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How do I do this?? Re:bathroom at night?
So our 2.5 yo DD has been out of diapers all the time except at night for about 6 months. I can't remember the last time she had an accident and the only reasons she's still in diapers at night is because I have no idea how to do this (and I'll admit, it used to be part laziness due to DS).
Here's our current set-up: We have a two story house with steep steps. The master, DD's and DS's bedrooms are all upstairs along with our master bath and another bathroom in the hallway between the two kid's rooms. She has a childproof handle on her bedroom door and a video monitor that we use. She can't get out of her room by herself. This is for two reasons. 1) I'm deathly afraid she'll fall down the stairs. She figured out how to fling herself over the baby gate we had at the top of the stairs and 2) Twice, I found her in her brother's room and in his crib with him. Not only does it wake him up, but she's not exactly always "gentle" with him.
Our biggest problem is that, as of last night, she's started taking her diaper off and just peeing in her bed. She did it twice last night. I know that I need to get her out of diapers and give her access to a potty at night, I just honestly don't know the safest way to do it. I'm open to any and all suggestions. Thanks and please help!
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Re: How do I do this?? Re:bathroom at night?
First, although you didn't ask, I'd have her assessed by a child psychologist or some similar specialty. At not even 3 years old, a litle girl shouldn't be 'flinging' herself over a babygate or roughing up her baby brother when nobody is looking.
In response to your question, I'd take the unsafe and scary lock off her bedroom door and let her use the restroom. Chances are slim she'll fall down the stairs and die. People have lived in 2 story houses for a long long time. Let her live. Stop making her pee in her bed while locked in. She's definitely going to need counseling for that in the future.
And you learned that it was a good idea to LOCK a 2 year old child into their room so they cannot possibly get out unless you happen to notice a problem while watching the video monitor?
Dammmmnnn. Schools (or cereal boxes or mail order sites) will give out degrees to anyone these days. You scare me.
You should have been there for the chapter on beating them with a water hose.
If she needs me in the middle of the night, she calls for me and I go to her (which happens a few times a week). The child can't sneeze at night without me waking up. For me, the lesser of the two evils is to have her safely in her room as opposed to wandering the house at night and potential hurting herself.
And yes, USC has a fantastic mail order degree program.
You could put the child lock on the outside of her brother's room so she can't let herself in. I had one on my youngest's door for a short while because his brother kept going in there and waking him up at naptime.
I would put a nightlight in the hallway and let her use that bathroom at night. I know the stairs are scary, but I doubt she would really fling herself over the safety gate.
We have steep steps and don't have a usable bathroom upstairs (but the addition starts next week!)
We have our kids come get us or call to us to take them to the potty. We also limit drinks at night and make sure they go right before bed. If they do that, they rarely have to go at night, just DS about once a week.
Can you work on a sticker or reward system where she calls to you when she has to go instead of taking off her diaper?
Also I like the toddler potty idea.
Another suggestion is to put a childproof handle on the outside of her bro's room and a better gate, higher gate, something else that works for your family. Onestepahead.com has a lot of different gates.
Is she independent in the bathroom? My 2.5 yr old wasn't, that's why I ask. She still needed up in her sleepy state to get her bottoms down and to wash her hands.
I'd just put a gate somewhere after the bathroom door, rather than the top of the stairs if she is independent. Then a child-proof handle on little bro's room. If she needs to get to you room, get a super tall gate - and like someone said, OSA has lots of options.
Personally, I don't like the toddler potty (we PT'd totally on regular toilets) - especially because she's taking her diaper off to pee in her bed. I'd worry about her peeing and dumping it all over her room.
If you aren't comfortable with her roaming upstairs(which I completely understand) then you have a couple options:
You could put a portable potty in her room.
You could ask her to call you when she has to go and you'll come up and take her to the bathroom.
You've never heard of a stepstool?
at 2 1/2, I had a baby bjorn potty on a towel in dd's room.... she used it if she got up in the night. I found she couldn't hold it to get to the bathroom quickly enough at that age. plus, as much as I would have rathered her just use the toilet, she wasn't comfy doing so until she was 3.... she was completely day and night trained by age 3.... just still using the potty for poops and nights. her brother won't use one b/c his sister doesn't now. he still won't poop on the pot and just doesn't hold it as long, not night trained at all.
I'd either do the potty in the room, or a good, tall gate and the lock on the outside of baby's room. there are tall gates that a child, even 36" shouldn't be able to climb over... especially 1/2 asleep