Nappy soaking wet and leaks every single night

[desperatehousewife]

My DS was potty trained at Easter. He's now 3.2 and is nowhere near being dry at night. His pull up is sodden every single night despite him having a wee before he goes to bed every night.

He has been waking up at 2 or 3am soaking wet and all his bedding too. Nightmare.

The last week or so he has at least slept through it and woken at 6.10 to a sodden nappy and bed.

What's going on? What can I do? I've tried diff brands.

Use normal disposables or night time nappies!?

normal pampers pull ups.

We have the same problem. Ds has been in size 4-7 Huggies Dry Nights since about teh same age as your ds. They worked for about a year or 18m, and now we are finding that they leak about once or twice a week. We always check on ds when we go to bed (so about 11pm) and if the nappy is wet up to the waistband then we change it. Annoyingly the nappy can leak while teh back is still bone-dry. I put it down to ds being a stomach-sleeper and a boy (ie where he 'points'). We've tried washables as the wee gets absorbed throughout the nappy, but ds is very slim so needs a smaller size and so the capacity isn't big enough.

has he got a tanker sized bladder?

I thought dry nights were for night time training - ie: they only protect against the odd accident. My DS is full on weeing god knows how many times a night, so is still in good old nappy pull ups.

I don't think they are for training. When a child wees regularly during their sleep then they are physically unable to train and will continue weeing throughout the night, like our sons are doing, until they get soggy and uncomfortable enough to wake.

A tip (you may be doing this already): make his bed up with a fitted waterproof sheet, then a fitted ordinary sheet, then a non-fitted waterproof sheet (the smallish sort that goes from edge to edge of the mattress and quite a long way lengthwise but doesn't tuck in) and an ordinary sheet on top of that again. It makes middle-of-the night changes much easier as you don't have to change, just do a quick strip.

I forgot to put one on ds last night

what happened?

soaking and stinky everywhere but did not wake up!

Do you give him a drink near bedtime? ds usually has milk and I plan to cut this out, giving him a (solid] snack earlier on instead

he's such a terrible eater that milk is an important part of his diet - loves his milk. Trying to make it earlier though. Now give it to him at 5.30pm. He goes to bed at 7.30.

Agree try 'dry nights' which are essentially larger size pull on nappies

or pampers baby dry size 6

Huggie pull ups are 'training pants' and not designed to hold loads of wee, wear as pampers size 6 do hold a lot, as do dry nites!

cutting down on drinks doesnt affect weeing! Infact it can make you do more. Give regular drinks when wanted. I suggest you use nappies for bed not pull ups.

We used to put liners in DS's disposables, like huge ST's. Make sure you point Percy downwards too! But you are going to have to cut his pre-bed liquids down so he gets rid of some of it before he goes to sleep. Would he eat Frubes or something like that?