Potty Training - Andover, MN

K.~ With all of mine, I would just let them go at night with the pull ups until they woke up dry for a few days in a row. Don't worry about her age. Some kids' bladders need extra time to catch up with them! What my mom always said....they aren't going to get married in diapers, so don't worry about it ;)

If she isn't staying dry at night she may not be ready for underwear. I found my kids couln't stay dry at night and they weren't really trained for the day either. I was. LOL. Wait a couple of months and try again. My oldest had a problem going and stayed in pull-ups until he was five and a half. My neice still wears pull-ups and she's 11. Some kids just don't stay dry at night. Good Luck!!!1

You probably want to do some night training before giving her big girl underwear to bed. My daughter is 4 now. She wet her bed when she was 2 and 3. We found out the problem was not that she drank water or milk before going to bed. What helped were 2 things: 1) Getting her to go potty 2-3 times in the evening before going to bed. Doing this helps empty the bladder. 2) Waking her up at night to go potty. She will start waking up by herself when she had to pee.

Good luck.

My son is 6 and we still have accidents at night. The pediatrition says not to worry until he is 8?? I am not so sure about that, but at 3 you are still ok. I wouldn't worry about it and continue to cut off liquids at least an hour prior to bed and use the potty a couple of times in the 30 minutes prior to bed.

K. - Cut off her liquids at 7pm. The reason she is waking up wet is because she is taking milk to bed with her. If you cut her off at 7, and make sure she goes before bed, you should see a drastic reduction in any pottying overnight very quickly. HTH K.

HI..

night time potty training can come much later than day time potty training. even to the age of 5-6 is even considered ok and normal.
and night time potty training is complete when they wake up for 30 days straight dry.
so i would wait and keep using the night time pullups(they make night time pullups instead of the regular day timepull ups. the night time ones hold more. )
the milk before bedtime is only bad if you have already brushed her teeth, then giving it to her. the sugar in the milk is very bad for teeth if given at bed time , after brushing teeth.
but i'm sure the milk before bedtime can be weaned at some point or she will grow out of it. she's still very young.
did your son get night time potty trained earlier? wouldn't it be great if they all did things at the same time at the same age..lol lol lol.i do.. lol or that there was a manual in the womb with each one..LOL. would make things like potty training and feeding solids and such clearer..
good luck..
i wouldn't worry about her waking up with a wet pullup. it's normal at this age. even with being potty trained early.
or talk to your pediatrician and see what they say. they all have different views. so with as many views as you will get there , different peds will have different views as well.
or check the american pediatric website. that's standard..
good luck

When her pull ups are dry in the morning, then she will be ready to wear underwear at night. Most kids do not have big enough bladders to go all night. You could try waking her up before you go to bed to go to the bathroom, or cutting out her milk before bed, but if you don't want to do that, don't stress it. She might not be ready for panties at night until she is 5 or even 6. It's completely normal. But let her be dry in pulls ups for a few nights before you deem her ready to be in panties all night. My son will be 4 in November and is still in pull ups at night. He, too, likes his glass of milk before bed. I think if I cut that glass of milk, tho, he'd stay dry all night.

I'm with those who say to give her time. My sons have both always gone to bed with a cup of water on the bedside table (I'm a bit of a nut about good hydration), and my older son was dry through the night by 3.5 years. My second son is almost four and still wears a pull-up at night, although I've noticed that he rarely wets it anymore so will probably transition out of them this fall. Some kids, though, just need more time. Since you can re-use the pull-ups if they keep them dry, it's not that expensive or inconvenient to use them until she's ready to give them up.

My doctor told me that until they wake up dry on their own that they are not physiologically ready to be potty trained. My daughter is 26 months and will potty on the toilet if I ask if she needs to and sometimes will offer this herself. However, she goes to daycare during the day while I work, so I am not always there to ask. My doctor was very unconcerned and asked if she was ever dry when she woke up from a nap or in the morning, I said no and my doctor said that she just isn't ready. Hope that helps and gives you some peace of mind!

Hi K.:
I actually went a year with my son before getting up the courage to let him go at night without any protection. However, he did wake up dry consistently for about a week before I started the night time without a pull up. My Pediatrician told me that some kids dont go at night without a pull up until the age of 5 or 6. I wouldint worry too much, i just knew he was ready to go the night without a pull up and you will too. Just let your maternal instinct guide you.
K.

I have a little boy who I'm about to start with the whole process of potty training, and I've had a lot of people give me advice on how to do it...A LOT! The one thing that I've heard pretty consistantly is to limit their drinks at night...like cut them off at 7 p.m. so then when they go potty right before bed, they may not have to go potty during the night, cutting out the need for a pull up. Some kids are just too heavy of sleepers to wake up when they need to go.

I wouldnt push it, myself. My son, who is 7 now, had to go on some meds to help him. He is now off of them and rarely has an accident. He does have one if he gets too much liquid in him. I tried encouraging him to get into undies at night and wake up dry, but because he had a medical condition that is quite common, it made things worse for him. He thought he was a bad kid for doing so, even though I never told him he was bad when he woke up wet. Give her time to adjust to things. Do cut her off by 7pm of drinking. She may be a heavy sleeper like my son and not realize the ques they get in their sleep. Good Luck!

My boys were the same way. After dinner they were not allowed drinks. Keep pull ups on her at night but keep working on it during the day, DON'T STOP! My co-worker actually had to set an alarm clock for the middle of the night. They woke their son up and took him to the bathroom. Pretty soon he started getting the hang of it on his own. Mine weren't fully potty trained til 5! It's ok!

I have two kids. I have a five year old son and a twenty one months older daughter. We are in process of potty training our almost two year old. She does not talk yet but we just want to get her introduce the whole concept of potty. She goes when we asked her, but we don't get to ask her all the time. What I have heard from other mother and doctors, make sure that your daughter does not have anything to drink before she goes to bed and make sure that she goes potty right before she hit the bed. If she insisted on drinking, I would give water and just give her a little bit then make sure that she goes potty maybe ten minutes after the drink. I would also get her out of pulls up, and just get her into underwear and put a towel or two underneath her just in case and to try it out. I hope drinking less work. Good luck!

My oldest daughter was also potty trained daytime very young, but it wasn't until she was almost 4 that she was dry at night. I even cut off liquids in the evening, but that didn't help. Just give her some more time and be thankful that she is daytime potty trained. My 3 year old is just now catching on to potty training. When my daughter finally got it, I don't think I did anything different. I just realized that it had been several nights and she was dry. She is also a very heavy sleeper, so I am sure that may have had something to do with it. They just don't wake up when they feel the urge. Good luck and I hope this helps.