Night Trained?

mummy2girls wrote: I was wondering if your kids are night trained and at what age were they? jenna is 3.5 yrs and she still has to wear a puulup at night. I have tried everything to limit her drinks to a certain time at night and she still wakes up wet. Do i just put her to bed without a pullup and hoep for the best that she learns to wake up to go pee? Someone told me to just wake her up during the nighta nd sit her on the potty.. but i dont really want to do that because a)it will disrupt her sleep and i dont want her to get used to me doing that... because at age 6 she will keep expecting it. She is a heavy sleeper so i think that is one problem...

any advice??

lisar replied: I had that problem with Lexi and instead of the pullups I got those plastic panties and put them on her over her underwear and whne she would go at night the wetness would wake her up and make her aware of what happened eventually it got to where she didnt want to be wet at night and it got her to get up and go to the bathroom. Thats what worked for me. Good luck

mummy2girls replied:
Thanks im going to have to try that!

3_call_me_mama replied: Cameron night trained shortly after he day trained. He had occasional accidnets but nothing that needed a pull up at night. (More liek he would wake and make it to the toilet and pee in front of teh toilet. Kathleen recently has decided ot be potty trained. She's been diaper free for a week and 1/2 and whiel she still wears a diaper at night she wakes up dry in teh am. (We use cloth so it isnt' a waste for us we jsut wash and reuse) However she wakes up at 330 am to pee. Which somenights i wish she'd just use the diaper!! LOL
ON the otehr hand teh girls I nannied for both wore pull ups at night until they wer e5 or 6 years old. Some kids cannot wake themselves to pee and if that works for hte family, then it works.
I woudl jsut limit drinks and make sure she pees before she goes down. BUT if you are waking her up in teh middle of teh night to go pee, she really isnt' night trained. YOU ARE! So It really wont' help her wake on her own. it'll just save you on teh pull up expense. Good luck!~
ETA: Cameorn was day trianed at 2 years 3 mos and night trianed by 2 years 4 months. Kathleen is 22 months.

Momof3inMe replied: Emily is 2.5 and is not night trained. She does fine for naptime but at night she is still peeing. Some morning she will wake up dry but not enough times to go with out a pull up.

my2monkeyboys replied: Will is almost 4 (Oct) and still needs a pull-up at night. He sleeps so hard (like me!) that he doesn't wake up from the sensation yet. Every few months I've tried to have him wear just underwear, and while maybe 2 out of 5 he stayed dry, the other nights he didn't. And when he wet himself, it was actually cold when he finally woke up and came in to get me, so I know he's slept a while even after he'd peed.
I think you can try it, but if it doesn't work, I'd just go back to pull-ups. Every child is different, and they all will eventually stay dry during the night. If Jenna doesn't sleep real hard, she may train fairly easy.
Good luck, either way!

C&K*s Mommie replied: Christian night trained pretty much on the first night of trying, a few months back. She had accidents, from where we did not limit her liquids close to bedtime and they were not voided at the last stop in the bathroom before bedtime. It was all trial and error.

Kellie is still working on day training, so night training may be put off for another yr or so.

The above advice from the other members is good. Definitely keep on limiting drinks maybe 2hrs prior to bedtime, have her go before she lays down, and maybe keep the light on in the bathroom, if by chance she awakens (out of her deep sleep) and needs to go.
They also have mattress pads that can be absorbent, and will keep the mattress dry from those night accidents. At LeapsandBounds.com, you can find some.

Many things are trial and error. This may be one.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Yep - both my older ones are night trained.

Zach day trained at around 21 months (or around there...) and Emilie was day trained at 18 months (or around there).

As for night trained - it's been about since last August for both, they would go most nights without being wet - but they still put pull-ups on at night until about January... because it's easier to change a pull up than it is to change a bed at 3 am. So Zach was about 3, and Emilie was almost 2 - but if you don't count with the pull ups, then Emilie was 25 months and Zach was 3.5.

ediep replied: Jason still wears pull ups for bed and hosnetly, I am in no rush to get him "night trained". Some nights he'll wake up to use the potty, and the he's dry in the moring and some nights he go in his pull up. I think the bladder needs to mature. Don't worry! when she starts waking up dry, then you know she is ready.

coasterqueen replied: Kylie's been night trained for well over a year now. I never once woke her at night, I just limited what she could drink.

IMO she will be ready when she's ready. I wouldn't rush it. We just let Kylie decide and when she was ready that's when she night trained.

mummy2girls replied:
no im not waking her up in the middle of the night. Someone told me i should do that. i refuse to do that because i dont want her use to it.

Nina J replied: Some nights, Emily will wet the bed, and others she won't. She wears pull ups to bed, some nights she'll get up to use the toilet, and other nights she won't. She's told me she gets scared sometimes to get up, so she just wets herself and goes back to sleep. Maybe Jenna wakes up, but gets scared.

I know a few people who just stopped using the pull ups, and put a plastic sheet on the bed. Their kids would wet the bed, and wake up because it was uncomfortable. They told me after a week or so, there kids slowly started to get up because they didn't like the feeling of being wet. And after a month, accidents were rare.

But, I'm not comfortable with using this method, I think kids go at there own pace. Plus, I don't want to make Emily feel embarrassed in any way, because bedwetting is quite common. She might still be wetting the bed when she's 6, it's not a big deal though.

luvmykids replied: Kylie is 4 and still wears a pull up to bed, we're getting more and more dry ones in the morning but not near enough for her to wear panties. She's such a heavy sleeper that even when she wears panties and pees in them she sleeps straight through it.

Ashlynn's Mommy replied: Cynthia is 9, and once in a while she has an accident while she's sleeping. I limit her drinks at night, and I wake her up before I go to bed so she can use the bathroom. It usually happens when she's in a deep sleep.

3_call_me_mama replied:
good job sticking to your guns Nothign wirse thatn a 3 year old wanting to play at 3 am just cause you always wake them to go pee at that time LOL

A&A'smommy replied: that taking her to the potty thing that is what My mom had to do with my brother when he was like 4 and eventually got use to getting up at that certain time of the night and took himself to the potty and went right back to bed. I really don't know I am not having much luck in the potty training department

mummy2girls replied:
I thought she was trained? or are you have trouble night training as well?

Boo&BugsMom replied:
My mom use to tell me to wake up Tanner too...I didn't listen. Seemed crazy to me. We were lucky and Tanner was nighttime trained by about 3. He had been in underwear for about 6 months. I think it depends on your child. I think if you did decide to forgo the pull ups at night, it wont take long for her body to respond if she has to go potty...hopefully. Accidents will happen, but I would think within a couple weeks that she would be better. But, like others said, every child is different. Her being a heavy sleeper makes it a little harder, but since right now she is in pull ups, her body probably isnt' "waking her up" to go potty. Her body probably just figures..."oh, I'm in a pull up, no big deal". It couldn't hurt to just try her in the underwear for awhile to see how she does. If not, it's pretty common for kids to not be night-trained for quite awhile after being toilet trained during the day. Night time is hard.

Is she pretty independant when she uses the potty? If not, get her to be. If so, then if you do start to wake her to go, then after a bit she can just go herself (her body would probably start to naturally wake on it's own to go after awhie) when she wakes up and not have to come and get you. Good luck!