3 1/2 Year Old Needs to Stop Wearing Diapers at Night

I also have a 3 1/2 year old boy and has potty trained at 3 but still with pull ups at night. He wakes up with a FULL diaper!! (even if I wake him up in the middle of the night to Pee.
I am definitely waiting (after the responses you got) a few more months al least!!!

no liquids after 2 hours before her bedtime. Now if she eats dinner at 6 and goes to bed at 7:30 you don't have 2 hours. So you make sure that 1 hour after meal, she goes potty and then before she crawls into bed,she goes potty one more time. Then put her on her panties. If she wets her bed, work with her again. It is a retraining issue, but some kids still wet the bed because they don't understand the sensation of wetting during night sleep. She may be a heavy sleeper.

My 3 1/2 year old still wears her pull-up at night and I am fine with it. My son didn't start wearing underwear at night til he was almost 4 as well. This was really my preference because it was so much easier and we all slept so much better without the worry of staying dry thru the night, needing help in the potty in the middle of the night and changing sheets in the night:). I suspect she is just not ready and you should try again later.

She may not be physically able to hold it all night long. You might want to discuss with your pediatrician.

My 4 year old is still in pullups at night.

She's not ready. Put her in Pull Ups and make both of you happy. I have a FULLY potty trained 13 year old who did not stay dry at night until she was almost 8. She was dry during the day at 3- but she was such a sound sleeper that she could not have wakened herself if I promised her the moon. She wore Pull Ups - didn't faze her at all- the bed stayed dry. She knew where to put the Pull Up in the morning. If she slept over, she took a plastic bag with her to put the wet Pull Up in and brought it home and threw it away. My oldest also was slow to train at night- he was 5- someone asked him to spend the night. He realized he would have to wear a Pull Up or learn to stay dry and he was dry within a week. He had just been lazy, but she could not do it and it never fazed her to wear a Pull Up over to a friend's house. My youngest was dry at night by 3. All kids are ready at different times. There was nothing I could have done to make any of these kids be dry sooner. Quit stressing yourself and don't compare your kid to others. They all have their own timelines. Good luck.

We instituted a calendar program when my son was about her age and having the same issue. We put up one of those big desk calendars on the wall and for each morning he got up dry, he got to put a sticker on the calendar. We set the first week dry to get a new car as a prize. Then the big one for the end of the month was a loft bed (long story on that). He remembered at the end of the month our promise about the bed and stayed dry for an entire month and has been ever since. I think he had 1 accident that first week and one later in the month when he was sick.

We had previously tried making him help change his sheets, he would help wash them (he started helping with laundry on his own when he was just over a year), on & on with different ideas & tricks, then I came up with this from someone else's suggestion regarding behavioral issues. Worked like a charm and he also learned about the days of the week, telling dates, and the passage of time in a calendar. It was a winner all around!

Hope this helps! I know how frustrating it can be. Our son potty-trained on his own just after 2yo, and spent almost a yr & 1/2 in pull-ups at night.

I've felt your frustrations, too. This is what I did, and was pleased w/ the final results. My son was day-time trained at 3 1/2 yrs. old. Kind of late compared to some kids, but that's when he was ready, so that's what we did. I don't worry about comparing my child to other children. He was not night trained until 5 yrs. 8 months. I tried and tried, but he simply could not stay dry. He would sleep in a bladder full of pee in his bed and not notice until the morning. I tried waking him during the night...no success. I gave up for a while and used pull ups, and decided not to stress over it. Finally, we used an enuresis alarm and he was trained in 3 days. He's now been dry w/out an accident for 48 days. The enuresis alarm suggested not using it until the age of 6 years, but my son asked what he could do to stay dry, so I thought we'd give it a try since he was so eager. With my child, gently pushing him to stay dry did not help. Waiting until he was physically and emotionally ready, and using the alarm to help him wake to his body's signals did the trick for us.

In time she will get it.
My daughter was dry in the night by the time she was 3 1/2 and my son at age 2 1/2.
The trick is controlling liquid intake.
My daughter's bedtime was 8:30 and she got not liquids after 6:30. We also had her use the potty ALOT before bed. Like every 20 minutes until she went to bed.
One problem of having a child wear nightime diapers ( and the older ones still wetting from previous aswers you've received),is the urine is absorbed in the diaper and the kids don't know they had an accident.In underwear ,the kids will feel the wetness.
If an accident happens in the middle of the night, use a sleeping bag on the floor of her room and that is wear she sleeps.
The wet sheets will wait until morning.
Unless there is a medical reason ,,no child should be having continous accident at age 7.
Good luck.

Just wanted to say I feel your pain...my youngest is almost 4 1/2 and is still wearing pull-ups at night! However, I know from experience with my older 2 that eventually she will want to do it, and at that point I can begin controlling her night-time liquids because she will be cooperative. If I try to start managing her drinks now, she will just get upset because there's nothing in it for her...she doesn't care if she's still wearing pull-ups! Eventually she will care, and then it will be easy. She may be 5 or 6 or even older (my other two were both 4--younger than my little one is now), but that's okay--I don't want to stress her out, and I don't want the hassle of waking up to change sheets in the middle of the night! Good luck to you!

This may go on for a while. My daughter is 6 and still wets the bed, while my son never wet the bed once he was potty trained. I tried bribes, waking in the middle of the night, restricting liquids, you name it. We use the Under Jams at night and the doctor said she will outgrow it soon.

my son didnt stay dry all night until he was about 4 1/2 or 5, and my almost-4-year-old daughter is definitely not ready to be dry all night. i wouldnt dream of putting her to bed without a pullup on. kids are all so different...you are setting yourself and your daughter up by expecting her to be dry all night at this young age. get some pullups and just watch for signs that she is ready for underwear at night (like at least a week's worth of dry mornings). she will have dry nights when she is ready. don't stress about it!

kids learn to stay dry through the night in their time not ours....

Try not giveing her anything to drink at least 1/2 hour prior to bed time and preferrably 1 hour before.

Get her up in the middle of the night and have her try to go potty (this will help her to recognize her body's signals).

As soon as you get her up in the morning take her to the toilet and have her try to go potty.

You also, may want to invest in one of those special sheets with a bell that will let wake her up when she starts to go potty.

I keep my kids in pull ups at night and nap times until they go 1 week with a dry one. This gives them the confidence they need and saves me the clean up later.

Good Luck. ;-)

Not to discourage you but my nearly 7 year old son still wears Goodnights as does my nearly 5 year old daughter. I would leave her in diapers or goodnights at night until she wakes up with a dry one for at least 7 days in a row. Once she has kept the diaper dry, then do undies. Until then, she is just not ready yet.

Good Luck!
K.

You didn't mention whether or not she was accident free during the day. If so, then this is a matter of not putting out enough anti diuretic hormone during the night and it is often genetic. See if you or her dad have family who were bedwetters. My advice would be to go buy pull-ups and put her in them at night. When the pullups are dry in the morning for a week, it will be safe to try to put her back in underwear. You are setting her and yourself up for disappointing and demoralizing mornings if you do it before then. I assure you she is not waking up and urinating in her bed on purpose. She just doesn't wake up. You might want to leave a potty in her room in the event that she does wake up, but I doubt that is the problem. I am betting she will outgrow this at some time, but at her bodies' choosing, not yours. I know it is hard, but with dry sheets and no comments, you remove any power struggle from the equation.

I had the same problem with my 3 year old boy,butt now hes getting to be a pro!!!i was putting bigg pads and towels and washing shetts everyday until now.now i make sure he doesnt drink to much before bed,and that he goes potty at night before he goes to sleep.also that the temp. Is not to cold cuz that makes him wet the bed.it works he hasnt wet the bed anymore.i hope this helps you out..goodluck!!!