Dry at night - some tips please!

[jakethepeg]

My son is 4 in May and has been toilet trained in the daytime for a year now. The idea was to wait until the better weather (June time) last year and see how he went in pants on a night... but we got flooded in June and had to go and live with my sister. He went through so much upset and moving around I ddn't want to change anything in his routine so waited until we got home.

We've been home since Feb and are back to normal now and I want to try him without a pull up on a night. Do I just take him for a wee before bed and that's it. Put a potty in his room (we have a downstairs toilet only) and if he has an accident just change him and the bed without a fuss?

I know most of this is common sense but its so long since he came out of nappies in the day time I have forgotten! I hope I haven't caused a problem by leaving him so long but he had so much to deal with after leaving our flooded home and he was having tantrums and stuff daily I didn't want to add to his changes.

Thanks a lot for any advice.

Thats exactly what I did with DD1. For the first few nights I put her in cloth training pants but not sure I needed to really.

I left a potty in her room (we have only a downstairs loo too) and placed it on a changing mat. It helped her find her way to to the potty at night and prevented any accidents caused by sleepy aiming . DD had quite a good nightlight too so she didn't have to turn the light on (she couldn;t reach it anyway - something you might need to consider if your DS might be too tired to turn on his bedroom light and get to the potty in time.

Good luck and glad you are back in your own home.

yeah thats what i would do. just put a waterproof sheet or one of those bed mats ( i think huggies do them) on the bed and see what happens
i will prob put a sheet then a waterproof thing then a sheet on top of that iyswim. so that in the night if accident happens can just pull off the wet sheet leaving a dry underneath so can get back to bed wuickly, rather than fumbling to put a clean one on in middle of night.
we're doing this in a couple of weeks after we get back from our holiday

good luck

If you need a picture book about bedwetting, I've just written one called 'Toby and the Flood' (available Amazon and Play.com) It's about a little boy who has to mend a broken dam to stop the valley from flooding. I wrote it because there are very few children's books that deal with bedwetting, and I always found with my own child that using stories can be a good way to bring problem subjects out into the opem.