Potty Training at Night (Keeping Pants Dry)

Maybe she just thinks the pull-ups are cool. Put underwear on under the pull-up so she feels wet and you don't have to clean up the mess.

Try cloth training pants. The problem with the disposable pull ups is that they are sooo absorbent that kids don't mind being wet. With cloth, she will feel the wet and that might wake/motivate her. Here's a link to some cloth training pants:
** http://www.kidbean.com/0705803.html
** http://www.punkinbutt.com
** http://www.betterforbabies.com
For the second two, just go the Training Pants link on the left side of the page.
Hope that helps!

I am a 66 year old mom and grandma,
2 of my children never wet the bed and 2 did until they went into peburty. Why you ask ?
Small bladders,? Bladder problems?
Don't know for sure but we did everything from shaming them and after seeing a dr of uninology they could not help it. Also my daughter who wet the bed had 2 sons who wet the bed until they started purberty.
If you take them to a dr and he can't find a reason for it .
Change the bed help him through the shame and don't make a big deal of it. Yes i know it's not any fun having people say what smells. And it is hard on the moms. But isn't it what we are to do for our kids when they need us and do they need our love more then ever.
C.

Hi Sara G.,

After my son was potty trained I went through the same thing. The only process that worked for me was to get up in the middle of the night and take him to the bathroom. After a while he started getting up on his own and the wet nights stopped. Even though we cut off the liquids and such, they still have to go during the night.

It breaks your sleep but it's worth it in the end.

Hope that helps.

I am a mother of a 2 1/2 year old daughter that is doing just great during the day and I still put her in pull-ups at night too. I was putting her in a diaper at nap time and at night at first. But then when I saw she was holding it during naps, we just left pull-ups on. She fought that a little, but I told her she was a big girl now and she can do it. (I would tell her what a good job after her naps, when she was dry. That way she knew she was really being a big girl and it was easier to get rid of the pull-ups.) They tend to get use to the comfort of them. Then we got night time pull-ups and I had her pick them out. When she wakes up dry, I really tell her how proud of my big girl~ I am. When she wakes up wet, I ask her why did she not get up to go potty? She usually gives me a excuse. But she does get up usually in the middle of the night. But she really didn't like giving up the diaper at night and she will usually tell me she pee'd in her pull-up. She was on pull-ups at night for like three wks and she did really good at getting up at night to go and being dry in the morning. So I told her because she is such a big girl now, when the pull-ups are gone from this last package~ it will be just underware like at nap times. She gets real upset if she pee's in her bed or pants. So when there was no pull-ups, then she has to go or she will be wet. She fought it, but she did ok. Some accidents, because sometime she is in such a sound sleep she doesn't wake up. But she still drinks until she goes to bed at 9:00 and we go to the bathroom before her bedtime. She doesn't want to pee in her big girl bed, so she gets up. Good luck~

I took my daughter shopping and let her pick out her own sheets and comforter set. I kept telling her that she wouldn't want to potty on Tinkerbell, and that Tinkerbell didn't like to be pottied on. It worked!

As I am sure you have heard before, potty training is one of those things that kids will each do at their own pace. Personally, I view it as my reminder that they are not on MY schedule. Each of my 3 children have evidenced this fact. Our approach has been not to fuss about it, particualrly the nighttime part. My oldest wore a pull up at night until she was almost 7. For her the issue was that she is a heavy sleeper and just could not wake herself at night. So we developed a habit of getting her up around midnight every night to use the bathroom. As she entered 1st grade, we began again to discuss not needing the nighttime pull up and what that would mean for her. At that point she was able to participate in the choices of no fluids close to bedtime, etc. Now it has been about 4 months with no pull ups at night. We still get her up at night to use the bathroom, but now it is around 10 or 11 or we rouse her before the other kids around 6 am. She has had a few overnight accidents but now she can wake herself, change her sheets and clean herslef up on her own.
So my advice, give her a nighttime pull up until she doesn't want/need it anymore.

abut me: married mom of 3 (ages 7, 5 & 2)

Some kids can't hold it all night for quite some time. I am from a family of bedwetters, and my son wore PullUps until he was 5 and we keep a mattress protector on his bed still at the age of 8. We don't worry about it if he has an accident, which he does on the rare ocassion (usually if he is overly tired). Now my daughter is 4, and she can stay dry through the night.
If your daughter is for sure peeing in the Pullup in the morning after she wakes up, maybe she is feeling that it is too much trouble to go to the potty (she just woke up), or that the Pullup is for peeing in. My daughter would also wake up dry and then pee if I didn't get the PullUp off right away. I told my daughter that we would go back to diapers if she intentionally peed in her PullUp, and that PullUps are for keeping DRY. She was surprised by that, she had thought that PullUps were for nites and "accidents", so it was okay to pee in them.

Does she go to sleep a couple of hours before you? If so, pick her up and put her on the potty before you go to bed and right back to sleep..don't be turning on lights or no talking other than softly saying "go potty baby, mommy loves you". Then right back to bed

Not to throw a wrench in your thinking, but is it possible that she can't make it through the night? If she is cleared of all bladder/kidney issues, then I would probably suggest having HER throw out the pull-ups and put her in the big girl panties full time. I know there is great risk for big mess, but she probably won't do it too much if you throw out each pair of panties she soaks or is in a cold wet bed. Good luck.

I would try 2 things. 1 try candy. IF she goes to sleep and then gets up to go potty instead of just going in her pants at night then let her have her favorite candy the next day after breakfast! Make sure you remind her at night RIGHT BEFORE she's going to sleep every night. OR

My daughter really likes to watch movies at nap time - sometimes she sleeps other times she'll just watch the movie. BUT if she has an accident in her underwear or her bed the night before she doesn't get a movie the next day. So take away s/thing she always gets for a while and if she likes it enough, maybe it will be a motivator.

she's still quite young yet, I think. keep doing what you're doing. I'm still wondering when my son (3.25yrs) will wake up w/ a dry diaper from the night, even tho he's been daytime potty trained since 25 mos (early!).

i do have to tell you that if it continues as she gets older (say past age 5), then there is help -- with a natural homeopathic remedy (no side effects and are super safe). There are bedwetting tablets that you can try at home:
http://www.hylands.com/products/bedwetting.php

If these don't work, then they're not strong enough of a potency, and then you need to see a professional homeopath. There's usually just something not "wired" just right in the brain to awaken the child and homeopathy can fix the wiring. See some examples of things here from my homeopath's website (she's in Naperville): http://dupagehomeopathic.com/homeopathic_photographs.html.

I cant say much about that as far as advice goes cause to me it looks like you tried everything I would think of. I just know for me when I was little I wet the bed, but I was alot older then that. I would dream I was on the toilet and it was safe to go.

Don't let her wear pull-ups and then set your alarm to get her up an half hour before her normal waking time. As soon as you start to wake her tell her don't pee pee in the bed you don't have on a diaper.

Also start calling the pull-ups diapers. That is what they are and most kids don't like the idea of wearing a diaper like a baby. If she corrects you and says they are pull-ups then just politely tell her they are diapers that other people call pull-ups.

Those are all some techniques my mother used and they worked pretty well. I've used them for naptime with the little girl I sit. She's 20 months old and she potty trained during the day and naptime for me. Her mom is still using diapers but I think she could go without.

Sara,

The solution I found was most helpful was to get up in the middle of the night and take her when you go for yourself and usually around 1am is the time to take her. I know it's hard when you have to get up in the morning for work, but it worked for us. Then when you get up in the morning take her straight to the potty make it a routine and she will learn.

Sounds like she doesn't care if she pees in the pull up. I would put her underwear with rubberlining, so she feels when she goes

Hi Sara, I am a mother of 3 children. 12 yr boy, 8 yr old boy, 3 yr old daughter. My husband and I were both bed wetters as children and were told it was heredatary (sorry I dont know if I spelled that right) and that the bladder is not fully developed to hold urine that long, but will become stronger as they grow older. Only a small percentage last till the teen years. It took my older son till he was 10 and my middle son is still a bedwetter. On the other hand, my 3 year old daughter, whom I still put a pull up on at night just in case, will wake up 99% of the time dry.
Just be thankful in today world that they invented pull-ups. They never had anything like that when I was a child and it was hard because I could never spend the night at my friends houses. Now my children live a normal life, even spending the night at friends houses and nobody knows they are and where bedwetters. (I would put a plastic bag in thier overnight bag for the morning and they would go into the bathroom and change)
Just be patient, its not thier fault.

Good luck, N.