Night Time Potty Training - Richardson,TX

Every child is differnt. I have 3 boys.
The oldest and youngest slept through the night by the time they were 2 1/2. The middle one was 6. He was a bed wetter. Some children are very heavy sleepers. I don't know if they still make this device but it sure did work when I needed it. It is called a POTTY PAGER. You place it in their underpants and it vibrates when they start to pee. It worked great. Try to google "Potty pager" and see if it is still around. There is nothing you can do about a child wetting the bed and you sure don't want to make the child feel bad about it. My boys are grown now. We survived. Some children wet the bed until they are 10. You may want to discuss this with yor pediatrician. Good luck.

I always hate "every other mom" giving advice. Puhlease! Nobody nobody nobody knows your kid like you do; now, if she's still is diapers at 14 then you should probably have her checked, ya know? Four and in them at night? That's fine! My girl is 6 and wore pull-ups to bed until nearly 5. My husband and I started getting her up a few times a night to take her potty (she'd go to bed about 9pm; we'd take her before we went to bed between 11 & 12; again sometime around 3 or 4 and then 7 or 8. After a few weeks of this, she was able to wake herself when she needed to go.

She may have been in pull-ups longer than your mommy friends think is cool, but I can assure you she's quite bright and an all-around normal 6 year old child now. :)

Good luck and don't stress yourself or your baby out about this!

I think the nighttime training can be developmental. Some kids just take longer before their bodies can hold it during their sleep. My little sister wet the bed throughout grade school - and to this day she is a HARD sleeper.
I hope too many other moms aren't making you or her feel embarrassed. That's a shame. From what I've heard, it's pretty common AND usually not a willful thing, you know?

If you think she is able to do it - then maybe have a sticker chart for dry mornings to encourage her. I got out my son's old sheet protector from his crib. If he did wet the bed, I could just take it off, and put another one one without having to change sheets, etc. It was big enough to cover a big area on his twin bed.

Good luck!

With my son we just did it. No more diapers. We also cloth diaper so I think that helped a bunch. About 18 months I moved him into cloth trainers (much like pull ups only cloth) and he was totally learned by 2. He did still have the occasional accident but, he's 3 now and hasn't had one in MONTHS.

If she's not in a toddler bed I suggest either a waterproof mattress or a nekkie blankie ( http://www.nekkieblankie.com/ ) under her so you don't ruin the mattress.

Some kids are just bedwetters though. If she's not ready to Potty learn then she's not ready. You can't "speed up the process" so to speak until she's ready!

Start rewarding dry times. Cut drinks off a few hours before she goes to bed as a last resort. Make her potty right before you turn off the lights.

This is a developmental milestone and not something you can "train" for. (I never understand how people think you can "train" a child who is dead asleep.) It has to do with the development of a certain hormone I believe -- ask your ped for clarification.

Some children take longer and if your dd is still sleeping in a diaper at night at 4, it's not a failure on your part by any means. Typically, Dr's aren't concerned until a child is closer to 6 and still needing a diaper at night. Until then, nobody has to know what your dd sleeps in at night.