How do you get rid of the night-time nappy?

My daughter has just turned 3 and she still wears a night time nappy and it is wet every morning. She always has milk or water before brushing teeth.

Any advice on when and how to go about getting rid of this nappy?

Thanks in advance.

 

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My daughter has just turned 3 and she still wears a night time nappy and it is wet every morning. She always has milk or water before brushing teeth.

Any advice on when and how to go about getting rid of this nappy?

Thanks in advance.


Sorry but what is a nappy? :blush: is that a diaper?

 

I think once the diaper/nappy is dry in the morning then their bladder is mature enough. We waited until they had 7 dry nights, mine were daytime trained at 3 and nights I think around 4.

 

I just stopped putting the pull-ups/diaper on them for bedtime this week. Before that they still had one or two accidents a week. I wouldn't bother if they are still waking wet. You are only going to have a mess every morning to clean,not fun. I would also experiment with giving them something to drink an hour before bed so they have time to go before bedtime. Mine get a small snack at 6:30 and bedtime is 7:30. When they wake in the morning they have to go immediately but it took awhile for them to be able to hold it.

 

After they were day trained we decided to try doing nights. I wasnt sure if they were ready yet but though what the heck not going to find out unless we try! After a few accidents at night Sophie picked it up quite well but jack wasnt ready. Then a few weeks later i was putting him in his nappy for bedtime and he said my not need a nappy now and that was him! They did really well. We take them to the toilet just before bed and then i take them at 10.30pm just before we go to bed. That usually lets them go to 6am without any accidents. Good luck training them! I hope it works out well for you x

 

I didn't do anything... simply waited until they were dry every morning for a week straight AND had gotten up to use the toilet during the night and then I switched them to underpants. They reached this point about 2 weeks apart which I feel is strong evidence that it's developmental rather than learned (they're ID and hit all of the milestones at pretty much the same time). I can count on one hand the number of accidents they've had in bed. Oh, and they had just turned 3 but if you ask your pediatrician, I'm sure she will assure you that there is a wide range of normal for conquering nighttime dryness.

 

My daughter was 3 yrs and 2.5 months when she went without a diaper at night (she said she did not want to wear one) She is now 8 and has had 2 accidents in all that time (one at 7 and one at 6)

My son is currently 5 yrs old and has just move up to the Goodnights for night time sleeping (he was peeing out of his nighttime pulls-up). At his annual last week, I asked about what age should he be able to stay dry, and was informed that they don't worry about it until they are 12. If it is an issue for sleepovers, they can give meds that help temporarily, but they are not a long-term solution.

I wouldn't rush it.

T

 

I have one in underwear and one in Pull Ups. Every time she's dry for a few days I let her wear underwear at night and the 2nd or 3rd night she wets the bed. LIKE CLOCKWORK!! I have no idea - we are over 4 and still trying!

 

Thanks ladies for your replies - think I'm going to wait a bit! But maybe do it before she is 12 !! Will have to get rid of that drink before bedtime I think first before we can work on getting rid of the pull ups.

 

I know....that's how I feel. She's over 4 already....I am thinking it'll happen pretty soon, but am more about wearing the pull ups than I am about waking to change sheets in the night!

 

My older one just stopped wearing a pull-up at night recently, at age 5. She was only really ready within the last six months. So no worries -- it will happen eventually!

 

A&B are still wearing a pull-up to bed and it's soaked in the morning, they are almost 4. I have no idea when they will start waking up dry. We've talked about wearing underwear to bed, that they can get up and go potty if they need to go, so not sure when it will happen.

 

I'm waiting until it is dry in the morning for at least 2 weeks straight. My DD who has been potty trained for 8 months still wakes up with a wet pull up pretty much every night. My DD that just became officially trained this weekend has woken up 3 days straight with a dry pull up.

 

Since you are dealing with a sleeping child, it is impossible to "train" them to stay dry at night. They are not in conscience control of their bodies during sleep. When their body is ready to stay dry at night, they will.

For my boys, one trained at 3 years 4 months, and the other at 3 years 9 months. The day the second one trained was able to poop on the potty, he never wore another diaper. The one who trained first took a year and a half until he was ready to stay dry at night.

 

Mine were night trained by 3 so, it's not impossible, but you're girls just might not be ready.
Getting rid of the bed time/night time drinks isn't something I wanted to do, I personally hate the feeling of wanting to drink and not being able to, so I couldn't bring myself to do it. But we did make a more sustaintial bedtime snack along with milk, so they weren't just filling up on milk. I'm also a very light sleeper, So if I got up to go to the bathroom, then I would take them in too and set them on the potty. They almost always went when I did that. So right before bed potty trip and a middle of the night potty trip. Soon they began to get up on their own at night to go potty, I think getting them up taught them that option--but I could be totally wrong. If you go to bed much later than them, you could try just taking them to the potty at that time, so you don't have to get up in the middle of the night.
We used pull ups rather than diapers over night (I never used them in the day, too expensive!) that way they could go on their own.

 

Due to potty training issues, we didn't really do official potty training until the girls' third birthday. Jessica had been dry overnight for some time before that while Katelyn still soaked the pull-up. So, we did have an issue when they potty trained and Jessica was done with the bedtime pull-up in 5 nights and Katelyn still needed it. We told the girls they could sleep in their panties when they went 5 nights without any accidents in the pull-up and made clear it was okay to get out of bed to go potty if they needed to-we had really stressed how important it was to stay in their big girl beds when we moved them out of their cribs and Katie didn't want to be naughty and get out of bed lol. Jessica made it the first 5 nights but Katie continued to need a pull-up for a few more weeks. With her, I limited drinks the last hour before bedtime and would take her to go potty before I went to bed. They were going to bed at 6:30 and I'd take her around 10:30. She could make it the rest of the night then. We've had some "Gotta go now" wake-ups, but no wet beds thank goodness.

 

One of mine did it at 2.75years (about a month after starting training), the other boy would go for several days waking up dry, but then wake up wet once, then back to dry; it just wasn't consistent, he finally dumped his night pull-up at 3y1m (about 4 months after starting training).

Like Debi, I don't think there is anything you can do to jump start or accelerate it, it's just something their body needs to learn on its own. My (ID) boys started staying dry right around the same time, I just had one boy who was more consistent about it.

I also think it's much more 'normal' or middle-of-the-road for kids to go for a year before they stay dry at night than those who do it at three. If I could take credit for it, I would ...but I didn't do a thing.

Good luck, I wouldn't stress about it. Lots of kids are still working on night time dryness when they hit kindergarten.