so...we have started using the potty. she's doing great. wearing underwear ..aka 'big girl panties' and she's loving them. But...for her nap and at bedtime I have been putting a diaper on her. She wakes up wet from both.

I honestly don't have the ability to change wet sheets every morning or all night with a 4 month old too. Until she masters being dry..I need her to wear a diaper or the like.

What can I put her in? She cries when I put the diaper on her! :eyes:

we would just put the diaper on after he went to sleep just to avoid the battle. yeah!! for her doing so well!

hmmm...not sure if that would work or not. she'd have to be REALLY asleep...

There was just a thread about bedwetting that had some great ideas :) Your little girl I think is about my Lilly's age, maybe a bit younger I think. We still put a diaper on her for bed, but if your dd is upset about it, do you think maybe you could try some trainers? How much does she wet at night... is she really soaked? Maybe some side snapping trainers with some microfiber towels? One of the mamas talked about having something and calling them "nighttime underwear" and having someone sew some side snap trainers.

Let me see if I can find the thread... and you could just use what would be useful to you. A lot of it was about older children and wetting the bed but I seem to remember some good ideas that might work for your dd. Off to snoop for the link.

Nelle

panties over the diaper sometimes will be ok

ok, try this link... I so stink at posting links, lol, so I hope this works for you...

http://www.amitymama.com/vb/showthread.php?t=261054&goto=newpost

it was called TIRED of changing sheets everyday after "accidents" ~ WWYD?

HTH,
Nelle

There was just a thread about bedwetting that had some great ideas :) Your little girl I think is about my Lilly's age, maybe a bit younger I think. We still put a diaper on her for bed, but if your dd is upset about it, do you think maybe you could try some trainers? How much does she wet at night... is she really soaked? Maybe some side snapping trainers with some microfiber towels? One of the mamas talked about having something and calling them "nighttime underwear" and having someone sew some side snap trainers.

Let me see if I can find the thread... and you could just use what would be useful to you. A lot of it was about older children and wetting the bed but I seem to remember some good ideas that might work for your dd. Off to snoop for the link.

Nelle
she wets a lot at night...and actually a lot for her nap i think. she just turned 2 in may. i have some motherease trainers and i thought about using those with a microfiber towel in them..not sure if that would be irritating. i think the fact that she KNOWS they are her old 'nighttime diapers' makes it tricky. maybe if i just got some kind of new pull up diaper..hmm

panties over the diaper sometimes will be ok
i thought about this tonight...

has anyone tried the motherease or mother of eden different kinds of nightime bedwetter pants? they both looks like a good alternative.

panties over the diaper sometimes will be ok
This is what we did:) Of course we had to buy a pack of larger panties though. ALso Makenna didn't mind wear a Bumkins AIO to bed until just a few months ago.I have the prints and those were satisfying enough , I guess.

I just told my dd that the pull ups were her night time panties so she wouldn't get the sheets wet and she was satisfied with that...she is 2-1/2, but it worked from age 2 when she was using the potty fine during the day and she feels the wetness a little more than the diaper and has started waking sometimes at night to use the potty.

panties over the diaper sometimes will be ok


this is what I did with my kids and they were okay with it.

You know, I was paranoid about putting Linda--who is 19-months-old, mind you--to bed in only panties, since she would often wake up wet. But I decided to finally bite the bullet & do it. And she's peed the bed once. When she was a newborn, & when her sister was a newborn, I would sometimes put them down for naps nekkid so their bottoms could air dry. When I did that, I put them on a towel. Might be something for you to consider.

One thing to keep in mind is that, subconsciously, a lot of toddlers feel free to mess in diapers or training pants, whereas when they're in actual panties, they know they have to use the potty. Hindsight showed me that we extended Bobbie's potty training time by at least 2 or 3 months by being too paranoid to put her in panties when we went out, & using training pants instead. Linda is right now younger than her sister was when we did the bulk of her potty training, but she is moving along much more quickly because I'm willing to deal with the occasional mess of panties that she pees or poos in. :)

Ds went through the same thing. Since we used cloth diapers, for the most part, disposable pull-ups with characters and their underwear look were acceptable to him as "nighttime underwear". He was still co-sleeping at the time and I was not going to get peed on in my own bed (lol) so something had to be done. It wasn't very long before he was out of them. And they were also useful when we were going to be out of the house all day (especially if he was likely to fall asleep in the car).

Using pull-ups at night also helped transition him to his own bed. He wanted to sleep nakie and even though he woke up dry most of the time I had just gotten a featherbed and down comforter and wasn't willing to risk it in my bed. So I told him he could sleep nakie in his own bed. He's been in it (and nakie lol) ever since.

thanks for the input everyone...

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.

Good luck!

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.

Ok, I'll be the odd one out.lol

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.

Ok, I'll be the odd one out.lol

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...

panties over the diaper sometimes will be ok

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.

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 :)

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.

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.