3 Year Old Waking up at Night - Littleton,CO

If you are thinking: hey, she made it all night dry in her pull-up (or panty-diapers, as we call them here), then
possibly she is subconsciously afraid that she will wet the bed, so she keeps waking up to pee.
She will gain confidence and grow out of it- getting up at night with kids is all part of being a mommy I guess- my oldest is 18, and now I have 3 under the age of 3 (one is daytime potty trained) and I am doing it all over again myself. But even at like 9 years old, they will wake you up with tummy aches, bad dreams, etc..

I think you've answered your own question. Don't give her anything to drink 2 hours before bedtime. Encourage her to try and make it through the night without getting out of bed to go potty. If she needs to get up in the middle of the night, encourage her to do so but try not to wake anyone else up. Make it a game. She should be able to make it through the night. She just wants mommy.

Some might say this is not a good idea...but we put a small child's potty in my daughter's room, with a box of tissues next to it. She will wake up in the night and use it and then go back to sleep (sometimes she calls out to us that she went peepee, and then we just go and clean it out and put it back). She potty trained really well and can usually hold it through naps and night time, but sometimes she needs to go. Just an idea. You need your sleep too, so do whatever works!

Blessings,
A.

make sure she doesn't drink anything before going to bed. have her go to the bathroom right before bedtime, and tell her she is done for the night, you won't be getting up with her, and she can go in the morning. if she wets the bed, nighttime pullups go back on.

It seems clear to me you're little girls is feeling displaced. She's wanting time with you.

Give her extra hugs, tell her what a big helper she is, read her an extra story daily, kiss her forehead more, tell her you're so blessed/lucky to be her mommy...things like this.

Our babies take up so much time, they're cute and helpless without any expectations from us...it's so easy to get impatient with the other children and speak harshly and to deny them as much attention as the NEED (which is more than we think) because we're busy with baby...so watch for that, it's just an easy trap to fall into.

Hugs,

"How to Solve your Child's Sleep Problems" by Ferber is a great resource.

I used to make sure my kids didn't drink anything a couple of hours before bed (sips of water were ok, but not whole cups, etc). Then make sure they go potty RIGHT before bed. THEN when YOU go to bed, gently wake them up and make them go again (usually my kids sort of sleepwalked to the toilet and peed without even really waking up). They would go right back to sleep and waking during the night for peeing stopped being a problem. If she truly needs to go during the night, her bladder might still be too small to hold liquid for long periods of time. You're really lucky she doesn't pee in her bed every night and actually wakes up to go. You might have to just deal with it until she gets a bit bigger. I've also told my kids (there was a problem with them coming to our bed every night) that when mommy gets woken up during the night, she's REALLY cranky the next day and whatever fun things were going to happen, might not, because mommy will be too tired. After losing out on a couple of fun things because mommy had to lie down and "take a nap", they stopped coming to our bed. But the peeing thing is a bit different, your little girl might not be able to hold it and it's natural she'd want her mommy in the middle of the night to escort her to the potty. Hopefully she'll outgrow this as she gets bigger. Good luck!!