When did you stop using pull ups at night?

As I was reaching for a pull up last night and thinking about how expensive the darn things are, especially when they don't even soil them, I was wondering when you can stop using them. I can't tell you the last time I took a wet pull up off one of the kids in the morning . And there have been countless times that I been woken in the middle of the night by one of them yelling from the bathroom for me to come and wipe their bottom, or have gone in their bathroom in the morning to find pee in their potty that wasn't there when they went to bed.

So when did you stop using them, or how will you know when it is time to stop?

 

With my oldest DD we stopped using overnite diapers once she was consistently waking up dry and waking to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. There's no way to know for sure, but I'd say if they are waking up to use the bathroom at night and waking up dry on a consistent basis, I'd stop with the pull ups.

 

I stopped when they had 8 consectutive dry nights.

(I also re-used them if we took them off dry in the morning!)

 

As soon as they woke up dry a week straight. But I also re-used them if they were dry.

 

Once she was waking up dry for about 3 nights I stopped using the Pull-Ups.

 

If they're usually waking up dry, I'd say you're good to go! (Might want to save a few pullups in case of backsliding.)

Mine still wake up with soaking wet (and often leaky) pullups, so I know we're nowhere near ready.

 

QUOTE(Minette @ Apr 24 2009, 10:50 PM) [snapback]1287518[/snapback]
(Might want to save a few pullups in case of backsliding.)

And in case of gastro-intestinal illness. :bad:

 

I'm thinking we might go for it!! Gosh, such a milestone, to not have to buy diapers/pullups anymore!! Where have my babies gone?!!! :blink: :cry:



QUOTE(Meximeli @ Apr 24 2009, 10:55 PM) [snapback]1287520[/snapback]
And in case of gastro-intestinal illness. :bad:



Very good point!! Didn't even think about that!! Thanks!! :bow2:

 

I'm in the same boat Catie. Mine never pee in them anymore but I just keep putting them on them. I have missed a few nights accidently & I keep thinking I should give them up altogether. What's holding me back is that my two often climb in my bed in the night & I don't really have the mattress protection on my bed that they have on theirs & I keep thinking the one night I don't use them, they are going to pee in my bed! :wacko:

 

We had a different experience -- my older one has been completely daytime trained since 27 months, but she was wet every night for a good year+ after that.

She's now 5, and she's been wearing pull-ups at night out of sheer laziness on my part -- she's only been wet maybe two or three times in the last year, but I soooo didn't want to deal with changing sheets and what not in the middle of the night.

Anyhow. Last week, she had a scratch on her hip that the pull-up was irritating, so she took it off and put on underwear instead. And, that was the end of pull-ups for her!

 

Two days ago! Well my son anyways stopped using them two days ago. He was told that if he stayed dry for an entire week, he could wear underwear to bed. He reached his goal! FWIW, over a year ago, he was wearing underwear to bed because he would often wake at night. But then he stopped waking at night and would then pee in bed. SO we went back to pull-ups.

 

It's been about a month here with no pull-ups at night! :yahoo: My boys were potty trained at 2 years 9 months and there have been stretches of no pull-ups at night, then they'd pee in their bed for too many nights in a row and we'd go back. But we are officially done with them now! I wake up one of them to pee at night because otherwise he'd just pee in his bed, but the other wakes up on his own to pee.

FWIW I'd much rather wash bedding than get them into the habit of relying on a pull-up.

 

Mine stil wear them all the time at night but often we are able to reuse them the next night

 

Sounds to me like you are ready! I am JUST now getting Ali out of hers. Martin's been out of them for a while now. But she's usually dry in the morning, so we are moving to underwear.

 

Sarah is still using them. She is just too inconsistent with waking up wet and dry. Most mornings she is dry and will go to the potty when she wakes up, but there are still about two to three nights a week when she will wake up wet. She has massive amounts of pee when she goes, so we still wears pull-ups. We stopped using them with Allison after a solid week of dry mornings, plus, she's just more consistent then Sarah all around with the whole potty training...she's fully potty trained day and night while Sarah still won't poop in the potty <_<

 

I stopped using the pull-ups after they had woken up dry for a week to ten days. Nick was ready to dump them pretty much immediately, Joe took a bit longer.

I used the pull-up again if they woke up and it was dry. So each pull-up could be worn twice.

Also, I had a bunch of swim diapers left over from the summer and I used those too. Swim diapers can be thrown in with your laundry and washed about 5 or 6 times (gentle cycle) and laid out to air dry. If I were still buying pull-ups for ocassional use I would only buy swim diapers...they are more expensive per diaper, but their reusability makes them more cost-efficient in the long run.

 

We still use pull-ups overnight since an accident still happens about once a week. I buy a pack and they last about a month I reuse until they soil them, they are just too expensive to throw out if they have not soiled them.

 

I wait until they have a month's worth of dry nights. DD changed over while I was on my last business trip in February. I was sad not to be here for her first night in big girl panties, but we'd promised to switch when her current pack of pull-ups ran out, so there it was. She probably could have switched a few months before this, she was ready, but I kept expecting her to backslide since she drinks the most water. There were very few accidents in those intervening months, none in the time during her last pack and none since she switched. She's also a lighter sleeper and more motivated to be like the grown-ups.

DS is still inconsistent. He won't wake to pee. I go up and potty him before I go to bed, but he still wakes up with a wet pull-up about half the time. I've offered incentives and enouragement, but he's just not ready, so we aren't pushing him much. I need to reuse them. I've been tossing them each morning wet or dry. Silly. They just turned 4. He just doesn't care that he wears them.

They both were able to nap without pull ups long before they could go through the night without them.