Which nappy for heavy nighttime 3.5yo

[tracyk]

5 nights out of 7 - ds wakes to a soaking nappy/pj's and bed. I'm using Tesco's size 6 and pull them right up his tummy - but they are like balloons by morning.
He does drink a lot of milk still - but I am loathe to stop him as it's so good for him.
Any other brands I could try?

Forget the nappies and spend more time on getting him dry through the night - he's 3.5!!!!!

Ask your grandmother how many 3.5 yo children were still wearing nappies when she was young???

Our biology hasn't changed just nappy companies' marketing skills.

Good Luck

My ds is (3.6) and still in nappies at night. I'm in no particular hurry to get him dry. As far as I'm aware there is only so much training you can do, and readiness depends on the individual child (unless you want to do 'lifting'). I use normal pull-ups (pampers, i think) and they are fine, although ds doesn't usually get hugely wet. He does still have milk, but we try and give it earlier (6.30ish for 7.30 bed) and make sure he does a big wee before bed. He also often stirs when I check on him before my bedtime, and asks to do a wee, so that helps.

I would agree. Maybe as a catch all get a washable overnight trainer pant like a mother of eden overnight undies and a bed protector then try and get him into the habit of going to the toilet immediately before he goes to bed and first thing in the morning. Also is it possible to let him have his biggest drinks earlier in the evening, say with tea, rather than just before bed time so it has time to get through him before his bed time wee.

I would'nt fret too much about it....give him his last drink about 7.30 then try and make him have a wee before he gets in bed.why mot try huggies nappies or pull ups, i find them really absorbent and make sure u have a plastic sheet underneath him x

He won't have a wee unless he needs one iykwim. He usually has a poo in the half hour leading up to bed - but doesn't pee at the same time. He goes for about 4 or 5 hours in between pees in the day time. I've tried getting him to go earlier than his 4 or 5 hours - but he just stands there and nothing comes out.
I'm going to cut down his liquid intake in the evenings - it's just that I like to see him drinking milk and I don't think he gets enough opportunities at nursery during the day. or he's too busy enjoying himself to sit long enough to drink anything at nursery.

I switched from pampers babydry size 6 to pull ups (thinking they would be better and so he could go himself if he woke in the night) and it was terrible, he was soaked, so went back to pampers and he has been fine. He sleeps 12 hours and in the morning they are full to bursting but haven't leaked.

If it helps I can send you a few in the post to try to save buying a whole packet.

well y dont u try getting some multi vitamins for him, dd will not drink milk unless its on her cereal so i get her sanatogen vitamin supplements...they have them in jelly baby form so she thinks im giving her a sweet

and i really think u should try the huggies,i never used them on dd i always put pampers on her, but ds seems to fill a pampers nappy after one wee so i tried them...i think theyre fab,and my midwife actually reccomended them to me while i was in hospital

Thanks oooggs - I actually bought some pampers size 6's this afternoon - think they maybe Babydry's. I used to love Tesco and found them better than Pampers - but they seem to have changed the branding and maybe the nappies too - so that ds's wee isn't more than before - just the nappy composition.
We'll see what he's like in the morning. I was eyeing up Pampers pull ups for 5-9 yo's - I may have to go for them!!
Fawke off - I do give him those jelly baby omega 3 multi vits too. I call them his chewing gum.

tracyk - how did it go with the pampers last night?

worse than the tescos ones - puddle of pee!
I've explained to him that we have to only drink little amounts of milk during the night as we are aiming for bare bum to bed like big boys!
He agreed very seriously - but we shall see how agreeable he is at 3am when he whines for milk. He gave up sucking his fingers a few months ago and I think the bottle of milk is a substitute to soothe him.

bugger - when ds1 grows out of them I have been advised to try huggies dry nites aged 4-7

DS is still not dry at night and I had to change the sheets every other day because all other nappies leaked until I discovered Drynites.
Now I have to remember to change the sheets otherwise they would stay on for several weeks at a time.
He is 4.5 and doesn't drink at nighttime except water when it is very hot.
TraceyK, arent't you concerned about him having milk at night from a tooth decay point of view? (My niece recently had a painful abcess in her baby tooth due to nighttime milk drinking)

ds (also 3.5) is also still in nighttime nappies, and nappy is always soaking in am. He has milk at bedtime, but none in the night. We use pampers drynights too. he occassionally wets them through (maybe once a month) - but usually if he sleeps longer/wheedles extra milk out of dh at bed time

If you can bear to cut out nightime milk, I really would. With ds we did a starchart - star every time he didn't have milk, 5 * = reward. Worked far more efficiently than I expected (at about 2.5 yrs)

But, have to disagree with lurkyloo ... from my reading nighttime dryness (totally different to daytime dryness) is dependent upon a ?hormone ?enzyme? kicking in - it can happen anytime up to age 7 and tends to happen later in boys.

I cant belive pampers do pull ups for 5-9 year olds!!

Yelnats, what is so wrong with pull ups for 5-9 years olds? Huggies make Dry Nite pants for up to 10 year olds and they are essentially pull ups too.

I also disagree with Lurkylou and found her post to be insensitive. My ds1, who is 6 still has accidents on a fairly regular basis, as did my brother, my hubby and several other males in my family. Nighttime wetting tends to run in families, and especially affects boys (according to my fab HV). You are right though, our biology is no different now to what it was then, the difference now is that people are not made to feel ashamed if their childre are not dry by 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever and talk more openly about it.

Tracyk, I realy have no advice for you, as although my 2 are still in nappies/dry nites at night, they are not overly heavy wetters for the most part. I hope you find something that works.

soem dry nites say 8-15 or something and aparetnyl 7 per cent of kids are not dry for years and years, well there is a dri nites web site

The facts from dry nites web site
It?s no one's fault
Remember you and your child are not alone.

It might be hard for you to believe this when you have been up half of the night changing your child's sheets. But, bedwetting is far more common than what you may think:

Nearly 10% of all 4-15 year olds wet the bed at some stage.
70% of affected children wet the bed twice a week or more.
60% of the cases in most countries can be attributed to children under the age of 8 years.
70% of children overcome bedwetting before they are 7 years old.
Approximately 2% of children aged 15 years wet the bed.
Bedwetting is more common with boys than girls.
Bedwetting is sometimes genetic

But i find with my son it is better not to use them or he defiantely wets whereas without them it onyl happens once a wekk or once a fortnight, yet my cousins 10 year old needs them ever nigth and even if she naps for any reason int he day, so they are a good thing.

Well - he was fine about not having milk in the night last night - mainly cos he came into my bed in the wee hours instead!!!
But - not too much wee in his nappy in the morning.
If it's not one thing its another!!

My 4 year old ds is still very wet at night, and I had similar problems with leaky nappies until I put in the huggies dri-nites. They are quite expensive, but totally worth it.

I don't think it's worth cutting down your ds's evening milk, as he will be wet regardless until his brain starts to produce the hormone that reduces night-time urine production(usually by age 7 in most children).

Your best bet is a terry nappy, boosted with another one pad folded inside, and plastic pants put on over the top. You'll get no leaks. As a matter of interest my mil was telling me she has a friend with a dd who was still in night time nappies aged 6. That dd is now out of nappies and has children of her own. So there's nothing to worry about, and I doubt many grandmothers would be too concerned either!