Sleeping Without Diapers

I confess I did not read all of the responses, so if someone has already suggested this please forgive me. Have you ever tried waking him up at least once in the night to take him to the bathroom? I have done this with all 5 of my children and in no time their body learned to wake up at night if they needed to go to the bathroom.

Kids just don't develop that ability sometimes until they are older, sometimes in elementary school. Restricting fluids only makes a child dehydrated, making them wake up all hours of the night to sit on the potty only makes them tired and grumpy, the alarms only wake every one up and makes more sheets to wash, it sounds after they pee and if their brain isn't developed to signal the bladder yet it does no good.

We use the overnight pullups that are in a dark blue package (boys) for our 3 yr. old and they have Buzz Lightyear and Woody on them, they work great, no leaks unless they are totally soaked because he went to bed early and then slept in the next morning and then it's still minimal. We also use the ones in the dark bugandy (girls) for our Kindergartener. They are also for overnight use and she has never had a leak, but she does go pee before putting it on and we do not limit her drinks in any way. She has a glass of chocolate milk then starts her bedtime routine. The kids in my family routinly had accidents until they were nearly in adolescence. The brain just doesn't send the signal and we all sleep like logs too. The accidents get to be fewer and fewer with just an occassional one as the kids age.

I think you are on the right track. Sounds as if he just isn't ready, and that's ok - kids can take much longer to get through the night dry, even if they are fine during the day. Some kids sleep really soundly and don't wake up when they have to go. But he will definitely get there. If it were me, I would simply use the diapers for now. When he starts having dry nights, then switch to pullups, or if he has a lot of dry nights, try the underwear. When our daughter was making the transition, I spread a big garbage bag underneath her sheet. That way if she wet the bed, it kept the mattress from getting soaked.

We are going thro the same thing!!! We have tried putting our daughter in underwear overnight, but we just end u with a wet bed in the morning....I talked to our pediatrician and he said until she keeps her pullup dry overnight there really isnt any point in trying to put her in underwear. He said night time potty training has more to do with brain signals to the bladder then it does with self control. We are going to just go with the flow....Im just happy we are daytime potty trained...if you figure out something that works...please let me know!!

With my daughter (assuming you have a mtress cover or a crib matress) we just let her wet the bed in her underwear. We would tell her nicely that its yucky and not fun to wake up all wet from pee. We always made sure she knew that all the juice water or milk would make her pee in her bed. It took her about 1mnth of wetting and me washing her sheets everyday but she was sleeping through the night no diapers by the time her second bday came. Or you could start waking him up at night to go pee? Good luck

Don't you wish potty training was a switch that when turned on we no longer had to worry about accidents! Once trained they were trained. Here is what we are doing. I got pottyscotty padded training pants (I think gerber training pants are very similar) and we use these...no pull-up b/c he would pee in them. At night we either bite the bullet and decide if he pees we will just have to change the sheet (he hates having accidents...it wakes him up so he is becoming aware when it happens now...or we put the training pants on with a nylon pull on pants (waterproof...like the plastic pants that were used over pre-folds in the days of cloth diapering). That way he still knows when he has an accident b/c he can feel it, but I don't have to change the sheets. We are starting to get more dry days that wet. Grant it he sometimes comes out of his room at 5 in the morning to tell us he has to go potty, but who doesn't get up during the night on occasion to use the bathroom.

Also, no liquids an hour before bedtime and have him go right before going to bed. This helps, but is not always foolproof. Hope this helps.

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You dont say how old he is, if hes around 3 then this is normal. 4 or 5 you might want to talk to your ped. dont give him much to drink if anything after 6 pm or so. if hes older talk to his ped if not just hang in there!

Hi. My son has been potty trained since he was 2. He is now 7 and still wets at night. We took him to the Dr. thinking that it was not normal. We found out that there is a huge percentage of children who wet the bed until they are 12 years old even. The Dr. recommended www.thebedwettingstore.com. They are alarms that you can buy to help wake your child up. They have many different kinds. My Dr. recommended the vibration/sound one. We are buying one right now. Everyone that we have talked to about them said that at first it starts out with the child still wetting, then as time goes on, the urine becomes less and finally no wetness. Dr. did tell me to continue using even after he stays dry. It may be inconvenient for you at first as you have to get up and clean the mess and help get the child out of bed, but I think way worth it in the long run!

My 4yr old daughter has been potty trained during the day for over a year now... but the night time is totally different. I think she has woken up dry twice in 4 yrs. We still use pull-ups. We also switch back and forth with panties to let her try it out but she seems to always wake up wet. Unfortunately she will ocassionally wet the bed during a nap. Very seldom does she have an accident while she's awake. Everything I have researched says that she'll grow out of it. So instead of being frustrated we just go with it. When she's sleeping in panties we wake her up twice a nite to go to the bathroom - sometimes she does, sometimes not. So we figure her body just isn't ready yet. Good luck and be patient.

my child was potty train for awhile before she stop wearing a daiper at night. i just waited intill she started having dry daipers in the morning then i put her in panties. and then i started taking her to pee before she went to bed and then again before i went to bed. i wish you good luck.

My son, now eight, was potty trained during the daytime at two and a half. We kept him in a pullup at night until he was almost four. It seemed like he was just such a sound sleeper that he wouldn't wake up to go potty. We started putting him in underwear anyway. He continued to have accidents at night. But we never made a big deal of it, just had him help us take the sheets off in the morning. Eventually, the accidents started decreasing. He still has the rare accident on occasion, but he needs to feel like a big boy, so we reassure him and he helps out with the cleanup. I still am sure it has to be because he is just such a sound sleeper.

Night time dryness happens when their body is ready. In my opinion, you have the right idea. Wait until he has a lot of dry mornings, then try underwear at night. I don't think you need to worry about this until they are older (like 8 or 9).

We only moved our son to underwear after he consistently went a few weeks without wetting it.

The fact that he's still waking with a wet diaper indicates, to me, that he's not ready to stop using it yet. We have a few sets of friends whose daughters were both past 6 years old when they finally had the control/recognition not to wet each night.

Telling your child that it's something bad (when they literally may not be able to physically control it yet) may have an adverse effect on their self esteem.

Our son had an accident the other night - we have no idea why. Just happened. We didn't scold him because he's 3.5, and it happens rarely. But, we did tell him that he needs to let us know if he wakes up and needs to go to the bathroom.

Also, remember that urine is not just the byproduct of what they're drinking. It's also the byproduct of normal metabolism (food, fasting, etc).

http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddle...

i would be encouraging him to go potty just before bed and not give him anything else to drink before you put him in bed or while he is in bed,(as some mothers do). keep with the diapers until he starts waking up dry. if he wakes up dry every morning for a week then try a night without diapers. you might even have to have a nigh light and a potty chair in his room just at night. some kids are afraid of getting up at night by themselves to go potty. after all it is dark and mommy and daddy are asleep,who knows what is lurking behind the door to a little child.