Overnight Potty Training - Fresno,CA

You can't. Just leave her in diapers for now. Unlike potty training, which is at least somewhat a battle of wills, nighttime potty training is totally physiological. When she starts waking up dry, switch her to underpants. Good luck.

We are now on our 5th night of no diapers. This is what we did.
He has nothing to drink after dinner and must go pee right before getting into bed.
Our child still comes into our bed anytime between 330 and 6 am. He can not come into our bed until he goes to the bathroom.
The first 3 night, I had to remind him and get out of bed with him . The last two nights he did it himself then crawled into our bed.
Now, IF she does not sleep with you or get into your bed at all, then I would set an alarm and get her up to pee.
Yes, I know that that is a horrible idea but i do think It is the only way to do it.

Good Luck and If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask.

J.

My pediatrician told me that night time wetting is not considered part of potty training since the child is not even awake to make the conscious decision to use the rest room. We have had the same issue with our son who is 4. I have had some success with simply telling him to put his pee in the potty and not in his pull up. Seems so simple, but it actually worked. I also took the Dixie cups out of the bathroom to decrease night time drinks.

Have you tried putting her nighttime Pull-Up/diaper OVER her underwear for bed? That will help her feel the wetness, instead of it just absorbing, and help her learn to wake up when she starts to go pee in her sleep. I use this method when potty-training my daycare kids to help them actually feel the discomfort of having wet pants without having to clean up a puddle everytime. Also, try limiting liquids right before bedtime, so you're not setting her up for having to pee in the middle of the night. Good luck!

i agree with jane. you really can't, unless you get her up every few hours all night long - and i tried that, it didn't work! my son was 100% pt, day and night, and we moved and switched preschools in the same month, and that all went bye-bye. when he pt the first time he suddenly just "started" waking up dry, and the transition was totally a breeze. this time it has been harder. i have decided NOT to make this a battle i choose to fight - i can't win it anyway. as long as it's only at night i don't see a need to cause drama over it. and she is asleep, it's not like she is consciously deciding to wet her pants. also, i would suggest nighttime training pants, you mentioned diapers. they are going to hold a lot more to avoid "accidents" and having to wash sheets every day...

Don't feel too bad A.. My son is 7 1/2, and he still wets the bed at night. He is a very, very deep sleeper. I was told that waking them up to go to the bathroom is more on the parents' part than the child's control. She's only 4 so I am sure she'll outgrow it soon. Most kids do by 5 years old. Boys I have read have more of a difficult time with bed wetting.

I had tried giving my son some fresh organic parsley (the leafy Italian type and enough to cover his palm). He would eat it around 3 pm, and throughout the night he would stay dry. I had read about it online, and it worked! (The woman online said to try it for a month and then stop and the bedwetting will stop forever. It worked with both of her kids.) However, now he's tired of the parsley (he only tried it for a couple of weeks), and he's back to wetting the bed again. My husband used to wet the bed and so did his father so I just deal with it everyday and he wears the Good Nights to bed.

Just hang in there. She will probably stop soon!

You just have to wait until her bladder/nervous system matures. In the daytime, she has a lot of bodily sensations she can pay attention to, but at night when she is fast asleep, the sensation of bladder fullness has to wake her up before she can act. If she is a sound sleeper, this will take awhile.
When she's older, and she begins to see it as a problem, you could try a bell and pad system which your pediatrician would know about.

I was told to get my son up before I went to bed (11:00) and my husband got him up at 6:00 before he went to work. My son would sit on the potty half-asleep always went right back to sleep so that wasn't an issue. But he rarely woke up dry even when doing that. Then he started saying he didn't want to get up and I didn't think it was worth fighting and making him get up. So, after being day-trained for 1.5 years, he's still not even close to night trained.
You can try the waking up trick and it might work. Otherwise, just wait. She'll figure it out eventually. My nephew potty trained later than my son and it took him more than 2 years to be dry most nights, he still wears a pull-up to bed and he turned 5 yesterday. On the other hand, my friend's son is my son's age and he potty trained a year after my son, but from the time he was dry during naps, he was also dry at night. But he still won't poop on the potty. I guess they are all different :)

Hello A., I hope this is not a repeat of others since I didn't read them. I have found with not only my 5 but with the foster children that had this trouble, that they just were to deep in sleep to wake up or were having bad dreams that caused it. What ever the case we got into the habit of making sure before they went to bed they went potty and then before we went to bed we'd take them again and that solved our problem. Most of the time they never even woke up but were sleepy angels that went because we put them on the toilet then caried them back to bed. At 4 they still are young enough to not have control of their bladders. Good Luck

overnight training take at longer than daytime training. I can only tell you what my mom did with me. I know a lot of people get thier daughters ears pierced at a young age but my made made it an incentive for me to stop wetting the bed. So if ear piercing isn't your thing maybe find something that she would really like and give her something to work towards. I had to go a month without wetting the bed and then I got my ears pierced.

When I had the same issue, a friend just said to put her in pullups at night, and wait a year. It worked with no hassle!

good luck

My neice wet the bed until she was 12. My son stopped at 9. My daughter still occasionally wets the bed and she is 8. My younger daughter is 4 and wears a pull up every night. She calls them nighttime underpants.
There are many reasons she wets the bed but the number one reason is he body isn't mature enough to wake her up when she has to go at night. Number two reason is she may be sleeping so deeply she doesn't even realize she has to go. My son used to have dreams he went to the bathroom and would wake up with a wet bed. Don't stress. It will happen.

You can't "train" someone to do something while they're sleeping. Nighttime dryness comes from physical maturity. Some kids have no problem waking from the sensation that they need to pee, others take a long time to develop that sensitivity. IMHO, the only thing you can do is limit liquid intake before bedtime, make sure your child pees before bed, and continue to use pull-ups or whatever protects your child's bedding until they are consistently dry at night. She can't help it if she doesn't wake up to pee. I wet the bed on occasion well into elementary school, and I promise you, I had NO control of it, whatsoever. I was not abused, I had no problems during the day, I just slept deeply, and didn't always wake from the sensation of needing to pee. I even remember dreaming that I'd really have to pee, and wouldn't be able to find a bathroom, or something, and in my dream, when I'd finally get to a toilet to my great relief, I'd wake, realizing I had peed. But then it was too late. I only wish they had the big kid night diapers then. Would have saved me a lot of ambarrassment, and my mom a lot of grief cleaning bedding and mattresses. At least my mom was kind enough that she never made me feel bad about it.