How to Potty Train at Night When House Isn't Kid-friendly?

well i have g/b twins that are a little over three and let me tell ya boys are somuch harder than girls. Jonathan had it down for a couple of weeks then he started potting his pants again so we are back in to pull ups he will pee in the potty but #2 he has a problem with most of the time. What I do is I cut them both off about 1 1/2 hrs before bed time they are not aloud to have anything to drink except for maybe a few sips and then at bed time they get a sip. Allenna does very well she does not mess the bed. Jonathan wears a pull up but most of the time he is dry. as for not letting him get out we shut their door so they cant get out of their room (i know sounds harsh but we have a baby monitor in their room still and I am a light sleeper so if anything happens or if they have to go potty i can here them and let them go). I hope this gives you some help.
B.

well, my son has been potty trained for about 2 1/2 years now (since he was about 2 1/2) and he has NEVER gone to the bathroom in the middle of the night without waking me up to tell me (i wish he would). if you are worried that your son will get up w/o you knowing, I would just put a gate in his door, or in the hallway, or even one of those chime things on the door. i think that the potty in the room is a little unsanitary and potentially confusing. good luck to you~
~L.

My daughter will be three this month. She is trained during the day and wears a pull-up at night. Sometimes she wets it, sometimes she wakes up dry, and sometimes she wakes up to go to the potty. She is in a big-girl bed, and we put a pressure gate on her doorway at night time. If she needs to use the potty, she calls for help, and I help her over the gate and sit with her while she uses the potty. At this age, I think she is too young to have full-range of the house, stairs, etc. at night time. This has worked well for us. Good luck!

Hmm, that's a little tough because I would suggest the potty in the room. I would think he is old enough to learn not to play with it, if you teach him, though.
I just put a thick cloth diaper on top of a waterproof pad, on top of the mattress, and laid my dd on top of that. She woke up dry right from the start, and I've rarely had any issue with a bedwetting. She usually does not have to get up in the middle of the night. You could limit fluids after dinner, make sure he goes before bed, and make sure he goes first thing upon waking, and he might be able to go all night without using the potty?

G.,
You must put a gate up on your second floor. There are some specialty gates to fit unusual stair case arrangements. Try Onestepahead.com. They also have specialty door locks and door alarms.

Most kids are completely daytime trained before they learn at night.
Keep the toilets in the bathroom or it will confuse the issue further.

S.

For my daughter, we kept a baby gate on her door at night. We put pullups on her at night for a while until she was doing really well with potty training during the day and waking up with a dry pull up most mornings. When we decided to stop using them at night (right when she turned 3), we limited her fluids after dinner and got a water-proof mattress pad for her bed. A few nights a week she would wake up and call us because she either wet the bed or needed to go to the bathroom but it didn't last long. We haven't used pullups for about two months now and most nights she doesn't have a problem. We don't use the baby gate anymore and she is pretty good about comming in my room to wake me up if she needs to go at night but that doesn't happen much, most nights she doesn't need to go all now. Good luck!

Hi G.,
My siggestion would be to put a gate up in his door way - to keep him in his room. And also put a "night time" potty is him room as well. This way he does not need to leave his room.
Although my niece loved her crib too, she slept in it til just a couple of months ago - she will be four next month. Just thingk tho - you have the worst part of the battle faught - most boys won't go # 2 in the for a quite a while after they learn #1. Good luck!

I would get those cheap magnetic door alarms that just stick to the door andthe frame and ding when the door is opened. No child proof locks work with my kids and doors any more so now at least I know when the doors are opened.

Here's something my mom did with me and I did with my son. Its very popular in the town I grew up in( Germany ). It works real well. You let your child go pee before he goes to bed, then he goes to sleep and before you yourself go to bed, which is normally hours later you wake him up and put him on the toilet and sit him down to pee. He will be tired, but he won't completely wake up. When he's done he will go right back to sleep. I tw ill get some getting used to. I always waited till I was ready for bed myself and right brfore I climbed into bed I picked him up. I didn't have to do it very often with him. His bladder was big enough soon and he had no problems with sleeping through the night. Also don't give him any more liquids, but maybe a sip a couple of hours before bedtime. My little one has been potty trained since he was 3. he hasn't had but one accident at night and that weas in Germany and that was because there is such a big time difference and he wasn't used to it the first night we were there and he was exhausted. But he was ready to be trained he didn't wat to be wet and I put underwear on him. He wanted them, he picked them out himself, proudly of course. He loved the caracters on them and loved the underwear and he was one of the youngest in preschool, but also one of the first to tell the teacher when he had to go so there weren't any problem's.
Hope this help's.
E-mail if you want to talk some more I might think of someting else.
M.

could you put a potty chair in your room and maybe gate off the hallway so he can't get anywhere but to your room? just a thought.

If you're worried about him getting into the pool, why not put some deadbolt locks on the doors and hide the keys so he can't get to them.

i think what you're doing now is fine. when he is truly "potty trained" he shouldn't need to go at night at all. so, until that time comes, get some pull ups or special waterproof underpants and refer to them as "night-time" underpants.