remove nappies at night or not?

[Flojo1979]

Hi, my Dd 3.8 yrs has been toilet trained for nearly a year but every time I take her nappies away at night she fusses eg cries for her nappy, gets in and out of bed/on and off toilet all night and ultimately when I go to her in morning is saturated.
My mum says she's not ready and I should wait til her nappy is dry but I think she's being lazy and does want to lose her nappies.
Should I go cold turkey and get rid of the nappies and cope with a wet bed for however long it lasts or is my mum right shall I wait til she's ready, assuming she will be at some point?!

My dd1 was a bit like that, at a similar age we took off the nappies. Make sure you have two layers of bedding (waterproof mat,sheet, another waterproof mat and a top sheet), so you can change wet stuff easily in the night. Have 2 piece pj or nightdress so easy to use potty/loo in the night on her own. Also what I think did it for dd was as dd2 was waking us early anyway, we used to go in just before she was due to wake up, pop her on the potty before she had a chance to wee. For her it was just too easy to wee in her nappy, we made it harder by waking her up. Soon she decided she would rather sleep in than us wake her up.

dd2 and ds had nighttime nappies removed at 2.4 months about a week after day time ones. Dd2 was never wet again. Ds is still often wet (he goes through phases), but only ever once a night. I put a mothercare training pant (towelling with waterproof outside) on top of his normal pants. The training pants on their own were absolutely useless holding about 2 drops, on top of normal pants though the wee is wicked around the pant rather than escaping all over the bed. Result is a soggy toddler and dry bed. Modern nappies are just so 'good' that they really can't feel that it is wet, so just carry on weeing. Although I frequently have to wash soggy pants and training pants I prefer it to endless nappies, plus he was getting confused first thing in the morning when I took his nappy off.

Some children just aren't ready at that age, some can't produce enough of a hormone and others sleep too soundly. You can get hormone medicine or an alarm depending on which is the cause, but you will probably need to wait a year or more before it is worth going down that route.

I would say the summer is a good time to start so bedding dries quickly, but with this weather, you could easily wait!

Ah yes that's half the battle, having enough bedding. But dd is in a cotbed that I used for dc1 so I'm looking forward to getting her dry thro the night and in to a proper bed.

I did it all in one go with both DDs and just coped with the extra bed changes tbh.

So many people told me that their DCs used to save their ablutions til night time when the nappy was on, and were capable of holding in gallons of wee all day long, not to mention pounds of pooh and as soon as the nappy went on at night, all hell would break loose

I took nappies away and just coped with extra washing, made sure potty was next to bed etc and it didn't take long.

HTH

Potty next to bed, oh no that'd probably be tipped over before I had chance to go in in the morning!