Need Help Potty Training at Night

Get rid of the pull ups, don't let her drink anything past 7pm and I also saw, from a previouse request here, wake her up around 10 or so and make her sit on the potty. I have been doing the first 2 with my 3 year old and most of the time it works. I'd rather do alot of laundry than to give her the pull up cruch. In my opinion. Let us know what happens and good luck.

Get rid of the pull-ups. Be prepared for the nighttime accident. Drink plenty of fluids during the day and have no fluids at night at least 2 hours before bedtime. She may have some accidents but without the pull-ups it will be wet and yucky and she won't like it. Hopefully, that alone will be motivation enough along with curbing the evening fluid intake. Give her a special reward for staying dry for 3 nights in a row. When she does that twice then make the reward time 5 nights and then a week. Give her plenty of positive praise in the morning and at naps when she wakes up dry.
Stay positive. They all get trained sooner or later. I am still working on my daughter who turned 4 in March. She has no trouble at night but gets too distracted during the day. We finally bit the bullet and got the carpets cleaned and she's doing lots better. Go figure. They all do it in their own time. Good luck.
J. Robertson
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Hi C.,
It's a personal choice - but I love the pull-ups. I'd rather have my daughter in pull-ups a little longer than deal with wet sheets, etc. Her wetting at night continued to decrease and it got to where her pull-ups were almost always dry. My daughter is 4-1/2 and a couple of months ago, she said she didn't need the pull-ups any more and she hasn't had any accidents. I just didn't sweat it and let her determine when the timing was best for her. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

Go to regular panties YES regular big girl panties. Pull ups like diapers do not signal the child when they are wet. Start a reward chart for every two hours dry or used the potty give a sticker. Reward with a special event or toy after three. No drinks three hours before beddy bye time. She will get the message. Your second child age thirteen months may delay potty training for your oldest.
Good Luck dont get discouraged. One of my mother's friends used to say they will not go off to college sucking their thumb or in diapers. It put everything in perspective! HA!

I tried waking my son up during the night, it only made him cranky during the day and he still didn't stay dry.. Some kids just sleep too hard and wet in their sleep. I tried underwear for a few nights in a row and peeing didn't wake him up and I had sheets to wash daily until I resorted back to the pullup. The only thing that got my son him WANTING to wear underwear to bed like his daddy.. I told him if he stayed dry for three nights in a row, he could wear underwear to bed.. It is kinda weird becuase I think once he made up his mind to stay dry it worked.. I remember making a decision the same when I was three and a half.. I wanted to sleep by my sister, and back then we couldn't afford pullups.. she told me if I stayed dry for three nights I could sleep by her, it worked. I don't think kids intentionally make the decision to pee the bed or anything at that age, cause they would love to make people proud of them.. but I think they can psychologically make the decision when their body is ready.. My dad beating me over it, and threatening to make me wear diapers didn't work, but my sister telling me something positive that was really important to my three year old mind did.. go figure!

Some bribery works with little kids, but not all the time. Whatever you decide to do is not wrong! We are all learning to parent as we go, and soon you will find out what works!! Hopefully soon her bladder will be big enough to make it through the night!