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Potty Training overnight
How should I potty train my daughter over night? She does great during the day, no accidents,and for the most part no accidents during her afternoon nap. But I really have no idea how to teach her to go potty overnight?! She's 3 years old and her diaper/-up isn't as wet as it was a couple of months ago, so I think she is holding it more, but should I wake her up in the middle of the night to go?
I just have no idea how to teach her this
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Re: Potty Training overnight
Every LO is different. DD goes to bed at 7:00 and then DH or I take her potty before we go to bed between 10:00 - 11:00. She is still wet in the morning about 50% of the time. It's mostly biology at this point - they are not capable to control their bladder - and I don't think there is a way to train them to potty overnight this young. Most doctors won't even discuss it as an issue until after they are 5 or 6.
I would rather deal with a wet pull up in the morning than wake in the middle of the night
Another vote for you can't.
Trust me... I tried EVERYTHING!!!!
Limit fluids at night is about as far as you can go.
Their brains have to build the synapses to wake them with the urge and that happens at different ages for different kids. The deeper the sleeper the later they overnight train in my experience.
Both of mine day time trained at 20 months. My youngest overnight trained at 2 and my oldest didn't until age FIVE. I was beside myself trying to figure out what to do to help him but I kept reading, hearing and even being told by my pedi to back off and be patient.
I know it's frustrating. My best advice is to wait until you see 4-5 dry pull ups in a row and then try underwear. An ultimate crib sheet or some other waterproof liner will help ease the clean up process with accidents. Our rule was with an accident came another pull up night. Dry mornings meant underwear that night.
Most importantly be careful to not make it a big deal to her. They pick up on your frustration!
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
Pee before going to bed.
I have to say every lo is different too. My 2yr old is night time trained. She even drinks water right before bed. She just started waking up dry on her own.
My 4yr old still wakes up with a very full pull up. We limited her drinks & have her pee before bed so far but she has never woken up dry.
This. It's physiological. You can't "train" nighttime. They will do it when they are ready and it really depends on a lot of factors (heavy sleepers, whether you or DH were bedwetters, how long they sleep, etc.).
As pp's have stated kids are different. This is what I did
We did nap time first. My logic, shorter time, less deep sleep etc. When she started waking up in a dry pull up regularly, I left her in undies for nap time. Potty before nap, potty immediately after. She never had an accident. We still did pull ups at bed time as usual.
When I start finding occassional dry pull ups in the morning then I started thinking about night time training. I was suspicious, bc if I woke her up, she was dry but if she woke up before me she was wet. I guessed that she might be waking up dry and peeing in her pull up bc she didn't want to get out of bed. So I started by putting her in undies, and then the pull up over the top and then in jammies after she tinkled at bed time.
She was dry some nights and not other nights. She started resisting wearing the pull up, so our deal was if she was dry for 5 days straight no more pull up. If she woke up wet, pull up that night. I still have to remind her to go to the potty first thing in the morning. (She hasn't worn the pull up in months)