WWYD - slowly becoming drier at night and night diapers

Re: WWYD - slowly becoming drier at night and night diapers

• EmmieB member

  November 2011

  I can't say about the diapers, But I bet offering the potty in the morning would be the best way to start. even if it's just to get him comfortable with the potty and the flushing and the sensation. Then you can follow his cues. good luck!

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• futrkingsley member

  November 2011

  DS was surprisingly dry at night for long periods of time, in cycles sort of.  He had brief spurts of wetting through his diaper and PJs but I'd say that is not his norm going as far back as his infanthood.  I probably only changed 2 dozen diapers at night from the time he was 2 weeks old until he was out of diapers at 2.5+.  His norm was to wake up with a dry (or almost dry) regular Costco diaper and then pee to the brim within 30 minutes of waking up.  Once we wanted to move to PTing it was easy to just transfer to the potty at wake up.  If your DS is using night time diapers, I personally wouldn't switch it up until you are ready to PT, but it is a great sign for when you are all ready.

  ETA: I meant I wouldn't switch the *type* of diaper.  I would just stick with what you are doing and offer the potty in the AM as if it is the most normal thing ever.  We would say, "Wow C, your diaper is dry.  You probably have to pee.  Let's go potty."  At first we didn't make big grand statements about it or link it to going potty at other times.  It was just a statement of fact and an offer of another place to put his pee.  He went for it for a long time before we moved on to other attempts.

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• NorcalLinds

  November 2011

  Its been awhile since we used night time diapers with Logan. He doesn't leak out of regular diapers. However he has no interest on the potty. I ask him he says No. 

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• love22

  November 2011

  Matteo says the same thing about the potty.  He lets us know either right before he goes or while he's going but when asked he says no.  I'm in no rush.
  

  

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• jsugrin member

  November 2011

  Neither of my boys were even close to being dry at night when they day trained.  As far as changing the diaper we did do that with Cooper.  He has started being drier at night so we dropped the Huggies Overnights.  The reality is overnights are expensive, I didn't really care if it was just 1 diaper a night but hey over a year that cost adds up and I figured why spend money I didn't need to.

  Also, I wonder if DH took him in with him in the morning and M watched DH pee, showed him how fun it was and all  that maybe he'd get excited about doing that big morning pee?  Right now my boys are super into the fact that when they pee in the toilet it makes bubbles, lol.  Inside I'm totally rolling my eyes but on the outside I'm all " yeah that is soooooooo neat!"
  

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• m&m818

  November 2011

  We didn't change our nap or night routine when we started potty training. While Maddy was waking up dry often, our goal was to get her potty trained while awake. Once DD was potty trained and we needed to buy our next set of diapers we just bought the cheapest ones possible. Since they were no longer really full diapers no need to pay $$$ for overnights

   I don't think there is anything wrong with waiting til they are night dry to potty train, but I think they can be day potty trained long before ready for the night.  

  as for the mornings, as soon as DD is awake we switch to panties. If we leave her in the diaper (not judging you... cause we used to do the same) it reinforces that she can go in the diaper. We need as much positive reinforcement on the potty as possible, and the days we let her stay in the diaper we saw more accidents. I'm not usually ready to fight the getting dressed battle first thing in the morning so that usually means in the morning she's running around naked until the last minute. ;-)

  That was more information than you probably asked for, but I thought it might be helpful. 

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• tri-reader

  November 2011

  DD had dry diapers each morning before we potty trained her.  She was never in overnights.  You could always try a regular diaper to see what happens.  And FYI, I potty trained her when DS was 1 month old, so you could always wait until after.

   

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