Potty Training - Birmingham, AL - Mom with 2 kids

Hey! I am in the same boat, daughter, who will also be 4 in Aug has been trained since she was 2 1/2 and hardly ever has an accident, but she soaks her pullup at night. She hates wearing them and begs to wear panties, but we have tried it and she always wets them. I have talked to the pediatrician several times about it and she tells me everytime that it is completely normal and they dont get concerned about night wetting until age 7 or 8. She says that their little brains sometimes dont wake them up and let them know that they have to go potty. But I know how frustrating it is buying pull ups. I also have a 14 mo old son and the whole point of training her before I had another was so that I didnt have to buy diapers for 2, and even though i dont have to buy diapers for her....the underjams and goodnights are not necessarily cheap. Sorry I had no better advice, please let me know if you find any good tricks!!!

Try not giving her anything to drink after seven pm. I know its hard on little ones. My son is almost 4 and we limit him to a cup of milk right before he goes to bed. When he is done with it, he goes straight to the bathroom and pee. That is the nightly ritual. We have had some good nights and some bad. But he wears underwear to bed not pull ups. Quit buying them. Most kids dont want to wear we underwear because it sticks to them. That is how we got him almost potty trained. I would tell her there are no more pull ups when they are gone or hide them. That she has to wear big girl underwear at night and go potty before bedtime. If she wakes up in the middle of the night go potty. If you get up with your little one after your little one goes back to sleep go get your 4 year old and sit her on the potty chair/ toliet and say lets go pee so you dont wet the bed. If you can keep that up it usually gets them in the routine to get up or they learn to control it through the night.
She may be wanting more attention since your little one has came along. Just whenever you are doing something with her sister that she can help with let her. Then she feels included and that might help. I really hope this helps somehow.

Good luck!!!

S. T.
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Hi K.,
This older lady told my sister this and it worked for my niece. You put big girl panties on and then put a pull up over the panties and she said it would only take 1 or 2 nights and it did work. Good Luck.
R.

I am sure she is jealous of the new baby but you might check with her doctor good luck

Would it help to get her up during the night once or twice to go to the potty? It'd be hard on you, but might help.

K.,
i feel for you my son is almost 3 next month and we are in our 4 month of potty training him, and he says he needs to go and then he doesn't but he hides when he poops in his pullups. My adivce is no because she is probably going through a phase, and she'll get out of it. Good Luck
S.

Myself, I wouldn't worry and I wouldn't mention it unless she brings it up. It might be b/c of the baby or it might not, but the fact that she has stayed dry before would just reassure me that she was capable and when the time comes, she'll jump right back into it again. She's sneaking a dry pullup in the mornings because she sees how happy it would make you, and she wants happy parents. I wouldn't put too much weight on what a sleeping 4-year-old is capable of.

Just my $.02. :)

My suggestion is take her to a urologist. Sometimes little kids have a little problem with development on the the urinary track system. Please don't delay too long in having her checked. I have had three children in my family with different causes for the bladder not emptying all the way during waking hours and then letting go while sleeping. It wasn't their fault or ours but a physical problem. My nephew didn't find out it was physical until the problem got very serious with the bladder causing kidneys to be infected and eventually leading to surgery. It was a problem that could have been solved easily enough if diagnosed earlier. Your daughters problem may very well be related to the new sibling but then again may have nothing to do with the new arrival. I would rather be safe than sorry and have her seen. The bladder scan can be done right in the office to see if it is emptying all the way. Good luck.

Make sure your daughter doesn't have any type of drinks several hours before bedtime. This might help.

I wouln't worry or make a big deal about it. The wetting at night can be completely normal and the peds. don't worry about it until they're like over 6....my older son has wet at night most nights until this yr. he's 6 (will be 7 in sept.) my 4 yr old is dry most nights. the new baby may have been a set back b/c they sometimes do regress in new/stressful situations. i would try not to make a big deal about it b/c she may just be sleeping harder and not realize she has to pee. or get a plastic cover for the bed and let her wear reg. undies to be where she will actually feel it....may help. she may not even realize because the pullup keeps her mostly dry. make sure she goes potty right before bed and isn't drinking too close to bedtime. hope this helps, just know it can be perfectly normal. i've talked to my pediatrician about my son wetting at night a couple of times and he isn't concerned.

Hi K.,
You are not alone. I had so many people tell me just try this, or this to get my now 6 year old to stop wetting the bed. Some kids just have problems with this. What has finally worked for her (and this was just recently) was to wake her up when I go to bed around 10 or 11 and take her to the bathroom. Now she has been dry for awhile, and recently she doesn't even need to go when I take her. So we are making progress. :) I've had her in panties rather than pullups though to encourage her to keep them dry. You will need a good mattress cover though. We've gone through two mattresses with her wetting issues because the covers would get torn. Many people encouraged me to put her in panties to get her to learn, and though it was not the instant fix that they promised it to be, she did feel bigger in the panties vs the pull-ups. For some kids though, just putting them in the panties will work because they'll get wet when they pee and will learn. Didn't work for mine, but might for yours.

Our daughters never did this, however our son is 4 yrs and 4 months and he still wets the bed about 5 nights a week. We use night time pullups. So, if you get any good ideas, let me know. K Thanks