Night time training

EBathory997Wed74688 · February 2016

My daughter is 4.5 and my husband thinks that she should be getting out of the pull ups at night. She does not wake up dry in the morning, even with limited liquids, nor does she wake up in the middle of the night to go. He wants to go cold turkey, thinking she will wake up when she goes. Last night she slept straight through and soaked everything. I want a more gradual approach. Has anyone used the alarm to help their child realize they are going and they need to wake up?

blush64 · February 2016

Some kids take longer to stay dry overnight or wake during the night. Some kids have issues with this and taking away a pull up won't help if it is a case of her not being physically ready, it could make her feel pretty bad though. They even make special underwear for older kids who have issues with this. Before trying to force something that she might not be able to control I would probably talk to her doctor.

MilkAndSugar · February 2016

Maybe she feels too dry in the pull ups? What if you tried a cloth option? Like Super Undies cloth trainers or something? Maybe if she felt the wetness enough to wake up but it was contained a bit for your convenience that would be a good compromise.

EBathory997Wed74688 · July 2016

We currently have a mattress alarm for wetness and she sleeps through that to. I hear it though.

EBathory997Wed74688 · July 2016

We currently have a mattress alarm for wetness and she sleeps through that to. I hear it though.

SadieC20 · July 2016

I read "oh crap! potty training" which recommends waking your child and putting them on the potty in the night. You'll be able to adjust the time depending on if she's already wet when you go in to wake her. We just started daytime potty training and our son is already waking up dry most mornings so I haven't tried it personally but the rest of the methods worked really well for us with daytime training.

*LrCg* · July 2016

For all 4 of my kids we night time trained when we PT, they were young and it just made sense I thought it was too confusing to say pee goes in the potty during the day but at night in your pants. What we did was obviously start limiting liquids after dinner- we got in the habit of giving them the majority of their liquid throughout the day. They'd go to bed at 8pm and we'd wake them up to go potty about 11 pm (before we'd go to bed) they always went right back to bed. They'd stay dry until morning. It taught them it was okay to have to go in the middle of the night (I'm an adult and I still do!) and if they had to go to call into the monitor- because they were in cribs at the time. I had one that was night trained from birth, 2 of them took @ 2 months of this before we no longer had to do the 11pm wake up but ironically the oldest child I had in diapers who when PT at 17 months old took 5 months to be night time trained (the first 2 months it was 50/50 if he'd wake up dry in the morning with a 11pm wake up- then 2 months of being 100% dry in the morning after wake up and 1 month of no more wake ups and still being dry- sometimes does ask to go in the middle of the night). For the first 6 months we always had our kids were diaper covers for naps & bedtime (we CD so we already had them- ours our Dappi brand pull on covers) so if they had an accident it wasn't a mess.

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