Hi Moms--
My 3 yr. old is ready. She's told me she's ready. She goes without a pull-up at naptime. But she is such a heavy sleeper (like her Momma & Daddy) that she'll only wake up AFTER she starts to pee. I'm not even sure if she gets out of bed to go potty, because she has yet to wake me up when this happens. I'm assuming that she does, because it's always only a little pee spot. This coming week I'm going to try and check on her periodically to find out when she usually goes, then set my alarm (or buy her the "potty watch") to wake her up around that time. Any other thoughts or suggestions? Does the potty watch really work?
night potty training isn't really potty training.
They train at night when their bodies mature enough to hold it or recognize they need to go and wake them.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but most pediatricians agree on this fact.
My son started wearing underwear at 2 1/2 while he was awake with few accidents. He is also a very heavy sleeper so I would have him wear a pull-up at nap time and nighttime. I let him take a nap in his underwear once he was waking up consistently dry from naps. That was probably about 6 months ago. He would still wear a pull-up at night because he couldn't hold it and couldn't wake up. He understood that he had to wear it because he was a heavy sleeper and had no issues regarding wearing a "diaper" at night. We are going to let him sleep in his underwear tonight for the first time (he's almost 3 1/2) because he has been waking up to go to the bathroom and his pull-up has been dry every morning for over a week. I am pretty sure he will still have the occasional accident but what kid doesn't at that age. For us, that worked better than waking him up to go to the bathroom.
My DD is almost 4 (next month). She is still very wet at night and I am with PP that I just don't think her bladder is developed enough. And she is a little peanut too, barely weighin in at 30 pounds and still wearing 18-24 mo shorts and skirts. We too spent a long time with night waking and it was just very upseting and tiring for all of us. I decided to tackle it in school if we still have an issue.
When my son started "night training" we'd wake him up to use the bathroom right before we went to bed (or sometime around 9 or 10pm, with my son going to bed around 7:30). This seemed to do the trick, and he'd only have accidents when we'd forget. After a while he wouldn't have accidents if we skipped a night and then we stopped the wake-up calls.
When my kids were training, day time was easy. Nights took a little longer and we did pull ups for quite a while! I was ok with it since the alternative was washing sheets etc daily.
When the boys went to bed about 8pm with no pull up, we would take them potty when we went to bed at 11-11:30. We would have them walk in to the bathroom, yes, most of the time we had to hold and prod them because they were still asleep! But, we would help them pull their pjs down and potty. Once done, praise, flush and pick them up to carry them back to bed. My husband gets up earlier that I do and he would repeat the process in the morning. When I would gt up a couple hours later, the bed would be dry, boys were happy and life went on.
We stopped liquid intake about 1 hour before bedtime to help slow the night time need to pee.
As they got a bit older, they would get themselves up if need be. We were very lucky in that the boys never had night time accidents after pull ups were over and rarely daytime accidents at all. I think between them, maybe 10 daytime accidents. We were very lucky!!
Good luck with your daughter!
1st no drink after dinner or an hour before bed-time. make sure she goes to the bathroom before she go to bed. and when you give her drink don't fill the cup up all the way she only need 1/4 cup of drink and not a lot of sugar during the day because that causes bed wetting as well.(I'm a GA Pre-K teacher and i have had to help parents with bed wetting for the pass 4 years.
