Still in nappies at night, anyone's 41/2 yr old like mine???

[pirategirl]

Was gonna post this in the wee thread, but wanted feedback from those of you with children now at school.
I dont know the way to go on this. Getting her up for a wee in the middle of the night, totallt knackering for me. Also she is a bad enough sleeper without me waking her. Have tried but sometimes she wont go, then in the morning is wet cos I've missed it.

Some mums say there kiddies naturally got dry, when they cameout of day nappies.

Will it happen naturally? Her nappies are still wet in the morning, altho some mornings not so wet.

I have given up not giving her a drink in the evenings cos she is sometimes really thirsty and with the colds has needed a drink. I manage to have drinks in the evening and not wee!!! So will it happen for her that she can hold it in, or start to get up for a wee.

my dd2 is the same, she needs a lot of sleep and is a heavy sleeper. She was dry nearly every night until she started school but I think she is too busy coping with school at the moment to be realiably dry. Chill about it they will get there in the end, keep them in nappies it's just less hassle all around!

my ds was 4.5! his nappy was always drenched in the morning-so thought that he was still unaware of what was happeneing...apparently not! he eventually informed me that he wakes in the night needing a wee, gets out of bed, stands with his legs apart so he didn't feel the wetness, does his wee and then gets back into bed!
Out of nappies straight away! He is now 5.5 and has never had a single accident! the tinker

hi
yes my dd2 is 4.5 and there's no sign of her being out of night-time pullups.we think
she's just not interested.
she was late being dry/clean in the daytime too, but one day just decided she was ready and just did it-went straight from nappies to the toilet (no potty) dd1 was the same, and she has SN, so it was later but happened in the same way.
so your dd might be like that, just suddenly one day, it happens!

pirategirl, I hope that you may find some comfort from my experience with our DS1 (now aged 7).

He's only been properly dry at night for about a year - since he was about 6.5. We had been trying without success for him to be dry at night ever since he was approaching his fourth birthday, when at his own insistence he wanted to go to bed without a nappy. Finally we just gave up the unequal struggle when he was around 5 (can't remember exactly when) and persuaded him to wear a pull-up at night again.

DH did at various stages threaten to "get tough" with him, but on the advice of lots of wise mumsnetters, including marthamoo and motherinferior, I persuded DH that this would be a very bad idea.

So we just left DS1 to it and all of a sudden, this time last year, we realised that he'd had a run of four or five nights with a dry pull-up. At first we put it down to him being unwell, but it carried on (with the occasional accident, to be fair) even after he got better.

Do not give up giving her a drink in the evenings, but try to get her to drink as much as possible earlier in the day. And we have a rule of no squash or juice after 5 p.m., only milk or water after that time.

There is some hormone which is needed to suppress urine production and some children just do not start producing that hormone until they are six or seven. I think this is waht happened with DS1.

Good luck, and be patient!

my dd was dry at night just after being dry in the day at about 2 3/4 then after about 4 or 5 months started wetting again and has never recracked it. She is 4.2 now. I've just resigned myself to her being in nappies now until she does crack it. ds who is 13 months younger is dry at night.

This is cut from an old thread that I posted on:

I had 5yrs then 6 then 7 as a goal for DS being dry at night. At 6 the school nurse said he could go to clinic at 7. He was 7 in the August & started clinic in Sept, was home & dry by Christmas.

I think a few factors were involved:

1. He REALLY wanted to be dry - cub camp, sleepovers etc. Got v.embarrassed if anyone saw the Dry-Nite packet.
2. The clinic made him want to report good news. They worked on a sticker chart & we choose the rewards. First was a new pair of PJ's, final one was a sleepover. NB, we made our own really snazzy chart with NO reference as to what it was for in case a friend saw it.
3. Drinking more. We cut out ALL fizzy for a while, treats allowed before 4pm on weekends only. Almost forced him to drink more at breakfast, before school, break time, lunch time, on the way home and up to tea time then NO MORE. This expands the bladder - makes things worse for the first few days though.
4. No more Dry-Nite pants. Apparently if they are aware they are on, they are less likely to wake.
5. No lifting to loo when we went to bed - bladder has to learn to cope.
6. In the day, when he needed the loo - WAIT. Get used to feeling the need to go so it can wake them at night. When cannot wait, COUNT TO 10 at the loo before going (v.difficult for a boy!).
7. Get them to help change the bed. No malice involved, just becoming part of it. Good practice anyway.
8. remind them at least one other child in their class will have same problem. Try the ERIC website - good advice there.

Of course, at 4 some of the above is not appropriate. Good luck