If you potty trained, what did you do for naps and night?

jolibebe

DD will be turning 2 a month from today.  She has been showing signs of potty training for a while now.  She tells me when she pees and when she is about to or goes poo poo.  We have a potty chair that is next to a toilet and she will sit on it.  She will even grab so toilet paper...even though she is fully clothed.  I thought it was better to wait until 2.5 yrs but I'm wondering if it's okay to start once she hits two.  The thing is, we close her door during her nap and at night, and there's also a baby gate at her door.  The gate is set up more to keep our long haired dog and cat out of her room.  I don't want her having the pet hair all over her room.  And, DD is still very much in her crib and is perfectly happy in it.  So that made me wonder, do you just start potty training for day?  Do books suggest how to handle this?  Our bedroom is no where close to her room so I do keep the camera on me at all times when she sleeps.  Will she wake up and let me know when she's in her crib and needs to go? 

TIA!

*LrCg*

For us we PT them for daytime, naps and bedtime from the start.  I felt it was way too confusing to say keep your underwear dry except for naps and bedtime.  We just took them potty before naps and when they woke up for naps.  We also had them wear a diaper cover over their underwear for a few weeks just incase (we never had an issue though).  For bedtime, what we did was of course had them go before bedtime which for them is 8pm and then when we went to bed @10-11pm we would wake them up and take them and they always woke up dry.  We did this for a few weeks and then stopped and they always continued to wake up dry.  My kids were 17 & 15 months old when they PT (it literally took just a few days) so they were still in cribs and they sleep on the 2nd floor, we sleep on the first so we've always had cameras on them.  Its rare that they wake up & ask to go but if they do we just take them- no big deal.

MaxandRuby

DS1 (almost 4) is potty trained for day and basically nap. I put a pull up on him for nap (just to be safe) and for night. He does not wake up on his own if he is sleeping and he has to pee...hence why we still use a pull up during sleep times. I could probably just keep him in underwear for naps at this point though.

DS2 (2.5yr) we have not started potty training yet.

If your DD is showing signs of readiness there is no need to wait. I'd go ahead and start potty training now.  :-)

StatlerWaldorf

I tried just using pull ups for nap and night, but she would hold her pee all day until I put the pull up on her.  DD wasn't ready until she was 3.  I keep her potty in her room for naps, but so far she hasn't used it.  I just remind her to use the potty as soon as she gets up.  Once she figured out how to pee in the potty, she hasn't had an accident.

Wally3

We started really at 28 months - but at about 2 he was sitting on the potty and going occasionally.  You can start and see how she does. At about 2ish we would have him go before bath every night.  I started announcing when I was going to the potty and if he asked I would let him go too.  He was still in diapers.  At 28 months we went cold turkey no diapers during they day - still a diaper at nap and night.  When he started waking up dry from naps I would put him down without a diaper - around 32ish months.  At 3 he said he didn't want to wear a diaper at night anymore I told him okay but if he had a lot of accidents he would have to wear a daiper again.  He has had 3 accidents in 5 months.  He was still really wet every morning before he declasred no more diapers.

mrsseguin

DS was a week shy from his 3rd bday before we started PT.  We went right to underwear during the day and for naps.  At night he wears a pull-up and wakes up dry about 40% of the time.

debs672

DS only wears a pull up at night.  He hardly ever naps but when he does, we're about 50/50.  As soon as he wakes up, he takes his diaper off himself and uses the toilet on his own.

groovygrl

I'm a slacker with PTing so I'll start there.... but DD has been semi- potty trained for about 2 months now and I have her in pull ups for nap & sleep mostly b/c she always poops at nap & sleep and is still not very good at letting me know if she has to poop & she has poop accidents sometimes.  I don't think she could stay dry all night at this point regardless.

I also put her in a pull up when we go places which I'm sure I shouldn't do but DS is nowhere near potty training, and I frankly don't want to deal w/ dragging them both into the bathroom w/ me or carseat accidents or whatever. She actually rarely wets her pullup though except nap & nighttime.  One day I'll suck it up & do it but just not there yet... I know she can do it b/c she goes to daycare 3 days a week and only wears pullups during nap there and never has accidents.

So I guess I"m saying just do what works for you & follow her cues. there is no 'right' and 'wrong' and it just depends on your own approach, in my opinion. 

And as for an age I think it is all about when they seem ready- DD came home talking about big girl underwear and expressing an interest in using the potty so we went for it...her brother has underwear but never is interested in wearing it or sitting on the potty (except occasionally if he sees his sister get an M&M for pooping on it but even then he will sit for like 30 seconds & then move on. ). So I am not pushing it with him yet, I'm thinking this summer I will probably want to try to bring it up & try some things out (they turn 3 in august).

GL!

babywisher

DS has been day trained since he was 18 months. We keep him in a diaper at naptime and night. He never wakes up dry in the morning, but sometimes he does after his naps. It is a developmental thing that he has just not gotten yet. He never got mixed up with the diaper underware thing. We make sure he goes before he goes to sleep. He just doesn't wake up to go. Also, he is still in his crib, so he can't just get up and go.

This is just us though. G/L to you!

mrs.mastro

We are not really PTing now, but DS has a potty seat that goes on the toilet.  Anytime he asks, we put him on it and he will pee.  This happens anywhere from 4x/day to once every few days.  He just does it for fun (and for a couple of fruit snacks), but I don't think he's ready for full-on training yet.  He actually pooped for the first time on the potty today.  He always tells me when he has to poop, but has never wanted to go on the potty until today (just wants privacy to fill his diaper!), so we'll see if he keeps that up.  

I am planning to just keep doing this until he shows more interest and starts wanting to use the potty more regularly.  I will probably wait until then to start really trying to PT him (as long as it happens in the next 6 months - if not, I might have to start forcing it more).