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Just a note on mattress pads, as the mother of a bed-wetter, I've found it very helpful to layer sheets/mattress pads. I put a mattress pad on first, then sheet, waterproof pad, and another sheet. If she wets, just strip off the first layer. Trust me, it's so much easier not to have to remake the bed in the middle of the night.
I hadn't heard about the thing that goes over the sheets, I'll look into that.

Hello A.,
don't worry, when her body developes at the right time she will not pee the bed. I know for a fact that you can do all the things people tell you but if her body hasn't completely developed no pushing will make her change. I know a man who quit wetting the bed on Christmas eve when he was 18. Sometimes it runs in family's.

I've heard that if they can go about 2-3 nights in a row without wetting the diapers, then they're about ready for going all night. My sister tries to taper off drinks after 7pm, and her girls go to bed around 8:00-8:30. They'll to great except if they had a really big day and are super tired.

My oldest can go all night being dry, but it's sort of a confidence issue. The pediatrician laughed because we're purposefully buying the pull-ups just a little small, and they're just a little uncomfortable - just enough to make her consider trying to be dry.

Good luck!

She isn't necessarily too young to stay dry through the night. I think kids do it when they are ready to do it, and of course accidents can still occasionally happen. Put underwear on her at night, make sure she doesn't drink too much before bed and goes potty, protect the bed with the right sheets or waterproof mat underneath, and see how she does! If she isn't ready, put the diaper back on and try again in a couple of weeks.

Take the diapers off, put a pad under the sheet.As long as she is wearing them(diapers) she will pee in them. She needs to stop drinking around 5 and always go to the bathroom before she goes to bed (its a ritual)then when she dooes wet she will learn its better to wake up and walk to the bathroom(where you will have the potty ready for her and the night light on). I have trained 3 children, and each one is different. I gave my first 2 kids no rewards, 3rd one rewards for going in the daytime and first bm in potty, my daughter uses stickers for her girl. Make a chart off nickelodian in the dora section and let her pick and place her sticker each morning that she has a dry bed. Best of luck to you.

I am to tired to read all responses lol BUT I will tell you what I did. Avery started at 16 mo and did really good THEN we moved and sort of set her back with being in new place but still went ok in potty. Before her nap I always had her go to bathroom and try to potty and I made it a game with her and I. I would say MOMMA is going to beat you and I would go really SLOW so she would win and she ALWAYS got excited when she got on potty first. lol THEN when she did #1 she got a sticker of HER choice that she picked out and SHE put it on a chart every time. Same for bed BUT I Never gave her anything to drink after 7:30 she got a SMALL sip before bed but not a lot OH when she did #2 she got 2 stickers. She was potty trained pretty quick. Get her a waterproof mattress pad for her whole mattress if she is in a big girl bed and if she does have an accident it will not go to mattress which I am sure you know that sry. OK I just told you some things not even to your question sry lol. NO she is not to little to have big girl panties on at night and naps. She should so she knows what it feels like when she has the feeling to go and it will stick in her head when she does it. Avery has been in big girl panties since 2 and never really had no trouble with her and accidents. It will be a patients things and she might catch on pretty fast. good luck

I wouldn't worry about it right now. Our pediatrician said that they don't even begin to think of it as a problem until five years old. My daughter is four and just stopped wearing pull-ups at night. We have cut down on her bedtime drink and make sure she goes potty right before bed now that she is wearing underwear, but I don't agree with stopping fluids altogether at dinnertime as some do. It isn't a conscious thing when they are sleeping at this age. They just need to mature to the point where the brain makes the connection to wake the body, and this happens at different ages. As long as she is doing great during the day, I wouldn't worry about nighttime just yet. Good luck.

As long as she has the "safety" of the diaper she will still use it. You need to just stop putting them on her. You can buy full length changing pads for her bed which will eliminate your need to change her sheets if she does wet the bed. These are wonderful!! I have 6 kids, ages 14wks, 3 1/2, 5, 17, 18 & 23. Not one of them wore diapers past age 2 1/2. There have been plenty of accidents but they won't learn unless you make them.

Good Luck & Happy Holidays!

# years old is plenty old enough for girls, usually. They mature faster than boys. Cut down on her night time drinks and put a mattress pad/cover on her bed under the sheet and be prepared to wash some sheets! She should get the hang of it quickly!

My second little girl did much of the same thing... she potty trained before the age of 2 very easily but still needed a pull-up for bedtime. I think this really depends on when your little one is peeing. If it is honestly in the middle of the night, she my not be ready yet... We even had to put a pull-up on over my daughters "big girl" panties because she was so devastated about the whole thing... she didn't want to pee the bed, just couldn't help it. If they are peeing because they aren't ready to get up yet (in the morning) then that is a different story. I'm guessing she may just need a little more time. I'm sure you know all this but we started cutting our fluids before bedtime to help the process. Eventually she was waking up dry on a regular basis and we got rid of the pull-ups. Seriously, each precious little gift is unqiue and will accomplish this at their own pace.

Is she dry in the morning? I put my kids in diapers at night until they were dry in the AM. Then, I just put underwear on them. You might want to have plastic on the mattress then a towel or mattress cover before the sheet. Some kids wet the bed occasionally for several years, I was one of them, but all my kids quit wetting at night around 3 yrs old.

If she never wakes up dry then she may not be ready physically. My daughter would sometimes wake up dry and then immediately go in her diaper.....I just had to take the diaper away from her and she has done fine. We have a few accidents but not often. I would just try a couple nights without a diaper and see how she does....make sure she goes potty right before bed and remind her that she will not be getting a diaper for bedtime. If she continues to wake up wet then her bladder may not be ready for an all-nighter. Best Wishes :-)

My girl is also 3 and I just asked the doc about this. He said it's a brain maturity issue. There is nothing you can do, it will happen on it's own. Now I'm sure we will have to watch to make sure they aren't being lazy because I'm sure that can happen too. I figure one of these days she'll get tired of wearing a diaper like a baby. I talk to her a lot about it and being a big girl. So she knows the goal is to stay dry and wear panties all the time even at night.

You should put her in underwear when she goes to bed too. Lose the diapers. They are for babies. When she wets the bed and she comes in your room because she is wet, have her change the sheets, with assistance from you. I learned when I was a nanny that she will keep doing it if you tend to her everytime she does it. It may sound cruel, but she will get tired of changing her clothes and changing her sheets. You can also put a portable pot next to her bed in case she just doesn't want to go all the way to the bathroom. Don't give her anything to drink after 6:00 either. Hope this helps.

Is she waking up wet or dry? Many kids will continue to wet at night for quite a while even after they're day-trained.

My older daughter was day-trained by 2 1/2 or so, but she wet her pull-up every single night until she was 4. A week before her 4th b-day, she decided she wanted to wear underwear to bed, so we let her try. We had several setbacks (going back to diapers) and LOTS of wet beds, but after about 3-4 months, she was consistently dry at night.

My younger daughter was day-trained easily by 2, and at 2 1/2, she decided she wanted to quit wearing diapers to bed (the same time as her sister). She had already been waking up dry at least a few times per week, and she ended up staying dry more often than her older sister. She was consistently dry at night within 3-4 months as well.

My girls share a bed, so we just bought a mattress cover that goes under their bodies over the top of the mattress. I can't find an example online right now, but it was just a pad that went across the bed, over the sheets, and tucked in on both sides. It was very easy to just take it off and put a new one on if we had a middle-of-the-night accident.

Hope that helps!

Its all going to depend on your daughters development. Some children can go straight to panties at night from the time they are potty trained, others it takes a few years. Our daughter was potty trained by 18 months and quit wearing pull ups to bed around 2 1/2. Here's what we did. We first invested in a decent mattress pad. We started trying panties for naps. When she went a week or two w/out naptime accidents we then tried for our first dry night. We limited night time drinking and made sure she went potty immediately before going to bed. When she had a successfully dry night we made a big deal about it....tons of cheering and praise. If she had an accident we reassured her that accidents happen and we'll just have to try harder. (Do not make her feel like she has done something wrong!) Keep in mind that even after she is sleeping in big girl panties through the night on a regular basis that accidents may still happen when things get "stressful" or on particularly long days. When this happens just reassure her that she's a big girl and that accidents happen... just to try to keep her bed dry the next night. **Another thing that my husband and I did when we've had one of those "stressful" or long days is to take her to the potty before we go to bed as its usually a few hours later. My husband will carry her into the bathroom (keeping it dim, not to fully wake her & get her off track)sitting her on the potty and asks her to "go potty" and she does. Sometimes she is coherent enough to realize that she's up and other times she never remembers it. Now she wakes up on her own on these kind of days and uses the restroom...then puts herself back in bed.

Her body is still probably too immature for over nights without accidents yet, and to my knowledge, there's no way you can 'train' her on that, unless you want to wake her out of a dead sleep and try to get her to go potty...I'd say good luck with that, if your toddler sleeps like my kids, lol. That will come naturally, on its own, you just have to wait it out.