Nighttime dryness 3.5 yr old

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DD is 3.5. She’s never had a dry nappy in the morning unless taken for a wee overnight. But if she hasn’t wee’d overnight she wakes up at 5 AM complaining of a full nappy.

Do I need to wait until she stays dry on her own or should I take off the nappy and see what happens? I can’t keep waking her to wee as she’s getting very heavy and as she’s sleepy throws a tantrum if I don’t carry her back to bed. It’s doing my back in.

My hope is she will come asking us to take her to the toilet instead of coming to say take off my wet nappy.

Or is she too young?

I used to keep a potty by my sons bed. He could use that himself and then he graduated to the toilet

I’ve tried that. She doesn’t wake up to use it. She just leaves her room comes to our bed and complains

You won't know until you try. Go for it. Worst case scenario she pees in a bed and you'll have to change bedding.

If she's not waking up she might not be ready. My 7 year old sleeps like the dead and still doesn't wake. We just sleep him in a nappy. He doesn't wake with a wet nappy tho either. If she's waking wet, try her a week or two without a nappy and see if she learns her body's signals

I would definitely leave her in the nappy but she’s upset about it feeling full in the morning.

I think I will try on a weekend so less stressful to be changing sheets overnight.

I think just leave it. She's not that old and it's only one nappy a day. As long as she's doing a last and first wee there's not much to be done apart from wait for hormones to kick in.

Are you using normal nappies or night-time pants? Ds1 wore Huggies drynites happily til a couple of months ago when he became consistently dry overnight. He was just 6. At 3.5 he had no control at all and would not have woken up to wetness.

I'd try it. Our DD always had heavy wet nappies in the morning and when she'd wake up we'd ask her to use the toilet and she'd say "no I already did a wee in my nappy pants". So we knew we were not going to get a dry overnight nappy. We kept asking her if she wanted to sleep without a nappy at night and use the toilet like a big girl and she eventually said yes at 3 years 3 months. First night completely dry. She had about 4 wet beds over 10 or 11 nights and has been dry at night ever since. If she hadn't had one dry night after 3 nights of trying we would have gone back to nappies and tried it again a couple of months later. But we were never going to get a dry nappy.