My 3 yr. old son is potty trained during the day but has occasional accidents at night. His pull up is only slightly wet - I guess he holds his bladder for the most part but I am afraid to fully take away the pull ups b/c I don't want to be washing bed linens everyday (he is not totally night trained and I don't think he is ready to be yet). I hate wasting money every month on pull ups. Is there an alternative? ie. some sort of cloth diaper that is absorbent and can be reused? Thank you
There is no such thing as "night training"! They're dry all night when they are physiologically ready. Not until.
You could try layering waterproof pad/sheet/waterproof pad/sheet to make the changes easier & faster.
IF the Pull Up is completely dry in the morning--you could re-use it the next night, right?
What about something like these...
http://www.kellyscloset.com/Potty-Training_c_944.html
I happened upon these yesterday and wished I had known about them when my son was little. Luckily he was out of diapers pretty young, but I hated putting a pull-up on my son every night (we used cloth diapers, but stopped the service when he was daytrained) when he was waking up dry most nights. What a waste!
Hope one of these works for you.
T.
I used a pocket type cloth diaper with my daughter (Fuzzi Bunz, Bum Genius are two types). It worked great, but there is an up front cost to it and you have to stay on top of the laundry. We also used nighttime Huggies.
You can also try the "sheet layering method"... put all the sheets on the bed separated by a waterproof pad or a "plastic" sheet. Then, if he has an accident, you just peel off the top layers and voila, clean sheet.
Good luck.
POTTY SCOTTY (for boys) We used Potty Patty and I LOVED THEM! The inside gets wet enough that the kids don't like it and learn to get up and go. BUT they hold so we don't have to change the bed! I never had to change the linens when she had an accident. We'd have to change her potty patty and rarely her pjs but that's it. Just throw them in the wash in the morning.
I bought mine on Ebay but here's a link for them on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Potty-Scotty-Waterproof-Training-Pa...
Good luck!!
gerber training pants are pretty absorbant.. I can only find size 2 and size 3.. usually at target or walmart.. they are thick .. and should work.
If you can find diaper doublers you can put them inside snug fitting under shorts. They're similar to sanitary pads without the adhesive. I've found them every once in awhile in the diaper section of stores. The last ones were at Babies R Us.
When his pull ups are dry or only very slightly damp you can use them over again.
Daytime pottying and night time dryness... is NOT the same thing.
It is 2 different, processes.
Night time dryness, is a PHYSIOLOGICAL, occurrence.
And it can take even until 7 years old, for it to develop.
It is about the body's organ development/brain connections/myelin nerve sheath development, etc.
You cannot speed up, organ development.
At night, per both my kids, I used Huggies night time diapers. NOT pull-ups. Pull ups leak and don't hold much unless you get night time versions of it.
AND I have, 4 waterproof bed pads, to rotate and put under my kids at night. Then the sheets do not get soiled. I got them from Amazon.
IF my kids had an accident at night. So what. I just changed out the bed pad, put a new one under them, they changed their pajamas and went back to bed. No biggie.
You NEED to get, some waterproof bed pads.
Your son is young. My son is 5 and still wet at night.
My daughter was too at 5 years old and even at 7 years old, she had night time accidents.
Normal.
You are not wasting money on pull ups. His body and organs, physiologically, are not developed yet at the stage, to be dry at night.
For my son, even at night, his diaper can be soaked. I change him 1 time a night... to prevent an over loaded diaper. And sure, he has a waterproof bed pad, directly under him.
ALL kids, have accidents. Day time or night time. It is childhood.
Of all ages.
EVEN all of my daughter's Preschool/Kindergarten and 1st Grade Teachers, all said the same thing.
My kids.... NEVER EVER, got "confused" about wearing a night diaper at night, versus underwear at day. Because... I simply EXPLAINED to them, about their body and its development. And it never ever, made them relapse or backtrack or regress in their pottying per daytime.
Hello,
We used these for our daughter and absolutely loved them. She really felt like a big girl in them, too.
http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId...
I agree with another post where a mom recommended the training pants from onestepahead.com Those trainers are very much more like "big boy undies" and I think with my son it helped when he didn't feel like he had a diaper on. Also, we used their mattress pads which were perfect for us, we placed it over my son's sheets so if he did have an accident it was fairly easy to just switch out the mattress pad:
http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId...
Potty training is never easy, potty training with boys for nighttime can seem like it takes forever..but he'll get there! Good luck!
Thanks leelee i am so going to order those. I was going to suggest gerber Terry cloth underpants. I use them but if mine wets to much they will go through clothes
I put a plastic cover on her mattress and towels under the sheet. Accidents happen but I believe that putting them back in diapers at night just confuses them and slows the training process.
