Potty training-Night Diaper?

I am sure you will get plenty of differing responses but here is what I did. I never did the pull-ups with my son. I just had several changes of clothing and washed a lot of clothes. My son took nearly 3 months to get the night time bathroom thing down. He is now dry full time. He is turning 3 next month. We had him put thick cloth training pants on but wouldn't use the plastic over for 2 reasons: 1. he thought it was like a diaper adn that didn't help, 2. he knew when he was wet.
With my daughter she was on pull-ups (this would be the reason we didn't use it with my son) and didn't train until she was nearly 4. So she didn't have any accidents at all once she was finally given the ultimatum. Act like a big girl (trust me, I knew my daughter and she was able to control it, it was a power struggle) or lose all benefits of being a big kid.

My daughter is 6 and still uses pull-ups at night because it is a 10 hour deep sleep. Their small bladders just can't hold it for that long. My gauge is when she has 2 weeks of dry pull-ups in the morning is when she can wear panties to bed. Otherwise I'd be changing sheets at 2 in the morning every day.

Now for naps, that's when to test out the panties and bladder control. Make sure she goes potty before naps. If you're worried about the bed, put a plastic trash bag under a bunch of towels and she can sleep on that 'mat'. So if accidents do happen then it's easy clean up for you, and not a major embarrassment for her. I did this for about 1-2 months until I felt good about her being able to hold it in during naps.

Good Luck,
J.

E. i am in the same situation. I spoke with a mom at my church and she suggested that I use the plastic panties during nap and bedtime. Shae said that I needed to let my son have the wet feeling on his skin so that he could start getting up at night if he had to go to the bathroom. I ahve not tried this but may be we should try it together.

My daughter is 5 and is just NOW starting to stay dry about 50% of the time (at night). Her doctor said it's perfectly normal for kids to wet at night until about age 6 or so and she doesn't even look further into it until that point. Parenting magazine says 15-20% of 5-yr-olds wet the bed because they are still trying to gain control of their bladders at that age.

In the last few weeks, my daughter is starting to stay dry, as well as actually waking up and going to the bathroom at night. (!) So I'm just going to keep her in pull-ups until she stays dry for 2 weeks straight. My philosophy is-- why put unnecessary pressure on her, and cause more work & night-waking for me when this issue will resolve itself naturally? Relax.

I am 30 now, but my sister and I both wet the bed until we were 12 or so. It was really embarrassing, but when I look back, I wish my parents had just put a pull up or something on us. They make them now for bigger kids: good nights. I mean, I really couldn't help it, and it would have been easier than changing the sheets in the middle of the night. Nothing helped, but I will say that one friend of mine told me that her parents bought the buzzer thing and it worked for her. So my suggestion is, don't worry about it until age 6 or so, but then maybe use the buzzer. Otherwise, it is a physiological problem, so punishment, etc. won't work.

OK, my son is almost 7, and I have taken him to a specialist at Children's Mercy, and done everything we're supposed to, and he still wets the bed. He'll go a few nights dry, but it doesn't fail at least 3-4 nights a week he's wet. So to save on laundry etc, he wears pull-ups to bed. We used to due the mattress protecters under sheets, thinking if he wet and could feel the wet sheets, he'd wkae up, didn't work, and was to much to wash sheets every day! We've quit the liquids before bed, cut out citric acid, cut out caffiene, made him sleep with underwear on INSIDE the pull up so he could feel the wetness, NONE of it has helped! I was told to get one of those bed wetting buzzers and if that didn't work, we could try medicine. BUT I decided not to. I figure he's only 7, and if he's ok with it, so am I. We used to wake him up around midnight and have him go BUT that is a BAD idea, because they are still half asleep, it may empty thier bladder a bit BUT they're half asleep when doing so, so they don't realize quite what they are doing in that state. If you're real worried about it, talk to her Dr. etc.. Otherwise, just let nature run it's course... She's only 3 so give it time! Good Luck and hope that helps. If you have any more questions feel free to ask me!

Have you tried waking her up a time or two during the night and walking her to the bathroom? I did with my older son. It helped him get used to waking up to go. After a few weeks I was able to let him sleep through the night and he would get up and go on his own. I started the night time routine with him after about 2 months of sucessful daytime potty training and by the end of the third month he was dry day and night.

I am in the same boat with my 3 year old son. For my older son, I just let him wear pull ups at night until his body was mature enough to not wet the bed. It took about 3 months or so and then I waited until he was dry for a month straight before moving him into underwear at night.