Pull Ups or Easy Ups? - Jeannette,PA

We use cloth diapers like Happy Heiny or Fuzzi Bunz both are pocket style diapers which means they have a pocket that you can stuff with inserts to absorb the pee. The more inserts the more it absorbs. I have never had a night time leak in a cloth diaper.

Yes you have to wash them but you also don't have to buy any more after the first set!

We like the Good Nights too - very absorbent and no leaks overnight. We also have used a waterproof pad over the top of the sheets when transitioning to underwear overnight since it makes cleaning the bed so much easier (just pull that layer and the blanket off if wet and put the child back to bed).

I agree with those who have said nighttime dryness can take a while, and for most kids it is just that their bodies are not ready to stay dry that long at night and/or they are very deep sleepers. All three of my kids had different experiences with day and night dryness. The first was dry at night about 6-8 months after daytime dryness, and the third did them both almost simultaneously. The middle one took a few years after daytime dryness to stay dry at night, but all were within "normal." Just don't make a big deal of it and it will come eventually.

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What's the point of giving a reward for staying dry at night if the child has no conscious bladder control while they sleep? I continue to assert that there is no point of making night wetting an issue. Use pull-ups or diapers as long as you feel the need, don't make a big deal when they wet themselves at night, and just accept that it could be a long time before you have no more wet nights. No point discussing, rewarding, etc., if we believe they have no control over it. And that is what I believe. I wet the bed into my early elementary years (didn't have the luxury of the big kid pull-ups to save the humiliation, nor was it widely accepted at that time that this could be "normal"), so I can speak from experience. It wouldn't have mattered if you gave me $100 bill every time I stayed dry through the night. I had no control over the times I wet the bed.

I apologize for the soapbox, I know you just asked a simple question about which type of pull-up or diaper works best at night, and this got way off track.

OK, ONE LAST THING...
The reason we use pull-ups at night vs. diapers, is that my son can and does put them on and off himself. He dresses himself after his nighttime bath, puts his pull-up on, and will pull it down to pee before he goes to bed. Although the idea behind pull-ups is for training purposes, and we aren't "training" through the night, they still provide a greater sense of independence. Pull-ups certainly do more closely resemble underpants. If my son were in a diaper, I would have to put it on him, take it off if he needed to pee, etc. I don't think that at age 3 or 4 he would have liked being treated more like a baby wearing a diaper. There is a small element of being treated like the growing boy he is, not like a baby. He still feels like a big boy in his pull up because he is in control of it, just like his underwear during the day.

OK - I swear I'm done.
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I have to respectfully disagree with the idea that you should wake yourself up in the middle of the night to wake your son up in the middle of the night, if he is otherwise sleeping well. As most of the posters seem to agree, nighttime dryness is probably a way off yet for your son, so why make an issue of it and wake him up?

We used the nighttime Huggies Pull-Ups, but honestly, I don't see an awful lot of difference between those and the regular Pull-Ups. Our experience has been that on occasion, THEY ALL LEAK. It depends on the position they're lying in when they pee, how much the pull-up may have moved or slid down a little during sleep, etc. We recently decided to try Target brand pull-ups (didn't realize they made them until recently), and they seem to do as good a job as any others, and they are cheaper. Plus my son loves the robot and dog on the front of them. :) I'd say to get the water proof mattress cover (but you probably already have one), and just keep with whatever pull-up makes you happy. Like I said, I think they all do about the same job, give or take a little.

Use a reg. diaper at night until he is 4. Make yourself get up in
the middle of the night to take him to the bathroom, this helps alot.
Don't get mad at him, this is out of his control. He is too little to be expected to do what a 5 year old is suppost to be doing. Give him time, he is fine and normal.
I have three kids, each one is completely different in so many ways.

I wish you the best and goodluck.

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I agree with the (unasked) aspect of your post that he IS too young to make it through the night dry yet.
He's obviously not getting up and going at night (ease of pulling up and down) so why not just stick with an overnight diaper?
If you're set on the "undies" style, a few things to think about/try:
Make sure his weenie is pointing DOWNWARD in the diaper/pants.
Limit liquids more than O. hour before bedtime.
Try a maxi pad in his diaper to absorb more pee.
Use a waterproof pad under his bum in bed to make clean up easier on you.
I have heard (not tried) that putting the diaper on backwards might help absorb more, but I don't see why that would work...
There are things called "diaper doublers" that are used mainly with cloth diapers..you could probably use with a disposable as well. Good luck!

Good luck!

Night time dryness.... takes even up until 7 years old to attain. Per our Pediatrician. Boys are often later.
He is too young, to expected to be dry all night.
Many many kids, even lots older than that, still wear diapers at night. Even if completely potty trained.
Kindergerten kids as well.

I would also recommend using a waterproof bed pad under him. To make clean up easier. I have like 4 of them, that I change out and wash when needed, if my kids have accidents. Its fine.
You can get them from Amazon. They have all kinds of waterproof bed pads.

As the other responder said =) , I would just use regular night time diapers at night.... because it is just more practical. And he is so young....
My daughter is 7 years old.... and she wore a night time diaper until about 5 years old. AND even at her age now.... she may have an occasional accident now and then. Its normal. Per our Pediatrician.
My son is 3 years old, and is wet at night too. I wake during the night, and change him once. And I also check him during the night anyway if I have to wake to go pee myself.

All the best,
Susan

My son is also a very heavy nighttime sleeper and will not wake up to pee. At 3 1/2, I don't know when we'll be ready for undies at night! We use the Nighttime Pull Ups. My son rarely wets through them (he thinks he's had an "accident" if he does--so sad!), but he can easily take them off by himself and get dressed in the morning. I find this an advantage over regular diapers.

I recommend patience and overnight diapers. If he's not feeling it when he goes overnight, it's not his fault, and no matter what you put on him, he'll still go. Give him time. If you're really concerned and feel that he ought to be night-potty-trained already, talk with his pediatrician about it.

NEITHER! My son seemed like he was never noticing when he was wet at night! It was the pull ups. Granted, we used cloth diapers throughout his diapering days, but as soon as I changed to the reusable pull ups, he was night time potty trained within a few months. They are called bummi's training pants, cost about 11 each and at first, I put an absorbent underpants under but he knew when he was wet in the morning! The key though it seems with boys is to take them to the potty before bed, then take them AGAIN right before YOU go to bed. Leave the lights off in the bathroom and hall etc and carry him in there, help him to stand, then put him back in bed. Most kids will sleep through the whole thing! It will help him to make it all night. Eventually, he won't even need this. With the cloth training pants, just turn them inside out and wash them with your normal laundry as if he had an "accident", just make sure you use TIDE or any detergent that does not list optical brighteners as an ingredient as they cause the pants to loose the water retentive nature then hang to dry if you can (I dry them though with no apparent harm). I got away with 2 pairs but at first was washing one every day. Good luck!

we use the Goodnights nightime pullup diapers meant for bigger kids - the storebrand/generics work just as well too

We are in the process of potty training now, so I am no expert, but I'll tell you what I intend to do with nighttime. I plan to just keep using diapers. The whole point of pullups is the training aspect, but while he is sleeping he can't really feel that he is wet and get up. He sleeps right through it. So just go back to diapers at night. I don't think this will be setting him back or anything, he doesn't even feel it. They are more expensive and don't hold as much. I am not even going to attempt nighttime potty training until mine wakes up consistently dry. Whenever that might be. If mine truns 4 or 5 and is still waking up wet, then I might try to wake him up and take him, but not until then. I am still trying to get mine to sleep through the night. No way am I going to set back the progress we have made in that area by waking him up when he obviously isn't ready.

It can take a short time or a very long time before night time training comes after a child has been trained during the day. A child has no control over their bladder while they're sleeping. It's about when the bladder matures and becomes strong enough to hold urine for 10-12 hours straight during sleeping hours.

If your son is trained during the day, and is showing no signs of being dry at night, I would save the money and keep using diapers at night. Using Pull Ups aren't going to encourage a child to stay dry at night. Once you start seeing him less wet or having a dry night once in a while, then I'd transition over to a Pull Up. I would reuse the Pull Ups as well for 2 or 3 nights if they're dry. For every night he's dry give him a Skittle or M&M as a reward.

I would also choose Pull Up brand over any other because they can easily be opened and reclosed, they run larger and seems to soak up better than the other brands.

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I use Goodnights for my four year old. I had the same problem. When I switched to the Goodnights, I didn't have anymore problems with him peeing through.

Use overnight diapers or the "overnights" made for bigger kids (if you can find them in an appropriate size). My son was a heavy wetter at night as well.

For when I did use them, I used the ones I could undo on the sides. Important if you are out & about to slip one off & put another back on without having to take off all their clothes. For night time, I hasd mine go before bed at 8:00pm then i would wake them at 10pm & have them go before I went to bed, then i would get them up again at 1:00am then they would make it dry till 6am. They eventually asked me not to wake them that they would go on their own & they did. I still would get them up at 10 & eventually we began to not need it either as they got up on their own to do it. Both mine were fully trained 2-3 months before 3rd birthday. They are almost 4&5 now & I can't remember they last accident, probably almost a year ago. Best of luck.

Pull Ups has a "Nighttime" type of pull ups. I had the same exact problem and tried these nighttime ones and they work. Changing bedding everday is exhasting!

Hi D. what I found that works for my 3 year old is the pull ups from wal- mart the white cloud brand they work great at night for my little one.

I use the Good Nights pull-ups. They are made to be more absorbant for overnight. As for simply 'going' overnight in general... some children wet the bed up until they are 7-years-old... so that part might take a while to stop.

We were fortunate that our 3 year old got the overnight thing quickly. He had to sleep with one of his sister's diapers on the other night because he would not go before he went to bed. He woke-up dry.

Honestly, I didn't care for either, but we do have some Pull-ups in case he has an accident. Since they don't really hold liquids well, have you considered that you may need to keep him in a diaper at night to make your life easier?

Boys have such different physiologies than girls and poorer recognition of when they need to go. My guess is that he's a really good sleeper and doesn't have the recognition in the middle of the night that his bladder is full.

We have a few sets of friends that still have to use Pull-ups in their 1st graders because it's been a persistent problem.

Good luck!

we had the same problem!!! We use Good Nights and they are so much better!!! Good Luck!