3yr old DD want to ditch night-time nappies - any advice???

[Flumpybumpy]

My DD is 3.4yrs and has been clean and dry during the day for over a year. We want to get her out of night-time nappies. She is very good at knowing when she needs to go and goes to the loo completely by herself now during the day. The problem we have is although she regularly poo's during the day on the loo she also poo's in the morning or evening in her nappy. She also has wet nappies every morning and has yet to have a dry nappy in the morning. Does this mean she is not ready??

I have recently found out that some of the children at playschool know she still wears a night-time nappy and have starting calling her a baby, she is getting very upset by this. I have also just had a DS (4wks) and she keeps saying she is not a baby anymore so shouldn't wear nappies like him.

How do we start this off?? She doesn't have a drink any later that 6pm and goes to bed at 7:30pm. Really would value some advice as I have no idea how to approach this.

FB x

I wouldn't do it unless she wants to tbh

DS decided he didn't want night-time nappies at about 3.10 .. but he'd never had a dry one .. but his decision so we went for it

tricks

• make her go to the toilet before bedtimes
• lift her to the toilet when you go to bed
• make the bed with waterproof sheet - sheet - waterproof sheet - sheet so if she has an accident you just strip off top layers and bed is already made

I would bet a lot of the other children aren't night-trained yet

if you want to stick with nappies

stop calling them nappies and call them night-pants

many children don't come out of night-time nappies till much later .. there's a biological reason for this .. you shouldn't start to get concerned until they're 7 or 8 tbh

DS is 3.2 and still wears pull-ups at night. He has many dry mornings but not always.

Agree with Twig, call them night-pants, maybe get a different style, but it doesn't sound as if she's ready to come out of them.

If she isn't having dry nappies in the morning, doesn't sound like she's ready - that's seems to be the main sign (Christopher Green etc). I would try making sure she does a wee before bedtime, keeping an eye on drinks etc, so she's more likely to have a dry nappy in the morning. It's such a pity other children are picking on her, changing the nappy to something more like pants e.g. pullups (even a cloth pullup? minki something like that?) might help with that. If she doesn't refer to them as nappies, they'll leave her be maybe? But it would be quite a hassle for you and upsetting for her if she was constantly wetting the bed in the middle of the night esp as you'll be up with the baby as well!

Being ready is a physical thing (some hormone that stops the bladder filling up so much at night IIRC) so she may not be ready. I liked pull ups for this period - DSs could pull them up and down if they got up to go to the toiles but they were Ok for accidents. When they were reularly dry and DSs requested Just Pants for bed time, we went for it.

Personally I can't se the hurry. I prefer a child in bedtime nappies to having to change soggy bedding inthe night

I've just seen this thread. My 3 year old is still in nappies full time. He's a very heavy wetter, and his nappy is soaking in the morning. I put two terry nappies on him at night. I don't think yours is ready yet. I'd keep her in night time nappies and call them something else. Better that than wet sheets and mattress every morning.

Our dd - 4 - still wears night time nappies. She too was a heavy wetter until we only gave her milk or water to drink after 4ish in the afternoon - ie no juice - but no restriction on how much she drinks as their bladders need to learn how to hold on to the wee. Her nappies are much "drier" and every so often dry - she wants to go 4 nights dry and then try without - we've got to 2 so far!

My DD was also in night time nappies until about 3.8. They were absolutely soaking every morning and I had no intention of night time training until she was waking up dry on any days.

One day at bedtime she suddenly told me that she didn't want to wear them any more. I tried to put her off that night so I could go and get a waterproof sheet etc etc but she was adamant, so I put her to bed and prepared myself for a night of bed changing.

The next morning she was dry and every night since. She's never wet the bed and we haven't looked back.

It seems that she was weeing in her nappy in the morning because it was there, rather than during the night. It was peer pressure from a same aged friend who told her that she didn't wear nappies at night that made her go for the change.

have you tried some kind of washable trainer pants at night,so she feels the wetness?this might give her the boost she needs?