DS grown out of nappies but not potty trained

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Ds is 21 months and has grown out of his night nappies (daytime still fine). He's been wearing Pampers Baby Dry 6+ but now wakes up each morning soaking wet.

He's nowhere near ready for potty training so am wondering what to try next for night nappies.

Are Huggies night-time pull ups bigger? And would they work for a child who isn't potty trained - ie ds won't just be having the occasional wee as an accident, he'll be weeing throughout the night, so am worried whether they're as absorbent as nappies? This is also why I haven't yet used the Pampers pull-ups, but perhaps they'd be ok for night time?

Ds is biggish for his age - as a baby he was roughly 90th percentile - but he isn't beyond enormous so am assuming there must be another night nappy appropriate for him?

Thanks so much for any help.

Are you sure they're not too big and gaping around the legs? My 6yo is in size 6 (nights only), surely even a large 21mo can't be at the minimum weight for 6+? I don't think the size 4s etc are significantly less absorbent but they might give a better fit.

He can't have outgrown. Many 4/5 year olds still wear one at night and size 6 is the largest.

If it's a case of waking up soaked you need to try semi potty training him. Enough that in the evening before bed you can try and get him to wee twice on the toilet before last nappy is on so you know he is starting the night with an empty bladder. Also are you still giving him milk before bed? If so decrease this as bring forward so he has time to wee before bed.

6+ at 21mo? Even my 3 year old wore a size 4 pull up recently overnight when she was poorly.

If he really is too big for 6+ look into nappies aimed at older children. Maybe limit his liquid intake near bed time if he's soaking every morning?

I was wondering if too big as well. I put my average sized 5 year old in a pull up yesterday for an upset stomach and they still fitted him fine. He's in 5-6 clothes.
There are the pyjama pants ones for nighttime that are made for older bed wetters they go up to bigger sizes if it is a problem.

Also, I know we live in an age where we are supposed to wait for children to let us know when they are ready to potty train but years ago it was very much the norm for toddlers to be trained much earlier (presumably to get them out of Terry towelling nappies asap). It is possible to do and certainly no harm in introducing a potty and getting used to it.

We double nappy our eight month old as the size that fits her isn't big enough to last the whole night.

Hmmm, thanks so much for feedback. I hadn't even considered they might be too big. All along I've always changed his nappies a size up once he's woken up wet for a few mornings in a row, and once I've gone a size up the wetness has stopped. The wetness is above the nappy not around the legs/sides so I basically feel that the band isn't going up high enough for him - his stomach area is wet as is that bit of his vest and pyjama top and bottom. Maybe I need to look again at how I put them on and see if I can spot a mistake.

The nappies are soaked though when he wakes up so maybe I need to take Art's advice also and try putting him on the potty before bed. He is still having milk before bed but I'm reluctant to change this as the first port of call as he loves it (and so do I) and he gets upset once he's finished it. I will look at this though if I can't solve the nappy problem.

I promise you he's not absolutely enormous! I'm obviously going wrong somewhere. What a fool.

I thought too big too. How much does he weigh?

Ds is 28 months and about 16 kg so still fits in size 5

Have you considered limiting his fluid intake in the evening?

Can you decrease his milk at night gradually by an ounce or two? And just give that earlier

So at dinner give a few ounces of milk in a cup, and then at bedtime introduce a smaller amount of milk in a cup with a snack ( drink less if not in bottle or beaker imo). So big boy new cup at table, with oat biscuit or similar.

Introduce using toilet throughout the day. At each nappy change where possible and def first thing in morning and last thing at night. They learn very quickly the process even is not actually trained. We did this very young (9/10 months), and by 1 year both did all poo in toilet and would wee almost whenever put on toilet. Even though they weren't actually dry dry all day. But obviously meant far less changes of nappy as a large amount went in toilet. They were fully trained before 18 months. As your son is older I would say maybe try, and with luck it will increase and he might even be asking for toilet and dry by 2 years

fugg annoyingly I don't know how much he weighs . We don't have scales at home and when I try to weigh him at my mum's for some reason he goes a bit batshit and it's impossible to get a reading.

He's heavy, don't get me wrong - but not some sort of enormous beast, which is why I'm confused about the sizing issue.

Maybe fluids is the problem.

Thanks art that's very helpful indeed. Here was I safely thinking I'd put off potty training until next summer.

Initially I'll try to decrease his milk. I do know that I need to stop the milk as part of a bedtime routine at some point, I'm just dreading it. Ds very resistant to change.

Do you make sure his willy is tucked down and not pointing up towards his tummy when you do it up? I had this issue with my ds.

Thanks annoyed, I do already do that - it's one of the few things I remember from my NCT classes (that and to put a tissue on it to minimise getting sprayed in the face when they're tiny)

Is it possible he is just weeing straight upwards into the waistband area of the nappy? Perhaps he just needs to be "pointing" downwards?

Try reusables.

Oh, and I'm a very ' hippy/ organic/ health food freak' in terms of food I feed my children. But even I bribed them with chocolate buttons for every wee on toilet when properly training. A week of chocolate buttons worked wonders!

Can you weigh him by getting on the scales yourself, and then holding him whilst you stand on the scales? The difference in the two weights will be his weight?

Are you putting the nappy on too tight? I know it sounds crazy but if we did DS's too tight it kind of rolled down a bit when he moved and leaked. Looser and it didn't. If he's only leaking from the front, you can also put the nappy on so the front bit is higher than it should be or put the nappy on backwards. I did both of these with Dd who leaked at the front because she always slept on her front once she could roll.

Yes this has made me realise that it would be more helpful if I knew his weight so will get that sorted. I think me + him is the best solution.

kidnapped that's interesting. Maybe it is a bit too tight because it does naturally fold over quite often, which obviously doesn't help. Will try it looser tonight. He sleeps on his front also.

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Libero do size 7.

As previously said - I also think they must be leaking coz there too big! My friends dd 4yo and is in nighttime nappies and there a size6

We used to have a problem with DS soaking nighttime nappies when he was a toddler. I used to put a PUL wrap over the top of the disposable (we used cloth during the day).

Can he access his nappy at night time? He maybe fiddling in his sleep and therefore willy lies up rather than down and he wakes wet. I kept mine in popper vests on backwards for this reason.