Night Time Potty Training - Alamo,CA

You're doing great to be daytime potty trained already! My son still wets at night. Our pediatrician said that there is no "blame", "fault", or "behavior" issue here. It is a matter of brain development and bladder development catching up with each other. He said it can be particularly hard for heavy sleepers. Get him up to go in the night when you go to bed or if you wake during the night. Eventually he will get there on his own.

We use pull-ups because I got tired of washing the sheets. If you do keep them in undies you may want to make the bed with two layers of sheets (waterproof pad, sheet and then another waterproof pad and another sheet). This way if you must change the bed in the night it is quick and easy. You just pull off the wet layer and you are good to go.

My daughter potty trained at 2 yrs 5 months (although it was gradual leading up to that). We had always used cloth, but I switched to disposable pull ups at naps and nighttime when that transition happened. AFter the first couple of months, I noticed her diaper was dry at naptime, so I stopped using it. Then at 2 yrs 9 months she had a week of dry diapers at night, so I stopped using them. It's been 3 months now and no accidents so far. Our rooms are adjacent and on a couple of occasions she's woken up and said she needs to go potty so it's easy to take her.

We also go potty before bedtime and no big drinks (milk, etc) in the hour before bedtime, although she keeps a sippy cup of water in bed with her in case she gets thirsty. I think it's mainly just luck - some kids are heavier sleepers or whatever. I am glad I took the leap of faith and tried it - the worst that can happen is you have to change the sheets in the night, and the upside is no more diapers!

a lot of kids just sleep to heavily and won't wake up.
My 4 year old still wears pull ups to bed. She will even get up and go pee most times but she's still wet..

I would talk to the doc, because often times the bladder might not have caught up with them.

We use pull up always, she would sleep right through a wet bed and I can't stand the thought of her laying in it all night.
I kind of feel like that would be a punishment (albeit not a purposeful one) for something they can't control.

I'm basically in the exact same situation right now-daughter, 2 years 3 months. There have been a few times I've let my daughter nap in undies but it was only because she had just gone to the bathroom before she went down. I'm kind of moving more in the pull up direction for sleep, but am thinking about just sticking a potty in her room so she can get up and go by herself if she needs to, but at this point she's still in a crib and doesn't climb out. Our training has been pretty gradual over the last 2 months and so I'm assuming she'll just start waking up more and more with a dry diaper and when it seems to be the majority, or if she begins insisting on undies, that's when we'll just go for it.

Try having your child, especially the older ones, drink a small glass of water before going to sleep. I don't know why, but it seems if there's already a small amount of liquid in the bladder it holds better through the night. Strange I know, but it was the only thing that worked for me.

Two of my 4 kids were peeing at night until they were 7. Our doctor said it's completely normal for some kids, and that you're not supposed to worry about it until age 8 or 9. That said, I say use pullups at naps and bedtime to avoid messes. When my oldest was little there were no pullups and we had a mess to clean up a couple of times a week.

I have a 3yr 5mo old boy who is dry during the day also, and usually dry through nap time. From what I have read it is harder for them through the night, which makes sense. They have to wait until their bladder grows to a size that can physically hold the potty all night before they can stay dry. I don't know about your older daughters not being able to... I would ask my pediatrician for some advice on that. But you don't want to put too much pressure on them.

Hi! My son (2 years 6 months) just started sleeping in underwear at night after being day trained at 26 months and nap trained a month later.

My advice is this: 1) Make sure you wait about an hour after the last food or drink and then ask him to go both pee and poop as part of his bedtime routine.

2) Make sure he knows that he is allowed to get up during the night and use the bathroom if he needs to but that he needs to use the potty and go straight back to bed.

HTH
T.

I had no problems with my now six year old boy that by three I think it was was dry at night however my four year old boy has only just now started to become dry at night. I had become frustrated and had read a lot of info about the fact that some kids no matter what you do are heavy sleepers and could have problem all the way to age 12. Yes I used nighttime pull-up and though they did not always hold well kept the blankets dry, also I use the bed pads like you find in the hospital to keep the bed dry, I would put one under the sheep for extra protection and then stack a few on top of the sheet and then if the bed got wet at night I could just pull one off and my son could go right back to sleep in a dry bed. Also my kids love Chamomile Tea and drink it a lot and always drank it through the night so I started telling them "OK this is your last one before bed and after you go to sleep I will make you one more only for the night." Mainly because I got tired of getting up all night to make tea. I started to not make my 4 year old his cup for the night and he would wake up thinking he had already drank it. He started realizing that his bed was dry in the morning and was so happy that he didn't mind not having his tea at night. So now he has his last cup at night and no more til morning though I do have to make sure and tell him "This is your last cup!" or he will keep bugging me. I hope some of this helps, I know every child is different. Good Luck.

First of all, pull-ups are the worst invention ever. They give the child the security of a diaper but they pull up like undies. Ugh!

Use undies all of the time. If your child feels the pee or poo on their body, he will learn to hold it until he gets to the potty.

You should be applauded for getting a boy to potty train so early. Take away his(and your) security blanket - his pull-ups. Bite the bullet and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

I would use pull ups at night. You want the child to be dry first thing in the a.m. for about 2 weeks, then you can be pretty sure they are ready for undies at night. I did this with my girl, and she is in undies all the time at 2 1/2!! My boy who sleeps hard through the night (4 1/2) is not ready for undies at night yet.

we limit drinks 2 hrs before bed and all go potty in the a.m. and night before bed. You'll want to get the pads to protect the mattress and sheets when it's time.

Hi,

My brother had the same problem. He actually wore diapers at night until he was 6 years old. In our family, it's a hereditary thing, as I had several cousins with nighttime bedwetting issues, one cousin bed wet until she was 16 (not nightly)!!!! and another until she was 12!!!! For my brother, he had to wear 2 cloth diapers every night, and he would soak through them frequently. He had very strong urine, smelled like amonia, so he'd have to take a bath as soon as he got up- it was very sad.
Check with your doctor, just in case, but I would guess, since more than one child is having the problem, it's just hereditary.
And for the 2 year old, it's very common for children to take several months after being daytime potty trained to become nighttime trained. Just get those nighttime diapers or pullups (though they are more expensive), and I put a pad under them so I didn't have to change the sheets everytime they leaked.

Good luck!