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starting night training

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normanthehairdresser · 19/01/2009 21:41

My DS now 2.7 cracked daytime training reasonably smoothly at about 2.4. Am now wondering when to tackle nights.

Toddler Taming suggests you wait till they have a few dry nappies in the morning, but from squelchy state of things at 6.30am this seems a long way off! Should I have faith, or will I be waiting a long time?

My instinct says not to hurry him - have people found that day and night training were separated by a longish period?

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fryalot · 19/01/2009 21:44

yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Go with your instinct.

Apparently, not being dry at night is completely normal up to the age of 6 or 7 so there's plenty of time yet.

If you don't feel that he's ready, then he probably isn't.

I had about two years in between dd2 (4.7) being dry in the day and in the night and ds (3.4) still isn't dry at night.

thequietone · 19/01/2009 21:50

my DS1 is 4 next month. Admittedly we've had a helluva year with moving abroad, new baby and language barriers. He's been dry in the day for 7months now but have been holding back on night training. The last 2 weeks he wakes early and goes to the loo- I think he has find his time to be dry at nights. Most mornings there will be a little wee in his pull-up but I find itvso encouraging that he has found it more comfortable to go to the loo when he wakes. I think because I have not put pressure on him, he has found his time.

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normanthehairdresser · 19/01/2009 22:21

Thanks! I see I missed a big thread on this so apologies if this is bad etiquette.

Very glad to see lots of people confirming my instinct. I was hoping I wasn't just being lazy as we were both pleased to lose daytime nappies but dread having to do something like wake him to use loo.

He is a very sound sleeper but once awake going back to sleep is generally off the menu, even at 5am :-)

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fryalot · 19/01/2009 23:06

There's evidence, apparently, that lifting them up to use the loo can set them back.

And don't worry about the etiquette thing, some people search the archives for answers, some people just wade right in and either is fine.

(In fact, I tend to use mumsnet instead of google, I just ask what I want to know on here and probably someone will know the answer)

Are you new then? If so, welcome to mumsnet

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