How do we do night toilet training.

[JamInMyWellies]

DS 2.11 has been potty trained for a couple of months now fairly successful with occasional accidents when he is far to engrossed to remember about going.

He has a recurring problem with rashes on his willie caused by his wet nappy. Tonight he asked to go to bed without a nappy he peed before bed but am wondering whether I should put a nappy on him or lift him to wee (would imagine that would be a screamting fit) Or just crack on with it and put up with middle of the night bed changes?

What the general rule when doing nights?

I think there nappies are meant to be dry for at least two weeks before you do no nappy for bed. It can be up to a year after day time training is achieved. And boys can have difficulty with night training up to the age of 8. How depressing is that.
The night lifting thing can work depending on the child.

"It can be up to a year after day time training is achieved"

Make that three years here! We have still never had a dry night nappy. Always absolutely saturated!

Forget "dry nappies for two weeks". A few days after DD was potty trained in the day, I took off her nappy at night as well. She had an accident that night, then another accident a few nights later, and that was it. She was 2.6 at the time.

Especially if he asked to go to bed without a nappy, take it off, don't hesitate. He will probably have a few accidents but they all do.

Cover the bed with towel, non-permeable sheet, bedsheet. Then another layer of towel, non-permeable sheet, bedsheet. This way, if there is an accident in the night, you take off the top layer and the bed is ready.

If you 'lift' them at night be prepared to do it for a while IME. I would just see what happens. If your ds has a usual time to wake then i would try to be in his room for when he's stirring and get him onto a potty pronto. I have found they wee upon waking as opposed to during the night.

Also second double making the bed - so you can just strip off a layer rather than having to remake the bed if he does have an accident.

Cotedeazur you were lucky. My DS never ever wet the bed and I suspect he was dry at night before he was dry in the day.
However DD was a different story. Within a few weeks of being dry during the day she went about 2 weeks being dry at night, but then she started wetting again and it was 2 years before she was competely dry during the night. We had weeks of dryness followed by weeks of wetting.

Lifting is not a good idea as although they may not have a wet bed, they don't learn to recognise a full bladder and wake up themselves.

Also dryness at night is actually caused by a release of a hormone. That hormone reduces the production of urine at night, it's a developmental thing.

If he want's to go without a nappy at night let him as he may be ready.

OP can cross that bridge if she comes to it.

My point was that there is no need to wait for two weeks of dry nappies. Even a child who is ready to be dry at night might go on wetting the nappy because it is there and he does not have the habit of holding his pee in the night.

Interseting, thanks all.

Have come up to bed and he is still dry. Have chickened out though and put a nappy on him.

Will invest in another rubber sheet tom and double up his bed tom then give it a bash.

I had heard about the hormone thing will do a bit of research on it.

Thanks again.

Hi Jam . eek. tis FLF/Befnal.

Hey there Befnal, hows thing?

DD 3.6 has asked the same thing. I think we might give it a go but perhaps not tonight, we have the estate agent coming round in the morning and nothing devalues your house like the smell of wee!

Haha WMMC we gave up after a few nights as he was soaking wet by 8pm will give it a bash in a few months.

All well here. DD is 3 tomorrow. Can you believe it is three years since we all had that first lunch together? Us and you two bumps! And now we all have two!

I haven't dared do the night nappy thing (can't be arsed yet as she always does a big wee in her nappy at 5am and I'd rather she did that and went back to sleep than coming to pester me or going to the potty then staying up). I know this cos that's what happened both times we forgot to put the nappy on.

There are these amazing NZ fleece sheets you can get that are soft, but act like a nappy (I think) and sort of absorb it so you don't have to change the bed, but the kids know they've weed. Will go and look it up. Was planning on using those when I get round to sorting it out.

Those sound good.

Hope she had a fab birthday weekend. I find it really that its 3 years completely flown by.