Night Time Potty Training - Lenoir City,TN

Hi S.,
You are not alone. My little girl just turned 5. She has been trained during the day since she was 2.5. This is my youngest. My oldest finally just decided to hold it and and run to the bathroom in the morning. My middle I had to wake up several times a night until she learned to do it. However, this child sleeps like her daddy. She sleeps very heavy. I went for a couple of weeks getting her up several times a night...making her walk, go potty, and walk back to bed. She didn't even really wake up. She is due for her 5 year check up in a couple of weeks and I am going to ask her peditrician. If she has any suggestions I will post back.

Hi S.,
I also had a hard time nite training my daughter (her name is also Taylor). I had read that just when you are about to go to bed for the nite to go in and have the child go potty. make sure not to fully wake them up but to wake them enough to go in and go potty then back to sleep. The first couple of times I did it I had to physically carry my daughter into the bathroom. It only took about a week before we were accident free!

Well if you have ruled out anything medical, because I did have a nephew that had to have medication from his doctor to quit weeting the bed.
Then a trick I use are milestones. Whenever I have a behavier I want changed and nothing else seems to work I tell my sons you are going to be 5 now you have to do this and it seems to work. I have 4 1/2 yr old twin boys. Tell her now that she is five its time to wear big girl panties at night, she may have 1 or 2 accidents but then it will get better.

I started working with my daughter when she was 3 to get her potty trained. Once we got her trained through the day, we then went and bought her special panties (little mermaid, dora, princess, etc.). We didn't let her have anything to drink after 6pm, bedtime was 8pm, and made sure she went potty right before she went to bed. She would still have accidents every once in a while, but the favorite character panties worked very well. When she would wake up, we would ask her if she was dry. Normally she would be and we would brag to her how she was such a big girl. She will be 5 this September and completely potty trained. Now, she has an accident maybe once every 2 to 3 weeks, but that is ok. We don't get mad, but we do tell her that big girls don't potty in the bed. Just keep reinforceing the fact that she is a big girl. It really makes them feel good about themselves. Good luck and I hope this hels you out.

28 year old married sahm of 3, ages 4,8, and 11. We have 4 other children ages 5,6,8, and 13.

My daughter is 3 yrs old and I always make sure that she uses the bathroom right before she goes to bed. That may help a lot. She also wore pull-ups but leaked thru them a few times.
Limit drinks around & after dinner time.
Hope things work out!

Well, I finally just got my 6 year old to stop having accidents at night time. What we did was this: She isn't allowed to have anything to drink an hour before she goes to bed. Also, before she goes to bed she has to go pee whether or not she "has" to go. I learned that if she goes to bed at the same time every night and does not stay up really late, then she will not be as much of a deep sleeper when she is actually asleep and will tend to wake up. I quit putting good nights on her/ pull ups and it turned out they actually made her dependent on them and she was a lot better off without them. You might want to get plastic covers to cover the bed up so your bed doesnt get ruined!!!!!Maybe this will help a little bit :P

i dont think this will be any help. i used to one of those kids that wet the bed at night. my parents triend everything to get me to stop. it lasted till i was like 12 and then i just stopped. i think what helped me to stop was the fact that i would not drink any liquid after 7pm. good luck

Hi- our daughter is always thirsty at night, so restricting liquid seemed too difficult for us. I say just go for it! Just know that like daytime training, there WILL be accidents. I nightime trained my daughter when I was getting up with our second for middle of the night feedings. It worked perfectly.

A girlfriend gave me a great piece of advice about making the bed for nighttime training:

mattress
regular mattress pad
old fitted sheet
waterproof mattress pad with plastic backing
waterproof crib sheet in "the zone"
fitted sheet to match her bedding

This way, when (not if) she has an accident, you just rip off the wet stuff down to the 2nd fitted sheet. If you keep an extra blanket or comforter in a nearby closet, the whole process is MUCH less painful to clean up at 2 am!!! I just bundle everything that's wet up and stuff it in the washer and deal with it in the morning.

Hope this helps and good luck.

J.

Hi S., I am new to this site, but I do have some good advice for you. But first, a little about why I can comment on this subject. My son was around 5 before he quit wetting the bed but we did have accidents occasionally when he was extremely tired and didn't wake up to go. I went to the doctor with the "problem" when my son wet the bed 4 times in one night. ( ran out of bedding and "we" ending up on the floor sleeping for the rest of the night) The doctor told me that some children sleep harder than others. She said the biggest thing is not to make an issue out of the situation and be as loving and supportive as possible. Cutting down on liquids after 5 or 6 pm is a good start. She also told me something I didn't expect. Bed wetting is hereditary. I myself was a bed wetter until age 12. Maybe that is where my patience came in. Another thing that has an affect on bed wetting is stress. When we as adults think of stress we think of bill paying and children growing up and hectic messes. For a child stress could just be something as simple as not finding there favorite toy that day and it is on there mind heavily. The doctor did agree fully with the no pull up issue. When a child has on pull ups they cannot feel themselves when they wet and sleep through it. Also, she suggested that I set an alarm clock for myself to go in and take my son to the bathroom around 2am. You don't have to fully wake them. You just talk in a soft quiet voice that it is time to go potty and you have the child walk on their own accord to the restroom and potty. This gets them in the habit of waking at night and going to the bathroom without it disturbing the sleep pattern drastically. They do not fully wake but subconciously they are making the trip to the bathroom. You have the big battle whipped, the day time. Give the nighttime a little more time and a lot of understanding and love. She will come around. My son is now 16 and he hasn't had an accident since he was 9. Hope some of this helps. Basically, it's a "do what you can and wait" situation. Good Luck and God Bless