Bed Time Potty Training Question

There really isn't anything you can do until she is waking up herself to use the bathroom. It's kind of nice before that happens because then you are consistently getting up at 3 am to take her to the bathroom :) Enjoy the diapers at night still.

Night dryness is not a matter of training, it is a matter of her bladder maturing enough. For most kids this happens at some time between the ages of 2 and 6, but for some it can come later, my cousin was 12. Until she wakes in the morning dry every day for several weeks, keep using the pull ups at night.

Pull ups are diapers, and you can absolutely get rid of them. Here's the schedule we use. Limit fluids after 6. Potty right before bedtime at 8. Carry to the potty at 10:30. This is how we've been doing it for a year with our daughter who is now 3 1/2.
Accidents will happen, but not very often. Put a plastic cover under the sheet, and keep a big towel handy. For a small accident, just put the towel over the sheet.

If you can pee in a pull up without interrupting your sleep, you may never learn to wake up when you need to pee. But if you pee in your sleep and then find that you're all wet, chilled and uncomfortable, and you have to get out of bed while daddy or mommy cleans you up, you start to develop the awareness that you need.

Now, nobody wants their child to have accidents at night, but my daughter is much more likely to wake up to pee if she needs to every once in a while. I'd say she is fully potty trained at 3 1/2.

I used cloth diapers at night (with built in plastic liners) with my son when we were trying to get him to stay dry at night. That way he could feel if he urinated but it didn't make a huge mess. We continued that until he was dry all the time for a few weeks, then we switched to underwear. He only ever had a couple accidents after that and it's been a year. Of course, it helped that we had them from when he was wearing diapers. Good luck!

I would continue to put her in a pull up its normal for kids not to get night trained until later on it. You can limit her drinks before bed and have her go to the bathroom right before.

I don't know that you can really train at night. Each child is different, I would just keep putting her in pull-ups until she is dry. I have four kids...two went though the night from the day they were trained in the AM, and two did not. One was 5 (boy) and the other almost 7 (girl). It is frustrating to change sheets and pj's every day/night, and not worth the headache. I think you and the child will know when it is time to switch. But wetting at night nothing to worry about, expecially at this young age.

HI S.,
We use pull ups at night...we call them night time underwear. Sometimes my son wakes up dry and other times he doesn't it. I was told night time and day time potty training are completely different and the night time comes after the bladder matures...

Hi, I’m D. M. from the GoodNites NiteLite Panel. Mamapedia is partnering with GoodNites through September and your question is definitely relevant to what I talk about with the NiteLite Panel. I see that you posted this question some time ago and was wondering how potty training has been going since you asked this question. And I wanted to provide my insight. Not only am I a GoodNites NiteLite Panelist, but I'm a mom of six children. A two year old child, more often than not, does not have the physical maturity needed to stay dry all night, every night. In fact, 20% of all five year olds wet the bed. It's a very common thing and it isn't your child's fault. My advice is to be patient. She'll outgrow it when her body is ready. In the meantime, make sure she stays dry and comfortable so she can get a good night's sleep. And check out GoodNites.com for a wealth of information on bedwetting, coping techniques, tips, and articles from experts. It's a terrific resource.

I would keep using pullups until she is waking up dry on at least a semiregular basis. My older daughter daytrained around 3 and then I noticed he was dry in the morning a lot. I told her she could have one M&M each morning she woke up dry for one week and at the end she could by some more underpants. She never had a night accident/ (And by the way, I still feel guilty I bribed her with food. Not really what I wanted to do.)

I make sure she goes potty right before bed. My daughter turns 4 in January and she's only just in the last 2 weeks started having dry nights, and getting up to go potty. We'll still be putting her in "night night panties" for awhile, since I was a bedwetter for a long time, but it does take awhile to get the night dryness down.

Here is what we did with our son right at the age of 3, with huge success:

Used regular underwear at night. Made going potty a regular part of his bedtime routine (potty, wash hands, brush teeth, jammies, story, bed).

He went to bed at 8pm. We set our alarm for midnight and 3am and each time carried him to the potty (set up night lights, didn't use overhead lights). Over a few weeks we moved the wake times to 1am and 4am... then just 1am... then just 2am... 3am... 4am... whole night. I think the process took about 3 months but we had very few accidents!

That may be drawn out too much for you but it really was not very disruptive to our sleep (husband and I shared the responsibility of the night wakings) and our son was proud of himself and motivated to keep up the good work!

HTH!

I agree with Jen C. This has been the case with several children I've known – nighttime dryness can follow daytime training by a couple of years or more. At some point, your daughter will either be able to contain larger amounts of pee overnight, or she'll get strong enough signals from her bladder to wake her for a trip to the bathroom.