DS wet every morning but wont wear a nappy???

[justbeingmummy]

Hi,
Ive already posted about my DS, as he decided lst week that he didnt want to wear nappies at night anymore (he has been dry in the day for over a year) and so he started wearing pants to bed and i left a potty in his room. Every night he says I want big boy pants and I know I dont wee in them I use the potty or toilet, but every morning, he is soaked!
I dont so much mind the washing but im worried he will get cold and ill.
Would you carry on or make him wear nappies until he is older and drier?
TIA x

Do you know when he is going? Can you try lifting him onto the potty when you go to bed? Or if he is doing a wee just as he wakes up setting your alarm for 5 mins before his usual wake time so you can pounce and get it on the potty?

If he is still weeing in his sleep though then he just isn't ready and you'll have to find a way to go back to nappies, will he accept pull ups? Those dry night pj pants? You cna get really good cloth pull ups not too that you could fool him with as being proper pants but for night times.

Thanks Indith, I check on him about 12ish before going to bed and he is still dry but in the morning its definitely not new wee so its sometime in-between, not very helpful I know!

I might try him with those pull ups with the pic and make it a game and if he wakes up with the pic still on then he would get a reward or something, does that sound like a good idea? x

It sounds like he's not physically ready to be dry all night. How old is he?

You could try pyjama pants - they're not really nappies so he might be persuaded.

Don't reward the dry nappy/dry bed as it's largely beyond his control, so you're rewarding something he may not be able to influence. However you can reward the behaviour, so reward going to the loo before bed and first thing in the morning, using the potty, waking up in the night to go for a wee etc.

If he is doing the wee while asleep then just try to persuade him back into nappies of some sort and leave it. FWIW my 4 year old is still far from being dry at night, it just isn't worth getting worked up about.

Ohh good idea Sidge, He is 4. I feel bad for him cos he is so chuffed with himself for being such a big boy then every morning he says 'im so sorry' :( bless him.
i was just worried to put him back into any type of nappy because he really doesnt want to and because he is lazy and if he knows he has a nappy on he wont bother with the toilet/potty

But since it seems he is wetting in his sleep then it isn't being lazy. Ds always wakes up wet. He goes for a wee before bed, he goes for a wee first thing. He is still wet, it has nothing to do with being lazy, it is just that his body hasn't yet started making the hormone he needs to be dry at night, it generally happens at some point before the age of 7.

Sorry I didnt explain that very well, what I meant to say regarding being lazy is that if I leave his nappy on when he is awake he will just wee in it because he knows he has a nappy on and the same before he goes to sleep and I just wonder if he does start waking in the night because he needs a wee, if he knows he has a nappy on will he just think I wont bother getting up to use the toilet I will just wee in my nappy instead, hope that makes more sense.
But with regards to what you said in your earlier post I will defo put his nappy on last thing at night after getting him to use the toilet and then straight off in the morning and have a wee and hope that will be a start and I can reward him for being good and doing that.

Hi with mine i used to put them on the toilet b4 bed then carry them to the toilet half asleep before i went to bed for a wee and they all went straight back to sleep (not saying yours will) I seen in on a programme about 9yrs ago. My mam said thats what she used to do aswell when we were little.