Realised I have never done an update on Pottygate, the attempt to get Olivia dry at night. Well, out of 9 days we managed one dry night and that was with me getting her up twice. The rest of the time seemed to mainly involved a LOT of laundry.
I started giving her last milk (she only drinks milk or water so she has quite a lot during the day) at about 4.30 and got her to go on the potty at 7 before she got in bed. Think she must be like some sort of camel, storing milk in her legs or something as she still manages to produce a HUGE amount of urine over night! The problem is that she is a REALLY heavy sleeper and will copiously wet the bed and be soaked through to the skin and be happily fast asleep throughout. It was only because I was going in and checking her that I realised she was wet as she wasn't waiting up in distress or anything 'cause she wasn't waking up at all! There was also a very narrow window of opportunity to catch her before she wet as she wouldn't go if you got her up before 10.30 but yet was wet by 11pm. Even if you managed to catch her dry in this slot the chances were that she would be wet by about 5am anyway.
Have decided that she probably isn't ready just yet so we are giving it a break and will try again in a little while and for now she is back in pull ups at night.
we tried this a few times and ended up giving up. We fianlly tried again last week after several weeks of dry pull ups over night.
ReplyDeleteGive yourself and your washing machine a rest and try again in a few weeks.