Lurker with a ?... When did you know DC was ready to be night pt'd?

Krilyn430

DS has always given us trouble with diapers(doesn't like how they feel) yet he never pt'd until he was almost 3.5. Well the last few weeks he's been fighting us about the pull-up/diaper and tonight he flat out refused to wear anything but undies. After about 45 minutes of fighting him I caved and put him down in undies. My issue is I don't think he's really ready not to wear a pull-up or diaper of some kind. How/when did you realize that dc was ready to go w/o the pull-up or diaper? Any suggestions on what else to try to get him to wear something?

howleyshell

For us it was when they'd woken up dry for a couple of days in a row.

BUT... my oldest was ready REALLY young and I kept waiting for him to hit the magical # of 5 mornings dry.

I wish I'd pulled the pull ups sooner because he'd learned to lay there and pee in the pull up even though he was awake.

 

DeputiesWife

For me - it was when she work up dry after a few nights. in the beginning she had some accidents. now they are very few and far between.

 

why do you think he isnt ready? does he wake up wet? - have him go potty right before bed.

if he still does - maybe have him put the pull up on himself.

how did he do in undies?

i never fought with DD to wear a pull up for nap time once she was PT - in the beginning of PT i would put her in a pull up and she then asked to wear undies to bed and I let her -- if she had an accident, while it would be a PITA to clean up, everything can be washed. Not worth the fight for me. 

HarrietNJMommy

It depends on the kid. You can't train nighttime. It's physiological, meaning, they need to do it themselves when their brain and body is ready. Some kids can be potty trained early during the day and still NOT be trained at night for months and even years.

Doctors don't consider it an issue until they are around 6-7 years old. A lot of factors come into play.

We still have an issue with night training. I will know when my kids wake dry for 2 months consistently. My peds aren't worried at all, and neither are we. It will happen.

Have you thought about getting him cloth trainers? They go on like underwear, but are used for kids that are cloth diapered and potty training. It may be a good compromise......

GL! 

jlw2505

I am assuming by your post that he is totally day trained.  For night time, with my older DD, she got it right away at 2y9m which is also when she day trained which is not very common.  I still had her sleep in pull-ups for a few months though.  I knew she had it when she consistently woke up dry and would wake up in the middle of the night if she had to go and be able to call me and then go potty on the toilet, no accidents.  In the 2 1/2 years that she has been trained, she has only had a few night accidents.  DD #2 is a totally different story, she day trained at around 3 but still has accidents a few times on week off and on (some weeks like this, she has been accident free) and she is so not ready to night train.  While she wakes up dry most mornings, at least 1-2 times a week, she wakes up with a soaked pull-up.  It doesn't faze her and she never wakes up.  She will be sleeping in a pull-up until she either goes months totally dry or until she starts waking up at night when she has to go potty.  Day and night training are totally different and night time just takes kids years to get - if kids are deep sleepers, it is a lot harder to get through the night stuff.  Have you tried the Under Jams with him?  They are more like undies vs Pull-ups which are more like diapers.  I would not have him in diapers at this point.

baeluevano

We potty trained DD when she was almost 2.5 we did night & day at the same time.

flgator

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Krilyn430

Thanks everyone! He is definitely not ready to wear just undies at night, however he won't wear anything but the undies. I've just gone to putting waterproof pads on the bed and waking him up to use the bathroom and changing him when necessary. We tried some plastic undies but he didn't like them either. I'm thinking I may try to find some thicker more absorbent cloth undies and hope he'll like them otherwise we"ll just keep doing this until he trains or gets tired of being wet.

Meeshe

Can you wake him up when you go to bed?  Right before my second was born my DD decided she didn't want to wear diapers/pull-ups at bedtime any more.  So i went with it but we wake her up and take her to the bathroom right before we go to bed.  She is so out of it, she goes right back to sleep.  With that she's only had 2 accidents in 6 months.  Now I have no idea how to know when she's ready to stop doing that.