Reasons for decline in wet nappies
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Topic: Reasons for decline in wet nappies
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Subject: Reasons for decline in wet nappies
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 1:28pm
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Last week the teachers at creche pointed out that Han had barely had any wet nappies the whole day. I had noticed too that there were heaps fewer than normal.
She didn't seem sick (was her usual rowdy self) and it didn't hurt at all when she did do wees. She wasn't dry the WHOLE day, but definitely a significant amount. She seems to be wetting the normal amount after the weekend (like yesterday she was leaking up a storm. YAY.) Has anyone noticed their toddler doing anything like this? Could it be the start of bladder control? (She's been using the toilet more and more lately - but not yesterday when she was her wettest) or related to teething? or can an infection be present without pain when wetting? Not a major problem at present... but just would like to know some possible answers. Cheers! 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 1:45pm
| Im guessing here but it could be bladder control. I know Kobe doesnt seem to wet as much now that he is undies boy. He doesnt even wet at nap times and has had two nights where he hasnt peed in his nighttime nappy which is unusual for him cos most nights he wets the bed and everything even though a huggies nappy. Maybe they are learning to control when they need to go? |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 2:21pm
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I think you could be right. Also the older they get the less frequently they go but the bigger the wet. So she might not go for a few hours, but when she does go she will wee more if that makes sense? -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 2:22pm
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Yes. I think it could be the start of bladder control. Sometimes we will get home after being out in the morning and I'll check Ella's nappy and it will be stone dry! So I put her on the toilet and she'll usually do wees.. sounds like Hannah is heading in that direction too, yay! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 2:31pm
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Emma - not so much for the few days when it was really noticeable. Argh... could just be a fluke tho.
Well, I seriously hope we can do TT over summer. It all depends on Little Miss Toddly falling for the 'Big Girl' coercive techniques and not asserting the 'F' Off Mum' attitude that she usually has. 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 2:42pm
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Or it could be that she is distracted and not drinking as much? We started our Hannah TTing the day after her 2nd birthday, she didn't have much control but she was very aware of being wet. ------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 2:51pm
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Well, creche made an effort to get more liquids into her when they saw that she wasn't wetting much.
But because they have to deal with a million kids at once, she never drinks as much there compared to at home. (The kid drinks like a fish!) I'll just monitor it for the next few weeks and see what happens. Should have a report from creche this arvo if it is still happening. |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 3:29pm
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We have noticed the same thing in Abby and as she drinks a lot. I have put it down to better bladder control, I read in a plunket thing that at their age a dryer nappy and less frequent changing is a sign that they are preparing for toilet training. She is 21 months and although we aren't hard out trying to toilet train we are letting her sit on the potty and she loves her little knickers and pull ups, and takes her nappies of at every possible opportunity. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 7:57pm
| I'm so jealous Nikki. we bought some undies for Jake and am planning on trying them out pretty soon. Have a new washing machine too! Jake loves stamps on the hand, so I'm going to try that for a while, and then when he gets the hang of it, give him a chart and he can get a new wiggles cd and dvd (am very very very sick of sailing all round the bloody world!!!!) |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 8:35pm
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Nikki it does sound like bladder control. Maybe get some nickers for her with something she likes on them. I got Andrew Thomas undies and he loves them. You could almost start trying now with a sticker chart as an incentive to get something she likes - it worked with Andrew. We are now working on night time dryness and so far so good. I find that pullups hold a lot more over night than a normal Huggies nappy. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 8:42pm
She has had undies for a while  I couldn't resist buying them! They are so cute!
She has only recently figured out that they are like mummy's ones (though minus Angelina the Ballerina of course) so will use that as incentive. We have had a sticker chart for quite a while and she fills it up and then I get slack about giving her stickers (especially because it is a 1/2 hour process in the choosing of said sticker)... geez I'm lazy! I don't quite know if she'll understand the concept of receiving a reward at the end of a chart yet. She barely understands the reward thing in terms of something fairly immediate (like 'if you go and put your cup on the bench then you can have the biscuit'), let alone after a whole chart! So yeah, might wait until she is a little older for that one... but I'll get off my butt and figure something out. Will have a bit of time post-exam to work on it
Thanks for all your feedback! |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 9:04pm
| we used the chart thing and it worked for Kobe but he doesnt really understand the whole if you get so many stickers you get a present and he also takes forever chosing a sticker and when i say its say friday he argues that no its Tuesday (its always tuesday) so just let him put it wherever now. One tip i did read about that i thought was pretty unrealistic but does actually work is that once you go to no nappies dont go back to nappies, use pull ups if you need to but dont go back to nappies unless its for night time of course. I thought that was a bit hard to do if your going out etc... but we spend about a month of on and off with TT and then decided no we will just go the whole hog and its been two weeks now with no nappies and the last 5 days he has had no accidents. I think with pull ups they were to much like nappies so he thought he could pee in them. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 7:53am
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Yes with pull-ups they don't feel wet so they don't usually bother.
I found that rewards didn't work so well with Hannah either, she didn't get it. It was far more beneficial to just go all excited and stuff. Maybe introduce rewards when she's a bit older if she seems to need a bit of incentive for consistency. ------------- |