completely innocent question

[jillianh]

So what do y'all do at night if you EC?

[Quinn's mama]

When mine was, say newborn - 2 months and it was warmer (born early Sept), she usually wore 7th gen sposies at night (I think? It's already a blur), but often when she woke to eat, I'd give her an opportunity to pee (she sleeps with us, we had a little bowl right by the bed that I just held betw my legs in bed). Often, she did! We had several nights where she peed 2-3 times overnight and woke up with the same dry diaper she went to bed in. I've been blessed with a baby who has never pooped in the nighttime, so that made things way easier than they could have been.

BUT, then it got colder, she got older, and soon made it VERY clear that she was not interested in leaving the warm cocoon of our bed for anything. I follow her lead in all matters EC, so I stopped offering overnight. Now, I spend my life much like many nonECing CDing folks do, searching for a 12 hour solution. Just bought my first VBSN yesterday and I can't wait for it to come!!! The snaps and stitching are going to be a pink/brown combo! :drif:

If she starts asking to pee again in the nights, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it (but hopefully it won't happen before we get some use out of our beautiful new diaper!).

[mammaofbean]

we are off and on with the diapers, sleep on a towel, sometimes pee in the bed, sometimes i catch it. i would just have him naked, but dd sleeps with us also and misses can be disruptive. dd started sleeping naked most of the time at about a year. the misses were big, but infrequent because i knew by thenn when she usually peed overnight, and she really didn't sleep as well with a diaper on.

[kthiday]

DS had NO interest in pottying at night. Infact, he would get quite upset when I would offer- so I quickly learned not to offer for a peacful nights sleep. DD I honestly have not offered yet, but think that she might sleep better if I started...

[mamatutugirls]

When mine was, say newborn - 2 months and it was warmer (born early Sept), she usually wore 7th gen sposies at night (I think? It's already a blur), but often when she woke to eat, I'd give her an opportunity to pee (she sleeps with us, we had a little bowl right by the bed that I just held betw my legs in bed). Often, she did! We had several nights where she peed 2-3 times overnight and woke up with the same dry diaper she went to bed in. I've been blessed with a baby who has never pooped in the nighttime, so that made things way easier than they could have been.

BUT, then it got colder, she got older, and soon made it VERY clear that she was not interested in leaving the warm cocoon of our bed for anything. I follow her lead in all matters EC, so I stopped offering overnight. Now, I spend my life much like many nonECing CDing folks do, searching for a 12 hour solution. Just bought my first VBSN yesterday and I can't wait for it to come!!! The snaps and stitching are going to be a pink/brown combo! :drif: If she starts asking to pee again in the nights, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it (but hopefully it won't happen before we get some use out of our beautiful new diaper!).
Watch out you might get hooked!!!

[goofycutemom]

I E.C. I started before I started cding actually - the reason that I started to cd was because of e.c.'ing and I got tired of throwing out diapers with only a little pee but didnt want to put a wet diaper back on her and also the sposie sometimes would wear out before she would go in it sometimes - of course now that I am totally addicted to cding - I still try to e.c. but I am not looking foward to her being out of diapers :blush: :cry: but I do still get most of her poops in the potty - peeing is nice but I dont stress over it - so that is more info than you asked for -but what I used to do at night for tori and it worked is get her up about two hours after going to sleep - she would pee and have a dry diaper in the morning - I still make sure she pees 20 minutes after eating before going to be now - so she isnt laying in a bunch of pee - really cuts down on the amount she pees on nights i dont wake her up - but lately unless she wakes up - or I "accidentally" wake her up during mommy snuggle time - I dont ask her to pee until morning - but I will change her during those times - part of is my work schedule now and how I am almost always tired - :cry: but anyway - thats what we do - HTH

[tsfairy]

With DS1 I never really tried to potty him at night. Instead he just began holding it all night starting at around 3mo. He'd usually wait for me to potty him when we woke up. Soon after that I started letting him sleep naked from the waist down on a stack of prefolds, and we rarely woke up to a wet bed.

DS2 is another story. He doesn't seem to like being pottied at night, and he wakes up DS1 if I try (we all sleep in a family bed.) So we're working on a night-time diaper solution too. So far everything I've put him in at night has resulted in a very wet bed. He's a bit of a super-soaker. :banghead:

Quinn's mama - I can't wait to hear how that VBSN works out. I may just have to try one over here. :giggle:

[Ooey]

We never EC'd at night, so she wore a night time diaper... however because of our ECing during the day she was really young when she started having dry diapers at night... usually If I'd put her on the potty right before bed and first thing in the morning she was dry... and that's what we still do just without the diaper now because she doesn't need it. We stopped using a diaper at night around 18 months.

[JackieLyn]

We just started doing ec at night...i put a towel down and put her on the potty if she's fussy and doesn't seem to want to nurse. We did awesome last night with no misses but the night before I had to wash my sheets! :blush:

[MovingMomma]

DD1 wore a diaper w/cover at night & I had to take her to the bathroom almost every time she woke.

DD2 hardly ever needs to potty at night and hasn't since she was a month or two. And she nurses several times during the night.

[sdevonh]

We do cloth at night and I really don't take her to the potty unless she has to go poo, which is rare. She has yet to STTN, so I'm focused more on her sleep habits at night than I am her potty habits.

[kthiday]

We never EC'd at night, so she wore a night time diaper... however because of our ECing during the day she was really young when she started having dry diapers at night... usually If I'd put her on the potty right before bed and first thing in the morning she was dry... and that's what we still do just without the diaper now because she doesn't need it. We stopped using a diaper at night around 18 months.

My DS was dry thro the night super early too- much to my mom's disbelief. :giggle:

[calicasters]

What's VBSN? Anyone?

[goofycutemom]

very baby simply nights :giggle: - you can get them at bluelakediapers.com

[duckieheart]

She wears a diaper at night. She is often dry, but not all the time yet. Weve never tried to EC at night though, TBH. Ive decided to try though, because I think she often wakes just to pee. So, hopefully tonight I'll wake up enough to take her rather than just rolling over and whipping out the boob, lol.

[z'smomma]

I E.C. I started before I started cding actually - the reason that I started to cd was because of e.c.'ing and I got tired of throwing out diapers with only a little pee but didnt want to put a wet diaper back on her and also the sposie sometimes would wear out before she would go in it sometimes -

We are the exact same! Love EC but couldn't stand wasting money on an occasional pee in the sposies so we are onto CD. We are just putting him in sposies at night. He doesn't mind getting changed once at night as long as he stays swaddled. He's only 3 mo. though and not sleeping through the night. We'll probably have to do a solid nighttime CD sooner then later.

[kthiday]

DS had NO interest in pottying at night. Infact, he would get quite upset when I would offer- so I quickly learned not to offer for a peacful nights sleep. DD I honestly have not offered yet, but think that she might sleep better if I started...

ok, so this week, including last weekend, I have been changing DD dipe at night everytime I hear her stir (still a bit scared to try to get her to sit on the potty b/c her and DS share a room and i don't want her to fuss and wake him)... well, now i am getting up like three or four times a night- IT'S KILLING ME!!!!! Do i just bite the bullet and put her on the potty? She's shoeing me that she wants to potty at night, isn't she? I need to just go with my gut and put her on the potty, don't I?:headscratch:

[duckieheart]

ok, so this week, including last weekend, I have been changing DD dipe at night everytime I hear her stir (still a bit scared to try to get her to sit on the potty b/c her and DS share a room and i don't want her to fuss and wake him)... well, now i am getting up like three or four times a night- IT'S KILLING ME!!!!! Do i just bite the bullet and put her on the potty? She's shoeing me that she wants to potty at night, isn't she? I need to just go with my gut and put her on the potty, don't I?:headscratch:

Maybe she wont wake DS if you just quicky move her to the hallway to go, and put her back to bed?

[kthiday]

Maybe she wont wake DS if you just quicky move her to the hallway to go, and put her back to bed?

OK, so I did it last night... I heard DD squirming, so I quickly got her and put her on her little potty in the bathroom. i think she was a bit confused at first, but I sat hunched around her whispering to her. She quickly went potty, but when i layed her down to re-diaper her she got really mad. As soon as I picked her up again she calmed don tho. And guess what... I only had to do that ONCE!!!!! WOOO HOOO for me!!! :lostit: So I'm figuring that before she was just going enough to relieve herself, but not completly emptying her bladder. It never ceases to amaze me how logical EC is, and why so many people are skeptical of it when it is so freaking natural!!!! So happy days for me!!!:giggle2:

[mamamimi]

She wears a diaper at night. She is often dry, but not all the time yet. Weve never tried to EC at night though, TBH. Ive decided to try though, because I think she often wakes just to pee. So, hopefully tonight I'll wake up enough to take her rather than just rolling over and whipping out the boob, lol.

That is me exactly! I think that my dd would use a potty at night, but when she fusses I just whip out the boob. What a lazy mama I am ;) DD is 9 months and we're getting to where she doesn't have many misses during the day. So, I'm starting to think that nighttime EC is something that we're ready to do. It's cold in our house (we're in SoCal, but we have a drafty house) at night and I'm not sure how to keep her warm and meet her potty needs during the winter. I'm actually on the forum tonight specifically to get ideas.

[PsyckoPrincess]

My 7 mo DS doesn't wake during the night, so I haven't wanted to wake him to potty... but he pees SO much at nights! We do a pf w/doubler and a thirsties cover. I've napped him naked or with just a pf laid under him, but he also moves around a lot, so anything I just sort of lay under him won't stay under him, kwim? I've been slow/lazy at thinking of night pottying because I'm just not sure how too. I think waking him up to potty will be so disruptive...? taking pjs off, dipe off, redipe somehow in the dark? *sigh* and we don't co-sleep, so it's like, me setting my alarm or something to wake up and go try this? :(

I've tried pottying him just before I dipe him for the night, right after shower time, but he screamed and didn't go anyway so I think not a good route :)

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