Night time - what would you do?

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DS2 is 2+8 months. He's clean and dry during the day, and has decided that he doesn't want to wear nappies in bed. He has been dry overnight a handful of times, but most nights isn't. Recently, the wetting has been at around 2am and he comes to tell us. There is a potty in his room.

Should I

1 - insist he wears a nappy and deal with the resulting tantrum at bedtime?
2 - leave the nappy off but put one on when he's asleep?
3 - leave the nappy off completely and deal with the wet beds in the hope that it will get better?

Does anybody have any other ideas? Or encouraging stories of los who started like this and it just "clicked" ?

Thanks!

could you use pull up nappies for bed and say they are special night time pants?

Humm, he's generally pretty wise to us trying to pull the wool over his eyes, but maybe worth a try .

what about a bed wetting alarm or night lifting

What does an alarm do?

Hadn't thought of lifting, that might be a good idea, thanks.

u put 2 wire mesh mats under the sheet and attach it to a little box and as soon as the sheet is wet it goes off so it wakes the child up so they r not lying in the wet and also somehow it makes the child stop wetting overtime it does work i used to have 1

You could try those care mats that Pampers do, at least then you only change the mat and not the whole bed.

OK, alarm sounds interesting. I wonder why it stops them wetting. Is it a noisy alarm? Would it wake DS1 who's in the same bedroom do you think?

We do use the bedmats, thanks ZoeC so the changing is quite quick, although still very irritating!

He may very well be too young to be dry at night yet - there's a hormone that clicks in when they are ready. It's absolutely no use trying before that happens because they just can't do it.

"sell" the pull-ups as big boy pants - you don't want to deal with a wet bed every night.

Do you take him to the loo before he goes to bed, then wake him up and take him to the loo before you go to bed. I know it's mean but it's worse for him to be sleeping in wee and having to get out of his bed because it's wet.

Bunging dd on the loo when I go to bed seems to do the trick. Your ds is still pretty young and may be simply physically unable to last all night. I would think the alarms are maybe more suited to older children TBH.

with dd - I gently speak to her so she stirs and explain I'm taking her to the toilet, carry her through, put her on loo, turn cold tap on...she wees..and then I take her back to bed. To be honest she barely wakes up and always goes straight back to sleep.

yeh the alarms r noisy so maybe no good for u

Yes, alarms does sound a bit excessive and I know he's young to be dry at night. Once you start taking them to the loo before you go to bed, how do you stop?

Hmm. I can't remember.

They make what are now referred to as 'pyjama pants' which would probably be easy to sell to your DS as not-nappies. My ds is 3 and dry/clean in the daytime but I still put a nappy on at night and refuse to hear any objections (we will move to pyjama pants or something when I've had 7 dry morning nappies in a row thanks(.

Madamez, my dd NEVER had a dry nappy in the morning, but copes fine generally if lifted once during night. Mind you, she was nearly 4 before I even attempted it!

As for stopping the lifting, I'm planning to wait a bit then try without and see what happens!