Potty Training at Night - Torrance,CA

Hi C.,

I read somewhere that kids often can't sleep through the night without peeing until 5 or 6 years old. my little one is only 2 years old - But we double diaper her at night - one diaper & one pull up over it -otherwise she would often soak through the pull up and pj waking herself up.- I put the first diaper on loosely and then the pull up - hope this helps.
G.

Yikes, I would definitely get her out of the diaper and invest in a mattress protecter. Let her wear her panties so she can still feel like a big girl, even if she wets them at night. Besides, wearing diapers, which move moisture and wetness away from the skin, is probably not helping, although it might allow all of you to sleep through the night.

I don't have experience with this, but I would teach my daughter where to get sheets and how to change them in the middle of the night if she gets wet. Then she can change into clean panties and go right back to sleep. I also would buy her an alarm clock that would wake her in the middle of the night so she could go pee and go back to bed.

I can relate to this too! my son is almost 7 and still does this, without fail, every night...doesn't even always make it thru naps!! it's normal, although it's frustrating. my son wears a good night diaper or something like that. it's not his fault, no amount of trying on either of our parts is helping. i just have to wait. i try to wake him up and he stays asleep thru me walking him to the toilet and waiting for him to go. he doesn't even remember in the morning. i've heard many kids go thru this. it's frustrating and difficult, but, it's normal. good luck. let me know if you find some magic to fix it!!!

I've read the other advise responses and they all sound good. That pager thing... wow! My daughter is 22 years old and I'm now a grandma... in the potty training stage of her life what I did night is the same thing I did during the day. When I went "potty" I took her too. How often do you get up at night to go? If you don't maybe you should set your alarm for a couple hours after your kid goes to bed. Sure they will have to go then. You shouldn't have to do this long, as it will "program" an internal clock in your child eventually. God Bless and good luck!

Hey there, I've been through the exact same thing, except my son was 6! Exactly as you described... everything fine during the day, but he was such a heavy sleeper at night that nothing would wake him up. We finally found something that works. It's called the "Potty Pager" and it was our miracle. It's a small little box, just about the size of a pager. For girls, your daughter would need to wear two pairs of undies and it would go between them. It has a small clip to hold it in place and you can even put a pull-up over everything to try and keep the bed as dry as possible during the training process. The pager has two sensors on it and when they feel moisture it causes the pager to vibrate which wakes the child. I know you're thinking "but that's after the fact", but miraculously after a while your daughter will start waking before she pees. It took us only about two and half weeks and our son has only had one accident since then and that was well over a year ago. You can google "Potty Pager" and read more about it. I was very scepticle, but it really does work and it's well worth it. Good luck.

Ahhhhh.....porr baby and she's trying so hard. Does she sleep early? I mean if she sleeps at 7:00pm and through the night, I can understand why she's able to release so much fluid even if she doesn't have any liquid after 6:00 pm.....Perhaps you should get her to go to bed an hour later, so long as she is getting at least 9 good hours of sleep that is, and get her to go just before she goes to bed. Children like to follow the actions of grown ups so if she knows you do this before bedtime each night, she will want to do this too. She probably just hasn't developed her little indicator that wakes you when you need to go, but if she is doing so well otherwise, I'm sure she'll grow out of it.....GOOD LUCK!

What you are describing is bedwetting sometimes caused by the inability of the child to respond to the nerve impulses that the bladder is full when they are asleep. There is a device that you can get that will sound an alarm when she starts to wet while still asleep. It should wake her up. This should condition her so that she will naturally respond to the nerve impulses. Sometimes it is matter of bladder capacity and maturity. Also, for sanitary reasons, get rubber sheets in the meantime or at least some type of barrier between the sheets and the mattress or you will have to get a new mattress. If this simple device doesn't work, then you might need to consult a physician. Mostly boys have problems in this area.

My son is also 4 1/2. We don't give him any drinks or liquid after 6:30 p.m. and he pees right before he goes to bed at 8:30. He can make it to morning that way.

Good luck!

My son wore Pull Ups at night until he was around 8 or 9. I think he was such a sound sleeper that he couldn't wake up in time to make it to the bathroom. I think boys tend to have more of a problem with controlling the muscles responsible for being able to "hold it". My daughter didn't have as much of a problem as my son did. What I used to do, is get him up and take hime to the bathroom, about 90 minutes after he went to sleep. The average sleep cycle is about 90 minutes, so I figured I would catch him in between cycles and maybe he'd be a little more conscious, to walk down the hall to the bathroom. Also, I figured his body would have had more time to digest whatever he had eaten or had to drink, before bed, so the likelihood of him having to go was pretty high. I hadn't gone to bed yet, when I would do this, so it wasn't like I had wake myself up to do it. We had good luck with this and he stayed dry through the night. I've also heard of people raising the foot of their child's bed, slightly, to relieve pressure on their bladder, so that they might not have such an urgent need to go. I never tried that, though.

I use to make sure that my boys went to the bathroom before bed, and my one son,that had problems wetting the bed, I'd set the alarm,or wake him when I went to bed later,and had him go. He soon was waking himself up and going,and not long after that he began making it through the night. I believe alot of it, had to do with the fact he had a small bladder. He was just a (Little guy) The best to you C.

I had the same problem with my 3 girls. Good news is they grew out of it. I still make sure they go potty before bed, and if they wake up for any reason during the night I make them go again. Also, if they go to sleep too early I wake them up before I go to bed and make them go potty again.
My first two girls this worked great with, my third girl who is only 3 1/2 now is to stubburn to wake up and make her go potty. She just refuses.
With my first child I would have to set my alarm clark for about 1:00am and go get her and make her go to the bathroom. For some reason her mind would not wakeup enough to hear the alarm from her bladder telling her to go.
The most important thing is for her to understand that its not her fault. Her bladder sends signals to the brain telling her when shes got to go. But, her brain is tired and just ignores those signals because it wants to sleep.
Good luck and I hope I have helped a little. At least you know you are not alone.
I have 3 girls--3 1/2--6--and 12years old