Potty Training - Freeland, MI

Don't worry about night, it will come around. My daughter has been doing great potty training and has just started this week to get up at night to go potty. She has only had one wet diaper in the morning so far. She woke up one night and I went to change her diaper and noticed it was dry so I asked her if she had to go potty, and she did. This started her staying dry all night.

Hi, A.,

I found that with my daughter if you just put the big kids undies on and make sure you cover the mattress with a shower liner things will be ok. They have to learn to wear big kid undies anyways. After wetting a few times they begin to learn more about control. But, the one thing we do first is to control the drinks before bedtime. Usually we don't let her have anything past 7:30 p.m. then just before bed she has a 1/2 cup of milk. You kinda have to help with the liquid intake before they can help with the night time wetting. She is doing super! Sometimes she may have a little accident but not very often!

The shower curtain liner works SUPER under the fitted sheet. That seems to hold it into place. Makes clean up alot easier too!

Lots of luck to you!!!!

M. H.

Potty training while they're awake is usually a psychological thing, it's when they're asleep that is becomes a developmental issue. My guy was daytime trained when he was under 3, nighttime didn't happen for good until a month after he turned 5. He was a heavy sleeper and couldn't wake up when the urge came on until then.
Although it's a drain on finances to keep buying pullups, I recommend keeping them for night time. When you get to a period of time where he seems consistently dry or when you hear him getting up at night to go potty, you'll know he's ready to make the break.

Let him wear a pull up at night. Little ones sleep deeply...thus the phrase sleeping like a baby. As you know we all grow out of that. Let him sleep soundly while it lasts. Eventually you will see dry pull ups in the am. But don't rush it.

Hi A.. My soon to be 4 yr old son never did get up at night to use the potty, he would just wait until morning. My daughter (2&1/2) sometimes needs to go potty in the middle of the night, and she calls for me, but usually she is able to hold it all night. Just limit liquids after dinner and have him go potty before bed. Use a pull-up at night until he wakes up dry in the morning. You'll have to get to him right away in the morning though so he can go on the potty, no lounging in bed, then he'll go in his pull-up and you'll never know if he did it at night or when he woke up in the morning. Good luck, sounds like he's well on his way.

My son is also 3 and we finished potty training about 3 months ago. While we were training I put pull ups on him at night and eventually he was consistently waking up dry and I switched him to underwear. He still wets the bed about once a week but I guess that's normal for his age. My advice is to just concentrate on daytime and nighttime will come on its own. A lot of people are against pull ups but they worked really well for my son as we had more independence/stubbornness issues with him and the pull ups allowed him to pull them down and use the potty when he decided he wanted to (and thus saving me from having to clean up many messes). Good luck!

He will eventually start getting up to go to the bathroom at night. With my son at first he would come in and get me to take him, it wasn't until he was about 4 that he started to go on his own. I would just keep talking to him about it (before he goes to sleep) tell him that if he has to go potty in the night that it is okay to get up and go). Have patience.
Good Luck

A.,
I have two boys, ages 4 and just turned 3. My 4 year-old was potty trained around his 3rd birthday (only during the day). We put him in pull-ups during the night and about a few months before his 4th birthday he stopped going pee in his pull-ups all on his own. I have heard from other mom's also that usually around age 4 is when they can stop wearing diapers, pull-ups at night. So please don't stress about it, he will most likely do this on his own. My youngest son has recently been potty trained, during the day, and we will just have to wait and see during this next year when he decides to get up during the night and go to the bathroom! Good luck!

Hi A. -

We would wake up our daughter before we went to bed to have her go to the bathroom. We found that if we did that, that she could make it through the night (most of the time=) )

J.

We just finished with my 2yr old daughter a few months ago, and I was surprised at how easy it was. I have 2 older boys, but never had that issue with them. When we started with her, we would put a diaper on at night (not a pull-up, as I think those become a happy "medium" for some children & their parent's). She hated having the diaper put on at night, but hated waking up with accident even more. In less than one month, she was waking herself up & going to the bathroom at night. I think it's just a matter of training themselves to go on the potty whenever they need to go.

I had my son go potty right before bed and then would put underwear on UNDER the pull-up. Most nights, he would make it thru the night, but having the underwear on underneath, he would feel the wetness which would wake him up, but if not, the sheets are protected. Then, in the morning, have him go potty first thing.