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Did you just wait for them to be dry at night?

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 10:52

I'm just wondering what to do with dd who is 3.6. She's been dry during the day since just before her 2nd birthday, but I've continued with nappies for night time. The plan was just to wait until she has consistently had dry nappies in the morning for several days in a row.

It's still not happening. Should I just wait longer or should I be doing anything to help the process?

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nailpolish · 21/11/2006 10:54

it didnt happen for me either

dd just one night said "i dont need a nappy" and that was it, about 6 mths after being dry during the day

i had just kept putting it off

1 accident the first night then fine

she gets up about 11pm each night though and goes to the loo for a wee

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MerlinsBeard · 21/11/2006 10:56

ds1 decided one night he wanted to wear pants and we haven't looked back, like nailpolish, i was putting it off but it was fine. i think he weed in his nappy because he could iyswim

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Cappuccino · 21/11/2006 10:58

yeah

buy a couple of cloth pull-ups and wait (easier to tell with cloth if they're completely accident-free)

there's a hormone that kicks in and then it's plain sailing

I know someone in just your position with a kid nearly 4

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 11:00

She said 2 nights ago she didn't want nappies any more. We've got her to try for a wee before going to bed and left her potty by her bed for her, as our bathroom is downstairs. I was going to try to put her on it when I went to bed.

First night she was wet before we went to bed!

Second night she went on the potty at 11 and did nothing and at 2.30 am she called out as she was wet.

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nailpolish · 21/11/2006 11:01

yes i agree mumofmonsters

dd1 knew she had a nappy on so if she woke needing a wee she just did it in her nappy, because it was there

Bozza · 21/11/2006 11:01

I think that is the general idea but sometimes it doesn't work. My DS was trained at 2.2 but still wearing nappies at night at 3.6. He had gone through a spell at nearly 3 of dry nappies but due to being pregnant and lazy I had not taken the iniative and he went back to wetting. In the end I decided to take the plunge and we had little trouble although we did lift him at first before we went to bed. I think sometimes they will wet because there is the nappy there IYSWIM.

DD OTOH was dry in the day at just 2 and dry on her own accord at night at 2.2 and never lifted.

I would give it a trial run I think.

nailpolish · 21/11/2006 11:03

if you have 2 nights like that surfermum i would put the pull ups back on and try again in a week

hulababy · 21/11/2006 11:03

DD was dry during the day at 24 months. At the age of 4 she decided she didn't want to wear her bed pants at night any more. At this time she was still wet most mornings. She sleeps very heavy and just wasn't waking at all. We'd tried 6 months earlier and it didn't work. Anyway at 4 she refused bed pants. She gradually got drier with each day - being dry 4 out of 7 nights a week. We had washable bed mats (from Mothercare) as easier to wash and ry than mattress protectors.

She has now had a month of consistently dry nights (bar one on first night of our holiday) - she us 4y7m.

We still wake her when we go to bed around 10:30-11pm to make sure she goes to the toilet.

Bozza · 21/11/2006 11:03

Ah I see you have decided to give it a go. Give it a couple more nights and if she isn't managing any better then go back to the nappies.

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 11:04

So if I give up now I'm wimping out after 2 nights? .

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nailpolish · 21/11/2006 11:05

no!

i wouldnt try for a 3rd night of past 2 have been unsuccesful

i owuld wait another week

maybe thats just me though

MerlinsBeard · 21/11/2006 11:06

See what she says. SOunds odd but if she feels she is making the decision it might work. if she wants a pull up on say ok but we will try again on friday for example

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 11:10

She's a very determined little girl when she's made her mind up about something. I'll have a chat with her and see what she says.

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NAB3 · 21/11/2006 11:16

I need some help too please!! Again....

3 yr old DD. Dry before 2 in the day. Quite keen to wear knickers at night but still wets most night, and occaionally is dirty. Tried one night last week but had already wet by 10pm. Don't want to miss the oportunity with her but also don't want to have to clean up a messy girl/bed in the night. Don't want to miss with her because...

5yr 8months DS. Have occasional dry nights, some just damp and some soaked. Tried lifting - did nothing, didn't even wake so broken sleep for school attending boy for nothing. Tried pants but then have to change the bed and shower the boy in the morning plus he is sometimes bothered about telling me he is wet. Tried pyjama pants as he has grown out of XXL fuzzis but some nights he wets right through them. I have been advised to use a bed mat (which I already do) so he can learn about wetting and being wet. The thing is he is such a heavy sleeper I have literally got him up and changed him and his bed and redressed him without him waking up!! Back to using pyjama pants as still haven't found a washable solution (help please) but stuck.

Also have a 17m DS. Last night he got the potty and sat on it!!

NAB3 · 21/11/2006 11:17

Sorry for hijack!

juuule · 21/11/2006 19:57

We used to wait for 3 mornings with dry nappies before taking the nappy off for the night. However, we did have 2 of our children who were
5y+ and 8y+ before they were out at night. We used a mattress protector for the bed and did a lot of washing. Our earliest was just 2 and out of nappies day and night. We did try lifting with one but it just left a cranky child or went un-noticed and we still had a wet bed in the morning. We gave up on that.
Lots of drinks in the day are recommended to increase bladder capacity if you think that might be a problem.
The most we have done is reminded them to go to the toilet before bed. Think it is a case of waiting until they are ready for most children.
This site has some helpful info. Eric

missd · 21/11/2006 20:15

my dd1 now 5.5yr was dry at night from about 3yrs. However since I announced I was pregnant with dd3 at easter I've had loads of wet nights. DD2 2.10 has beem dry at night for about 2 months, with less accidents.
We do lift them both when we go to bed and they both always do big wee's.
Cappuccino's right about the hormone thing, however I heard recently Royal jelly mimicks this hormone. For the past 2 weeks I've given mine 1/2 a tablet to suck on at bedtime,and I've had no accidents! DD1 still wee's in the night but at least now she's getting up to do it.
I don't know if it's coincidence or not.
(also I work with a company that make the tablets so I know what I'm giving them is ok)

LIZS · 21/11/2006 20:24

Mine didn't have dry nappies at night but decided at almost 4 that they no longer needed them and were pretty consistently dry(ds may have had 5 accidents in total in 4 1/2 years, dd a few more in 1 1/2). tbh we just waited until they seemed ready , no lifting, sticker charts etc required.

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 20:48

Well we had a talk tonight and she said she wanted to go back into nappies. She prefers wearing nappies to waking up with a wet bed. So we've gone back to them for a wee while longer (excuse the pun!).

Thank you all for all the advice .

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MerlinsBeard · 21/11/2006 22:02

give it a little while, theres no rush to be dry at night really. maybe leave until after xmas and try again?

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Surfermum · 21/11/2006 22:11

Yes, that's what I was thinking, purely from a selfish point of view ! I'm pretty laid back about most things, so I shall just let this happen when it happens. I just didn't want to not be doing something I should.

I have put her in pull ups now, so she has got the option of getting out of bed and going on the potty if she wants to.

We were using normal nappies before as a) she didn't mind and b) they were cheaper, but we told her we were putting her in sleeping pants so she didn't feel she was going back to nappies.

That leaves me free for the next problem that she's raised ...... I asked her what she wanted to get dh for Christmas and she said "a real baby for all of us" .

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Flamesparrow · 21/11/2006 22:15

You know you want to

DD nowhere near dry either

MerlinsBeard · 21/11/2006 22:15

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Surfermum · 22/11/2006 10:27

She woke at 2.30 am again and asked to go downstairs to the toilet. Didn't want to go on her potty. So that's progress.

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