What are your thoughts on helping a 4.7-yr-old sleep without a nappy at night?

[Pruners]

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DD1 is also 4.7 and exactly as you describe in your OP

She wanted to go nappyless a few weeks ago and was absolutely sodden by 10pm (and was fast asleep and didn't wake)

She wanted to try again a few days ago and the same happened

She wasn't remotely upset or concerned, so neither am I! And am going along with the hormone thing

Pruni ds didn't crack this till he was 5 if that helps
if you did want to get a couple of washables you would only need 2 or 3 IMO so would not be very expensive

but he doesnt know that his peers are all dry at night, does he? even if he did i cant see it being an embarrassment problem at this age

i run bedwetting clinic for my job but we wont see children until 7yrs plus as child needs to want to be dry and feel some embarassment to get them dry.

top tips:

ensure he is drinking at least 1.5litres a day, this is the main reason children wet.

avoide fizzy drinks and pure fruit juices occasionally is ok but not in the 2hrs before bedtime.

at bedtime get him to wee, clean his teeth, then wee again.

dont lift hime unless you can be sure he is fully awake and can hold a conversation that he remembers the next day - otherwise all you are doing by lifting and putting on loo is encouraging him to wee whilst asleep.

take out of nappies let him feel the wet sheets - summer is a good time to try as weather is usually nicer to get sheets dry.

If after 6mths no joy leave him for another 6mths before trying again.

if he gets to 6.5yrs and still wetting see your gp or contact school nurse for an appointment at the bedwetting clinic.

My DS was about 6.5 when he finally got the hang of it (his sister by comparison was about 2.5)

I used a terry towell in a wrap each night, so not very expensive at all. As he is dry in the day, reuseables wont be expensive and you could try to look out for 2nd hand ones maybe ?

We laugh now, but I remember him saying one night ..' poo... my bed smells like the hamsters cage doesnt it mum?' Well yes, thats because you wee in it like the hamster does love

It is very draining on you I'm sure washing all that extra linen. But he will get there eventually.

I was just going to suggest Terry Nappies - you can get a pack of 6 from mothercare - they were £10 a pack when i bought mine, enough if you only need them at night and then just buy a wrap - here is a trainer pants, but i suppose you could fold a terry into the gusset for extra absorbency if you need it. I was very lucky with my first DS - he was dry in the day by 19mths and in the night by 20mths, but like i said, i was lucky and i know this isn't the norm. They say you never have 2 the same - so maybe i will have it harder with DS2 (only 12wks now) I do think that he was dry earlier because we used terry nappies and could feel when he was wet.
good luck
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DD1 has just insisted on not wearing a nappy again

I am happy to go with it, but I know she will wet before I go to bed

Am wondering if once her bedtime gets later she will have a better chance... but atm she HAS to go to bed between 6.30-7pm, she is completely shattered otherwise

Redhead81 - I didn't find that terry nappies/reusables made any difference to when mine became dry. My dd is in totsbots and stilll not dry at night. She is 5.2. Another dd was also 5y+ before she was dry at night - she was in pull-ups.
Another dd - around 3y6m+ in terries. Another dd was just 2y she was in pull-ups. Ds in pull-ups was 9y+. Ds in pull-ups, around 3y.
The type of nappy doesn't seem to have had much bearing on when my children became dry.

Pruners if you want to use reusables for your ds health then I agree with what someone else has said that you would only need about 3 nappies and a couple of wraps. So it wouldn't cost you tons. You could put them in with your normal wash.

DS1 is not dry at night, aged 5.3. He doesn't want to wear a nanny at night now he is 5, but still wees in his sleep. We lift him on the loo at about 10pm, and then he just wets the bed each night. I reckon he is dry about once or twice a month. He is not bothered about this and nor are we - he gave up the night nappies because his little brother didn't wear them any more. (Little brother is dry at night)

We do the making the bed with a waterproof, sheet, another waterproof and another sheet, which is handy if he comes in at 3am awake because he is wet. Normally he just sleeps through it though. I work on the principle that washing sheets every day is really just like reusable nappies (hopeful emoticon}.

Interested to see lindseyfox say there is no merit in lifting children. But I think we will carry on until DS1 is old enough for us to worry about the fact that he is not dry at night. It does seem to help him sleep through the night.

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