Just started PT'ing - Anyone stick with diapers for nighttime?

Re: Just started PT'ing - Anyone stick with diapers for nighttime?

• SeasideBride06 member

  November 2011

  We started potty training in May. For naps and bedtime we actually used pull-ups instead of diapers, and I called them, "night night panties."  In June we converted her crib into the toddler bed to help with getting up during the night.  Sometime during the summer I noticed that her pull-up was staying dry during naps so we changed to panties for naps.  In the last month she has started staying dry overnight, so we just started wearing panties at night for the last week and she has done great.

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• Seannon

  November 2011

  we did the 3 day method, so no pullups/ diapers, etc at all. It worked like a charm though he was 1 month shy of turning 3. Good luck!

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• leslie13510

  November 2011

  Yep.  We're still in diapers overnight, and might be for a while.  I'm ok with that.  They both sleep deeply at night, but when they do wake up, it takes them for.ev.er. to fall back asleep.  I don't want to have to wake them to pee, or have them take an hour after going pee to fall back asleep.  We'll probably try for night training after age 3, assuming they are waking up mostly dry at that age, unlike now. 

  And yes, if she's still in a crib, you don't really have another option besides diapers.  Like you said, it's not fair to expect her to hold her pee until you let her out.  I'd actually work on the bed transition soon, especially if she's napping without diapers.  There are going to be times where she wakes up during naptime and has to pee, and might not be able to hold it long enough for you to realize what's going on, and come get her out.

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• DesignsOnYou member

  November 2011

  leslie13510:

  Yep.  We're still in diapers overnight, and might be for a while.  I'm ok with that.  They both sleep deeply at night, but when they do wake up, it takes them for.ev.er. to fall back asleep.  I don't want to have to wake them to pee, or have them take an hour after going pee to fall back asleep.  We'll probably try for night training after age 3, assuming they are waking up mostly dry at that age, unlike now. 

  And yes, if she's still in a crib, you don't really have another option besides diapers.  Like you said, it's not fair to expect her to hold her pee until you let her out.  I'd actually work on the bed transition soon, especially if she's napping without diapers.  There are going to be times where she wakes up during naptime and has to pee, and might not be able to hold it long enough for you to realize what's going on, and come get her out.

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• MegGary member

  November 2011

  Naps & night time w/ diapers at first for us. Than she got good at not wetting during naps so she naps w/out now. Diapers at night still though. She's been PT'd for almost a year now but still wets at night so we have too. I could restrict her water intake before bed but she likes a cup next to her bed so we'll go w/ the diapers for now. 

   

  

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• Wally3 member

  November 2011

  We day potty trained 6 months ago. DS stopped napping with a daiper about 3 months ago.  He just started asking not to wear a daiper at night, but he still wakes up soaking wet.  I tried it 1 night and he got up 3 times in 5 mintues to pee so a put a daiper back on him.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• hero member

  November 2011

  Many children, until the age of 5,  do not have developed enough bladders to hold urine all night, so it seems kind of cruel to expect her to be ready to remain dry at this age. 

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• Blackvelvet member

  November 2011

  hero:

  Many children, until the age of 5,  do not have developed enough bladders to hold urine all night, so it seems kind of cruel to expect her to be ready to remain dry at this age. 

    I know lots of kids who are at least 5 who can't hold it and my nephew is 7 and still needs night time diapers he doesn't wake up.  DS usually is dry in the morning but I don't want to clean up a mess so he wears diapers at night and probibly will for a while as I do not want the mess

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• ldoo member

  November 2011

  DesignsOnYou:

  It's pretty overwhelming the vast amount of different opinions and methods with this whole potty-training thing.

  We're on Day 2 and so far I think it's going fairly well. We've been using the bare-bottom approach and I move the potty with us around the house. We're also doing rewards (a small piece of candy) which I was reluctant to do but, it's seems to be working since she's not overly excited about doing it on her own.

  Anyway, I know many methods encourage tossing the diapers completely which we've done except last night I put her in one for bed.

  I guess my feeling was since she's still in the crib, there's no way she could get and go potty anyway so all I would be teaching her is, "yep, you're stuck here and you peed all over your blankets" when she inevitably has a accident.

  If you've successfully PT'ed, did you use diapers at night for a while?  (For naps, I'm just keeping her bottom-less and on towels)

  My daughter was PTd at 2.5. At that point, she was diaperless during the day, but wore one at night. I didn't feel the need to waste my money on pull ups. She would pee in either one.

  Then once she got closer to 3, I experimented. First I'd put her down WITH a diaper at night, but then put her on the potty at about 11 and not put a new diaper on. At that point, she still was often wet in the morning.

  But I waited a few more months, and right at 3 she asked to not be in a diaper at bed time. So I stopped the diaper altogether. But she still can't go all night without peeing, and she doesn't wake up on her own to go.

  So now (she's just past 3 years old) at about 11, I "wake her up" (she's really quite dead to the world) and put her on the potty. She's able to go the rest of the night and be completely dry in the morning.

  Every child is different. I know someone who waited till after 3 to potty train. But once she did, the child goes all day and night dry. My daughter is the same age, but she simply can't - yet.
  

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• sharrow

  November 2011

  DS is potty-trained.

  He naps without a diaper (at home and daycare), and usually has no issues unless we don't remind him to sit on the potty right before naptime.

  At night we still use a diaper.

  Occasionally he will call for us to come and take him to the potty, but usually he ends up peeing in his diaper.
  

  

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• GEM529 member

  November 2011

  SeasideBride06:

  We started potty training in May. For naps and bedtime we actually used pull-ups instead of diapers, and I called them, "night night panties."  In June we converted her crib into the toddler bed to help with getting up during the night.  Sometime during the summer I noticed that her pull-up was staying dry during naps so we changed to panties for naps.  In the last month she has started staying dry overnight, so we just started wearing panties at night for the last week and she has done great.

  The same thing for us.  DS for some reason never gets out of his bed, even though he can.  If he needs to go potty in the middle of the night he calls for me to come and get him.  For right now I am ok with that b/c at least he wakes up and lets me know.  After a few months of no accidents I will start working on him getting up and going on his own.

  
  

  

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