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DS refuses to give up drinking a ton of H2O at night...

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His pull up is soaked in the morning. He is now completely potty trained during the day, and I have tried to get him to drink more water during the day, but he is hooked on drinking it in the night. At this point he will be in nighttime pull ups when he is 15. Any ideas?
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Re: DS refuses to give up drinking a ton of H2O at night...

  • ilovemygirlsilovemygirls member
    If you want him to stop, then don't provide it.  Plain & simple.  Will there be some awful nights after that?  Of course.  But he's not going to dehydrate, just offer it to him more during the day. And the terrible nights will get better.  While his body may or may not be ready to be dry at night, I agree that drinking water is probably not helping. 
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  • Sawyerplus1Sawyerplus1 member

    imageilovemygirls:
    If you want him to stop, then don't provide it.  Plain & simple.  

    I agree. If it's really important that he stop for now, then YOU need to make that happen.

    My DS drinks a lot through the day and loves having drinks with dinner and before bed. But once we got rid of pull ups at night (he was dry through the night at this point), we cut back on night time drinks. We let him drink what he wants at dinner and then a sip of water before bed. He still gets up to pee most nights, and has the occasional accident, but if he protests about not getting a drink, we explain that if he has too much, he'll pee the bed at night. Having an accident actually really upsets him, so explaining that drinking too much is (part of) the cause seems to be good incentive for him. 

    If you want to encourage night time dryness, keep working on cutting back the liquid intake. It may not be fun if they wanna fight about it, but in the long run it's probably a better alternative. Good luck! 

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  • JillAlyJillAly member

    We had the same problem with ds - except he was completely out of pull ups and wore underwear all the time.  He would wet his bed over and over - but he refused to stop drinking milk at night and had a tantrum when we tried to stop it. 

    After about the 5th or 6th time it happened, ds asked me why he peed in the bed.  I told him it wouldn't happen if he didn't have milk at night.  He thought about it but refused to stop.  He peed one last time overnight and then said he tried really hard not to pee- but it didn't work- and it must be the milk.  So he stopped drinking milk at night and we haven't had a problem since then.  Bottom line- we told him and told him but he needed to figure it out for himself.

    So...maybe take the pull up off and let him be in underwear overnight?  Let him understand for himself that drinking at night means peeing in bed.  It's one thing to tell them and another thing to let them figure it out for themselves.  As an alternative, you can wake him up in the middle of the night to take him to the bathroom (my daycare's suggestion).  They said kids hate getting up in the middle of the night and after 1 or 2 nights, he will make the connection and not want water.  Same idea - but different method I guess.

    PS - if you do let him figure it out for himself- I recommend sheets you don't care about and a waterproof pad on top of the mattress- it helped a lot to protect the mattress!

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  • AndrewsgalAndrewsgal member
    imageilovemygirls:
    If you want him to stop, then don't provide it.  Plain & simple.  Will there be some awful nights after that?  Of course.  But he's not going to dehydrate, just offer it to him more during the day. And the terrible nights will get better.  While his body may or may not be ready to be dry at night, I agree that drinking water is probably not helping. 
    This, honestly it does not seem like that hard of a concept. Dont give him water to drink.
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  • jlw2505jlw2505 member
    Drinking a lot at night and night time potty training have nothing to do with each other.  If he needs to pee because he drinks at night he will either wake up because he realizes he needs to pee or he won't and he will wet his pull-up.  I have never been one to drink at night yet I have always woken up at least 1 time in the middle of the night to pee (I have done this since I was a kid).  My older DD drinks a ton at night and either wakes up to pee or holds it all night and pees a river when she wakes up in the morning.  NIght time training is totally a developmental stage and when he is ready, it will happen no matter what you do.  Docs don't worry about until at least something like age 7 or 8.  Many kids still wear pull-ups at night as late as 8.  How much he drinks or doesn't drink will not change that fact.
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