Logistics of night toilet training

[Lenny]

We bought Brolly sheets, but this was partly because DS1 has asthma and at night he'd often cough so hard that he'd vomit. Brolly sheets worked well. (We have another fitted mattress protector under the fitted sheet too.) They absorb well, and although they don't dry super easily - neither does our other full mattress protector. DS1 sleeps on his tummy so the wee goes down. Ds2 sleeps on his back like a starfish, so he has wet the top sheet too My flat sheets are never tucked in anyway - so it was easy enough to take it off and throw another one on. We've never had a wet doona - yet.

[LuluHB]

Nothing here too. Both girls were quite late with TTing, and after a few days of not having accidents during the day they each said they wanted knickers over night. Touch wood, DD1 has never wet the bed to this day. DD2 never wet the bed until a month or two before DD3 was due and she started having a few accidents, which thankfully have stopped now. The brolly sheets wouldn't have worked for us, but that's because of the way she sleeps - twisted and wrapped in her top sheet and doona. The times she has wet the bed have resulted in EVERYTHING needing to be washed.

[Three Graces]

I think I'm getting a bit demoralised reading all of the prior posts. DS is 4.5 and we started toilet training (day) just before he turned 3. However, the novelty soon wore off and he had accidents for about a year. OMG - the number of times he would delay b/c he was busy playing etc and he would refuse when we prompted him. He still wears pull ups at night and they have been sopping wet most mornings until recently. We tried a conni sheet (like a brolly sheet) for awhile before we had DD in May this year. We had about 30% success rate, but the other 70% he'd sleep through and was saturated. Obviously not ready and I couldn't manage washing the extra sheets when we had a newborn, so back into pull ups. Recently,he's been waking up at night to go wee and then being dry in the morning. We're going to see if he can transfer to undies again and we'll see how he goes. I'm really hoping he stays dry, as having 3 in some form of nappies for years is really $$$. Is it just a boy thing taking this long??

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

Is it just a boy thing taking this long??

don't be disheartened my 3.5yr old DD is not night dry - i've tried many of the suggestions (no drinks late, toilet before bed etc) and she still wets. so we went back into Dry Nights (Pull ups) because i just couldn't deal with all the washing because she is a wrap yourself up in doona etc kind of sleeper so everything had to be changed....

I've just resigned myself to let it go and hope she eventually "gets it"