Dd 3.8 night nappy always wet - should I just take it away?

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Dd has been toilet trained during the day for 9 months but always has a wet nappy at night. On one occasion we forgot to put a nappy on and the bed was completely wet but dd had slept blissfully through. People on MN seem divided between waiting for night nappies to be dry and just taking them away. Am tempted to just remove the nappy this Easter and see what happens as I'm afraid that waiting til summer will be too long. Any suggestions? TIA

You can't train a child to be dry during the night. it is about their physical development. You have to wait until they have developed the physical ability to stay dry all night, something to do with brain development, I think.
Try waiting until her nappy has been dry for a week, then try her without.

Just leave her in it until she has been dry for a few days, DD is 5 and she is still in one.

I think it's a case of just giving it a go and see what happens. I was waiting until dd had dry nappies in the morning, but it never happened. I tried not using them and it was a disaster, but a few months later tried again and she's been dry ever since.

Just leave her as she is. Both DS1+2 chose when they stopped using nappies at night, DS1 was 4 and DS2 was 5.

As long as she is dry uring the day, I can't see the problem.

Thanks very much for all your replies.

Is she dry at night, but then waking and weeing in the nappy? In which case, I'd try taking it off, but if she is weeing while she is asleep then she is not ready, so leave it on.
My DD was quite late to be out of nappies daytime, but was dry at night soon after - but each child is different.

Interested as well with a dd the same age.

I think you just have to wait - they are all different.

However... my DS would flood his night nappy to overflowing - so we started lifting him to the toilet when we went to bed... thinking this would prevent the leaks and also begin to educate him (if unconsciously) about taking himself to the toilet in the night, and also about waking up and going to the toilet first thing because you need to.
That led to some dry nappies in the morning, for which much praise was given - and after several months (and "cool" pullups etc) he started asking to go without.

DD insisted on going without much younger, so we did the lifting again (without nappies) and I think she has only wet the bed about twice (now 4).

It depends - as Beamur says some children wee in the nappy when they wake up in the morning (they just see it as an easy alternate loo). Neither of my DDs ever had a dry nappy in the morning (always soaked through and weighed a ton!) but I stopped night nappies when they were both about 2.6 and had been day trained for a few months. I put a potty in the room, nightdress and no pants (so it was easy for them). Neither of them had any more than a couple of accidents and would get up in the morning and wee then get back into bed. I'd suggest that you try it for a couple of nights but if the bed is continually wet then go back to night nappies.

We took the plunge with our twins (3.11) a couple of weeks back. DD has been dry during the day for well over a year, DS only a couple of months. He's been dry bar a couple of accidents, DD is still weeing a little. Not much but enough to be a problem, so she's still in nappies.

I wasn't sure how it would go. DS's nappies had been mostly dry, DDs very wet in the mornings but she quite enjoys weeing in her nappy. Now she's not doing that, we can see she still isn't ready.

Thanks everyone. She doesn't wake up when she wees in her nappy so it sounds like she may not be ready.