Potty Training for Night

no pullups at night...those are very confusing. they send mixed messages to the little ones. pullups are as much like a diaper as a real diaper! but panties are very different. they are for big girls! simply remind her that she's in big girl panties and must not peepee in them. if necessary get up and wake up mommy to take her to potty. Take her to potty before bed and give nothing to drink after 7 pm. You'll find her dry as a bone in the morning and so very proud of herself. MAke a big deal over it. Do a celebration dance or sing a song to cheer her on! And continue the same night after night. No need for a celebration dances afer a few days. And she'll continue on her big girl path regardless.

Good Luck!

I also used pull ups at night. We kept a record of the nights they were dry with a star on the calendar. When they went a month with all stars - we got rid of the pull ups.

I would keep talking to her. I think small children often just don't wake up, but sometimes it may be another problem, like being too scared of the dark to get up and go, that could be fixed, for instance with a nightlight. If she's just not waking up, I think she's just little and has to grow up.

Limit her intake, nothing after 6pm. Make sure she potty before bed, everytime you wake during the night get her up and let her empty her bladder. Be prepared this may take a while but it works. I found this helpful with my little ones.
Good luck.

I think it will come naturally. My oldest started having dry nights shortly after becoming potty trained. She did it on her own. My second child wet at night for about 2 years after becoming potty trained. She is a deep sleeper and just did not wake up. When her younger sister started not needing pull ups at night, she decided that she wouldn't wear them. For about a little more than a year after, she would be so deeply asleep that she would sleep walk when she needed to go to the bathroom. We would take her, and she would have no memory of it. The third child started making it through the night just a few months after potty training.

What time does she drink her last liquids? I have 2 daughters, on both we had to limit the liquids past dinner time, which was 6:00pm. We had to make sure at her bed time she went to the restroom and wake her up around 11:00pm, to take her to the restroom.

When my girls were potty training, our pediatrician said that nighttime training depends on brain development. Their brain has to make the necessary connection to recognize the need to go and to wake them up. For some kids, that happens when they are 2, for others it doesn't happen until 4 or 5. One of my girls trained completely right after she turned 3 and the other was in pull-ups almost until Kindergarten. Limiting fluid intake is important, too. But, if that doesn't work,just realize that it is a neurological development issue that neither you nor your child can do anything about. My late trainer also slept VERY hard - she would wet the bed and not wake up!! So, it took awhile for her brain to b able to wake her up when it needed to!

Good luck!

My daughter is 3 also and we just went through this. First I sat her down and talked about wearing underwear to bed and how much more comfortable it is. The we talked about how accidents happen when you are asleep because it is harder to control her body. Okay, so here is the real solution. I put her to bed in underwear and at about 11:30 at night I would go get her and guide her to the potty. She never fully woke up, then we would go right back to bed. Then, in the morning tell her she has to go potty the second she wakes up or she will wet the bed. I did this for over a month, but now she will either get up herself at night if she has to go, but she usually sleeps till morning. Good luck!!

This was a frustrating stage for us with my younger daughter because my older daughter declared to me one day that she was ready to wear panties at night, and lo and behold she stayed dry from that day on. She did this at a younger age than my 3 year old now did. So when my now 3 year old said she wanted to wear panties at night I thought, ok here we go. But she didn't stay dry. and I was changing sheets and washing them every day for a week, until I decided she had to prove to me that she could stay dry in her pullup first.

So I took the advice of one of my friends. I backed this advice up by watching her pee habits at night. Since she stayed dry during the day and at naps I realized she could hold it for quite a while when she sleeps, then let loose when she was starting to come out of her deep sleep in the morning. So I go in about 11 every night, pick her up and take her to the potty. She goes right back to sleep. This drains her bladder so she won't go in the morning and it trains her body to wake up if it has to go. IF she had already peed by 11, I just left her. Then in the morning we talked about whether she was dry or not. I did this for a few weeks with her pullup on, and when it stayed dry for a few nights under this regimen then I kept her in panties. She was so happy! I also decreased her liquids before bed and had her go pee right before I turned out the lights.

Another of my friends who has done this said her daughter wakes up around 1030 now to take herself to pee, then goes right back to sleep. And using this method we have been dry for weeks, with 1 accident.

I have a six year old son who potty trained very quickly. What worked for me was to set up a routine in the evening. I didn't give him too much to drink right before bed. The last thing we did before getting in the bed was to potty. On the mornings he woke up dry we really made a big deal out of it. If I woke up during the night and he was squirming in his sleep I woke him up to potty so that he knew he could go during the night if he had to. I also used the pull ups with the "feel and learn liners" where if he started going in them he would feel it and wake up to finish going. That really worked; I didn't finish a whole package of those pull ups before he was dry at night. Good Luck with your daughter.

Gotta wait. It'll just happen. You can make sure she goes right before bed, but mostly it has to do with her body having practice and holding and releasing urine AND how sound of a sleeper she is. At some point you will realize that she has been dry for a week in a row and go "hey she's got it!"

My children are all teenagers now, (17,15,and 12), but my middle daughter had trouble staying dry at night for a very long time. I remember being stressed about it and trying everything possible. She would go through months staying dry, and then have months where she wet the bed every night. Believe it or not, she was probably about seven when she finally stopped wetting the bed at night. If I had it to do over again, I would not get upset about it and let her wear a pull-up at night as long as she needs to. In our case, our daughter was (and still is) a heavy sleeper, and she simply didn't wake up when she had to go to the bathroom. When our daughter slept at a friend's house, we told her to change in the bathroom and her friend wouldn't need to see the pull-up. Most likely your daughter will not wet the bed as long as ours did, but my main advice is to not stress yourself out and just do the pull-up at night as long as necessary. It will save you and her a lot of anxiety.

just wait. my daughter just started waking up dry after being trained about 3 months. on the other hand, my friend's daughter has been trained 18 months and is 4 and still wears pull ups at night. you can limit what she drinks at night and make sure she goes before bed, but it'll just happen. some kids sleep harder than others. i'd rather put a pullup on even if she wakes up dry than have to change the sheets every morning. good luck.