Nighttime potty training

KatieandMark06 · March 2013

How and when did you nighttime train? DD has been potty trained for over a year now but still has to have a pull up at bedtime and sometimes even still wets through them (huggies nightpants). She has a hard time getting to sleep and is a devil when she doesn't get sleep so I am hesitant to start waking her up to go. Also once when I tried waking her up she was so tired she wouldn't even get up and go. Sometimes I wonder if she will eventually just get to the point where she will get up on her own? We have had the conversation about if she has to pee just go to the bathroom or wake mommy up and I will go with her. Bedwetting does run in the family so I am not sure what role this does or will play,

jalaiaa · March 2013

My boys have been potty trained for about a year and are no where near dry at night. My pediatrician said that a lot of kids aren't dry until 5 or 6. It is kind of a weight off my shoulders so I don't have to worry about it for a while. Hopefully they'll figure it out on their own.

ncbelle · March 2013

I agree that it's just something they have to "get". Callum has been night dry for over a year - we started with a "dream pee" about two hours after he went to bed and that worked well (he also has a hard time going to sleep but never had trouble - we didn't wake him up, just sat him on the potty and said "pee" and he would). Then we just started chancing it (double making the bed). Now he will wake up to pee if he needs to and just goes on his own.

Do the trainers let her feel the wetness? I do think that helps. We have only used cloth so he could always feel when he was wet.

mrsseguin · March 2013

DS was in pull ups until last week. He was waking up dry the majority of time, so we ditched the pull ups. He was dry 4 nights in a row, then wet the bed 3 nights in a row. He never gets up to go pee.

You can't train them, but I figured we would stop using pull ups since he is dry more than 50% of the time and just deal with extra laundry and waking up when he wets the bed. Bedwetting also runs in our family...

Angela814 · March 2013

Ditto everyone else. DD1 was potty trained at 2.5 years. Right after she turned 6, she started either waking up dry in the morning or waking up to go to the bathroom at night. Once she was dry for a week, she started wearing undies to bed. She'll still have occasional accidents where her undies get a little wet, but it's never enough that her bed gets wet too.

mammamia24 · March 2013

DS will be 5 in 3 days and still has nighttime accidents once in a while. One thing I've found that helps is not letting him have anything to drink an hour before bedtime and having him go pee before he goes to sleep. Your daughter will nighttime potty train with time. If it's something you're really concerned about call her pediatrician.

Lisichka · March 2013

DD has been potty trained since about 2 and just a week ago, we stopped putting her pull-ups on. She's been waking up dry about 6 times out of a week for a month or so, so I thought it was coming. Then one evening, DH casually asked her if she wanted to wear her big-girl underwear or her "night-time" underwear and she said big girl. It's been a week and so far so good. I'm expecting accidents here and there, but I think we might be done. It just "clicks" for them at a certain point and they can stay dry overnight. I do take her for a night pee when I'm heading to bed, but I might do that for another month or so.

June2007 · March 2013

With DD1 we just went cold turkey right before age 3. DH would get her up and take her right before he went to bed around 11:30 pm because she still got a big cup of soy/almond milk after dinner at night at that age. We did a sticker chart for every dry night and when she filled it up she got to pick out a toy from TRU. I think she only ever had one accident and we stopped taking her in the middle of the night pretty quickly too and she was fine.

DD2 is 2.5 and night trained herself soon after being day trained. She was day trained a few months before 2, right after 2 she started wanting to wear her underwear to bed so I let her try it and she has only ever had like 4 accidents.

It's different for every kid though. I know plenty of almost 5 or already 5 year old that still wake up wet. I think my kids just have large bladders like me.

meldoo2002 · March 2013

I am another one to say you can't... it's biological when they are ready to wake up if they have to pee. My boys were day trained by 2.6 and went to underwear overnight at 3. At that point they were waking up dry for 2-3 weeks in a row so we switched to underwear. They have never had an accident overnight which makes me think they really were ready when we switched. I didn't do anything... just waited for a decent number of nights waking up dry.

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