How long did you keep them in night dipes?

I kept Mason in night diapers for a long time. Just because I was afraid of an accident   Logan has been doing well w/ the PLing. Only had one accident today, when we got home from the store and he was tired and hungry and didn't want to try to go. Then he had another poop accident (seems when he realizes he has to poop it's NOW and not able to make it to the potty. lol) But he's been napping in trainers (under fleece pants) and waking up dry then using the potty a bit after he wakes up. He's usually dry in the mornings too. The issue is - it seems if he KNOWS that he'll make a mess he will go to the potty. If he knows there's a diaper on him, then he doesn't care. Like today and yesterday's pee accidents... he had a PUL cover over his trainer so I'm wondering if that didn't lead to his not caring to try to use the potty. He knew it wasn't going to go anywhere. In the morning, he doesn't want to try to go right away and I think it's cause he knows he has a diaper on! Should I just suck it up and try him sleeping in trainers and see what happens? I just really don't wanna change kid + bedding in the middle of the night. lol What did or would you do?

G was out of dipes @ 3yrs 1mo.  However, every time he falls asleep, his body has no ability to hold it.  That includes a random nap in the car .  Needless to say, he's still in night pull-ups.

D started waking up dry at around 3.5yrs.  He not only was dry while sleeping, but had the desire to hold it until he could get to the bathroom.  Since it was sporadic, I still had him wear pull-ups until he was nearly 4yo. 

For now, Logan would rather use his dipe than the toilet, but that isn't always going to be the case.  In your situation, I'd consider working hard to keep him using the bathroom when he's fully awake, and setting the rest of it aside temporarily.  Eventually they all know that poopy/wet pants is convenient in the short run, but pretty uncomfortable in the long run.

All my kids are still in some form of night diapers. DD1 and DS1 wear motherease bedwetter pants or underjams at night (cloth as long as it was washed, 55¢ each underjams for when I forget). We've only been using the bedwetter pants for a couple months but they seem more aware of it now. They want to stay dry and comfortable and they don't want to have to wear the goofy 'diapers' but they're not quite there yet. 

Good point, Christine. It might just be the new 'novelty' of potty learning that he's doing so great. Mason never had a night accident until this past summer when he was *SO* dead tired he was just peeing the bed, he wouldn't even wake up! He'd just get up in the morning and change his pants... and that's how I knew I neede to wash sheets. I think it was the summer exhaustion of playing all day plust the quadruple increase in fluid intake.  I don't remember the last time he wet the bed since summer (watch, now that I typed that...).

Savannah was in night diapers for about a whole year after she day trained and would soak something every night, then one day it stopped.  Spencer was in night trainers for a few months after he was day trained, but he was always dry in the morning.  The pull-ups would get shredded before they got wet.  On a really hot evening I told him that he could sleep in underwear if he'd use the bathroom before he went to bed.  I was really nervous but he's had hardly any accidents.  

My ODS has been fully daytime trained since right about 3, but is still in nighttime diapers. I plan to keep him in nighttime diapers until he's consistently dry in the mornings, like totally everyday. I've wondered if there's a better way to do it, but he's worn undies a couple times to bed, switched to undies in the middle of the night a couple of times and still wet the bed (sometimes), so we're sticking to the diapers in the foreseeable future. I just don't have the time or energy right now to be washing his bedding more frequently or changing it all at 3am. So for now I'm just waiting until he has it completely figured out on his own. He's never put up much of a fight about the diapers, or I might rethink that.  

Edited by jberrec - 03 Mar 2012 at 9:43am