[ammiga]

Here's the scoop with my 16-month old dd:

We've been ecing since 8 months. She does all poops on the toilet, and has 0-4 wet diapers, depending on the day. I just got her panties to reward pottying on the toilet.

The last few weeks dd has been holding her pee 2-10 hours at a time. When she holds it for an extended time, she has huge and powerful pees on the toilet.

I nurse dd to sleep at night, then she wakes about 2-3 hours later with a wet diaper. Then we co-sleep, she nurses on and off through the night, and wakes 7-9 hours later with a dry diaper. The dry diaper has happened every morning for the last two weeks.

The problem is, the when she wets her first diaper, she is wetting through it. The diaper can't absorb as quickly and forcefully as she pees. The back of her diaper is still dry, dd wakes screaming with her front soaked in fresh hot pee. Is this a normal problem? How do I fix this? She's doing so well, but this first few hours of sleep is baffling me!

We take her to the bathroom just before nursing to sleep... sometimes she pees, sometimes not. But she also takes her bath after that, and if she's like many kids, she's probably peeing in there

I don't know if this matters, but she also nurses to sleep for naps, sleeps 2 hours, and wakes dry.

 

[sapphire_chan]

My guess is that she's being awoken from her nap by her need to pee, but at night she's getting more deeply asleep before she has to pee so it doesn't wake her up. And instead she's awoken by the wetness.

I'd try setting an hour and 45 minute timer after nursing her to bed and getting her up to use the toilet. Try seeing if you can do an in-arms position over the toilet or sink so she doesn't have to be fully awake.

BTW, I am sooo jealous of you having a LO who pees at a consistent time each night.

 

[hrsmom]

We had this for a little while. I started using a wool cover and the peeing through the diaper stopped. Everything else leaked. It's been awhile, though, and we haven't had that for some time. That's the only thing I can think of at the moment!

 

[tbmum]

Ahh,
my little Jett is like this: he wakes if he wets and I was too sleepy to rouse before him in the way that often happens with sleep sharing.

He HATES being wet and complains terribly! He has actually crawled off the side of the bed to wee, at 7 months!

My son Maven would very reliably wee at 9pm every night. I could go into our room at that time and he would be wriggling, so I'd give him a quick sleepy wee and he'd pass out again.

I think sapphire_chan has it sussed too!

What to do? Try to pre-empt the first sleepy wee. It sounds like she is in that lovely (

) stage of transitioning (2-10 hours dry) where it is tricky to find a perfect solution!

Could you try a Waterproof Mat of some sort that you could switch out? My Jett is sleeping on a sheepskin atm. I have a flat with some terry towelling (PJ fabric? Can't recall the name atm) on top. He lays on that or I have it draped between his legs.

Draped between his legs I can switch it out if he wets it with minimal disturbance. Perhaps try that a few days?

Generally we've been doing great lately with a bunch of dry nights - just when I was thinking it wasn't gonna happen with his brace on at nights. meaning, things may change again next week.

Often, writing your concerns down just when you are at your wit's end for ideas elicits a breakthrough for some reason - so I have found. Perhaps it clarifies the situation, perhaps it shifts our 'energy' about the issue, which our babes pick up on?

How's she going this week?

Charndra

 

[ammiga]

Thanks for the suggestions (and checking in on us)!

Dd was dry the last few nights when she woke after 2-3 hours of sleep, so we would take her to the potty. She is such a grump at that time

She cries and screams and wants nothing to do with the toilet. But we bribe her with fun toys (and the dog), so she sits and finally peed! Then she would sleep for the next 8-ish hours and had dry diapers when she woke.

I know that waking her and getting her to the toilet would be the best for EC, but she really is awful at that time on the toilet. Should we wake her if she doesn't wake herself? I'm pretty sure this won't last with her waking herself up dry, so I'd love to know what to do next!

Is it weird that she will hold her pee for 8 hours during the second stretch of the night, but not for 3 hours during the first?

 

[sapphire_chan]

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Originally Posted by ammiga Thanks for the suggestions (and checking in on us)! Dd was dry the last few nights when she woke after 2-3 hours of sleep, so we would take her to the potty. She is such a grump at that time She cries and screams and wants nothing to do with the toilet. But we bribe her with fun toys (and the dog), so she sits and finally peed! Then she would sleep for the next 8-ish hours and had dry diapers when she woke. I know that waking her and getting her to the toilet would be the best for EC, but she really is awful at that time on the toilet. Should we wake her if she doesn't wake herself? I'm pretty sure this won't last with her waking herself up dry, so I'd love to know what to do next! Is it weird that she will hold her pee for 8 hours during the second stretch of the night, but not for 3 hours during the first?

Lina often takes a nap at the very end of the day. So it *seems* like she's going to bed at 7, e.g., but then she wakes up at 9 and is up for an hour.

Then, during her daytime naps sometimes she'll stir just a little bit, just make a face in her sleep one tiny whine if that, and then settle right back to sleep--only she's soaking wet.

So what's going on with your dd might be a combination of those things.

Maybe part of the grumpiness could be the discomfort of needing to pee.

And

that the family pet is the ultimate baby bribe, Lina

: the cats.