Advice for getting DD out of nappies at night?

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DD is 3. She has been trained in the day for about 10 months. At night she wears pullups (recent change from nappies to pullups). In the morning the puulups are quite wet, but warm so i think she is weeing in them when she gets up rather than in the night.

I'm in no great hurry but would like some advice / hints / tips for the move to being dry at night please

Thanks

Well you could try leaving off the pull-ups for a few nights (I would put some sort of barrier under the sheet - Pampers do disposable ones) and see how she goes but tbh you can't force them to be dry at night until they are physically ready - there are lots of old threads on this....

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you could try whats been mentioned - but don't worry about it too much - my DS1 is 6 1/2 and still not dry at night

forget the pull ups
just do it
just done it with ds and you just have to grin and bear it for 2-3 nights - soon happens!

i see what people mean about not forcing your dcs before they are ready, but my ds was wearing nappies at night and weeing in them BECAUSE he was wearing a nappy. I bought some of those old fashioned training pants from boots to miniomise accidents at first. I also recommend Pampers Bedmats to save your mattress getting ruined. My ds had accidents every two or three nights for a fortnight. i put the potty in his room and he gets up and uses that in the night. Good luck

ok gemmie - so how do you account for a boy that has been out of nappies for nearly 8 months - refuses to wear anything else in place of them - but still wetting virtually everynight???? (although we did have a dry night on Saturday )

a boy like that would find himself having a nappy put on him whilst he slept in my house

DD was dry immediately

DS was in pull-ups till 4.5

it wouldn't have bothered me if they were in pull-ups at 6 or 7 if I'm honest .. its a hormonal / biological thing

ds1 was just weeing in them in the morning when he woke up aswell - they were very warm and he said he had just done it. I suggested we try without them (he was 2y11m) and he wanted to. He had about 3 accidents the first fortnight and that was it, apart from the odd occasion when he is ill. And he wasn't reliable in the day at that point, I think having the nappy at night and weeing in it in the morning was counterproductive to him, he was MUCH better after he ditched the night nappy.

BUT - if you try it and get lots of wet beds (for a week or more), then it probably isn't the right time yet, so go back to the pullups.

Watching this thread with interest as just about to try this evening with DD. She wears a pull up at night but at some point wees in it, takes it off and then puts her PJs back on and gets back into bed. More often than not she then wees the bed anyway so I figure I've nothing to lose. Any thoughts on getting her up during the night to make her wee? Although she is potty trained during the day if I see her squirming and tell her to go to the loo, it usually ends in a fight so I can imagine she'd be 10 times worse during the night

Okay, I've just done this for the third time (third child, not 3 attempts, lol!), so I shall witter on and then leave all baby and toddler-related threads forever.

There are several takes on this:

(1) if nappies are dry in the morning, that's a good sign (obviously). Leave off and see what happens.

(2) nappies may be wet in the morning because child is actually dry at night but is having an enormous wee first thing in the morning. Leaky nappies at 6am and/or puddles on bathroom floor may be signs of this. Again, worth trying to leave off nappies and see what happens, but make sure potty is handy, ie. right by the bed with a couple of old towels underneath. IME most nighttime accidents happen as the child is trying to get to the loo for that first wee of the day.

(3) Child may not be ready at all and may be incapable of holding on all night, in which case there's no point trying to force it. I've not had one of these myself, but clearly there's a lot of them about, so no point getting knotted up about it. Likely to be hereditary, so find out what age dh was dry at night!

(4) Getting them up at night is meant to be counterproductive, apparently. If they really can't go through the night, then they can't go through, so back to (3). Ditto restricting fluids in the evening, though clearly letting them drink huge quantities just before bedtime is not the best plan.

My DD is 4 and a half and still in nappies at night (was dry in the daytime at 2.5) but she does sleep through the night and very heavily and by morning her nappies are soaked so I don't think there's any point yet - so I am relieved to read about other children who took a long time - makes me feel that I'm doing the right thing in not pushing it.

This is interesting to me too. ds is 4 (was 4 in Jan)and wear pull ups or pj pants at night. He was dry in day at 2.5.

Quite often the pull up is so wet in morning that his pj's are wet. I'm not sure when he's doing the wees. In night or first thing.

We've talked about going in the night, put a bedside light in his room, an old potty next to bed with towels underneath. I've also said that its ok if he can't manage it though. Don't want to pressure him. Or make him feel bad about not being able to manage it.

I know he'd like to be dry at night. He's said a few times that he doesn't want to wear a nappy at night now.

Sometimes if he wakes in night we take him to the loo but the pullup can still be wet in the morning.

I think sometimes he is soo asleep that he doesn't know he's weeing. But he has got up a few times to go ( and woken dd in the process) and once he had a dry pullup in morning.

Whats strange is that when he was first dry in the day, he started being dry at night too. But as I was 8 months pg I didn't do the whole getting rid of night nappies business as I couldn't face wet sheets in the night with baby on way. Anyway the first day dd came home from the hospital his nappy was wet and has been ever since.

I don't know if I should wait till the pullups start being dry again or just go for it for a few days. He doesn't drink much in evening and does lots of wees before bed.

lots of really good advice here. Interesting to see the different perspectives.

My DD was dry at night for the first two weeks of potty training too but we 'missed' the opportunity then.