18 Jan
Chicken
There are things about parenting that terrify me. The first day of kindergarten, first lost tooth (I am NOT squeamish, but this give me the willies), the sex talk, and let’s not even talk about the teen years. Right now there is one thing that basically scares the shit out of me, putting Jack to bed without a pull-up. When I think about it I start sweating and my heart races a little bit. It’s an insane reaction, I know, but I can’t help it!
Jack has been waking up completely dry for a couple months now. And before that he only had the occasional wet pull-up. He wakes up and calls for us if he needs to go potty. He’s ready. I know he is. The problem is I am not. It’s not that I’m not ready for my baby to be done with pull-ups (those things are expensive!), I really am ready for those to disappear. I’m not even that afraid of bed-wetting. What I’m afraid of is middle of the night sheet changes, cleaning up Jack and pajama changes.
I was actually thisclose to dumping the pull-up over Christmas. The morning before I was going to make the switch he had a soaking wet pull-up when he woke. I chickened out and pulled the plug on the idea. Of course he hasn’t had a wet pull-up since. Figures.
So now I need to get over myself. My kid is clearly ready to sleep without a pull-up. So we may have to deal with some accidents. It’s no big deal right? Tell me I’m just a chicken and that I just need to do it and be done with it already.
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
I went through the same thing with my oldest – just didn’t want to be woken up to take her to the potty or deal with middle of the night sheet changes either but she was ready & it went fine (from what I remember – its been a few years). I just know she rarely had accidents in her sleep. H/e you may just want to make sure you have spare sheets handy, plus the waterproof sheet so if he does go you can change them quick & everyone can get back to bed. We may have even put another waterproof liner under her sheets as back up for awhile if I recall. Do it! It’ll be fine and another milestone off the list.
I say go for it, I recently did this with one of my twins. He had been dry at night for probably 4 months, I was just too afraid to put him to bed without the pull up on. We started a countdown and once he was dry for 7 nights in a row, he could wear his underwear to bed. He was very proud of himself and we only had to re-start the count down 1 time. He does have an accident once in a great while, but I just try to keep an eye on how much he drinks after supper. that seems to help!
Good luck!
Go for it!
E still sleeps in a pull-up AND I take her in the middle of the night. She’s just such a deep sleeper that she doesn’t even really wake up when I take her, let alone have any idea what’s going on at night. I am so looking forward to the day we can ditch the pull-ups (for her, at least).
When night accidents were really frequent (before we figured out we had to take her in the actual middle of the night), I would keep the bed double made. One set of sheets, one waterproof pad, one set of sheets, one waterproof pad. That way, all I did was strip off the top set and deal with the rest in the morning.
Ditto what Jayna said. I used to keep the bed double made so all I had to do was strip bedding if there was an accident in the middle of the night.
i totally can’t comment other than to say i trust you and your decisions. and, ummmm, you look pretty today!
I love that picture! Hope it goes well.