Nighttime potty training advice

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No advice. DS pees a ton in his pull up at night.

I'm in no hurry to night train but will follow the thread to see if I'm a lazy mom.

[kbw12]

I didn't wake DS. I didn't want to get him in the habit of always having to go at the same time when I went to bed. It took DS over a year of being day trained to be night trained. He went from peeing in his pull up a ton to just one night stopping.

[pinkie]

Feb 12, 2017 21:07:36 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

No advice. DS pees a ton in his pull up at night.

I'm in no hurry to night train but will follow the thread to see if I'm a lazy mom.

Same here! We have had lots of sleeping issues with him and I don't care if he's in a pull up over night for awhile. He is almost 4. Occasionally he is dry in the morning but most of the time he is not.

[ghostmonkey]

Every kid in my family had accidents fairly regularly until 10. DS is 6. He'll go a week and will be fine, then will be wet every day for a month.

Until his pedi gets worried, we aren't. She made a big point of saying to not wake- it doesn't teach them anything and just makes everyone tired.

[seadragon2013]

DS is still in a pull-up at night. We're in no hurry to night train him, since he's such a good sleeper and we don't want to encourage MOTN or super-early morning wake ups.

We'll probably start encouraging night training more actively next winter if he hasn't picked it up yet.

[thechickencoop]

Yeah night training can come waaay after day. DS is almost 5, he's been day trained for about 2 years, night for about 1 year. He still has the occasional accident but they're pretty few and far between.

I would not wake him regularly to pee. We have DS pee last thing before bed. The only time we ever wake him after that is if we KNOW that he drank a shitton really late. Or if he ate like, half a watermelon with H right before bed. Learned our lesson on that one...😐

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This is what I did with my 2, my sister with her 5, my other sister with her one and my brother with his 2, plus my mom with her 5 al of her sisters and their kids and my grandma with her 12 kids. lol. So just a few people anecdote.

they were awakened, like right before mom/dad goes to bed and encouraged to go try peeing, they'd go pee in the toilet and wake up dry. After about 2 weeks of parental waking, they'd become programmed to wake themselves, go pee and then go right back to sleep.

Like they were a little too asleep to fully recognize they needed to pee, but if roused a bit they'd realize yes they needed to go after all.

If after two weeks or so of waking before you go to bed, if they don't begin to stir and wake on their own, then you can give up if you want. you yourself are not giving up any sleep at all since you do the waking right before you go to bed, not in the middle of the night.

Of course if you go to bed at the same time as your kids this won't work. usually it's like a 7 or 8pm bedtime for kids and 10 or 11 bedtime for adults, to help limit time of full bladder to less than 8 hours.

Alternatively some parents begin to limit fluids a couple hours before bed. Mine always drank like a camel right before bed and middle of the night, so withholding fluids they thought was torture.

[HelloSweetie]

I just stopped when she woke up dry every day. If his pull-up is wet I would not stress and just koko.

[Deleted]

I "woke" him at about 2 am for a long time. At first Id have to basically carry him, then got to be I could just sweep his legs over the side of the bed, then eventually stand in the door way and call him. Now finally he can sleep through, and wake himself early enough in the AM, then go back to bed. He wasn't really awake, just enough to stagger to bathroom, stand and deliver. But he was very adamant about no pullup and I would rather set my alarm than do laundry daily. He also trained himself to sort of alert us-- he has a sound machine in his bed (one of the inserts from the stuffed animals ) and he would obviously be awake enough to turn the machine on, but not wake enough to get out of bed. So the early alert would be the sound machine- and I was able to catch it early enough to help him out of bed.

[FlightView]

DS is 3yo and has been night trained for the last 4 months. Sometimes, he will wake me up because he needs to pee, usually if he has had a lot of fluids before bed. I would wake him up to get him used to an empty bladder and cut fluids before bedtime.

[plorange]

I think I read it's totally normal for kids (especially boys) to not night train until 5. I have not had experience with that. We did pull ups at night until we had a consistent month or so with no wetness. I would not wake up to pee. Sleep is more important IMO.

[Deleted]

One of my boys was in overnight pull ups for years after he was day trained.

He was a heavy sleeper but he also just started relying on the pull up rather than get up in the morning to pee.

I had suspected this for a while but it was confirmed when we were on an overnight flight when he was 6 or 7 and he was mortified when I insisted he change into a pull up after dinner. Anyway, he refused and he remained dry (if not half awake) that night.

He never wore pull ups again.

[Deleted]

My younger kid hasn't night trained (young 3). My oldest night trained herself. She had been Day trained for a few months and one day asked to sleep without a diaper. She's had two accidents in 2.5 years, and both times were when she was high fever sick sleeping.

My pedi said not to push it. He said most kids naturally night train between 5 and 8, and that it is purely physical readiness.

I've never used pull ups for anything. My little just takes her diaper off when she needs to potty at night. She does need help getting the diaper back on (it's still dry if she wakes up to potty), but her wake ups always come before we go to bed, so it doesn't phase me.

[AmazingTulip]

My DS is 4 and day trained but is still in pull ups at night. He usually crawls into bed with me in the middle of the night and he pees in the potty then, but his diaper is usually wet when he comes to my room. I've tried to talk to him about what we can do to stay dry overnight and he says "But Mommy, I can't feel my pee when I'm sleeping." I'm afraid if I push I'll make him feel bad. Our ped is not concerned at all, so we'll just give it time.

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Feb 13, 2017 9:09:24 GMT -5 @hilarityensued said:

Feb 12, 2017 21:07:36 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

No advice. DS pees a ton in his pull up at night.

I'm in no hurry to night train but will follow the thread to see if I'm a lazy mom.

from a physical standpoint, limiting liquids in the 30-60 minutes leading up to the bedtime, and making sure they empty their bladder right before bed, will basically cut down on almost all nighttime peeing.

oh the trouble with an early bedtime. DS is finishing dinner at 6:30 and then it's pretty much straight to bed.

I try to limit, but it's hard to say no drinks with dinner.

[ghostmonkey]

Feb 13, 2017 9:33:41 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

Feb 13, 2017 9:09:24 GMT -5 @hilarityensued said:

from a physical standpoint, limiting liquids in the 30-60 minutes leading up to the bedtime, and making sure they empty their bladder right before bed, will basically cut down on almost all nighttime peeing.

oh the trouble with an early bedtime. DS is finishing dinner at 6:30 and then it's pretty much straight to bed.

I try to limit, but it's hard to say no drinks with dinner.

We've done this and it had no effect on what happened overnight. Worth trying if you can make it work and it works well for many, but it's not a guarantee.

[byjove]

We keep a little potty in DD1's (3.5) bedroom. She we'll wake up, use the potty, and go back to bed on her own. Before that, around 3 when she started refusing a pull up at night, we just followed her lead and she wet the bed a few nights in a row and then figured it out. She'll still have accidents occasionally- usually after she's been sick or the routine is off. They usually happen in strings. No accidents for a month or two, and then 3 in a week.