3 Year Old Wants Wet Diapers Changed During the Night

What I would recommend is putting a potty chair in his room. When he asks to be changed, do the routine you did when you were day training him - put him on it even though he already went and explain this is where we go potty even at night. Eventually he will understand that instead of going in his diaper, he can get up and use the potty. Or you can take him to the bathroom and do the same, either way. But it's definitely time to start night training. His body may not be ready to wake him up to go potty but this is the way to start initiating the process. It may take him a while to get it and I would say keep him in diapers for a while until he starts waking up dry asking to use the toilet otherwise you will be cleaning a lot of wet bedding.

If he is wet and asking you to change him, he's not ready for undies- UNLESS you want to be changing sheets three times a night. What he needs to learn is to listen to his body and know when he needs to go. You say diapers. Regular diapers? Maybe it's time for pull-ups. Show him how to change a pull up (just like undies!) and show him where they are. When he wakes you at night, tell him to go potty in the potty (even if he just went in his diaper) and ask him to be a big boy and change his pull-up. Little by little you will be able to stop helping him until he can hold his bladder at night. Also, we learned that when our son woke up at night it was because he HAD to go, not already went, but by the time he got to us it was too late. If you are not a heavy sleeper, listen for signs he is getting up and try to get him to the potty before he needs the change.

If he still has full diapers at night he's not ready. And he might not be until age 5 or 6. You can start doing things like take him to the potty right before bed and get him up right before you go to bed later in the evening. That's what we did with our son just to try to help the process.

yay!!! i'd give him a pull up and teach him how to do it himself : )

I think now that he is used to being dry, the wet diaper feels wrong to him. I would still go with a diaper at night. I am not a huge fan of pullups, but we ended up using pull ups at night just for that reason. I put a clean pullup by the toddler potties in the twins room. When they get up at night they are fully capable of switching to the clean pullup if they are uncomfortable and they just leave the wet one on the mat I put under their potties to protect the carpet.

I would say that it's possible that he's ready to be dry during the night but his body is not yet able to wake him early enough or he's not able to hold the urine long enough to come to you before he wets.

He's not comfortable with a wet diaper. But it would appear that he's not able to stay dry the entire night or he would be dry. What kind of diaper are you using? I'd perhaps use a pull up that pulls moisture away from his body so that both of us could sleep thru the night. I wouldn't expect him to be able to stay dry thru the night until he was able to consistently stay dry thru a nap.

This is a sign, but you will need to limit the amount of liquids he drinks at night. With my son, we allow him to drink only a small swallow of water right before bed, and nothing else for the 1.5-2 hours preceding his bedtime.

Apparently the discomfort of a wet diaper is waking him up at night, but the urge to pee isn't. He's still too little to expect consistent night dryness. I would want my diaper changed, too, at night if it was wet!