Night Time Potty Training: When Does It Start?

my daughter wasnt nightime trained until age 4. My son is 4 1/2 and is just beginning to train at night. If she is dry consistently, then try it. but I value my sleep so I had no problems putting a diaper on them until they really want to do it at night. Other friends have their kids trained at 3, some still aren't ready at age 7. when you do it, use thick underwear and we put a little potty in their rooms so they could use it if they had to go quickly.

Night time is not really about "training" but about the maturity of the bladder to hold it that long.
Some kids don't "night train" until they are 4,5,6,7 or even 8. And that is a normal range.
What I did was wait for 2 weeks straight with a dry pull up in the morning and we were good to go.
Good luck.

My son actually was potty trained overnight and at nap time before he was trained during the day, which I think is rather unusual. I know a lot of kids who are reliably potty trained during the day but still wear diapers or pull-ups at night, and some of them are 4, 5 or older.
I think it is a process, and not really something that you can "train" or rush. I would keep putting her in the diaper for sleeping until she is consistently waking up dry, like for several weeks running. And even then, there will probably be occasional accidents. Limiting her liquid intake in the hour or so before be should help as well.
Good luck!

My daughter night trained about 3 mos after she was consistently going on the potty during the day. We started with nap ... that went well and then one night she didn't want a pull-up on so we went cold turkey. She was 2 mos shy of 3 years old when she was fully potty trained. She has not had one accident (knock on wood) since. It has been 6 months :)

My daughter is 3.5 and has been 100% perfectly day potty trained for 6 months. She still wakes up wet every morning. I tried a week of underwear at night, wondering if knowing she had the pull-up on made her not care, but that didn't help. She woke up wet every day. So, I don't know the answer, but I hope knowing my daughter's status helps you in some way.

Denise got it exactly right. You can't "train" your kid hold her urine all night. I know this because I've tried EVERYTHING in the book, and have spoken to the pediatrician numerous times. I happen to have 2 girls who had issues with this. I was told they weren't making enough of a hormone that condenses their urine at night. It was physically impossible for them to stop what was happening each night. And getting your kid up at midnight to pee right before you go to bed doesn't train her. My 9 year old wore a pull up until she was 7 1/2. One day, literally out of the blue, she told me she was done with that. And she was. Not one accident in a year and a half. My little one just turned 7 a couple days ago and she is still not dry at night. I've let it go. It will happen.

My daughter was 4 1/2 before she stayed dry at night. If you look up night time dryness on the internet, you'll discover that it all depends when one's body starts producing enough anti-diuretic hormone, and that really depends on the person. Doctors won't even talk to you about it until the child is over six years old. Also, some children sleep so deeply they aren't aware of the signals from the bladder to urinate.

Some mothers swear that pull-ups keep the child from being aware that they've wet themselves. But I think these mothers forget that their mothers probably kept them somewhat dehydrated so they wouldn't wet the bed, like my mother did to me.

You need to decide for yourself what you and your daughter can stand. If you don't mind changing all of the bedding and doing laundry (and running up your water bill) everyday, then let her try the wetting herself process (I think she is way to young). Or, just use pull-ups until she starts staying dry at night for a couple of weeks, which could be next month or when she is five because it really all depends when her body and bladder are mature enough.

It's a process, it takes time. Keep the diaper on at night till you have a couple weeks of dry nights in a row. It may take another year, as their bodies aren't really up to the nightime dry till they're in their 3's.

I think it varies with the child. My son was day potty-trained by 25mos but wasn't fully night trained until around his 3rd birthday. Once he was day-trained, we praised him for any dry nights/naps he had but didn't make a big deal of it. Around 32 months he began consistently staying dry at night and for his 3rd birthday we let him go diaper free at night.
If she doesn't object, I would keep her in a diaper at nap and bedtime until she's consistently dry (more than a week or two straight). The clean-up hassle of a bedtime accident isn't worth it. And I find that my son wakes up1-2hrs earlier because he has to go the the bathroom than he did before. Take away the diaper at nap first, than bedtime though you might also get a decrease in sleep time. But I also wouldn't take the nap diaper away until she's 99% dry for a long period of time (weeks to a month).