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How to say goodbye to nappies at night time

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sportyspice · 16/08/2004 21:37

DD1 is 3 and has been potty trained for just over a year but still wearing a nappy at night. She's very much one to only go on the toilet/potty when she needs to go so i'm not sure that waking her to put her on late at night would work. Any suggestions please

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Angeliz · 16/08/2004 21:49

Sportyspice, i just stopped to see what would happen shortly before dd was 3 (i think- she's 3 and half now so that seems about right).
She had a few accidents but hasn't had one for AGES. I just told her that she needed to shout if she needed a wee in the night.
Just try it and see.
BTW, get those mats you put on the matress as it saves alot of time washing matresses!

Good luck

Angeliz · 16/08/2004 21:50

I KNOW she's 3 and half now i mean i 'think' she was 3 when i stopped the nappies!!

Paranoid moment there reading my post, i sounded totally negligent!!!

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sportyspice · 16/08/2004 22:03

Got a mattress with a placky side at the ready!!! thanks for those bits i think i'll give it a whirl this week

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geogteach · 17/08/2004 14:15

DS nearly 3.5 and also dry in day for 1 year. He recently decided he was too big to wear a nappy at night! First few nights attempts at lifting him were a failure and a few wet beds but after about a week he started to perform when we lifted him and has been dry ever since so it may be worth trying the lifting for a while

Dingle · 23/08/2004 20:44

My ds, now nearly 5, was dry in the day not long after his 2nd birthday. Then dd was born and night time training just seemed to be put on hold because we were having feeding probs. with her.
He was still in pull ups at night at 3.5 and showing no signs of being dry.
I bit the bullet, got a couple of those large, washable bed protectors (the ones that just sit over the sheets)and took him out of pull-ups and made up a star chart to give him something to aim for, and also to keep track of his progress.
Within the week he was ptactically dry, has had the odd accident now and again.
It seemed that I was waiting for him to have dry pull-ups before trying, and all the timehe had the security of the pull-up he didn't try!!

poppyseed · 23/08/2004 21:49

I bit the bullet with DD too. I took her out of nappies and put a care mat under the sheet. We had a couple of wet beds and she hated the feeling of it so much that she was dry within a few nights....... I would give it a try, she might surprise you! Good luck.

MeanBean · 23/08/2004 22:49

Is she mostly dry anyway? I left my DD's nappy off when she had a week of dry nappies at night. But I did do the 10.30pm getting her up to do a weewee thing as well.

poppyseed · 24/08/2004 13:26

Hmm, I read that the getting them up at 10.30pm thing isn't such a good idea as you're reinforcing them to wee exactly when you don't want them to i.e when they're half asleep. Yes DD is dry now -she's 5!! I trained her when she was 2 + 2 months and then over the following weeks noticed that her nappies were dry in the morning after 12 hours sleep. That was when I went for it!! I must stress that she never had a bedtime milk drink when I was doing this, some of my friends let their children have milk and they were much later than her. Stands to reason really as there's only so much wee a girl can hold onto!! Don't get me wrong here - I didn't let her dehydrate or anything - she had fluid at tea time just not before bed. Hope this is helpful to you?

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sportyspice · 24/08/2004 13:32

I was going to take the plunge tonight but she's being such a pain at night time that i'm not sure whether now is the right time although perhaps it's the best time rather than tackling her sleep problem and then re-creating it by possibility of bed wetting etc ummmmmm yes i think i will take the plunge! Yesterday she had a sleep during the day and woke to wee on potty and then went back to sleep so she can do it!!

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Sozie · 24/08/2004 13:37

My dd is now nearly 4 - stopped nite nappies when she was just over 3.6 yo by mistake really as forgot to put one on one night. She has been pretty reliable ever since. I give her her last drink about 30 mins before bed and make sure she has a wee before getting in to bed. I have a care mat on the bed between 2 sheets so if she was to wee I could just pull the top sheet and mat off and not have to remake the bed. I think she has had 2 or 3 accidents and one of those when when she was ill. However, my neice is 6 and still has nite nappies so i realise not all are ready at the same time and this is why it probably took a mistake with the nappies before I knew dd was ready.

poppyseed · 24/08/2004 13:58

Excellent idea with the two sheets. Will do this one with DS when he's old enough!

janeybops · 24/08/2004 22:08

My dd has just started being dry at nights these past few nights She is 3 and 4 months. She just said after her bath that she wasn't going to wear her nappy pants tonight, so I put her to bed with none on. Just a mattress protector. Didn't really believe it would work as her nappy pants always so full in the mornings, but dry all night!!! That was 6 nights ago and only one accident at about 7.30 am.
I have been waking her at 11 for a wee but hasn't done one for about 3 nights now and still dry all night.....
So fairly easy as she just decided she would do it, so no need for 'training'! I was lucky as this is exactly what she did for being dry during the day too!
PS. my friend recommended the mattress protector from BOOTS, can be washed and dried quickly.

janeybops · 24/08/2004 22:32

Although as a bit of an afterthought, does anyone elses child have problems with not wiping self properly after poos! Sorry. Not a noce subject, also has phases where she does it in her pants. Lovely. Any advice?

CookieMonster · 08/09/2004 14:17

I am currently trying to get dd out of nappies at night and would appreciate some advice from wise mumsnetters.
She is 3.5 and has been dry in the daytime for over a year. Following over a week of dry nappies in the morning I decided to go for it and leave the nappy off at night. So far, we have had 8 nights and 6 of those have been wet. Is this normal or do you think she's just not got that thing in the brain yet which tells her to wake up when she wants to wee.
She has no drink before going to bed, always goes before getting into bed and wetting times have varied between 10pm and 3am.
Should I give up and try again in a month's time? (that's if I can persuade her to go back into nappies - tried this already and got a very definite 'No Mummy, I'm a big girl now')

Thanks in advance ...

gothicmama · 08/09/2004 14:52

Could you try her sleeping with pants on and see if that helps maybe teh security rather tahn just pj bottoms or maybe wake her when you go to bed for a toilet trip this worked with dd after a few days she was dry at night ,

bundle · 08/09/2004 15:01

cookiemonster, going through this with 4 yr old - would like to know about others' experiences too. dd is dry most nights, but eg last night wet herself and took her wet night clothes off but stayed in soggy bed, without waking me up! she never had any dry nighttime nappies before we started but was v motivated to try as all her friends are nappy free at night time. read in some book that should try at 4 if no dry nappies.

CookieMonster · 08/09/2004 16:02

Thanks for the responses ...
gothicmama, might start trying getting her up when I go to bed about 10pm ... worth a try.
bundle, my dd takes everything off, comes and wakes me up and says 'my jama bottoms did it!'

gothicmama · 08/09/2004 16:04

good luck

CookieMonster · 09/09/2004 09:08

Guess what? A dry night!!! I tried both your suggestions gothicmama and put some pants under her pjs and also got her up for a wee about 10.15pm. The next thing I heard was about 4am and she was in the bathroom going to the toilet by herself!
I'm so chuffed - let's see if we can do it again tonight.

throckenholt · 09/09/2004 09:38

ds1 is 3 and 2 months. We have been going without nappies fro about a month. He wets the bed about half of the nights and is dry the others. I am not sure what we can do, except not make a big deal of it and praise him when he is dry. He really doesn't respond well to us telling him to do a wee, so waking him up for it would be a non-starter. We do restrict fluids after the last meal of the day, and insist he has a wee before bed - which he invariably strings out for ages .

CookieMonster · 09/09/2004 10:11

throckenholt, I thought dd might protest at being dumped on the toilet in the middle of the night, but she wasn't really aware of much and just went straight back to sleep after - have you actually tried this with your ds? You might be surprised!

throckenholt · 09/09/2004 10:39

probably would work if our bathroom wasn't downstairs at the other end of the house - he is getting quite heavy and I would either drop him or he would wake up.

jampot · 09/09/2004 10:42

Once dd was dry in the day I used to "lift" her at night and she'd pee in her sleep. DS on the other hand wouldn't

bundle · 09/09/2004 10:44

we use a potty in the night - it's the sort that's a bit like a chair with a removable potty bit, a bit more stable than regular types (from mothercare, i think) - and dd is happy to be plonked on there last thing but sometimes the wees come in the night and she clearly doesn't wake up. last night was dry though. we praise her lots and don't make a fuss either when she does wet, just change sheets quickly (thank god for bedmats)

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