Potty Training in Cloth Diapers?

Cloth at night would save you from buying diapers ;) I use cloth at night almost exclusively. I like the thirsties fab fitted with a couple of hemp liners. Trainers aren't going to help at night. You'll just end up with a bigger mess because they aren't designed to hold as much as a diaper. I never equated diapers with being a baby so my son never had problems using a diaper at night for bed protection, as we called it, even when he was 4 and fully day trained.

You absolutely can not work on night training. It's a matter of when their body is ready and for the vast majority of kids that is around age 5 and up to 6 is normal. It's a physical and neurological development. The body has to be able to either hold the urine all night or wake up to go and there is no way to make that go faster.

NIght-time 'dryness' and nap dryness... is not something that is attained... BIOLOGICALLY... until even 7 years old. Normal.

Night time dryness... is entirely DIFFERENT from day time toileting.
NOT on the same time line.

Just get a waterproof bed pad.... and put it directly under him... to make clean up easier, for you.
I have like 4 of them, that I got from Amazon.
I used that for my kids. My kids are 4 and 8. And I still use it under them.

Night-time diapers... can and are still to be used at this age.
My son is 4.... still wet at night and naps... still leaks, but I change him one time during the night, to prevent an overloaded diaper and leaking. My son sleeps for like 11 hours at night... and that is a LONG time, to be in 1 diaper all night.... it will get overloaded. Then leak.

Just use diapers at night.
I use Huggies.
Its fine.

My daughter, was in diapers at night... even when she was 5 years old.
She is now 8... but even at 7 years old... she still had pee accidents at night. Normal.

Night time bladder control... is biological based on the body's biological maturity.... not the child.... doing it on purpose.

For daytime, I used for both my kids, the "Potty Scotty" padded underwear. It is great.
Also, in the initial stages of potty 'training'.... it was when my kids exhibited readiness. THEN, I used a potty chair and kept it nearby them wherever they were. And I just kept them naked on the bottom.

all the best,
Susan

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I used the Tinkle Time Trainers on my ODS when he potty trained. We used them while out of the house, and underwear at home. At night, he just wore a regular cloth diaper (Flip with a stay dry insert (http://www.momsmilkboutique.com/FLIP_158_cat.html). When he wore disposable pullups, he thought they were diapers and peed in them. But with the cloth trainers, I told him they were underwear and not to pee in them (which he never did:). Also, he was on/off potty training for a year. If he started having a lot of accidents, I backed off for awhile before trying again. It wasn't until he turned 3 and I played the "big boy" card that it finally stuck.

WIth cloth diapers you can adjust the absorbancy he needs at night (more inserts for heavy wetters, less for light wetters or "just in case"). They're also much cheaper than buying disposable pull ups and diapers all the time.

Let me know if you have any other questions:)

You have gotten plenty of good advice, and I agree that you need to cut out most of the night time drinks so he won't have to go potty so much during the night.

I have a cloth diaper web-store and this question comes up often. You may want to use a good training diaper with a hemp doubler or insert. Also try cutting off all beverages 2 hours before bedtime. Although I do know that- especially for boys- night time training can take even up to a year longer than day time! He may just not be ready.

Becky

Very smart to avoid those pull ups! Smart financially on many fronts, smart environmentally, as well. I tried to keep them in a super absorbent cloth dipe at night. Then as they were more consistently drier, I switched to a cloth trainer.

First focus on day training. Then you can focus on night. I would keep him in a dipe so long as he's wetting as much as you say.