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Night-time Wees, Cotbeds & Grobags

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cocococo · 21/06/2004 14:13

DS 30 months has been dry for a month or so now but I'm not sure what to do about night time and would love some advice. He's always slept straight through but since starting potty training this has now changed!

He goes to bed at 7pm and wakes at 11pm and 5am crying for the potty, he's half asleep and not really aware of what's going on and he seems to be quite uncomfortable as his bladder is so full(crying/yelping)he does an enormous wee and then goes back to bed. If he doesn't wake up for the potty then the nappy will be full in the morning. In a week we'll have 4 wakeful nights where he uses the potty and 3 where he wakes up wet.

He still has the bars on his cotbed (made no attempt to climb out and likes the bed as it is!)and is in a grobag too (he prefers a sleeping back to duvet)and this has meant that twice a night it's quite a palaver getting him out of the cotbed, out of the grobag, onto the potty and back in bed. He drinks a beaker of warm milk before going to bed which I am not thinking of cutting out as I've read it makes no difference.

I'm not in a rush to train him at night as I know it will happen when he is ready. But I was wondering if I should lift him on the nights he doesnt wake?

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Twinkie · 21/06/2004 14:15

I am one for stopping them drinking soo much before going to bed but not completely cutting it out - not for always though just until they have more control over things down there!!

Can you wake him before you go to bed and stick him on the pot?? We still do this with DD (nearly 4) if she has had loads to drink then she gets a better nights sleep and no accidents and so do we!!

lucysmum · 21/06/2004 14:52

I wonder if it would be worth trying to do night time training now as he seems to sometimes be waking to use the potty ? My DD1 showed the signs of being ready to be dry at night (waking to go on the potty or sometimes having a dry nappy) but for various reasons we decided to wait. It seemed that becuase we ignored the signs, she regressed and went back to never waking at night for the potty and ahving a full nappy every morning. When we did night train her we lifted her before we went to bed and used the Pampers Care Mats on her bed so accidents were not such a problem to clean up.

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