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Potty training

Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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4yo DS wet through every night

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ronconcoke · 01/03/2015 07:43

Hello, DS is going through a stage of waking up every morning with a big wet patch in the bed. I'm not overly bothered about his weeing at night and know it will stop in its own time, but am getting a bit fed up with constantly having to change his sheets plus putting a new pair of pjs on him every night! He does 2 wees before bed, DH and I tried "lifting" him the other night when we went to bed but he couldn't wee so that didn't work (he'd already wet his pull up so I put a fresh one on but in the morning he was wet through again). He doesn't drink loads before bedtime just some juice with his dinner - don't know what else I should do?

Any advice would be gratefully received - TIA!

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Isithappening · 01/03/2015 07:53

If he is wetting every night then he might just not be ready for night time toilet training. His bladder might not be mature enough yet. Why not put him in some dry nite pyjama pant thingies until he is having at least some dry nights and then try night time toilet training again.

Purpleflamingos · 01/03/2015 07:58

Pop pull ups or nappies back on after he has fallen asleep? I lift my dc out at 10pm for a wee, the pop a nappy on until morning. I praise for a dry nappy, shrug wet ones off and say 'try again tonight' and there's no sheets to change. DS is 5yrs and we are 50/50 at the moment.

PrincessOfChina · 01/03/2015 08:02

Yep. I'd go back to a pull up and just praise when it's dry, ignore otherwise.

DD has just turned 4 and has suddenly become dry at night. It was like a magic switch. She's been dry in the day time since she turned 2.

themummyonthebus · 01/03/2015 08:14

It sounds like he has pull-up nappies on, right? We had a similar issue with ds, we tried a lot of different pull-up brands before finding ones that didn't leak. FWIW we found huggies to be the worst and lidl the best.

It's a pain and I was very glad when we found a brand that didn't leak. Good luck, and roll on the dry nights!

iwouldgoouttonight · 01/03/2015 08:15

Do you mean he's wetting so much his pull-up is leaking? My DS has done that and we tried different brands and some seem better at holding more quantity than others. We also realised that DS was waking in the morning and doing a big wee because he knew he had a pull-up on, so we've got him into a routine where as soon as he wakes he has to take it off and go to the toilet straight away.

meisiemee · 01/03/2015 08:17

Just try water with dinner rather than a juice. Maybe no juice after 3pm?

iwouldgoouttonight · 01/03/2015 08:17

themummyonthebus we found huggies the worst too. We use sainsbury's now.

WastingMyYoungYears · 01/03/2015 08:20

DS (4.5) is ~50:50 at the moment too. We use Pampers pull-ups in a size 6. Are pyjama pants different then?

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ronconcoke · 01/03/2015 08:29

Yes he's in dry-nites pull-up/pyjama pants - I always assumed they were Huggies as packaging so similar to their normal pull-ups but it doesn't actually mention Huggies anywhere on the packet. We haven't dared take them off him yet! Maybe the answer is shopping around though - they are really not v absorbent at all.

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Ledkr · 01/03/2015 08:31

My 4 yr old still wears nappies at night and is saturated each morning!
I try not to think about it

WastingMyYoungYears · 01/03/2015 08:39

I really don't think we should be worrying at age 4. And I wonder how many of these DCs are having a sneaky early morning wee because they can. I certainly suspect DS of this.

MissWimpyDimple · 01/03/2015 08:42

Dry Nites are not as absorbent. They are meant more as an emergency measure than a nappy. You'd be better going for a proper pull up or just a proper nappy. They are much more absorbent

NotLoveActually · 01/03/2015 08:47

My 3.5 yo ds wore pull ups at night up until a month ago, and they were full to bursting every morning. One morning I told him to come get his pull up off, and he told me he didn't have one on bad mummy forgot to put it on the night before yet the next night when he wore one it was soaked through again. Figured out he was just peeing in it due to laziness, put a potty in his room (bathroom is downstairs) and he got up fine to do a pee during the night. Maybe give it a go for a night or two, he might surprise you.

MrsWooster · 01/03/2015 08:54

I'd keep trying the dream wee. they don't really wake up but if you just stand there for a minute and perhaps turn the tap on a bit, it'll usually work!

addictedtosugar · 01/03/2015 09:05

Yes, proper nappy if you can manage to get one on him now. The rest seem to hold much less volume.

I've heard people suggest a cloth nappy booster inside a disposable nappy to increase absorption?

What colour juice? Black and red is supposed to irrigate the bladder, so many switch to orange, or water/milk?

Also, can you try to get him drinking larger volumes earlier in the day, so his bladder stretches slightly, they he will be able to hold more, and maybe survive til morning?

DS2 had to go back into under poppered vests, as he had his hand down his nappy, causing leakage. At 4 he would be too big for this, but is he fiddling, resoling in wee escaping before being absorbed?

For the sheets - get a decent waterproof layer, and then double make his bed - so waterproof sheet, sheet, waterproof sheet, sheet. Then in the middle of the night you only need to strip off the top layer, not put new sheets on. We also had a spare duvet, with a cover on that was ready for nights when duvets got soaked as well....

bonzo77 · 01/03/2015 09:10

Use proper pull ups not pyjama pants. I really recommend the boots own brand ones. If it's wet at your bed time then change it for a dry one. Limit afternoon drinks to water or milk and no fluids at all from 1 hr before bed time. Layer the bed: mattress protector- folded towel - sheet. Repeat. The terry covered mattress protectors can be slept directly on. Makes night time bed changes much faster (you just remove a layer) and less washing (child can sleep directly on mattress protector). My very nearly 5 year old is still very wet at night but his bed rarely is.

bigkidsdidit · 01/03/2015 09:14

Mine too. I know he does a massive wee in the morning and am trying to persuade him to get up for that wee but no luck so far. I thought he'd be out of night nappies by now

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ronconcoke · 01/03/2015 22:36

Thanks people. I will give all of these a try. Might dig his old Thomas potty out of the garage and place it in his room. He may indeed be having an early morning wee in his pull-up so maybe having a potty there will encourage him to get up....especially if we decide to go cold turkey on the pull-ups.

He mainly drinks watered down Apple juice. Will try to reduce it in the evening although he only gets back from nursery around 6.30pm and is usually thirsty!

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