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Nighttime pants for a BIG 3yo. What's out there in reusable land?

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sorkycake · 25/03/2007 05:08

He's just over 30lbs and wearing spiderman pull ups on a night, but I HATE buying them and really want to change to washables, does anyone have any suggestions on what to buy? He doesn't have juice past tea time now but is still boggy on a morning so it would have to cope with that.
Thanks x

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Elasticwoman · 25/03/2007 09:57

Is he dry during the day? If so, you could think about training him at night. Yes I know he can't help weeing if he's asleep and you would probably have some wet beds to start with (need waterproof mattress protector) but I made the mistake with my dd1 of trying to wait till she had dry nappy in the morning and was reliable during the day, and eventually gave up at nearly 4 after some advice from my local family centre. You might not think so but it is possible for a child to have lots of wee accidents in the day but still be dry most nights.

yomellamoHelly · 25/03/2007 10:12

We use motherease pull-ups ons ds1 (3 1/2). Look quite girly but ds doesn't seem to mind. Do add a hemp booster "just in case" but no leaks so far and we've been using them since mid-Jan.

Flamesparrow · 25/03/2007 10:46

I have motherease bedwetter pants... they cost a small fortune, but we have 3 and they do the job - and I know I can pass them on to DS.

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sorkycake · 25/03/2007 11:56

Thanks for the replies ladies. He turned 3 in January and has been clean and dry during the day since summer last year, but doesn't seem to wake to need a wee in the night. He does have a mattress protector on his bed and we have some lightly padded 'knickers' from bambino mio, but the plastic inside is shot from washing them for Dd, should I put him in these d'ya think so that he is wet and see if he can wake in the night if wet? I thought he wouldn't be dry at night umtil a certain hormone kicks in, is this not the case once he's dry during the day?

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Elasticwoman · 25/03/2007 17:27

Just because he doesn't wake you at night doesn't mean he never wakes.

Never heard of hormone kicking in. All I know is you can miss the window of opportunity and let them learn to ignore the signal at night, if they're wearing a nappy.

lexcat · 28/03/2007 11:24

DD is 5.11 and is still socked at night I tried with no nappyies after 3 weeks of washing sheet EVERY day and a very down hearted dd I stopped. They will be dry when they are ready what the big hurry.
I'm just about to try ellie pants as I have lots of terries. Will see how we go tonight, only came in post this morning.

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