Do you carry on using washable nappies, when they're only worn at night?

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We are now potty training DS2 so there are no nappies being worn during the day. Would it be reasonable to carry on using reusables for night nappies - it seems as if it would be too long to build up enough to be worth washing. Not sure about wet-pailing for a week!

Feel a bit bad throwing in the towel at this stage, especially with all the Real Nappy ads around atm.

Nah dont stop now. They wont be dirty if he is potty training only wee. I just stuck mune in with my normal washing as it is no worse than dirty pants, towels or snotty jumpers!!

Yes, agree, keep going, and just throw the nappy in with the days washing.

Afraid my kids tend to save their poos for overnight, so it will be all the worst nappies. But no worse than the many dirty pants that are to come, of course.

Did not think of putting it in with other wash, talk about missing the bleeding obvious!

Have just cancelled the 30-pack of Huggies from my Asda order

yes keep going, just put them in with whites/towels if only wet.

BUT try ignoring everyone who tells you they need to be in night nappies for a year or so after being dry in the daytime.

DS1 started waking up with dry nappies shortly after being day-dry. So I just took the nappy off and after a few accidents he is mostly dry at night too. Also, he started getting up and trying to take the nappy off so he could go to the loo first thing in the morning.

Several of my friends now say they 'missed the window' as they noticed their child going dry at night soon after potty training, but left the child in night nappies, and now the children are used to having a nappy on so they can lie in bed and wee instead of getting up!

We quite quickly went onto washable training pants - got some diaperwraps from Flame which are great - not totally leak proof, but will cope with a bit and certainly reduce any problem sheets - these are great when you've got to the 'nearly always dry' stage - and they can pull them up and down by themselves. Ds just calls them his nighttime pants.

I think I would would give them a cold rinse in the machine on their own before adding the rest of your washing if they are pooey.

Good point flibbertyjibbet - my ds was dry in the day at 22 months, and I assumed he wouldn't be dry at night for another 6-12 months at least...but we bought two cotton covered waterproof sheets, which sit on top of his normal fitted sheet, and decided to give it a try. He had 3 dry nights, then wet for about 10 days - but we stuck with it as it is as easy to wash a small sheet as it is a nappy. Another two weeks of some wet nights and some dry, and he is now dry at night, at 2 years 2 weeks.

If you are prepared for them to be wet for a while, kids can surprise you with how early they are toilet trained sometimes.

If he poos overnight that might be bad though...but maybe he wouldn't poo if he didn't have a nappy on? Worth a try?

Yes if there were dry night nappies I'd certainly take them off. We did have at least 4 months of a dirty nappy every morning with DS1 though, then he just took himself to the loo on his own initiative one day and never looked back.

I just went with the normal washing too

I'm naughty and use disposibles on my eldest as she wants to be able to pull them up and down if she wants to go to the toilet during the night which she struggles with the yoyos we have and would out wee the other training pants we have.

Afraid I'm guilty of missing the window with my youngest, mind you she was producing dry nappies at night before she had any clue about doing it in the daytime (weird or what?). Also I had dd3 still in night nappies and with no hope of going dry (still working on her) and it felt wrong somehow to get dd4 out of night nappies first. Then again, I think I should have done it anyway!

Point is, dd4 is in reusable nappies at night even though she is 4 years old and at school (oh the shame!) but I think we are both gearing up for a try of no night nappies in the school holidays in about 10 days time....wish us luck! I still lift her sister at night and as we have 2 toilets upstairs there is no reason why I can't lift 2 children.

I don't mind washing a wet bed sheet but it's the wet duvet that bugs me, they are not so easy to wash and dry and with six of us in the house we produce quite enough washing as it is without the risk of 2 wet beds in a single night - that's really why I haven't gone for it yet, was hoping the weather would get on my side first!

Why wouldn't you use them only at night. Surely it is the best time to use them, when they might not get wet at all!