Night time - give up or keep going?

[londongirl2]

My son (who turns 4 in November) has been dry during the day since last summer, but never showed any inclination to ditch his nappy during the night. About a fortnight ago he woke up dry and we took him straight to the toilet. We then had four dry nights so we stopped putting a nappy on him. After another week of being dry he has weed in his bed as soon as he has woken up the last three mornings. Do I persevere or put him back in nappies / pull-ups?

My son is 4 and I'm still not convinced he's dry through the night. He goes down about 7ish, I lift him at 11 and sit him on the loo for a pee - he always does one. Then he's dry til morning, usually goes again when he gets up. I only stopped using the pull-ups because this other method seemed to work, and pull-ups are expensive too! Thing is, if he pees through the night he doesn't wake up and would happily sleep in his own puddle! I'm obviously not having that, so I definitely wouldn't be confident letting him sleep right through right now without lifting him.

However some people don't agree with lifting their child through the night as it doesn't really help them feel like they need the toilet and hold it in, so pull-ups are good for them too.

It's really entirely up to yourself, some children are 8 or 9 before they are dry through the night, it's really nothing to worry about if they are still in pull-ups. Depends if your child will willingly put them on!

We've gone for wearing nothing on the bottom half at night, so our DS knows he's not got a nappy on. It has worked so far - he had a few accidents right at the beginning, but now can hold on enough to get up and go. I'm fairly sure that in his sleepy state if he had pants on, he'd assume it was a nappy and go.