do you change a toddler's nappy in the night?

[jellybelly25]

dd2 is 2.1 and is just getting to the age where she wets less often but very heavily when she does. Often wakes with nappy like a water bomb and this morning her nappy was sodden, her pjs were all wet and it had woken her at 6am when she actually needs more sleep than that.

I have thought about changing her before we go to bed - she usually wakes around midnight anyway so I could just use that opportunity, but I wonder if she will come to expect it at other points during the night?

Any thoughts?

put a booster pad in - you get them from boots, and are meant for re-useables?

Nope, we never have done that unless it's been absolutely necessary, ie they're upset by it or done something horrendous in there. Did occasionally have some leakage though but never seemed a problem and he slept through despite it, which was more important to us!

we resolved with number 2 that there would be no night changes for wee alone.

at that age you could use pull ups and lift her and take her to potty or loo when you go to bed

Jellybelly25, I have the same problem. DS is 21 months and seems to be weeing for England. He is managing about 11 hours sleep which is great but when he wakes up in the morning he's soaked through. I don't want to discourage him from sleeping that long but like you, I don't want to get into the routine of waking him up. The nappy like a water bomb is well funny. When he has a full wet nappy we call it a 'Wogan' (remember when Terry Wogan had those moleskin trousers on which bulged?). Sorry I digress....

It's only just started happening this week but already I'm on the third bedsheet! Is this a sign that I should start getting him on the potty do you think? His nursery don't want to know though and they think he's too young.

loving the "waterbomb" description. Dd1 always makes me laugh as she toddles out of her room with her nappy practically dragging on the floor behind her!

Have you gone up a nappy size? It can help so long as it isn't so big that it allows leg leakage.

Not too young to put a potty on the floor and let him have naked time.

Unless child is super skinny I would say size 5 nappies?

Lol @ Wogan - we've always called it a codpiece here...

Yes, I change his nappy when I'm going to bed - usually 12-1.
Ds is a good sleeper though, goes to sleep and not a peep til morning. He just lets me get on with it.
We have only had a couple of leaky nights but I'm a bit anal so have just got into the habit of doing this.
If he was a tricky sleeper though, and I risked waking or disturbing his sleep then I wouldn't bother.

yup, he got used to me changing him when i went to bed, didn't even wake up.

yes i have a two yr old and he use to wake up in the morning with a really full nappy. so i started putting pull ups on him and waking him just before we went to bed to sit on the potty and then put him straight back to bed, sometimes he has a wee sometimes he doesnt but at least he is getting use to the fact that if he needs a wee in the night he has to get up and use the potty. and his nappy is a lot lighter in the morning.

hell no, I wouldn't wake a sleeping toddler unless the house was on fire

yes i have a two yr old and he use to wake up in the morning with a really full nappy. so i started putting pull ups on him and waking him just before we went to bed to sit on the potty and then put him straight back to bed, sometimes he has a wee sometimes he doesnt but at least he is getting use to the fact that if he needs a wee in the night he has to get up and use the potty. and his nappy is a lot lighter in the morning.

hmmm a fairly even split! we are not actively potty training yet but will do when the schools break up for summer and we dont' have to go anywhere first thing in morning. At that point I'd happily put a potty in the room but at the moment I dont' think she'd a) notice and b) go for it. She is currently very happy to sit on it and look impressed with herself but very rarely wees on it.

She's in size 5 and has been for a while but I recently bought Huggies instead of pampers and they seem bigger somehow, around the legs especially. Perhaps I should go back to the pampers? I bought loads of them tho cos they were on offer! She's pretty small but not especially skinny bit like me really

the wogan/codpiece wedgie i think pre-2 is quite young but it can't hurt to get a potty and have him sit on it a bit to get used to it.

I'm still not sure really what to do she's not an excellent sleeper so I am torn between not wanting to disturb her unnecessarily and not wanting to leave her in a sopping wet nappy/pjs if that is contributing to her waking, does that make sense?

I will try the boosters though as I have some from when she was in cloth nappies. Thanks for responses!

I ALWAYS changed DS's nappy when he woke in the night. Had to in the beginning (bf poo explosion) and as he was reverse cycling, he's wet through four nappies in a night. He potty trained by 18 months though. First thing in the morning is the perfect time to sit her on the potty; she'll wee whether she wants to or not.