Potty trained but not yet dry at night and massive objection to nappy at bedtime

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Dd has been reliably potty trained for nearly 6 months. She’s very nearly 3 now. She is far from being dry at night, so we have still been putting her in a nappy at bedtime.

Last night she had a spectacular meltdown at bedtime as she didn’t want to wear her nappy. She was very insistent that nappies are for babies and she doesn’t need one as she’s a big girl.

I gave her a choice of nappy (what she usually has) or pull ups. She didn’t want either. She was screaming and crying. I couldn’t have forced her into either even if I’d tried.

What would you do in this situation? I was at a complete loss!

Could you wait until she’s asleep and pop a nappy on her then? At that age they often sleep like logs for the first few hours so hopefully you can do it without waking her. Our 3 yo is now mainly dry at night but still wears a nappy - a few times we’ve forgotten to put it on and then we just do it when she’s sleeping without any issues.

The question though is how she’ll react in the morning and if she’ll be upset. Worth a try though.

We bigged up the pull ups as “bedtime underwear” and let him choose the design. Made a big thing about them not being nappies and they were special pants that he wore only at night. Worth a try

Personally I'd get something like a Kylie pad (or two) and waterproof duvets. Then I would just go with it (assuming you have time to do all that extra washing). After all in six months or so you would have been asking her to try being dry at night anyway.

Caterina - we totally tried bigging up the pull ups. We sAid they were special bedtime pants, not nappies. But she just said (quite accurately) they are nappies, without the stickies.

I’d really prefer not to be doing loads of extra washing and relying on pads. Especially as she often ends up in our bed for at least part of the night. And her nappy is usually pretty full in the morning, so she’s a way off being dry at night.

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but what we did was lift DD onto the potty when we went to bed. If she could do a wee before going to sleep we agreed to leave her nappy off. It took about 6 weeks till she was getting herself up, weeing, and putting herself back to bed. And another few months till she started sleeping through with no weeing. She now (7 months after going day dry at 2.5) goes to bed after a final wee and almost never gets up to wee in the night. Haven't had an accident in several months.

We are the same situation but DD is 6 months younger so there is even less logic going on. Swapped to huggies pink pull up because every thing has to be pink at the moment and that has improved things massively for us.

Oh that’s tricky. They are smart cookies! Maybe some kind of bribery? Wear them and you get extra story? Sticker? Prize etc?

I couldn’t be doing with changing beds and all that, so we used pull ups at night probably longer than strictly needed. Although my DS was dry overnight very quickly after he was dry during the day so it was only a few months in pull ups. Maybe try the toilet trip before you go to bed and see if she is dry overnight. Sometimes not wearing the nappy/pull up is what prompts them to change

Well, last night it was a complete non issue and she had a pull up on with no problem. Fingers crossed it was a one off!