Please tell me the 'do's and don'ts' of 'lifting for my 2.8dd

[MrsWalton]

She trained herself pretty quickly at 2, i continued with night time pull ups until 2 wks ago. She would go a week or so with dry nappies. So i know she can manage it.

I figured after a week she'd get the hang of it, but we had 8 wet beds and only one dry night.

So rather than revert to pull ups, i've started lifting her to the potty before i go to bed. I'm not sure what happens next.

Even if someone could point me to a good thread, that would do.

thanks

If I were you, I'd take the pressure off both of you, and put her back in nappies during the night, then try again in 6 months or a year. She's done really well to be dry during the day from such an early age, some children aren't dry through the night until age 5!

it's a don't.

it's encouraging her body to learn that is the point she wees.

back in nappies. chill.

(3 dcs. one dry day and night at 2.6, one night dry at 8, one pending at 7)

you can't train it. it happens when the hormones kick in. chill.

'night 'lisabeth.

I kindof wondered what the point of it was. Other than saving on the nappies. I purchase more tomorrow.

Thanks

saving of washing machine too lol.
it makes great financial sense, but not a great deal in terms of 'training'.
she's doing v well though - clever dd.

It took us a while with DS1 (never did lifting but he was a night waker anyway.)

He wanted his nappies off at night at 2.4 (trained in day at 2.1).

We went for it, you have to avoid a big drink at bed time and also the early morning one is usually the one where the bed is wet.

It means quite a few early mornings for a while (we were up with newborn DS2 anyway) to get them to the loo quickly.

I thought it WAS worth washing sheets etc for a couple of months (not every night obviously) because NONE of my friends' children are out of night nappies at 4 and a bit!

i was told not to lift if 3 dry nights then body may be ready if not then nappies on you cant train the body to be dry its a hormone that kicks in that does this nothing that can be forced i was told lifting encourages them to wee asleep as they should be waking up themselves to wee if this doesn't happen then nappies back on

cont feel pressured to have her dry at night my ds wasn't dry in day until over 3 and still has nappies at night his nearly 4

Hi, I started a thread on this a couple of months ago, which I'll have a look for, but I'll have to disagree with others and say it worked for us.

Even if the only advantage is the saving on nappies (both cost and the environment) that's a good enough reason. i hated throwing away mostly dry nappies every morning.

She asked to not wear nappies any more at night, and after too many wet mornings we started lifting her, which went on for 2-3 months, and of course some time last week, we went to bed early and forgot, and she woke up dry, and we haven't lifted her since. We've had 6 or 7 consecutive dry mornings, so i think the job is done.

I think you can do it, and every once in a while don't do it, and see if they stay dry. So you can keep checking whether they're ready.

I know some children just aren't ready to be dry at night until much older, so I know we're lucky.

Yuck, that was very clumsily expressed. Hope you get my drift.

forgot to say, similar age to your dd; she's 2.9 now.

Lifting isn't recommended as it perpetuates the "wee whilst your asleep" message to the brain, so does nothing to promote night time dryness.

However of course many people lift because it's convenient and it saves wet beds, which is fine as long as they realise that lifting doesn't help to achieve night time dryness.

That is usually achieved any time between 3 and 7, so if she is wet most nights I would leave it for now and try going without the night time nappies when she is either consistently dry in the morning, or is a bit older.

here is my old thread on this

All I can say is that lifting worked for us. It may not be the 'correct' thing according to the book, but if it works, and you're happy to do it - why not?

I didn't like washing nappies, nor did I like washing bed linen, and lifting solved the problem when ds was not ready to go through the night. And after about 6 months of lifting, we forgot one night and he was dry. We've never lifted since and never had a wet bed. The lifting didn't make him dry, but it got us through a middle bit.