sleep nappy

plural sleep nappies

1. CommonwealthIrelandinformaluncommonSynonym of nighttime diaper.

   For example, a child told to take off her sleep nappy and put on her pants, and not to play with some soap, was still walking around in her nappy and playing with the soap one hour later.

   2007 July 29, Priscilla Alderson, Liz Brooke, Report of Review of St Stephen's Children's Centre, Newham: services for children aged up to 3 years^(https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10003364/1/Alderson2007ReportOfReview(Report).pdf), Social Science Research Unit, page 14

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   If you put your child to sleep without a nappy and he urinated in his bed, don't worry about it. You may want to ask yourself whether it is worth using a sleep nappy at this stage. It is best to approach bladder control during the day before working on 'dry nights'.

   2013, Kathryn Mewes, The 3 Day Nanny: Simple Three-day Solutions for Sleeping, Eating, Potty Training & Behaviour Challenges, Vermilion, →ISBN, page 248

   She was dry during the day and we just popped on the pull-on sleep nappies at night. We realised that we were making this situation unnecessarily stressful for Beatrice and it wasn't actually bothering her that she wore nappies [a]t night.

   2017, Lucie Quest, Beaos Diabetes: A Parentos Journey, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16

   Synonyms: nighttime diaper