Nighttime PT - How did you start?

npeacock

I don't think DS is ready, but DH is thinking we need to start working on this. DS wakes up wet almost every morning. Did you just go right to underwear? Did you wake up your DC to go to the bathroom mid-way through the night?  I think we should wait a little longer.

TIA!

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good question, DD is still wet every night

joseysbride

How long has he been daytime potty trained?  And how old is he?

With my dd, we just left her in pull ups until she was consistently dry in the morning for quite awhile.  This was several months after she was day time potty trained.

I'm not sure how you would really teach him to wake up at night to go if needed.  Unless you want to just wake him up yourself, but I don't see the advantage of that.

Reagan's Mommy

DD is wet every morning, too.  But, I'm starting to wonder if she's going before she falls asleep and right when she's waking up in the morning, and not actually during the night, KWIM?

We haven't started overnight yet, but I think we will probably go straight to underwear.  If she isn't staying dry at that point, we'll probably go in and wake her up.  (We're hoping to wait until this baby is born...I figure we'll be up at night anyway!)

npeacock

joseysbride:

How long has he been daytime potty trained?  And how old is he?

With my dd, we just left her in pull ups until she was consistently dry in the morning for quite awhile.  This was several months after she was day time potty trained.

I'm not sure how you would really teach him to wake up at night to go if needed.  Unless you want to just wake him up yourself, but I don't see the advantage of that.

DS has been daytime PT for about 3 months.  I am with you in thinking we need to wait that several months until he is dry more consistently.

SMHWife

DD was daytime potty trained in November but wore a pullup at night.  She started having dry pullups all night long by January.

She went into panties at nighttime in April... simply because I had a stock of pullups to use in the meantime and didn't want to waste them.

I would make sure DD uses the potty right before bed and no liquids after 6:30pm (she goes to bed about 8:30).  Then she goes potty as soon as she gets up. 

I wouldn't wake her.. I would just wait it out with pullups or diapers until she is ready.  Have talks with her about it right before bed... like "big girls keep their diapers dry at night"... that kind of stuff.  She'll get to it... it just takes time!

WBs_Bride

joseysbride:

With my dd, we just left her in pull ups until she was consistently dry in the morning for quite awhile.  This was several months after she was day time potty trained.

I'm not sure how you would really teach him to wake up at night to go if needed.  Unless you want to just wake him up yourself, but I don't see the advantage of that.

Ditto this. I really think it is something that just comes with time. There's no way I'd be waking DD to get her to go potty. Once DD was consistently dry in the morning (like 3 weeks straight) we stopped putting pull-ups on her at night (although she had a phase where she wanted to wear them at night anyway--don't know why!). If she had an accident, which has only happened twice, we have a waterproof mattress cover, so no harm done.

happy_momma

We haven't started yet.  He's been potty trained during the day for over 6 months now, but he still wakes up wet frequently. He doesn't pee in a pull-up on purpose, and he stays dry during naps, so I feel like he's just not ready.  Unless he's so old that wearing a pull-up to bed upsets him, I do not want to wake him up just to go to the bathroom.  That seems mean to me. I feel like when his body is ready to either last through the night or wake him up so he goes on his own, then it will be time.  I don't want to pressure him for something he can't control.  If it bothers HIM, then we will step in an come up with some strategies to help him get there.  We have a lot of boys in my family who have been very late with nighttime PT, so I'm trying to stay very relaxed about it and recognize that his body might now be there yet.  He is starting to stay dry once in a while, and he's becoming more aware (like he'll act excited if he gets up and his pull up is dry), so I'm hopeful that he'll get there on his own before elementary school.

npeacock

Thanks ladies! This helps!

jen5-03

We're not there either. DD does sometimes wake up dry but it's pretty rare, and I think a lot of her wet diaper is done in the morning, not really in the night. I know that if I get her night diaper off of her very quickly in the morning then it's usually less wet and sometimes even dry.

I'm not prepared to withhold her liquids in the evening yet because she still drinks a big glass of milk before getting ready for bed and I think she needs it to keep her tummy full and sleep longer. If it doesn't just happen on its own as she gets older, I'll start withholding liquids before bed around 3yr.

ak071401

With ds we just waited until he woke up dry most mornings and then went diaper free.  We noticed after about a month of being day-time trained he would sometimes wake up in the night and ask us to help him go to the bathroom, so we took that combined with the waking up dry as a sign he was ready.  Friday night was his first night with no night-time diaper and he has been dry so far.