Advice please on stopping the night nappies...

[cab]

DD now 4 but has a sodden nappy every night. Any advice on how to wean her off it greatly appreciated.

There was a recent thread on here about which night nappies were the best and someone recommended motherease bedwetter pants as I was fed up paying £15 a pack for dry nites.

I didn't want DS(4) to think he was wearing a baby's nappy (as they did look very big and bulky) so told him they were special big boys bed time pants which he could pull down to do a wee if he needed to during the night.

We haven't had a wet nappy yet (over a week now)

Bless him - I have no idea what was going on in his head but I am crossing my fingers that this might finally be it...

So IME a pair of motherease bedwetter pants might just do it

Oh soapbox that sounds hopeful. Where did you get them?

From here!

Good luck!!

Jeezo they're not cheap are they! I might wait for a few days and see how you get on.

Well I was desparate! And one pack of drynites was £15 and there were only 11 in a packet. So it did seem cheaper in the long run. You can also sell them second hand on the Twinkie website you get about £12 a pair back, so all in all its not too bad!

cab have you tried biting the bullet and sitting her down, explaining she is a big girl now and mustn't pee in her pyjamas but get up to go to the toilet?

Like you our first child was approaching four with absolutely NO sign of a dry morning nappy so we told him he did not need nappies anymore, and he was completley dry the first time we tried it! From then on he would wet the bed every so often (maybe once a fornight for a couple of months)but he soon got the hang of it.
It might be worth a try (assuming you have not done it already) .With hindsight I think we could have done it much earlier but were hung up on the idea of waiting for a dry nappy.

Worked on our second child at age two- she always woke with a sodden nappy as well, but was immediately dry when we stopped putting a nappy on at night.
Good luck

Ta soapbox and jaspar. tbh Jaspar I haven't been that direct, just "Gosh you're getting to be a big girl now, soon you won't need a nappy at night". Also tried lifting her about 10.30 the last 4 nights. Nappy still wet in a.m. and the last 2 nights it was wet even before I lifted her.
So I either have to go out and buy lots of extra sheets or these incredibly expensive nappies mmmmmm

As you say J, think I should have 'tackled' this earlier.

cab my laundry pile was considerably less after stopping the nappies because when he had a sodden nappy his pyjamas were usually wet too. As soon as I stopped putting him in nappies I didn't need to wash pyjamas very often! And he really did not pee the bed very much at all (about 4 times in total over about 2 months - just put a plastic sheet under the sheet) before becoming consistently dry.
If I had waited for a dry nappy I think I would still be waiting - and he has just started school