In Reply to: Re: Diapering question posted by Deb on December 01, 2007 at 03:34
The younger ones didn’t object at all. I knew that they routinely would wet them deliberately before bed and wouldn’t tell their mother so they had no problem with being wet at night: in fact they CHOSE to be wet at night.
I remember the next eldest to me objecting once but I was young then myself so the memories are foggy. She got put BACK into nappies at night after she resumed bedwetting (at around the time her younger brother was born). She threw a huge tantrum at the first night but quickly got used to it. She stayed in nappies at night for quite some months.
Eventually, the threat of peer humiliation and my mother wore them down. By 7, it was all over.
There weren’t too many leaks. Mother used 2 – 3 layers of cloth under plastic pants – they could take a lot of wetting for the most part. I remember however that my younger siblings bed always smelled of pee. I don’t think Mother changed the bedding that often. I’m not sure if the nappies leaked or just that the plastic pants were a bit whiffy and some of the smell wore off onto the bedding.
I think that my mother regarded nappies as a convenient solution to a messy problem and she was a little lazy herself. Often when my sister would wake up and yell to be taken to the toilet, my mother would just yell back from her bed that she should “do it in your nappy!” – hardly a good strategy for resolving bedwetting.
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