My daughter has been potty trained since she was 2 1/2. She still has an occasional accident primarily because she gets busy and lazy. But she still has to wear a pull up at bedtime. She will stay dry at nap, but not all night. I have tried cutting off the liquids at 6pm and she is still wet. I talked to the Dr and he said that sometimes the part of the brain that tells kids to stay dry and hold it at night time just might not be well developed. I was wondering if there are other things to try. If anyone else has this prob. She wear panties all day and a pull up at night. Any information would be helpful.
I had trouble with my youngest with bed wetting and was told to wake him up to go potty just before I went to bed. It worked very well. It only took a few times waking him up to get him to realize in his sleep how full his bladder was getting.
HI J.,
I think your potty training experience is pretty typical. (trained at 2 1/2, a few accidents, not dry at night yet) I have 4 children and they were all a little different on how/when then made it through the night. Some kids can do it at an earlier age but some can't. It may be very normal and not much you can do it about it until she is 4 or even 5. Don't be frustrated or put the pressure on her or you b/c it might not happen that she stays dry at night consistently for awhile. At some point she will start stringing more dry nights together but other than limiting fluids before bed, there isn't a whole lot you need to do. Except for the cost of pull-ups, it's no big deal. She will stay dry or be able to get up and go to the bathroom when her little body is ready. ONe of our daughters was still wearing a pull-up at 4 1/2 or 5 and we thought we should work on getting her through the night. My husband thought if she didn't have the pull-up on, it would help her not pee in her bed but we just ended up doing a lot of laundry. We just waited a little longer, made sure she went potty right before she climbed in bed, and showed her how to get up and go the the bathroom if she needed to at night. Enjoy your precious little ones! :)
L. - married for 15 years, more of 4 fun kids
Hi J.,
My daughter still needed pull-ups at night for well over a year after she was potty trained. We were just about to look for some sort of heavy duty cloth pull-ups, so we wouldn't have to keep buying the disposables at the store, when she finally had a string of dry nights. We switched her to panties at night after that, and we still had some wet sheets in the middle of the night a few times, but she hasn't had an accident now in ages. Our doctor and our ECFE teacher both said that it's quite normal for kids to need pull-ups at night until age 5 or 6. Hang in there!
Sara
I had this happen with my daughter.
She is now thirteen, but wore pull-ups to bed until she was almost 9.
She potty-trained SO early, and with no prodding, but wet at night.
All of a sudden it stopped????
Not with Dr. help, or my help.
I heard this is pretty common in girls. Some people don't like to wait, and take them to a Dr., and there is a med. they can take that stiumulates that trigger for getting up at night.
Hope this helps some, if you don't mind getting the pull-ups, it will probably fix itself??? Otherwise, do check with her Dr.
Good Luck..
I am currently going through the exact same thing with my son who is 3 1/2 years old, he too was potty trained by 2 1/2. When he was first trained he was waking up dry at night most of the time, so I decided to try underwear on him and it did not go well at all. I was up for a week straight changing sheets in the middle of the night and cleaning my son up. I was worried and talked to his Dr. who told me that my son is not developmentally or physically ready to make it through the night, plus they have a little bladder. He told me if at 5 or 6 he is still wetting that is when I can start being concerned, but even then some kids don't catch on until even later than that. Everyone sleeps much better when we put a pullup on my son. The first thing he does in the morning though is whip off that pull up, he can't stand how it feels!
That is very normal and a common question on this website. She's just not developmentally ready to stay dry at night. It is developmentally appropriate for kids to wet at night until age 6 or 7. Both of my boys wore pull ups at night until age 6. The accidents during the day are pretty typical too. She's still pretty little and kids get busy and don't want to take time to get to the potty. She's doing just fine for her age.
I agree with the other posts. My son potty trained at 22mo and my daughter at 26mo. Son wore pull up at night until he was 3 1/2 or 4 my daughter barely needed it at all. The doc. told us it wasn't a problem until around 8yrs so I would just let it be. We made sure there was a night light in the bathroom so they could see and eventually they started getting up or holding it all night. At this age I say go for SLEEP instead of wet sheets and midnight battles over peeing!
Hello,
My daughter, who is 6 now, was fully potty trained just before she was 2. When she was almost 4 she started wetting the bed. I tried numerous doctor visits and got nothing. My mom told me "bring her to the chiropractor and they can help her out a lot". That is what I ended up doing. The chiropractor works really well with kids and we ended up finding out that her pelvic bones tilt inward and cause extreme pressure on her bladder. This is also the reason she wets because she doesn't go right away and then ends up having to do the jiggle so she won't pee. Then since it helped but not completely the chiropractor had us do a blood testing thing where we tested for food allergies. She told us that most children are actually lactose intolerant and that instead of breaking out from it they wet the bed.
This is what I suggest doing. Cut out anything that contains any dairy: Milk, eggs, whey, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, and etc. My daughter drinks soy milk and another thing is for break she is only suppose to eat 12 grain whole wheat bread which she does like but our budget just cannot afford a $4 loaf of bread every week, since the loaves are small to begin with. I had to let the school know, daycare over the summer, and all family members that she goes to for sleep overs or when husband and I go out. Family members were not liking the idea at all to begin with since they thought it was just the chiropractor doing something to get more money. I ended up having to show everyone the paper work.
I would suggest at least one adjustment and you will probably notice a big difference. Hope this helps, A.
Haven't done the potty training with mine yet, but I can give you a website to check out for potential playgroups. Go to www.momsclub.org and you can locate a group near you that may have a standing playgroup that meets. Hope that helps!
"Children achieve bladder control at different ages. By the age of 6 years, most children no longer urinate in their sleep. Bed-wetting up to the age of 6 is not unusual, even though it may be frustrating to parents. Treating a child for bed-wetting before the age of 6 is not usually necessary."
From the website http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/par...
Be glad for pull-ups and relax about this! MANY kids do this. Don't deny liquids, it does not help.
Hi J.! This sounds just like my daughter!! She didn't get the night time thing until she was about 4....fully trained and big girl panties during the day and naps but soaked a diaper every night! She finally just decided she was a big enough girl and shouldn't be wearing pull ups at night and then started staying dry. There really was nothing I could do. She started getting up in the middle of the night, by herself, and going potty and there haven't really been any accidents. She is 5 1/2 now. Hang in there! She won't go to college in pull ups!! :) :) If you have any further questions, I'd be happy to talk to you! ~ H.
Hang in there! My daughter was the same way. She started potty training early on, but would always wet at night no matter what we tried. I'd even set my alarm clock and get up 1-2 times per night to try to get her to the potty. But this went on and nothing seemed to improve her odds. Even if she'd go during the night, she somehow would still be wet by morning! ??? So... we gave up on trying to push the issue and let her wear pull ups at night until one day I noticed she was staying dry consistently at night. We talked with her about wearing pull ups vs. underwear at night, and how she would need to get up and go potty at night, etc. She was so excited to try underwear at night and accepted the responsibility of getting up, and she's been doing great ever since! So, something seemed to "click". But I can understand the frustration, because it seemed like forever with the pull ups! She'll get there! Just be patient! :)
