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Is drinking water at bed-time a bad thing?
AvaLikeLava
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G really likes to drink water at bed-time.
I KNOW that come potty-training time this will bite us big time, but here's the thing: I drink a ton of water before bed too. Easily 1/2L before I go to sleep. Otherwise I'm not happy, I don't sleep well, and I wake up in the middle of the night thirsty. Now granted, being pregnant means waking up to pee once a night, but pregnancy aside, I sleep fine through the night with no potty trips.
So what do I do? Do I start discouraging G's water drinking at night? I worry, that if he IS like me, he'll be miserable, but I also don't want to give him a complex about wetting the bed later either.
WWYD?
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Re: Is drinking water at bed-time a bad thing?
I don't know, but you drink that much water before bed at 37w and you only have to get up to pee ONCE? Man. Lucky!
And hopefully someone else can be more helpful. :oP
My kids both drink a ton of water all day long and only recently has Andrew started cutting back on the nighttime water on his own. We went with a don't offer don't refuse policy, like you I'm thirsty and crabby if I don't get my water and he is too. He's been PT'd for over a year and always had a soaking wet diaper in the morning. Since I've heard that some kids don't PT at night until well into 4-5 I haven't been worried.
Now that he's backed off the water, if he hasn't had much water in the hour or two before bed and he pees then he wakes up dry. He hates diapers so if he drinks a lot of water we sneak a diaper one after he's asleep and if not then he's diaper free at night. I think in the last two months we have a handful of wet diapers and only 2-3 wet beds.