3 Year Old Waking up at Night to Pee

What?? Lucky you! As someone posted below, let her sleep in pull-ups (or just regular underwear if she's not having any nighttime "accidents") and teach her to get up from bed on her own (that is, if she's in a regular bed and not a crib) and go to the potty by herself. You may need some form of night light for a while, but eventually she will be able to go by herself.

Why not let her sleep in a pull-up and take herself to the bathroom when she needs to go. Sounds like she is on her way to night training and I would be grateful!

Hi. Two ideas for you. One is to scoop her up and put her on the potty right before you go to bed. Almost all kids will handle this well and go right back to sleep.

Another thing to do is try eliminating milk or dairy. A sensitivity or intolerance sign is a weaker bladder. You'll know in 1-2 weeks if this makes a difference.

honestly i think you should leave it alone or if you don't feel like getting her up put a night light in her room and the bathroom and start helping her go on her own. i wish my four year old would get up at night. you want her to stop a normal age progession because you don't feel like getting up? is that fair to her?

be thankful she feels like she needs to go, put her in a pull up so she can take herself. Tell her she can take herself.
I have a 5.5 yr old that is in good nights, his body isn't telling him he needs to go at night.
Night training isn't really training, it's their bodies maturing enough to tell them they need to go at night, its much different than day training. It's biologic. I would encourage it.

Sounds like you want to wait but she has potty trained herself for the night as well. Your little girl is growing up. =-) Sorry she is currently waking you up but I would not break her of this habit. She is doing well learning how to be dry at night and will soon be older and just going to the bathroom without coming and waking you up.

Why is this a bad habit that you feel you need to break?? Is it because YOU don't want to wake up? This is something that most parents strive for, and is a mile stone for kids. Why don't you start putting pull ups on her, and start telling her that it is ok for her to go potty by herself and pull the pullups back up, and back to bed. They can learn to do this.
My daughter is 3 years old, and I would LOVE if she woke up in the middle of the night to pee. She went a long time in underware at nighttime with no accidents for months. Just recently she started having accidents a few times a week, so we put pullups on her. It was a fight to get her to agree, but it's better then waking up to change sheets all the time. Again, I only wish that my daughter would wake up during the night to go to the bathroom.
Good luck to you!

Seems like she's doing just what she needs to! Part of potty training is learning to follow the signals from the bladder that say, "hey, I'm filling up ... empty me", and your little girl is doing just that.

As time goes on her body will adjust and make less urine during the night time hours, allowing he to sleep through without waking up to go. She's right on target. Be proud!

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Applaud her! Your'e lucky you're not cleaning up urine on the bed and sheets at 1, 3 or 6 a.m.!! And put some training pants cloth underwear on her now at night to reward her. She's right on track.

Mother nature calls...not a habit that needs to be broken. You might want top count your luck stars she's not a bed wetter. If you need more sleep maybe you should just put her in a pull up.

I would certainly praise her for waking up when nature calls too(and not peeing in her bed)! I consulted w/ a sleep expert and she told me to never wake up a sleeping child (to go to the bathroom).....let them do it on their own.
Just cut down on liquids 2hrs prior to bedtime and make sure they go before they go to bed. That should help.
Good luck!

be happy...why "break the habbit" when it's not a habbit it's her body giving her the signs that she has to go..this is great...next thing you know she will be out of diapers all together.Instead of changing her bodys natural process spend time teaching her how to potty on her own so she doesn't have to wake you up.

Unfortunately, I think I have to agree with some of the other Mothers. This really a great accomplishment. I've been having to go into my son's room and change him in the middle of the night while he's sleeping to prevent bed wetting. He's daytime potty trained too, but it seems like the night time is going to be our issue. I would have to say that Congratulations are actually in order. Soon she'll be able to go herself at night and put herself back to bed. This too shall pass : )

She's potty training herself! Don't break her of the habit, embrace it!

If you don't want to wake up yourself, try and teach her how to handle it on her own...put a night light in the bathroom.

My son was dry and in underwear all night at three...it's really not that scary!

-M

Honestly, I don't really see a problem with it. My 2.5 yo sometimes wakes up to potty in the middle of the night and I'd rather she do that than wet the bed. If you're trying to get her to not have to go, try restricting her fluid intake after a certain point in the evening. Also make sure she goes potty right before she goes to bed.

Personally you need to be happy she is even waking up instead of going in the bed....but nevertheles i understand. You can lessen the liquids you give her. You can also stop giving liquids after a certain time of the evening. She has it downpacked and if you just lighten the liquid she may not have to go. You could be changing pissy sheets everyday....count your blessings. She is a very discpined little girl at such a young age. Congrats on teaching her.

Just consider it a phase, like night time feedings, soon she will grow out of it. Just hug and kiss her now and be glad she isn't having night terrors or bad dreams or wetting the bed and needing it to be changed at 3am!

Wow, thousands of moms whose children can't wake up and wet the bed would LOVE to have your problem. Yes, I'd miss a sleep-through, too, but your daughter sounds like she's training herself. Which is pretty much what kids do when they're ready.

Can you put a potty chair in her room near a nightlight, and encourage her to use it? Show her how to blot with a little TP if she's not already doing that for herself. She'll need to be in panties or pullups that she can manage. Let her know this is what big girls do by themselves, and then they go right back to bed. Give her lots of calm aknowledgement for successes, and if she goofs, don't shame or punish her.

Congrats on having a little girl who's nearly trained.

This is actually a GREAT thing as night training is the hardest. What I did for my girls was though, no drinks an hour before bed time, and, they had to potty right before being tucked in. This really eliminated the nighttime pottying. And, they potty first thing when they wake up. Be happy though. That is a big accomplishment on her part! :)

To avoid getting up with my 3 yo at night I'd just take him to the toilet in my arms, asleep or mostly asleep, around 11. Just put him on the toilet, he recognizes where he is and knows what to do, then I carry him back to bed. We both get to sleep through the remainder of the night. :)

I've been pottying at night my entire life. Don't make the mistake of trying to stop her. I've had life time bladder issues and holding urine only makes that worse. I've suffered infections and was finally diagnosed with intersticial cystitis. It's miserable. There's no reason to believe I didn't always have it. I can't imagine someone telling me I'm supposed to sleep through the night. It would never work. Just be glad she's doing it and not wetting her bed.

It also doesn't work to stop drinking after a certain time for me. I just end up more miserable getting up and only going tiny amounts and still feeling like I need to go. The best bet will be to try and train her to go by herself and put herself back to bed.

Why would you want to break her of this, a 3 year old should get up if she has to go potty, and is way to old for diapers. She should be able to get up and go pee with out waking anyone up, my kids did that at 2. she's night time traing her seldf you should be happy. J.

If she's ready for night potty training now, let her do it! It's better than a load of laundry every other day washing sheets and laundry pads while trying to get her out of Pull ups. db

sorry but this is actually good news. this is what you need her to do, but since she is new at the whole night time potty thing I dont think she will wake up several times once she masters it. usually you wake up once to pee and she will figure that out sooner or later, right now she is figuring it out just like when they learned to say ma for example they did it like 100 times a day to get it right.....well you dont want to get up and I would not either so lets think of ways that she can go pee, and then put herself back to bed. what about putting a potty seat IN her room, giving her a cool light that she can take w/ her to the potty so she is not worried about the dark, leaving the light on

What!??! Are you nuts ? (I mean this in the most friendly way) I would LOVE it if my kid was potty training himself! Help her go to the potty at night for a few weeks/months and then you NEVER have to do it again (because she will be able to do it on her own without you). Grin and bear it... it WILL get better. I still have 2 kids in diapers (an 8 month old and a 2 1/2 year old - consider yourself blessed!