Night Time Potty Training - Lansdale,PA

He'll just have to get old enough for him... 10% of kids (mostly boys) aren't night trained at 7. I'd keep him in Pullups until he's ready-- they make Overnights for bigger kids. You don't want him feeling ashamed about something that he has no control over.

Night dryness is not "trainable"..it's physiological. His bladder must be mature enough and that can't be "taught".

Make it easy on everyone by using a PullUp at night. When it's dry for 7-10 days in a row in the mornings, his bladder is mature.

You don't. There is no such thing as night time potty training. It comes as their bladder grows and their body is able to produce the proper chemicals to either wake them up or clench the muscles all night to hold it. It is beyond your child's ability to do this. He may not be able to do this until he hits puberty. Most are able by 6-8 years of age.

The wet does not wake them up. The trying to wake them up to go does not work. They are trying to learn to hold it mentally and waking them up only disrupts that process. Alarms only make more laundry, they wet, the alarms goes off and wakes EVERYONE up, then the bedding gets changed, clothes changed, shower and new PJ's, and then they fall back asleep and the alarm goes off in a few minutes because as soon as they fall asleep the muscles relax and urine comes out...it's a vicious cycle and it does not work.

Keeping him in pull ups is a convenience for you. I have no interest in washing pee filled sheets, blankets, pillows, bedspreads or comforters every single day. It makes my utilities (elec, gas, and water) go up, laundry soap, bleach, dryer sheets, etc... all cost more since I am using more. Plus my time.

I have worth, I am a person with wants and needs too. I should not have to stay at home and wash the same laundry every day. I work 3 part time jobs so when I have the option of doing something enjoyable I take it.

I love doing laundry, it's my favorite chore. But I am not going to increase my laundry by not buying pull ups. They are about $0.50 each, less than a dollar a day.

Ugh! Stay in pull ups until you are 100% sure she can stay dry on her own. My son was completely trained over the winter so we went to underwear. No accidents all winter until he started playing like crazy outside in the spring. He sleeps so hard now he doesn't get up in the middle of the night. I think I went 3 weeks straight changing sheets every night. He won't go back to pull ups because we have a 7 month old and he said pull ups are diapers and they are for baby's. So now I set my alarm and wake him once a night. We also cut off his fluids (as much as possible) around 7-7:30. I have also heard to have them go to the bathroom several times as they are leading up to bedtime.

Potty Patty (for girls - what we used) or Potty Scotty LOVE them! They are underwear that have a lining outside but inside the kids can feel they've peed and its uncomfortable (pull ups don't do this) But the best part is when my dd woke up from peeing at night - I didn't have to change the sheets! I was already getting her undressed to sit on the potty anyway so changing her underwear is no big deal. PJs might get a tiny bit wet but again - no big deal to change. On the potty, change bottoms - then right back to bed they worked PERFECT! Hang in there mama - you'll get there!! :)

My older son was pottty trained at 2 and a half, but I didn't have the courage to let go of the night time pullups until he was almost 5. And then I paid him. He got 50 cents for every dry pullup and had to give me 25 cents for every wet one. A trip to the Lego Store in Disney was his goal and it worked for him. I figured by 5 he had control of his bladder and he was big enough to strip the wet sheets : )

I've tried it with my 3 year old son (who's been potty trained since January) and he couldn't care less.

T.

Congrats to you mom! potty training is a hard challenge to conquer. My daughter was wetting her pull ups still, when one day she told me she didnt want to wear them any more, I set my alarm for the middle of her sleep to wake her up and go potty. Soon she asked me if she could wear panties to sleep, I made a deal with her, if she didnt potty in her bed she could wear panties the next night. But if she did potty - she had to wear a pull up. didnt take no time at all for her to not potty in the bed. Also - make sure he doesnt have anything to drink at least an hr before bed.
good luck!!

Actually it depends on the child. I have 4 and each one was different. My first potty trained by the time she was about 3 and at nighttime we did do night time training. I would stay up until about 11 each night and wake her up and take her to the bathroom. After a couple of weeks she was fine and was able to get up on her own and go if she needed to.
My other 3 were not as easy. They have all had different issues. My 2nd dd didn't potty train until much later and had trouble at night with getting up. So she wet the bed for a long time. Some of it was laziness as she just didn't want to climb down from her bunkbed in the middle of the night.
Now my son he had issues that I ended up taking him to the chiropractor for. And after 6mos of treatments he improved tremendously. He did have some issues not only just with wetting the bed but sometimes multiple times in the same night. The chiro helped tremendously and although it was not a cure it did help so that he no longer wet multiple times during the night. He is now almost 10 and only occasionally wets. If we go somewhere overnight I will get him up once to go so he doesn't wet.
My youngest who is now 5 still wets occasionally but not as often as she did. As they grow and go through puberty their bladder can sometimes take a while to catch up. Typically the magic age is twelve. hth

I see no problem with continuing to use Pull-ups at night. My son will be 3 years old next week and has been trained during the day since February. At night he still wears the night time pull-ups because regular pull-ups can leak at night for us. Some days he is dry in the morning and some days he is not. I don't expect him to be able to hold it all night or wake up when he has to go.

Night time "training" takes much longer. Besides the fact that the child is asleep they're expected to hold their urine (while asleep) for many more hours than during the day. The bladder will be ready when it's ready. I would keep using the pull ups until you start seeing dry nights here and there. You can have him double void before bed. Once a half hour before bed and then again right before crawling into bed. Also, no drinks after dinner. His dinner milk should be the last drink for the night. Be sure to put him on the toilet and have him go himself as soon as he wakes. Once you see a dry pull up give him a sticker, M&M or one Skittle as a reward. It's a nice little incentive but don't punish when he's wet. He is asleep after all.

K. B
mom to 5 including triplets