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My son is about to start school and still wears nappies at night.

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sockyhallstreet · 20/08/2007 13:28

My son, despite being nappy free during the day since 2.5, has to wear nappies at night. He is wet every morning without fail. I have tried going nappy free and hoping for the best but I just can't cope with all the washing. He is happy and content, and not at all bothered by the nappies unless we are away from home. I have 2 older boys and neither of them had any problems at all, both being dry at night before 3. Please help!

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tortoiseSHELL · 21/08/2007 10:00

(at night that should read, she's not still in pull ups all the time!!!!)

julietcs · 21/08/2007 10:22

For Dodaday: Terries do work well for older children although there are several cloth pull ups available to depending on how wet they are. All three of my sons have been in night nappies beyond 5 yrs. Youngest still in terries and plastic pants. Most people use disposable pull ups though. Very expensive and not very absorbant.

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sockyhallstreet · 21/08/2007 10:34

i had no idea how common this was so I do feel more at ease with the situation. Any recommendations for the best night time nappies, I find the ones we use tend to leak on particularly heavy nights. Have not tried lifting as my son has never used a potty (alwys preferring the loo!) and our bathroom is downstairs.

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flack · 21/08/2007 10:38

DD wasn't dry at night until about about age 5+9 months. I used a mix of doubled-up terries with XL size wraps and disps (not Pull-ups, just Naturebabies' L size) -- she is petite for age, but not at all the smallest in her year group.

Now if I leave the bedroom door open she wakes me up most nights about 3:30am going to use the toilet... oh well, I guess a price worth paying!

paddingtonbear1 · 21/08/2007 10:55

my dd is about to start school and is only just out of nappies at night. It wasn't really our choice but hers - she said she didn't want to wear pullups any more. We watch what she drinks in the evening, insist she goes to wee before bed and take her again when we go to bed. She does have accidents but not every night. I wouldn't have minded if she still had the pullups though - my MIL kept saying about it (not in front of dd I might add), but I wasn't worried until dd said she didn't want them!

Dodaday · 21/08/2007 15:08

Julietcs, how old is your youngest ds still in nappies? Just interested, because my 3 year old is is still in night time nappies and not very reliable during the day either. The comments on this thread are encouraging and confirms it's nothing to worry about, but my mil keps expressing concern.

julietcs · 21/08/2007 23:57

Dodaday. Youngest has just turned 6 yrs.

Dodaday · 22/08/2007 08:57

Thanks Julietcs. It's reassuring to know there are lots of children still in night nappies at a later age, so I'm not overly worried for now. The only problem I've got is sometimes it's a bit of a struggle pinning a terry on my ds who's big for his age, and when boosted at night, it's a bit bulky. If he stays in nappies for much longer, I'll have to try and find some larger size squares and plastic pants.

julietcs · 22/08/2007 10:28

email me and i can give you some ideas of where to buy from. [email protected]

julietcs · 22/08/2007 10:32

try again, cant write it properley, should be an underlined space between Juliet C [email protected] Otherwise not sure how to give you my email address.

VoluptuaGoodshag · 23/08/2007 12:52

I've taken heart from this thread. My DD is nearly 4 and despite trying to go nappyless this week, I'm sick of the washing. She's obviously just not ready and says herself that she weed 3 times during the night. I asked her why she didn't get up but she says she just couldn't have made it in time. I guess I shouldn't worry too much about it given the hormone thing. She has never, ever had a dry nappy in the morning so I guess there is no point in upsetting her (sound) sleeping pattern in trying too hard

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VoluptuaGoodshag · 23/08/2007 12:56

Would also add that the age on the pull up pyjama pants is from 4-7 so it's obviously a very common thing

eleusis · 23/08/2007 13:13

I think you can encourage him to want to be dry. My DD is also about to start reception. A couplke of month ago we started bribing, encouraging, telling her only babies wear nappies, etc. Didn't work. About a month ago she up and and said "Mummy I don't want to wear nappies anympre. Can I sleep in Big grl pants?" I saod okay. And that was it. There were a couple of accidents in the night. But, really it was down to her wanting to do it.

And still when she gets up and say "mummy, I didn't pee in my bed last night." I still get really excited and praise her for it even though what Im really thinking is "about friggin time you are four years old."

DoubleBluff · 23/08/2007 13:18

I have been told not to limit fluids, in face during the day give a lot of fluids to stretch the bladder and get it used to holding a lot of liquid for a period of time.
DS 1 was still in pull ups when he started school.
One day I noticed he head been dry for a few days, and hey presto nappy came off.
Have had a few accidents since, he is such a deep sleeper and just doesn't wake up.

tomps · 23/08/2007 13:24

Sockyhallstreet - my dd was still in nappies when started reception, as was a boy who started the same day as her. Although I did wonder if she would ever be dry, I didn't think it would be a good idea to force the issue at the same time as starting school. As it happened, over the xmas holidays she had 2 consecutively dry nights so we said goodbye to nappies on new years eve. Back at school, her friend had stopped needing nappies too. There have been accidents, but mostly when she's ill. So please don't worry about it, and hope it works out Ok for you.

thomcat · 23/08/2007 13:30

... and I bet you any money he won't be the only one!

So, so common, esp with boys for some reason.

Bit different, but my DD attends mainstream school, has SN's and is still in nappies in the day and that's not a problem for anyone.

Surfermum · 23/08/2007 13:31

DD is another who is about to start school and not dry at night. She was dry in the day just before the 2nd birthday, but there is still absolutely no sign of her being dry at night. She just seems to sleep way too deeply, and also she isn't very good at drinking during the day and will often have a big drink with her tea, so I am reluctant to limit that.

At the moment I'm just chilling about it, thinking it will happen when it happens. I wet the bed until very late, it only stopped when I had my appendix out (whether they were connected or co-incidence I don't know), and apparently that is also a factor in how dd will get on.

I am just trying out the Motherease Bedwetter re-usable nappy but dd isn't over enthuiastic about it and I don't think it's that comfortable for her, so at the moment we're mixing and matching with disposables.

Spidermama · 23/08/2007 13:35

Mine's still in night nappies and he's had a full year at school. Don't worry it's not unusual. It's a pain though isn't it?

fatslag · 23/08/2007 13:41

DS1 (4) has a big potty in his room, one of those American potty chairs. He has learned to get up and use that at night rather than trying to find his way to the loo which is still rather big for him. He also uses it when he wakes up in the morning.

BTW I heard somewhere that there is a strong genetic component in all this, so if one of the parents was late being dry at night, chances are the child will be too, particularly true of boys.

My DH hates talking about it but he and his brother were both bedwetters. For one of them sport fixed the problem (muscle control), for the other, playing the trumpet. Go figure!

lulurose · 23/08/2007 14:43

I shouldn't worry too much, my friends son only gave up his nighttime nappy just before he started in Year One and he is happy and on track with everything else. He just told his Mum he didn't want one anymore and that was it, think he's had the odd wet bed since but generally sleeps through and holds on until morning...

majorstress · 23/08/2007 14:50

My dd couldn't fit into nappies anymore at night so we switched to those Pampers disposable pads to lie on instead, they at least keep most of the bedding dry. I finally bought a bedwetting alarm off ebay from Amercia-showed it to her, didn't get around to putting it on-and she never wet the bed again!

The incontinence pads mean they can "feel" that they have wet , unlike nappies.

spugs · 23/08/2007 22:39

my dd1 is 6 and going into year 2, we have tried everything to get her out of them but it literally 2 or 3 wet sheets a night every night! we have finally got an appointment at the eurasisis clinic for next month. apparently its very common and in a class of 30 6 yr olds you would expect at least 2 to still wet the bed.

mummyto2littleprincess · 23/08/2007 22:44

its the same as my dd1 shes 5 in oct and starts school when the hoildays are over and she still wears nappies at night

mintyj · 24/08/2007 18:09

My dd is 5 and had never had a dry night. V sound sleeper. Finally decided to take of night-time pull-ups and have had only 4 or 5 dry nights in nearly 3 weeks. Not sure whether to be encouraged by this? Feel like there's no going back now! My GP said he could give her medication to kick-start the vasopressin hormone. Has anyone gone down this route? Bit reluctant to put her on meds just yet.

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