How to potty train for night time?
DD was fairly easy to PT around 27 months. But she was in a Pull Up for naps & night time. She recently stopped wearing one at naps but she usually wakes up after 45 min needing to pee. It's been hard but we've started to allow no water after 7pm. She goes to bed at 815pm. She pees before bed. DH will take her to pee around midnight before he comes to bed & she's usually dry in the morning. But if he waits to long to take her she will wet her pull up. A couple times she has gotten up in the middle of the night & come to our bathroom to pee. Don't know why she won't use hers.
Anyways, should DH quit taking her & see if she'll learn to hold it longer?
I feel bad but is it okay to stop liquids after 7? She begs. She's getting better but she still asks for it. She drinks a TON during the day though.
Re: How to potty train for night time?
we never "trained" for night... we kept Griffin in pullups at night- told him it was "just in case" b/c it's hard when you are sleeping, etc.
he started waking up dry on his own a couple weeks later- and has never had an accident since. We used up the case of pullups we had - and that was it. he also never wakes at night to pee... he's got a good bladder.
It is a development thing and not something you can train them for. DS potty trained at 25 months but slept in a pull up and was wet most mornings until he turned 4. Right after his 4th birthday he started waking up to pee during the night and was dry every morning. After he was dry for 2 weeks, we let him wear underwear and he has done great since. I asked the pedi at his 4yr check up and she said it was not a concern until they were 5 or older.
FWIW, we stopped letting DS have anything to drink after dinner(6pm) and it didn't make a difference. He would still wake up wet so I just let him have whatever he wanted to drink.
Yup, agree with pp that this is definitely a developmental thing.
My DD1 was day-trained around three, but it's only within the past week that she's been wearing underwear to bed (just turned four). She has never woken up dry that I know of, but she told us she wanted to wear her big girl pants to bed -- so we let her, and she's had one accident so far but done amazingly well. She decided she was ready, and so she's been successful.
I do try to limit fluids after dinner, but she still has a cup of water in her room at night and so far seems to be able to hold it long enough to be all right. Heck, I get thirsty at night myself, so I don't want to take that away unless I absolutely have to.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
YOu can not train someone to be night trained. It is developmental and when her body is ready, it will happen. Nothing that you are doing (stopping drinks at a certain, waking her at night to make her pee) is going to train her - it will just make you guys tired. My suggestion is to put her in pull-ups and let her be. When she is ready, she will either sleep all night and be dry or start waking up when she needs to go potty.
My almost 4 year old (2 weeks) was day trained at around age 3. She was in pull ups for night time until about 6 weeks ago and would wake up wet about half the time at most. She never woke up to pee at night. We never limited water but we always had her pee right before bed. About 6 weeks ago, on a Sat morning, she announced that she was done with pull-ups at night. She has not had a night time accident at all. She now wakes up to pee (will either go by herself or will call me) or wakes up dry and pees in the morning. I never pushed it - we talked about it from time to time when she would wake up dry but we never pushed. She was ready and it happened. Older DD night trained first but I still had her in pull-ups for a few months after since she was so young and I have always felt that having them pee in their pull-up is a lot easier for all of us than changing the sheets each night in the middle of the night or waking up a sleeping child to "dream pee" for lack of a better term since it is not teaching them a thing.