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I bring hope to all 'only poo in nappies' and night nappy wearers at 3.7

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arfishymeau · 13/06/2006 13:47

Just to say that DD is 3.7 and has never, ever woken up with a dry nappy.

A week ago she announced that she was a big girl and no longer wanted to wear pull-ups at night - completely out of the blue, never having ever been bothered about being a big girl or nappy wearer at all in the past. In fact, she seemed to love her pull ups.

So I had a panic, tried to bribe her to wait until the next day as we had no waterproof sheets etc, but she wouldn't have it. So I went to bed at 9pm , primed and ready for a night of sheet changing.

But she stayed dry - not a single accident. I was gobsmacked. After 3 nights I even did a little jig of nappy-free joy.

At exactly the same time she started to do poos in the toilet, without prompting - she just decided. Up until then she'd waited for me to come home every night and demanded a nappy for a poo (then shut herself in the wardrobe and summoned me for cleaning duty afterwards).

I thought I'd post this as both are common problems - I was waiting for her nappy to be dry in the morning before night training, but it is clear now (yes, of course everything is clear in hindsight!) that she was just weeing in the nappies because they were there. With poos I think she just decided she was ok with it, perhaps as a result of her overnight weeing triumph

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KommandantColditz · 13/06/2006 13:49

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Rhubarb · 13/06/2006 13:50

Dd stopped weeing in her nappies at night long before she did the same during the day! But she was poo potty-trained before wee-trained.

Ds is different, he still shows no recognition of having done a poo or a wee. When he runs naked he can literally do a poo mid running and be oblivious to it!

NomDePlume · 13/06/2006 13:51

My DD is 3y10m, been totally clean and dry in the day for about 8 months, but she is still very wet at night. I'm in no rush. TBH, it hadn't even occurred to me to be concerned

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cocoliver · 13/06/2006 13:52

funnily enough my dd was 3.7 too when she suddenly decided that the loo was the place she would do poos. She was great at potty training a long time previously. I had tried everything to get her not to do it in a nappy but in the end I wasn't bothered hoping she would grow out of it. My mother wasn't quite so laid back about it...so there is hope for anyone out there in the same sit.

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arfishymeau · 13/06/2006 14:26

Colditz I accept. BIG ring please.

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dinosaure · 13/06/2006 14:27

DS1 became dry at night at the age of 6 3/4.

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arfishymeau · 13/06/2006 15:09

Oh goodness Dino, I hope you didn't feel that I thought 3.7 was late. I really didn't - and was happy to leave DD for years.

I've just seen so many stressy threads about pooing in nappies and night training I thought I'd post about my experience.

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CountessDracula · 13/06/2006 15:10

Oh thank god

dd is dry at night but won't poo in the loo

She says "I will when I am 4"

nicnack2 · 13/06/2006 15:16

a slight variation on a theme. DS1 is three next month. The other night he annonced that he did not want his nappy on {he has been crying out in his sleep and i think its cos he needs the toilet as he wcan wake homself up from his nap} However i let him go to sleep without nappy on but put on on him cos he is a deep sleeper and will slep through wet beds. am i right or should i let him go without nappy so to learn.

dinosaure · 13/06/2006 15:33

arfishymeau, not at all, but I just thought I'd post about DS1 because it might give hope to some others who are starting to worry a bit about it all

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arfishymeau · 14/06/2006 02:50

Dino -

NicNac - as you can see, I am no expert. I just left well alone (hurrah for the lazy way out) and DD did it all by yourself. For an expert go & see Cods potty training thread. She will advise you expertly.

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alittlebitshy · 15/06/2006 20:16

oh this makes me feel better.

am not worried about nights at all (3.1, only been out of nappies in day since april)... but the poo thing on the other hand....

she WANTS to do them on the loo but just can't seem to remember in time and either does it all in knickers or starts, stops, starts stops starts stops then either does it in pants or occasionally in loo, or occasionally has a mini leakage in pants and gets rest into loo. never clean pants when a poo is involved though. I am so het up about it, and most of all am concerned that she won;t get there in time to start full time nursery at school in january

JoPG · 15/06/2006 20:50

alittlebitshy - you could be describing my son at about the same age. He could not get the hang of doing a poo on the toliet and would have accidents in exactly the way you have dwscribed. I tried star charts, threats (I know, not good parenting!) - everything but to no avail. When he was about 3.5 I was getting a bit desperate cos he was due to start nursery school. I took him to see the doctor who said that he had constipation / sluggish bowel and prescribed him lactulose. Within days he was using the toilet properly for wees and poos.

This may not be the cause with your DD, but it may be worth checking it out with your health visitor / doctor.

DS was so much happier once he could do it properly. And just as a note it is no relection on their diet, some children just have bowel problems and mature a bit later than others.

Hope you manage to sort this out in time for nursery.

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