can you night train? if so, how?

[rhetorician]

dd is 3, and has been reliably trained for about 3 months, both wees and poos (minor regression when dd2 arrived). She said today that she no longer wanted to wear nappies at night - I am happy to go along with this, except that my understanding had always been to wait until they wake up dry in the mornings. She doesn't, although it's possible that if I got her up earlier she would be (but why would I get her up at 6 just to have a dry nappy? ). She usually does a wee before bed, and one when (or shortly after) she gets up, but clearly does at least one in the night. I don't want to discourage her, but at the same time, I don't want to be up and down half the night (we also have a 12 week old). Advice? experiences?

thanks

Firstly, there is no relationship between day and night dryness. Some DC are dry during the night and wet all day (although very few) which shows it is developmental. Night dryness is dependent on a hormone being produced which makes the kidneys produce less, more concentrated urine, and also enabling the child to wake due to the full bladder to be able to get up and empty it. I would just explain to DD that she will do it when her body is ready. Unfortunately you cannot predict when this will be as all DC are different.

You could try her without nappies at night but be prepared for lots of washing which could include her duvet as well. You could get her up earlier in the hope that it will be before she wets, but you would need to be sure that she hasn't wet earlier for any success. Or you could make a deal with her that she can try without a night nappy for a week, and if no dry beds back to nappies until she has a run of dry ones when you can try again.

girly that was my understanding - namely that there was not much I could do about the night stuff. I don't really want to be washing piles of sheets etc, or for her to get upset about it. So I might just tell her that we'll try when her nappy has been dry a few times in a row in the morning. SHe'll be gutted. Thanks for replying