Potty-learning and co-sleeping

[quiltpucks]

Not sure if this is the right forum for this - if not, please move it. I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but I need some help. :)

My dd will be three on Halloween. She doesn't wear diapers at all during the day. But because she is still co-sleeping, we put a diaper on her at night - a cloth diaper, not a pull-up. Most mornings she wakes up dry, but there is the occasional morning when she's got a wet diaper.

So, I'm wondering what other co-sleepers do in this type of situation. Do you continue to use a diaper until it is perfectly clear that they are not going to wake up wet? Or do you just go for broke, put them in big kid pants, and hope that you don't have to change the sheets in the middle of the night?

TIA :)

[Ruthla]

I personally stuck with diapers at night until the child was old enough to be really vocal about wanting undies at night. It can be hard to put them back in dipes at night after being allowed to sleep in undies.

With my oldest, I used to give her a choice between sleeping in her bed in panties or wearing a pull-up and sleeping in mine. Occasionally, she'd wet her own bed, and then i'd change her and she'd join me (there wasn't any risk of this particular child wetting twice in one night.)

My middle child didn't train until she was close to 4yo, and there really weren't any issues with nighttime wetting once she was ready for undies- though I do beleive I kept her in pullups at night for a while after she trained.

Ds was dry at night for a while before consistently using the potty- the only issue with him was getting him to the potty before he had an accident in the morning, not him wetting during sleep. I'd even set up the perfect nighttime "bedwetter" system for him, that we never needed to use- fitted diapers and padded underwear as "nighttime undies" with wool or fleece "pajama pants" that doubled as diaper covers.