I am having problems keeping my 2 y/o son dry at night. He wakes up screaming every morning with his pj's soaked on one side & a large wet spot on his bed. This morning it was more like a puddle. He wears size 6 daipers durring the day & pampers size 7 at night. I have tried both Huggies 6's, both Pampers 6's, Luvs 6's & Pampers 7's at night. This started when he grew out of Huggies size 5. I had been using the Huggies overnights size 5 but now he has grown out of them & the wet sheets began. It started as every now & then so I put him in size 7 & it stopped. About a month ago the wetting started & it was only every week - few days. Now it is every morning. He soaks & wets through a Pampers size 7! Tonight I will be tring Pampers UnderJams diaposible night pants. I have also tried limiting his fluid intake at night. He had been thinking about potty training, but he decided that he doesn't want to do it full-time. He refuses to go potty before bed (my dh & I have both tried to get his to sit on the potty before bed to no avail). I'm in desperate need of help! I'm having to wash his sheets & favorite blanket every day!
Thank You!
Thank You for all of your wonderful suggestions! Last night I put him in an UnderJams with a Pampers size 6 over it. He woke up happy & DRY!!! I have also been looking into overnight youth diapers that hold more than his regular diapers. They don't seem to cost much more than the UnderJams or the Pampers size 7's. I hope this continues to work as we have a graduation to attend out of town this weekend!
If more people wish to add to this post I will be very grateful for any & all suggestions I can get!
God Bless!
Try the product Good Nites. My son is 5 1/2 and does not stay dry at night (very common). We had problems with him leaking through his pull-up until we switched to the Good Nites product.
Hi K. -
Have you tried talking to his pediatrician about this? It could be something medical contributing to the issue. I definitely think that you also need to address the issue of him having all the "potty control." In my opinion, boys are HARD to potty train and it took my son awhile to master it at night for sure. BUT, it sounds like you guys might be letting him have more say than he should about sitting on the potty. Give him some books in the evening at a certain time each night and tell him that it is potty time. If he gets interested in his books or visiting with you then he just might start going potty which would help out the urine output at night obviously! Good luck with this. I hope he will start having drier nights soon! It's no fun changing soggy bedding and soggy babies at night! Best of luck!
I have talked to my doctor many times about this.Our 4 yr.o still wears diapers to bed.My doctor says it is because she is a sound sleeper and does not wake her up.What we do is try to have her use the bathroom before bed.We put 2 diapers on her and put a bed pad from the catalog One step ahead.Sometimes we will change her diapers late at night befor we go to bed.
Try limiting how much he is getting to drink right before bed. I know my oldest would go all day and hardly drink anything. Then right around dinner she would make up for it. Well all of that liquid had to come out and it usually came out in the bed. With him getting close to the potty training age you should start watching how much he gets to drink before bed. Watch and see how much he is drinking during the day, perhaps he is just so busy playing that he is not filling his body with enough liquids and then drinking a lot as he starts to calm down.
Also you can get those bed liners, like they use at hospitals, at walmart of a medical supply store. You could put those under him before bed and hopefully save on washing the sheet...those are great for potty training too.
Goodluck
N.
There is a product on the market called Diaper Doublers. I got them at either Target or Babies R Us. They look like a pad and you put them inside the diaper to absorb more urine at night. I used them with both of my girls and they worked great!! Good luck!
When it came to potty training my youngest (and most defiant) M&M bribes helped alot! Also, I bought a plastic/vinyl mattress cover so the mattress wouldn't get pee-soaked and all I had to do was wash the bed linens.
On a side note: My MIL always keeps our girls for a week in the summer...during the times they were potty training she would let them stay "wet" enough to be uncomfortable and then made them wash their own panties by dunking them in and out of the clean toilet bowl water. They came back home to me completely potty trained! Lol...sometimes the old fashioned way and being away from mom & dad does the trick.
Hi K.,
As the boys get older they have pullup that are overnight ones. I use to use regular pull ups and my son would still pee through them. I would try them and see how that goes. If that doesn't work then I would try putting plastic training pants over his diaper. I hope that this works. Good luck.
Have you tried diaper doublers? They are absorbant inserts that you put into your LO's diaper.. you can buy these at www.diapersite.com
Have you tried using the Huggies SUPREME? If the diaper is to small or to big the leakage with happen. You can also trying getting the rubberpants to go over his diaper.
We have a 3 1/2 year old who pees a ton a night too. My advice is to keep him in the size 7 pampers and change his diaper before you go to bed. That worked most nights on my son. Some kids just have their potty rhythm messed up and tend to go more at night than during the day. You may still have some days where he soaks through but it won't be every day and as his system matures, it will get better. We established a rule at our house that if you don't go potty before bed, you get no bedtime stories. After a couple of nights of no stories, he goes willingly. That will help too.
If he doesn't want to use the pottie before bedtime, that's no surprise (many boys don't begin until closer to 3), but you might just want to explain at another time during the day that if he does, his diaper will stay drier. And limit the amount of liquids he takes in after 6 or 6:30 pm. He's probably just drinking way too much at night. I'd encourage lots of water/milk earlier in the day, and only give half a cup or so at dinner. If he wants more, just give him a little bit- he might be satisfied with that. Good luck, I know that's really difficult.
When my oldest was potty training we had the hardest time training him at night. We had to use Good Nights. They held the most for us. YOu have had some other really good suggestions also. But those worked best for me. Good Luck!
