How do i get rid of dds night time nappies?

[CrazyMofo]

Dd (3.6) has been toilet trained for around 9 months and now i think i need to get rid of the ones she wears for bed.

Please could you give me some tips on the best way to acheive dryness at night?

I thankyou

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How will i know when she's ready though? will she tell me do you think?

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Dd more or less told me, we were in Sainsbury's buying nappies and she poited to a packet of pull-ups and said "oh I want those red nappies" so I explaied they were special trainer pants and if she wore them she'd have to do her wee-wees in the toilet at night etc etc. She's had them on for a week and been dry most nights!! She's 3 and has beend dry during the day for months.

Oh thats interesting, she does usually have toast for supper.

Her nappy is still totally wet when she wakes up, so maybe she's not ready?

How are you WTS?

Oh thankyou for your replies, i will take all of this into consideration.

Maybe i will give it a go and if she's not ready i will leave it for a while.

I never really thought of pull-ups for bed time, maybe they're worth giving a go. The main reason for wanting her to stop wearing nappies at night is because her bum always STINKS of wee wee in the morning!!

I just want her to smell like soap or flowers in the morning as oppose to wee!

Maybe i should buy some fragranced nappies!

I let my DS sleep without nappy for the first time 2 night ago. He has been toilet trained since february and turned 3 yrs a few weeks ago.
He was completly dry boths nights, and I am crossing my fingers for the 3 night.
With my DD, she stopped wearing nappies two weeks after I started toilet training, she was at that time just turned 3 yrs. With her I did it beccause she was screaming everytime I had to put nappy on, so one night I said ok goodnight. She had 1-2 accidents every night for a week, after that dry.
With my DS I just decided that I will never find out if he is ready, unless I try. I just made sure to cut down on his intake of water etc. after 18H00.
I say the only way to find out if they are ready, is if YOU are ready to find out

Wait unntil they are dry when you take them off.

My 4 year old is still in nappies at night, the health visitor says it's quite normal to be in nappies up to the age of 6 or 7. At the age of 4 1 in 10 children are still in nappies at night! If the nappies are still wet then she obviously isn't ready. She will do it in her own good time.

my dd was out of nappies for a fortnight (during the day) before I realised that she was always waking up with a dry nappy at night too. I was worried about her holding it in for 12 hours but she seems unfazed...completely out of nappies at 2.9yrs.

I was going to wait until dd's nappy was dry in the morning. I waited .... and waited ... and waited. She was dry in the day just before her 2nd birthday, but just wasn't at night. A few months ago I tried her without nappies at night and it was a disaster, so we went back to them. Then a few weeks ago, just before her 5th birthday, we tried again and bingo!

No training, no lifting, no restricting drink or anything she eats. She was just ready.

So my advice would be to give it a go and see, but not to wait until she is dry in the mornings as dd's nappy was sodden each morning right up to the day we ditched them.

Ooh i just checked this and see theres more advice!

Thankyou all, im going to wait untill her nappies are running out and give it a try one night, if not then ill just wait.

And wow to the 1 in 10 4yr old still in nappies, i dont know why i was worrying, makes me feel much better.

One extra thing - are you sure she is weeing during the night, rather than in the morning immediately she wakes up? Our DD potty trained during the day very quickly (2/3 days) at about 2.5 years but was still having wet nappies in the morning, then when I needed to go and wake her a few times because she had slept in, I realised that she was actually dry then, and had just been wetting her nappy when she woke because she could, IYSWIM - laziness rather than incompetence . We started leaving a potty next to her bed and she used it a couple of times taking her nappy off herslef, so we just went for it. She wet the bed the first night and hasn't done so since, bar once when she was poorly. Worth a thought...

My son would take off his (dry) night time nappy and go to the potty. When he refused to let me put his night time nappy on, I succumbed and let him sleep without a nappy.

I lifted him and carried him to toilet to make a wee before I went to bed a few nights, then he objected and said he didnt need to go, so I stopped. We have not had any accidents. I have followed his lead all the time on this. He will be 3 in June.

If her night time nappy is full of wee, then she might not be ready. But try make a point of telling her "tonight you wont wear a nappy" before you try her without. Try and lift her before you go to bed. And just see what happens. I think the best is to not rush it, they are ready for it when they are ready!