/04/2006 11:54

As far as I understand it it has omething to do with a hormone that is produced tosend your bladder to 'sleep' whilst you are too. So, different children will be dry at different ages depending on when they start producing sufficient hormone to stop them producing wee during the night (I'm prepared to be shot down on this, as I can't even remember where I read this - probably on here! )

For the record DS1 dry at 2.6 night and day (had a bad allergic reaction to the elastic in Tesco pull ups, couldn't wear nappies, and we miraculously discover the 'cold turkey' method of potty training)

DS2 dry at night at 2.6, but not in the day until 2.10 (wierdo child)

DD 2.3. Started having dry nappies when she woke up about 3 days after we started potty training and got rid of nappies during the day.

It had nothing to do with anything I did (see DS2!) they were just able to not wee at night from an early age.

rosycheek · 06/04/2006 13:34

Ds 1 is 6.5 and still very wet at night - has never had a dry night. We recently saw a consultant to check there was no physical reason (unti very recently was having daytime accidents as well). She told us that being dry at night is about bladder maturation - it can't really be done until the bladder is ready. The age at which the matures can vary widely, my ds is at the bottom end of the spectrum! Have just invested in reusable night time pants to see if him feeling when he is wet might help him along.

Am not worried about it though, From reading similar threads it seems very common for children to be very late getting dry at night. Am sure when he's ready it'll happen.

BTW dd is 3 is 50/50 on being wet in the morning - although I think she does her morning wee in her pants cos she hates getting out of bed!

MerlinsBeard · 06/04/2006 13:58

I have only skim read the threads but i have to say i disagree with waiting till they are dry in the morning to be sure they are ready. We had to put ds1 in pull ups one morning when we were ill and he just wet in it because he could. hes been trained since 2.4

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