How long after daytime dryness did your LO become dry at night?

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Just that really!!

DD (2.7) has basically just potty trained herself - she's been in pants for a week without an accident which I'm amazed at as she was a complete potty/toilet refuser up until then!

I was still putting a nappy on her at bedtime, she would quite happily pee in it before bed and in the morning before we took it off. She will always tell me though.

At what stage could we ditch the nappies? We still sometimes have a fight in the morning getting pants on instead of a nappy and I think the fact we are still using them at night doesn't help.

I've put pull ups on her tonight and she has told me when she needed a pee before bed and we used them like pants although I told her it doesn't matter if she pees in it overnight.

Is this the best way to go? Am I pushing it a bit? Should I just leave her in nappies at night until she isn't happy wearing them anymore?

Obviously I'll see how she goes tonight in the pull up but any advice greatly received

DD was dry during the day at 2 and a half. It took until she was 6 and a half for her to be reliably dry overnight. They do it when they are ready .

Her mattress has got a zip off waterproof top which will come in handy!

I just don't want to expect too much too soon but at the same time if she's ready then I'd like to give her a chance

Would say as well, from talking to good friends who are open about these things, some children were near secondary school age before they were reliably dry at night, it impacted on sleep overs/school trips etc. One was almost in their teens although I appreciate this is the very end of the spectrum. They are all perfectly fine now. Sometimes looking at it from the nearly grown children end of parenting gives you a lot more perspective! Strange how insanely important it felt at the time (particularly when I had one who was so behind his peers) and they all get there in the end.

There are things that can help like no black currant squash, no drinks 1 hour before bed, loads of drinks in the day, no nappy or pull ups, BUT sometimes these things don't work so patience until about 7 years old with trials without nappies or pull ups when you have the time and energy to cope with the washing.

The two achievements aren't really related .
In my case DD dry 2 yrs 9 months/ 5 years
DS 1 3 yrs/ 11yrs
DS2 3 yrs 6 mths/ 10 yrs
Boys could possibly have been dry earlier in the day but I waited until they were motivated and I was sure they were ready and then went for it. Pants all day even if long car journeys or whatever....handful of accidents between the two of them. night Times ..... not as good!

Well she woke at 2 and wanted a pee which she did in the toilet, then woke at 4 and came in with us, then woke up at 7.30.....with dry pyjama pants!!

I think I'll keep going with them, I've told her it's OK if she has an accident by she's treating them just like pants.

She had a 'I want my nappy on!!!' Moment for a while this morning for her morning pee but she got over it

My Dd was potty trained during the day by 2 but at 3.6 she still wears nappies at night. She just doesn't wake up for a wee. I have had her in my bed and heard her weeing in her nappy but she is still fast asleep.

Doesn't help when people try and tell you that they should be dry at night by now as their child was dry by 3

Mine were potty trained just over 3 and dry at night by 3 and a half.

DC 1+2 were not night dry til around age 6 after day dry at later end of 3

DC3 dry day and night at just over 2

DC3 is the only girl

We just got lucky I think, it happened very quickly.

We stopped using nappies at night once she was reliably dry in the day (age 3.5), and she just took to it. No pull ups, just knickers, pull ups seemed to be a hindrance for her as she treated them like nappies.

Had maybe 4/5 accidents in the first 3 week period but because they were spaced out and not consecutive nights we persevered.

I believe night time dryness is more a hormonal thing, and the body needing to be ready, rather than something that can be trained. I would have gone back to nappies and tried again in a couple of months if it became evident she wasn't ready.

I know someone who put themselves and their son through several weeks of wet pjs and bedding night after night, insisting he needed to learn, but he just was not ready. He was only 3 and by no means behind, but she was obsessed with training him to do it. He did it in his own time in the end when he was almost 4.

It makes life so much easier to just let the child take the lead with these things, potty training in general has been so easy and smooth for us probably because we left it until 3 before even beginning and leaving her to take the lead.

Good luck! Just give it a try and if it doesn't work out leave it and try again in a month or do!

It was a year for my eldest, he was daytime dry at 2 and dry at night by 3, I didn't even try to night time train him though, just waited until his nappies were dry in the morning and took them away....my youngest though I think he'll still be in nappies when he's 5!

DD was potty trained at 2.5 but was nearly 4 when we ditched the pull ups at night.
My rule of thumb was that if she had 3 nights in a row with a dry pull up she could try without. It really is about hormone production and can't be trained like daytimes so just go with it.

Mine has been dry at night for nearly 2 years (nearly 4) -apart from a few months when she kept asking for water just before bed -but still wants to keep her nappy on. She still wants to be a baby so I'm taking the lead from her.

Was about 6 months later for DS.
DD's nappy was dry at night from 1, so when we PT it was just a case of getting up the nerve to have a just 2 yr old in bed without a nappy (cosleeping!).
I don't think there's much you can do about night dryness, bar get them to the loo as quickly as possible in the morning. So not sure about taking away nappies till they're dry for nighttime. Pull-ups seems like a good compromise.

Dd1: dry during the day for almost a year before reliably dry at night.

Ds1: dry during the day for over 3 years before reliably dry at night.

Dd2: Decided she was too big for nappies and never wore one, day or night, ever again. No accidents.

DD always has a cup of milk directly before bed - would seem a shame to stop it!

Both DCs dry at night at the same time, would call during the night if needed a wee (rarely). DD was 18 months, DS 20 months.
DGS has also been dry at night, wore pull-ups for a couple of weeks but always dry so stopped them. He occasionally wakes at night to wee.

Two boys, the first one wore a nappy for a month after cracking daytime toileting (self-instigated toilet training at 2.9 years). He didn't need them but I was being overly cautious. I think he only wet the bed in the first week or two after being dry all day. Before toilet training he had the occasional dry night in nappies anyway, so for the first week or so, there was no change.

Second child also potty trained aged 2.9. But this one refused to wear nappies overnight on day 2! This meant we had on average 2 wet beds a week for around 3 months, then it cut down to once or twice a month. Now it's every other month.

Both times I used washable, waterproof draw sheets, a bit like these, which saved washing the whole mattress protector every night! The ones I bought are tumble-dry safe which means they can be used the next night, whereas the main mattress protector can't be tumble dried and drip-dries for a few days.

The ones I got were white ones, an Australian make where I think they called them "brolly" (from Amazon).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00UVTW3AK/ref=mpsa12ait?ie=UTF8&qid=1495976588&sr=8-2&keywords=draw+sheets+for+beds&dpPl=1&dpID=41hpNpKHLxL&ref=plSrch

Oh, I actually found it! Amazon still have them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003UE2CE0/ref=mpsa11ait?ie=UTF8&qid=1495976830&sr=8-1&keywords=brolly+sheet

A few months with both (under 3) The first had dry nappies in the morning. The second her nappies were still wet but we suspected she was being lazy and erring when she woke up so we removed the nappies and she would call out if she needed a wee. No accidents. So it was pure laziness as she knew she had a nappy on. If we waited will she was dry it could have taken ages!

*weeing not erring

Ds - about 2 weeks. He was right, too.
Dd - about a year but being washable we were less fussed and didn't push it.
Dn - immediately, for about a year, then had chicken pox and hasn't been dry for the 5 years since.