night toilet training

WOW what a good idea i am going to give it a try next week.

We are just about to give up night nappies and your advice seems practical...thanks

All my kids were night dry around the same time they gave up nappies during the day. Though with my eldest son, he would cry at night, So would take him to the toilet half a sleep as you mentioned.

Good ideas.

I like the plastic/sheet layering idea!

My DD1 was dry for over a year during the day before she was ready at night. I did a big build-up towards the summer and was saying "you're getting too big for nappies at night now; shall we give it a go without the nappy when the weathers nice and I can dry the sheets quickly" when she decided to dispense with the nappy in the spring LOL! (This is the child who was trying to potty train all summer and got the hang of it in January the week she began Preschool!)

BECAUSE she  had chosen to do it, it worked (my DD1 is like that with most things). In fact, her nappy used to leak about 3 mornings a week before she went dry at night. The first night she was dry til 4am. During the next week, she sometimes woke and wet before she remembered there was no nappy. The wetting always happened in the hour before she woke up for the day, confirming my suspicions that she was a lazy tike who used to use the nappy as she woke in the morning rather than crawl from her warm bed to visit the cold toilet! We bought several special waterproof mats which can be quickly whipped out from under her and replaced with another one if an accident happens - in fact, because of nappy failure, she was quite used to using them already.

The night training proved a lot easier than I had expected, which I know is not everyones experience. But for me, I know that steering my DD1 towards making her own decision to do things (rather than imposing things from on high) makes changes work far better. And I had a lot fewer washes to do in the weeks following night training than I had been having in the weeks before it!

I will have to keep this in mind.. I am currently trying to to toliet train my daughter so thanks for the tips :)

I did this with my oldest.......he stayed dry all night but he would still wet his bed if we forgot to wake him up before we went to bed, until he was 6 yrs old. Where as my 3 1/2 yr old who will have huge drinks before bed stays dry all night.......

Amanda xxx

Hi there, good advice, I did similar but the problem I had was once I decided she was past being woken to go to the toilet when I went to bed she reverted to wetting the bed for a couple of nights.  After that though it was smooth sailing.