Hubby normally puts the nappies on Tahlia at night, and when I saw her last night the nappy was looking terrible (he's not so good at putting them on sometimes), so I took it off to redo it, and noticed there was no gather in the legs - its elastic had perished. So I put it aside to fix and got another.... same thing... and again... Bizarre... we don't have many nappies and about half have now got perished elastic... which may explain why they haven't been looking right when on, and been leaking a bit...
Anyway, as we were sorting through to try and find one, Tahlia was complaining about her nappies making it hard for her to walk - which she's said before, but I point out its just for sleeping, when she doesn't do any walking anyway.
But she kept going on about it, and said she wanted to be like me and just wear knickers to bed. So I thought why not (especially since we're now down to like only 4 nappies now!)... we'd give it a shot.... covered her bed with 2 towels just in case (she had a waterproof sheet under it), and let her go to bed without a nappy.
We decided to wake her up when we went to bed at about midnight for a wee (she was not impressed at that! but I just carried her there, she did her thing and I carried her back trying to keep her sleepyish), and at about 2am she got up to go to the toilet but did nothing. Then this morning I was tempted to wake her early to check how she was and avoid any accidents if she'd made it through, but decided to let her wake on her own. When she did, she was dry!
YAY
I don't imagine we'll be so lucky tonight, but I was so impressed with her. First go at a nappy free night and she had no accidents!
So maybe I won't bother fixing the nappies! And I was just thinkng about splurging on a nice purple fitted too
