Will we have to stop nap- & bed-time milk in order to get DD1 out of nappies completely?

[franch]

DD1's 2y 5m and only just toilet trained (still in nappies for sleeps) - just thinking ahead really - if we have to wean her off her pre-sleep milk I might as well start now! She's pretty hooked on her half cup before her nap and her full cup at bedtime - can't really expect her to last all night without a pee though if she continues with this can I?

i wouldn't worry about it yet franch. ds was dry in the day at 2.5, but only gave up his night nappies when he was 4+. he still has his milk before bed & hasn't had an accident for months. just ensure that she wees right before bed when the time comes.

Ah, ok, thanks hoxton. My hairdresser the other day was telling me her DD was dry at night before she was 2 - you know what it's like - so it got me thinking! Will forget about it for now!

sounds like bollocks to me franch

Agree with HC. Didn't worry at all about night time while getting used to pants in the day, then ds1 started to wake up with a dry nappy in the mornings, so we just went for it after he'd done this for several days. Same happened with dd (although she later regressed due to infections etc, but has managed to re-train herself recently).

Was your ds having nighttime milk when he started to wake up dry? I was just imagining us waiting and waiting for that day to magically arrive then the penny dropping that it was never going to happen because of the milk!

ds had never had a dry nappy overnight when we ran out of them one day. haven't looked back since!

Tbh franch, I really can't remember. He always has a drink before bed now though - he's 8 - oh how the brain fries over the years! I know dd had ditched the bottle long before she was dry as she went off milk around 11mths, so teatime was probably her last drink in the day then, but she now has a drink at bedtime. Perhaps you could just reduce the amount - new smaller night-time cup maybe?

Ds2 is 2.5 and has mile every night which he takes to bed, but he's nowhere near ready to do the pants thing yet, so I'm just going to be led by him as this is what has worked with the older two.

Oops - milk that is.

DD is almost 3, and she was dry overnight aged 2.5 - with a pre-bed drink of milk. However she wore pull-ups at night as we weren't prepared to "go for it" over Christmas.

Then we started getting wet pull-ups again every morning. On holiday we got some larger pull-ups and she was dry every night (suspect she had been since xmas, just she couldn't manage to pull her pull-ups down to go to toilet! oops bad mummy alert!).

Since holiday she's gone nappyless overnight - still has her bedtime milk, and doesn't always go to toilet before bed. (ie she tries but doesnt' need to).

flatmouse do you mean your dd goes to the toilet on her own in the night if she needs to? Can't imagine DD1 doing anything so grown-up - she's still in sleeping bag and cot (tho not for much longer), and she's certainly not using the loo independently yet.

my dd was dry during the day at 2.6 but wasn't dry at nights for another 9 or 10 months. She still had her nighttime milk - she did wake up during the nights, sometimes still does - I used to get up with her - I always heard her, and she'd go straight back to bed. She goes on her own now - she's nearly 5. I stopped using a mattress protector on her bed just a few months ago
good luck!

Thanks hana, that makes sense

No, DD doesn't tend to get up in the night - she doesn't need to - it's the morning that she needs to go, and she's fine at getting up in the morning, going to toilet, then back to bed again.

But, she's been in a bed since she was 18months.