Overnight Pull Up/PT question (for those with bigs)

[inomniaparatus]

From the SM intros, it seems a lot of us on this board have bigs in the same age-range (3-4 years). For those who have potty trained, I'm in need of some advice:

DS has been fully day-time potty trained for the past three months with only two accidents. The first accident he was trying to get to the potty but didn't get his pants pulled down in time and the other was during a nap. We've been doing pull-ups at night but he has always woken up dry since the transition. At what point do we drop the night time pull-up?

DS still likes to crawl into our bed in the middle of the night so I guess my biggest concern is him having an accident in our bed and my waking up in a puddle of pee. 

I figured I would start here before branching into one of the bigger threads. I'm not quite ready for the DS-in-our-bed shaming. 

[thelittleredm]

No shaming here! DS1 is always in our bed Lol Doesn't matter if he starts there or not, he's there by the time we wake up.

As far as pull-ups at night are concerned, I just got tired of using them and that outweighed my fear of him peeing at night since he was always waking up dry. I think he's only had 1 or 2 accidents at night over the last year, probably.

ETA: We put waterproof mattress pads on our bed and his but when it became apparent it wouldn't be an issue, we took ours off.

[skye]

I just got DD out of our bed like 2 weeks ago so I can't shame anyone.

I'm not much help because my DD is still in pull ups at night. The longest she made it was like 4 nights in a row dry but then she'd have an accident. I'm just not ready to deal with the extra laundry so pull ups it is. It sounds like your son has stayed dry for a while so I'd probably switch and save the money.

I'm not trying to scare you either, but another thing to consider with the move is he may regress a little to. My daughter was day potty trained for like 9 months before we moved from our apartment to our new house and she had like 4 accident the first week. She hadn't had that many accidents in the first 9 months! It did get better quickly but it was a pain at the time. I don't want to scare you but just thought I'd share my experience.

[inomniaparatus]

skye, I appreciate you sharing and I've been a bit worried about that. I don't think DD being born caused a regression but I do think it slowed his desire a bit. We've been using a little potty in the playroom and I haven't pushed the big potty at home on purpose because of the move (he will use them in public restrooms though). Maybe I'll invest in one more package of pull-ups after this one in the new house and watch him for signs of regressing.

[ellabee]

I'll be back to discuss. I'm literally in the exact same situation.

[inomniaparatus]

Thanks everyone for the advice/input! With the move happening in three days, I've decided to keep him in pull ups at night until we know if he will regress or not. I'm hoping not since we've done 2 week-long trips out there and had no issues either time, so fingers crossed we have the same luck. Next hurdle will be to convince him to use the regular toilet 100% of the time, instead of splitting between regular toilet and little potty.

I also appreciate knowing we aren't the only ones with a child who doesn't want to sleep alone 🙂

[skye]

inomniaparatus, you may not have the same problems either because by the time we moved, DD had stopped using the little potty completely and only used the big potty. Maybe with your DS stilling using the little potty it will be totally fine. Hoping for an easy transition for you and that this is the last thing of pull ups you have to buy for a while!