{"id":421,"date":"2016-04-07T08:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T07:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T08:00:24","slug":"why-night-time-ec-pottying-works-using-nappies-diapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/blog\/why-night-time-ec-pottying-works-using-nappies-diapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Night Nappies and Night Pottying \/ ec Are A Great Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having slept with four ec&#8217;d babies, I&#8217;ve done my share of being wee&#8217;d on, and it taught me some basic truths about wet beds and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/nights\">night time potty training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the biggie:<\/p>\n<p><b>Night time nappy free is not like daytime nappy free.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During the day, wet pants mean something. They&#8217;re cold and uncomfortable. And if you have a child commando in fleece trousers they must feel horrible when they&#8217;re wet! With no pants at all, your toddler can look down and see the wee forming a puddle around their feet. Cause and effect. Perfect conditions for learning. <\/p>\n<p>But in bed, being wet is something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s warm, it&#8217;s comfortable, and there&#8217;s nothing to see. <\/p>\n<p>From personal experience, I can tell you that in body temperature bedding, body temperature wee feels neither hot nor cold. It&#8217;s invisible to your body&#8217;s sense of touch. Infeelable. And by the time it&#8217;s soaked into clothes or bedding so there&#8217;s no splashable puddle, it&#8217;s actually quite difficult to identify that everything is wet. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever woken with a soaked shirt for other reasons, this will make intuitive sense.<\/p>\n<p>For example, When I was breast feeding for England, I could wake up absolutely drenched in milk (<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000F474X2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B000F474X2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=borrea-21\">waterproof mattress protectors<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=borrea-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B000F474X2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> are great for that, btw). Yet it was <b>never<\/b> the wetness of my shirt that woke me up &#8211; that was always something I discovered once I was awake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve slept in heat waves and under ridiculously heavy duvets and woken soaked in sweat. The wetness of my shirt didn&#8217;t wake me then, either.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; I&#8217;ve been comfortably lying with a sleeping baby on my chest, under a blanket, and not been able to tell whether I&#8217;d been wee&#8217;d on or not. I was awake and I was suspicious &#8211; but I had to really put some effort into finding out. <\/p>\n<p>A baby (or toddler, or child) who is going to &#8216;learn&#8217; to be dry at night needs to respond to THE ACT of needing a wee or doing a wee. They can&#8217;t rely on the aftermath or their environment to program their brain.<\/p>\n<p>So if your child is going to wee without noticing you might as well use nappies and save yourself oodles of stress and washing.<\/p>\n<p>And yet! There <i>are<\/i> times when it makes perfect sense to take away nappies at night.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 10px;\"><i>Like baby pottying \/ ec? Like Born Ready on Facebook:<\/i> <\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" style=\"padding: 10px;\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bornreadypottying\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>When To Go Nappy Free At Night:<\/h3>\n<p><b>1) When you&#8217;re potty training.<\/b> Properly potty training. Going for the finish line and teaching your child to notice every single time their bladder sends a message. Here, being nappy free at night is ideal because it consolidates what&#8217;s going on in the daytime. You want the night brain to respond in the same way as the day brain, rather than learning to ignore that message at night.<\/p>\n<p>Bladder: <i>Come in Brain, Come in Brain, We have a situation.<\/i><br \/>\nBrain: <i>Hold on Bladder, let me check whether it&#8217;s safe&#8230; Yes, we have a nappy. I repeat, we have a nappy. Let loose. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>If that happens a few times, the brain will switch from high alert to its familiar autopilot:<\/p>\n<p>Bladder: <i>Come in Brain, Come in Brain, We&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\nBrain: <i>Never bother me again after 6pm. Empty at will.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For most children, when this happens they&#8217;re reverting to a lifelong ingrained subconscious habit, which it&#8217;s then very difficult to jolt them out of. <\/p>\n<p>Had your chance&#8230; missed it.<\/p>\n<p>[Old habits die hard, and some children trigger the old autopilot at night in certain circumstances.<br \/>\n &#8211; Some might wet wearing knickers, but be dry with a bare bum.<br \/>\n &#8211; Some will wet with a bare bum but be dry wearing knickers.<br \/>\n &#8211; Some will be dry for weeks, wear a disposable for 3 nights at Granny&#8217;s house and then wet the bed for three weeks straight.<br \/>\nWith practice the brain will replace the old autopilot response with a new one: WAKE UP! And at that point it won&#8217;t matter what they wear to bed.]<\/p>\n<p><b>2) When your child is dry virtually every night<\/b> &#8211; with a bit of help from you &#8211; and it would be more comfortable and convenient if you didn&#8217;t bother with a nappy.<\/p>\n<p>This is every ec-er&#8217;s dream scenario. Congratulations if it describes you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><b>Here&#8217;s when it&#8217;s fine to use a nappy at night&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>When To Use A Nappy At Night:<\/h3>\n<p><b>1) At all other times.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My experience of pottying through the night, from newborn babies to fully potty trained toddlers, is that, just like daytime pottying, it&#8217;s attitude that shapes your child&#8217;s reactions. <\/p>\n<p>If you respond to a child&#8217;s signals at night, you teach them that those signals are worth listening to.<\/p>\n<p>And that has nothing to do with what they&#8217;re wearing.<\/p>\n<h2>Bedwetting Alarms and Pre-emptive Parents<\/h2>\n<p>Do you know about bed wetting alarms? They&#8217;re one of the solutions offered to older children (age 5+) who are chronic bedwetters. They&#8217;re wired into the child&#8217;s pants and the instant they get wet a loud alarm goes off &#8211; waking the child up. The child&#8217;s brain learns to anticipate the alarm &#8211; just like Pavlov&#8217;s dogs &#8211; and soon the alarm is redundant. <\/p>\n<p>(This won&#8217;t work for all causes of bedwetting. If there&#8217;s no bladder-to-brain signal to detect: i.e, the bladder is spasming involuntarily, or being squashed by chronic constipation &#8211; the alarm isn&#8217;t going to help. However, if the signal is there, but is being ignored &#8211; they can work like a charm. An alarm charm&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>When a parent reacts to their child&#8217;s night time signals, they&#8217;re acting much like the alarm. Only better. Because the alarm goes off as the child starts to wee, whereas a parent can wake the child when they notice the signal <i>before the wee starts<\/i>. This is usually a shifting of position. <\/p>\n<p>This teaches the child that the bladder&#8217;s signal matters and it&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;m a huge fan of the pre-emptive wee. <\/p>\n<p><i>A well timed pre-empt teaches a child to respond to their bladder. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know &#8211; your health visitor told you not to lift your child because it will prevent them from becoming dry-through-the-night of their own accord. Let&#8217;s think about that for a minute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, wetting a nappy at night is <b>not<\/b> a pre-requisite for night time dryness. However, what they&#8217;re saying does stem from research into how the bladder works. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably read about the hormone ADH (Anti-diuretic hormone \/ Vasopressin) that regulates how your body deals with water in the blood. More ADH = more reabsorption of water in the kidneys = more concentrated urine = less liquid in the bladder.<\/p>\n<p>As the bladder fills at night, it triggers a surge of this hormone to slow down urine production. &#8220;Can we get through the night without overflowing? Let&#8217;s give it a go&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lifting isn&#8217;t &#8216;recommended&#8217; because if you help a child to empty their bladder before the hormone is triggered, the body doesn&#8217;t &#8216;learn&#8217; to slow urine production at night, and the child isn&#8217;t able to go a full 12 hours without needing to wee.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, the hormone has to be triggered <i>well before<\/i> the bladder is full to capacity because urine production doesn&#8217;t stop altogether, it only slows down. Once the bladder is full to the brim, it&#8217;s going to empty involuntarily regardless of hormone concentrations &#8211; and by then the time for homeostatic &#8216;learning&#8217; has passed. Whether that bladder empties into a potty or a nappy makes no odds to regulation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when a well timed pre-emptive offer can actually help your child to gain bladder control at night.<\/p>\n<p>If you see your toddler signal in their sleep, and you know they&#8217;re going to wee in the next few minutes (because they always do) you can teach them to <i>respond to that signal<\/i> by helping them use the potty.<\/p>\n<p>Days, months, or years down the line, hormone regulation should take over (or their routines will change) and they won&#8217;t be holding 210ml of wee at 9:30pm. Then, maybe they&#8217;ll make it through the night without needing to wee. But until then, it&#8217;s really <i>really<\/i> useful to have taught them to respond to a full bladder by waking up rather than rolling over.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Pre-empts Worked Out So-Very-Well For Me<\/h2>\n<p>My kids woke in the late evening to wee for years. From about 15 months, when they&#8217;d call for me, to age 3 when I&#8217;d nip upstairs to be on standby when I heard them trot across the landing, to age 6 when they could come down from the top bunk, go to the toilet and get back up again without having any memory of it at all.<\/p>\n<p>If we had been waiting for them to be &#8216;dry through the night&#8217; thanks to the hormone alone &#8211; I would have a 7 year old in nappies! Yep, she would have been wearing nappies <b>more than 5 years longer<\/b> than she did.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>For all my four children, that evening pre-empt was always the biggest wee of the day. By a <b>long<\/b> way. It could be <b>three times<\/b> the volume of normal daytime wee.<\/i>  With that much urine in the bladder at 10pm there was no way they were going to make it until morning. Especially when they were breast feeding multiple times a night.<\/p>\n<h2>So What Do Nappies Have To Do With It?<\/h2>\n<p>Well, not much actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you teach your baby to respond to a full bladder using an evening pre-empt, it will make no difference whether they&#8217;re in a nappy or not. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re not checking what they&#8217;re wearing when they process a signal from the bladder. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re practicing waking up instead.<\/p>\n<p>Bladder: <i>Come in Brain, Come in Brain, We have a situation.<\/i><br \/>\nBrain: <i>Sound the mummy alarm!<\/i><br \/>\nVoice: <b>MUMMY! MUMMY!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>See?<\/p>\n<h2>In Summary: It&#8217;s Fine To Use Both Nappies And A Potty At Night<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve washed a lot of sheets. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve washed puddle pads and muslins. I&#8217;ve washed pillowcases stuffed with terry nappies and wool blankets. I&#8217;ve washed duvet covers and waterproof sheets. <\/p>\n<p>And do you know what&#8217;s much easier to wash than any of those things? <\/p>\n<p>A nappy. <\/p>\n<p>I could be just as vigilant and have far less clearing up by using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/flaparaps\">Flaparaps<\/a> all night than going full on nappy free, so frankly I wouldn&#8217;t recommend anything else \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Having said that&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>If you have a baby who doesn&#8217;t move all night and manages not to wet the blanket when they wee, than nakedness and a waterproof sheet (<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000F474X2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B000F474X2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=borrea-21\">cotton covered pul<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=borrea-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B000F474X2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/LittleBunnyBear\">lanolised wool<\/a>) might work wonderfully! <\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re sick of having duvets hanging over your doors, either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/flaparaps\">invest in Flaparaps<\/a> or use whatever nappy you have to hand.<\/p>\n<p>No-one needs to add &#8216;deal with wet bed&#8217; to their baby&#8217;s morning routine.<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signature_blue_150.png\" alt=\"signature_blue_150\" width=\"149\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornready.uk\/nights\">The Born Ready Quick-Start Guide to Night time Pottying<\/a> to get started \/ decide whether night time ec is right for you.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 10px;\"><i>Like baby pottying \/ ec? 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