We use the waterproof lap pads you can buy in the baby section and a fleece blanket to cover up with. Buy the biggest size you can, crib sized I think, and cut it into the sizes you need. Winnie still wets the bed maybe once a week, but Finn never did, so it might depend on the child whether potty learning is lengthened by a diaper at night or not.
Why not get those padded panties and a really awesome set of soaker shorts for bedtime. Then, the padding in the panties will catch some pee, and the wool shorts will keep the bed dry.
If it doesn't cause heartache, you can still do pullups or cloth AIO training pants or something, but honestly, potty learning is such a sensitive subject...
look at www.askdrsears.com for potty learning information. I just think that the big girl phase is very very important and you dont' want to discourage her or allow her to feel that she's being "bad" for peeing the bed.
We've had some good success with allowing DS to sleep in the training pants that have plastic on the outside or in padded undies.
There's a whole thread somewhere about quick sheet changes for bedwetters. I hate laundry, and the fast sheet changes have worked well for me this week. just put down a chux pad or a towel under a flat sheet, then put a fleece blankie on top of your sweet girl.
I did look all over for a mattress saver yesterday, and couldn't find any at all. Sigh!
Anywho, good luck. If you can get her to use the pull on panties with the plastic covering... They still look like big girl undies.
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My dd just PL'ed a couple weeks ago. We did diapers for nighttime for awhile and she got up wet every morning. One night, she said ' No diaper, mine wearing panties. I a big girl going potty- No diapers.' lol I let her, but I made sure she tried to potty right before she went to bed. She wet the bed twice.
I think it was knowing that she was wearing a diaper that 'encouraged' her to potty in her sleep. After all she spend 3 yrs. in diapers wetting at night.The panties feel different.
Basically, I'd give the panties a shot. If she has accidents then go shopping for some new big girl night panties.
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My dd just PL'ed a couple weeks ago. We did diapers for nighttime for awhile and she got up wet every morning. One night, she said ' No diaper, mine wearing panties. I a big girl going potty- No diapers.' lol I let her, but I made sure she tried to potty right before she went to bed. She wet the bed twice.
I think it was knowing that she was wearing a diaper that 'encouraged' her to potty in her sleep. After all she spend 3 yrs. in diapers wetting at night.The panties feel different.
Basically, I'd give the panties a shot. If she has accidents then go shopping for some new big girl night panties.
yeah..i would be likely to do this...but considering that i have a new baby here at the house..i just don't know if i'm ready for that. i also think i'd be more likely to let her try on a night when she empties her bladder right before bed. she hasn't done that yet. maybe we'll just try it for naptime right now...
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That's what we did. She balked when we told her that we were sorry, but she HAD to wear pull-ups to bed (she had accidents every single night and naptime), but she was pleased when we told her that she could put her big girl panties on over the diaper.
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Why not get those padded panties and a really awesome set of soaker shorts for bedtime. Then, the padding in the panties will catch some pee, and the wool shorts will keep the bed dry.
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That sounds like an EXCELLENT idea! Wish I'd thought of that! You may also be able to sew a few extra layers of absorbant fabric onto the training panties to help out.
Well, my 2 (soon to be 3) yr old just learned to use the potty this week. She has been almost exclusively in fbs and does not want to wear diapers to bed.
A variety of things have kept me from the store this week, so I've just been letting her wear panties to bed. Yes, she has wet. She has a plastic matress cover and so that helps.
Last night I bought her some disposable pull-ups. I think she will wear them without a problem. They look like undies and have a princess on them after all. However, last night she stayed dry. So I might wait till she wets the bed again to open the package
With my oldest, when he potty trained, I used to put a diaper on under his undies for nap and bed. He wet the bed till 5, so I was glad I had pull-ups. My older dd wet till almost 6, again I was grateful for pull-ups. My 2nd child did not wet the bed but once or twice after potty learning and we never bothered with pull-ups.
I have a way of presenting them as big kid night pants and that helps. I can be very convincing
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I think it was knowing that she was wearing a diaper that 'encouraged' her to potty in her sleep. After all she spend 3 yrs. in diapers wetting at night.The panties feel different.
Basically, I'd give the panties a shot. If she has accidents then go shopping for some new big girl night panties.
That sound like what was happening with Nora. If we put a diaper on her, she peed in it. No diaper, no pee. So at night, we put her in the padded training pants, with an Alexis cover on top. We called "nighttime underpants" and it worked great. She was newly 2 yrs when she potty learned.
Also, we were very careful at first to lead her to the potty the *second* she woke up. So she learned to hold the pee until she got to the potty chair.
Curran started seriously potty training on our vacation in June. He now wakes up from naps and most nights, dry. Often times I find myself in his room with him at night and he will wake up to go pee. It's like my first son all over again, THANK GOD!!! I needed something easy, LOL. My 6yo is just now starting to wake up with dry pullups. I don't know if he's dehydrated or subconciously dealing with the baby's success. He does not wake up to pee.
Honestly, I'd be really animated in saying how sad it would be to wake up cold and wet...that's it's yucky too! And that she would wear the nighttime undies until she could be dry at night. For some reason, tears and fits of refusals would in no way get me to go with the reasoning of my toddler, LOL. BUt I'm a harda$$ like that.
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Honestly, I'd be really animated in saying how sad it would be to wake up cold and wet...that's it's yucky too! And that she would wear the nighttime undies until she could be dry at night. For some reason, tears and fits of refusals would in no way get me to go with the reasoning of my toddler, LOL. BUt I'm a harda$$ like that.
ita w/ you. as i said in the other thread, willa 3 (who PL'd at 2) still pees at night. she is fine w/ the pull-ups, that we call "nighttime undies" & loves the pictures, etc... on them.
She balked when we told her that we were sorry, but she HAD to wear pull-ups to bed (she had accidents every single night and naptime), but she was pleased when we told her that she could put her big girl panties on over the diaper.
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