Leave diapers at night

When to leave the diaper?

At around 2 years of age, children are able to start controlling their sphincters and order the potty when they need it. At that moment a phase begins that will last several months until they are able to go during the day without a diaper Como desfraldar a noite.

Normally, around 3 years, they have completely controlled this first phase. However, leaving diapers at night is much more difficult because when they fall asleep they are unable to realize if they feel like peeing or not.

How to know, therefore, if you are already prepared to completely abandon diapers? There are several indications:

- If you always ask to go to the bathroom and never pee on. You may even go alone and not need more than your supervision.

- If you wake up three weeks in a row with a dry diaper.

- If he asks you to stop using it at night because he wants to "be older".

Tricks not to wet the bed

- Your son is already old enough to understand what is expected of him. So explain to her that you're going to try to sleep without a diaper. Ask him if he agrees with the change. If you do not want or are afraid of it, leave it for a little later.

- The first weeks you will have to put on some diaper panties, which are not like baby diapers but they prevent you from getting wet if you pee on them. It is better to make the transition gradually.

- Do not give a lot of fluids in the hour before going to bed, this will decrease the chances of having to urinate at night. Nor very salty foods, since you will want to drink water.

- You must go to the bathroom just before going to bed.

- Every day he wakes up dry, praise him for the achievement and gives him a big hug.

- If the days go by and you continue to pee on, patience. Do not chastise or scold him, there is nothing he can do to control him, his mind and body must be prepared.

It is important that you see him confident and do not press him. Keep in mind that it will be a process that will last for months, and that it is likely that more than one night you will pee on. Up to 5 years it is normal for this to happen, so patience, that in the end everything is achieved.