Jump to content

Recommended Posts

My 3yo (3 years 3 months) is very keen to stop wearing nappies at night. She keeps telling me she wants to go without so I decided to give it a try two weeks ago. I did all the obvious things: no drinking after 6:30pm unless thirsty, a good pee at bedtime, no pyjama bottoms on in bed. I even put her on the potty half asleep at 10pm. It generally went well when she managed to actually pee at 10pm but whenever she was too sleepy to pee (or I skipped it) she would wet her bed.


Lot of laundry.


Convinced her to go back to pull ups (in a way that couldn't possibly affect her self esteem) but she complains every night. She's been potty trained at daytime for a year now so I understand she feels ready. I once read you can't really "night train" a child, that you just need to wait for some hormonal change that will make them wake when they need to pee.


What are your views and experience? Advice? Thanks!

My views are you can't train for nighttimes as it's something to do with the brain sending messages and they'll do it when they're ready.


My 4 yr old boy - about a week before his 4th bday he told me that he was a big boy and didn't want to wear a nappy so we agreed that we would give it a ago but if he had a wee it wouldn't be very nice so probably best to go back to nappies which he was fine about. That was 3 months ago and fingers crossed no accidents and we don't lift him. He was just ready. If we had tried before i know it would have ended in lots of accidents as his nappy was always wet.


Good luck with your decision

My experience with my daughter - who potty trained at 2.5 years but only night "trained" when she was about 4 - was that I absolutely had to get her up for a wee when I went to bed around 11pm, otherwise she would more often than not wet the bed. We had about 5 months of that before she was ready to go all night. She did however still have milk at bedtime when we started and doesn't drink so much now, so it could be connected to that. I did get her some bambino mio training pants to start with which were helpful at catching a bit of wee the mornings she couldn't quite make it to the loo in time. And some a good waterproof mattress protector is a must! I use a hippychick fitted sheet protector as it's nice and soft and not at all plasticky.

Hiya I would say now youve started ,stick with it-we went through a lot of washing but as long as you have waterproof sheet and spare bedclothes you will be ok.Our experience wasn't smooth -after an initial great start my daughter started wetting the bed repeatedly.We stopped for 2-3 weeks and then tried again and touch wood no more accidents so far.

Just to add for us lifting didnt make any difference.If you are BOTH ready I would say persevere-good luck

I don't even mind the laundry THAT much and she sorts herself out with dry pyjamas and a spare blanket on top of the wet stain if she does have an accident. So I'm willing to go for it if it's a matter of a month till we have one accident a month. But if we're going to have two accidents a week for the next six months (and you don't know of course) I'm less keen.


Don't know what to do, mentally she seems ready and keen but if you can't speed up physical readiness by letting her feel the bed get wet there's no point. And I'm just as happy with the nappy option so I would go pebbles' way if it wasn't for the fact that I have to convince my daughter that nappies are ok every single night!


Guess I just have to make a decision and stick with it.

Definatey listen to them and if they want to not wear nappies then dont make them. My son just after three started asking not to wear nappies at night and now gets up himself to use the loo. I think if you make them feel like its a big deal for them and that its something they are in control of. Maybe introduce a star chart or some rewards for dry nights?

I've never lifted my daughter. I just waited until her nappies were dry from the night for a reasonable stretch and then one day just said 'oh, I don't think we need to put you in this tonight... what do you think?' and she said 'no', and that was that. If she had started to wet, I would have asked her what her thoughts were on it (go back to nappies?). I think if they think it's their solution it's a lot easier to deal with self-esteem if they do have to go back to nappies.

I have a son now, and I have no expectations that he will be in any way similar to my daughter! I will be found lifting at night, pull ups and all sorts no doubt!

You are supposed to night & day train same time & once child is dry in day, take nappies off. That's what we did at 2:5 years of age for our daughter & bought a fab mattress protector same time, took her for a wee in her sleep at 11p.m. & a year & half later, we've had maximum 5 accidents. They get mixed messages if one rule for day & other for night & they have to get wet to realise..............


Good luck

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • You're being a little disingenuous here. It is simply not true that "the area should remain suburban 2/3 storeys maximum" because: -> the area the development is in isn't 2/3 storeys maximum today - as evidenced by the school on the lot adjoining the development to the south, as well as the similarly-sized buildings to the north and east.  -> the SPG doesn't preclude this type of development anyway. This "genie in a bottle" stuff is desperate barrel-scraping. Now you're raising the spectre of a 9 storey building on the Gibbs & Dandy site (the chance would be a fine thing) but also arguing Southwark is too slow to approve things and opposed to development more than 2-3 storeys!
    • The sites in question though are not comparable to the builders yard by the station and less likely to be granted planning permission for 9 storey buildings. The builders yard fronts on to the railway line on one side and virtually no residential property surrounding on the other sides. The Gibbs & Dandy /Kwikfit and ED trading trading estate are surrounded at close proximity by residential, and in the case of the latter a Grade II building, so there would more stringent height restrictions. Both these sites are tired and sad looking, and in need of development to provide much needed housing.
    • Not sure if this is any help but was initally told to use google chrome as the browser and the code was the reference. However the person at Southwark parking took pity on me and did it for me 
    • I can see how it could've worked 20 or 30 years ago, when you couldn't swing a pool cue in the Foresters without hitting a sparks, a plumber or a chippy, but the area has changed somewhat. I'm not sure people around here have such trade-able skills these days. Have a word with someone in your local and you'll see. People are always going to need their boiler fixed, a damp patch sorted or their dimmer switch dimmed, but I can pretty much guarantee I'm never going need my corporate policy complied with, my social media planned, my data mined, my green transport tsared, my information architected or my analytics analysed. It reminds me of the great DIY con of the mid to late seventies. My Mum bought into it, my Dad didn't. Anyway, my Mum won out and we let the gardener go (he went on to be TV's Timmy Mallett, so that's a warning from history), but my Dad shorted the house out and singed his head when he cut through the flex on his new Black & Decker hedge trimmer. We all laughed, of course, but he got his own back when, because we didn't use a qualified electrician to do things properly, she electrocuted herself when she pulled the back of the plug off her Carmen heated rollers while it was still in the socket. Keep things professional, say 'No!' to this sort of nonsense. We pay people a decent rate of pay because they're specialists at these things. I did once barter my sister's space hopper and roller skates for twenty-odd square foot of crazy paving, though. That was a birthday present my Mum never forgot, and not in a good way.  
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...