If your kid wakes to go potty at night... ?

KoriBrett

How on earth do you get them to go back to sleep???  She sleeps in a diaper, but wakes when she has to go, comes in and tells us, one of us helps her, yay all happy happy.

Then she realizes she's hungry & wants a snack.  Then she's hyper.  Then she is awake 2-3 hours every night.  We limit liquids after dinner.  We've tried snacks before bed.  We tried the little potty but she likes "being just like a grownup" and won't even use the ring now.  Next we're getting a new nightlight for the bathroom in hopes that dim light might help. 

If you went through this, what fixed it (if anything) ?

Signed, tired. 

katie277s

Logan is not doing that yet, thankfully.  I think the night light is a good idea, and maybe turn on some quiet, lullaby music in her room after she lays back down. 

Glad to see you back!

neesernicole

M isn't even pt'd yet, so I could easily be talking out my ass....would Sam be able to go on her own if she went to bed in undies?  Get a nightlight for the hall and bathroom????????  Or would she take over the house?  My youngest sister would wake up too but she would turn on the TV and play Cinderella (she was the same age as Sam).  She still wakes up at random hours of the night.

LanaM

Poor Kori...

Ethan normally does not wake up to pee, but once inawhile that he does, we usually don't turn the lights on (just a nightlight in his room and the bathroom). He won't go by himself, he calls for us, so someone takes him there and back to his room. He usually asks to lay down with him, and then he's out usually.

I keep a water bottle in his room, sometimes he gets thirsty. He's never asked for a snack in the middle of the night (not after I stopped feeding him at night at 9 months old) 

 

WifeyLindsay

I leave DD's potty in her room at night. That way she can go if she wakes up, but she never does that... she usually goes right when she wakes up. But i'm not a morning person, so there's no way i'd be able to jump out of bed so she can get to the potty in time first thing in the morning. It works for us... You might want to try it... GL!!!

ak071401

When my ds wakes up to go potty in the night we try not to talk to him or have any big interaction.  We simply walk him to the potty, help him get on the potty and take him back to bed.  We never turn on a light in the bathroom, just have a nightlight that is bright enough so we can see what we are doing.  He also has a nightlight in his room and, since his window faces the street, we play lullaby music quietly in his room all night.  So the entire time he is awake it is very calm.  Sometimes if he seems extra antsy when he wakes to pee, either DH or I will lay on his floor next to his bed and pretend to be asleep until he falls asleep.  This seems to work to keep him calm and in his bed.