I forgot to put ds's night time nappy on last night

[FrannyandZooey]

and he was dry in the morning

is this it then? Do we just ditch the nappies? He is 4.5, has never really had a dry nappy in the morning but I have suspected he maybe just wees in it in the night / morning because it is there

did not especially want to experiment and find out as I am often up with him in the night anyway (wants a cuddle, bad dream etc) and didn't want "mummy I need a wee" and early morning wakings to add to this, really

I had better bite the bullet, hadn't I?

oh god I am quite tired already, how long is this likely to disturb his sleep for in anyone's experience?

I would go with it, ds never ever had a dry nappy and admitted he wet in it because it was a nappy. He was very early being dry at night and it was purely by chance that I forgot to put a nappy on he was dry so we carried on. Just have clean bedding on hand and a matress protector

oh thank you all, great tips

I have just ordered the hippychick mattress protector mentioned earlier in the thread, and we have a little square thing which is currently underneath until it arrives

we shall see

he usually does wait fricking ages to reach a stage (talking, walking, potty training etc) and then just get on with it very quickly. I do hope this could be the same

and better now than in a year with new baby here, I think!

oh another thing, while you are waiting for the mattress protector, if you have a single duvet that will fit under the sheet then use that, if he does wee and misses the small protector then it will soak into the duvet and you can just throw that into the wash.

thank you, I don't think we do but a good idea

I am hoping he does ok with it, he seems so vulnerable to me in this situation - we all know how silly and unpleasant it feels to wet the bed

I feel I want to protect him from it

Good luck tonight. Hope it goes well!

am having similar thing here with ds, he has been weeing in bed if wearing anything (pants, pyjama trouser or nappy) but not if bare bottom. went back to nappies for a couple of weeks and now trying second night without. it is the getting up at 5am with request for nappy off to wee which gets me down. i have got hippychick thingy is excellent.

he weed

we have called it off for now

folded towel caught the wee quite well, so I just changed his pjs

any point repeating it? I mean does it sometimes take them a few days to get used to it? I have no interest in 'training' him - but if his body is ready and he just needs a few days to remember that he isn't wearing a nappy, I can cope with the bed changing for that long

er did I miss the pregnancy announcement? You are pregnant franny?

yes I am! Just I found out really early so it is still a very small pregnancy, but I am v excited

when did this happen? How far? I have COMPLETELY missed this, am miffed.

Is this the first time you have mentioned it on MN or am I pig ignorant?

no, there were about three, or erm, four other threads about it

yes that is the dilemma, how do you know whether they're ready or if it just fluke?

i put ds to bed without nappy or pyjama bottom last night but dp put nappy on him later. ds took it off dry when he got up at 6am. he seems awfully young to be dry at night but it seems to be rather a waste of money and nappies at teh moment.

here is one

I don't know fishie, I guess I will just see what ds would like to do

I would rather be doing it now than in 6 months I suppose, maybe I should encourage him to have another go

Go for it franny, ds1 just suddenly decided to be dry last year, and didn't wety the bed again for 4 months, until he got chicken pox, and he has wet every night since.

fishie - how old is he?

Franny - i would probably give it a few nights if he wasn't upset. what time was it - ie did he get through most of the night or was it early on? i guess there are 2 aspects - either being able to go all night without weeing, or his body waking him up and him getting to the loo - if his body cant do one of those yet it will have to wait.

I think it was bang in the middle of the night, about 2 am

am guessing though

he was not too upset but not too chuffed either

I don't really want to keep setting him up to fail

But you don't want to teach him that the first time we can't do something we give up.

LOL no

mmm, I guess you have to take his lead. fwiw mine was wet the first night, and twice more in the first fortnight, but that was pretty much it. Although like Colditz, when he has been ill he has had accidents.
Wish I had the waterproof cover on his bed last night and he vomitted EVERYWHERE at about 11.30pm seemed ok this morning though.

I would say very common to have a few accidents the first few nights, just while they're getting usded to it. Ds2 (4.9) has just gone dry at night, at his own request. we had 2 wet nights, one night in a pull-up, 3 dry nights, then another pull up or two (to finish the packet - ds2's decision) and nit's now another couple of dry nights.

We take him to the toilet when I go to bed (lovely sleepy cuddle!) and that seems to work. he also has a drink of water by his bed, but I'm trying to encourage him not to drink too much. Apparently the current advice is not to lift them because it interferes with their own mental/physical process of realising that they need to go and ahve a wee, but I did it for my other two children and it worked. Will probably continue with ds2 for a couple of weeks and then try and drop it, but tbh it's a small price to pay for a dry night and no nappies!

Congratulations on the pg btw!

Blimey, spelling, typing and punctuation all went completely to pot there!

That is similar to how it went with DS2 who is Special Needs as well and we were dispairing of him ever getting out of nappies, but one day I went to my Mums for the weekend and forgot the nappies (pyjama pants as he was 7 at the time) and was dreading the night time as I was sharing the bed with him. But 'Glory be' he was dry, and we never looked back. He has had a few wet beds since then, but it helped his self esteem no end.

chasingsquirrels he is 2½ and dry at night 95% of time. exactly f&z re setting up to fail. don't want to put him into unneccesary nappies but even worse to take them away if he's not ready!