Pull-ups @ night

Monique - posted on 01/22/2009

I think that you have to make it a positive experience for  your daughter.  She is at the age where you can sit down and discuss stop using pull ups and start getting her use to the idea of going to bed without them.  Discuss going cold turkey and stop on a specified date or you can slowly ween her off pull ups. Find out what way makes her feel comfortable.

Talk about going to the toilet before going to bed and then you can get her up for a wee before you go to bed. I did this with my son and he had a few accidents.  When these accidents occured we made sure that we did not criticised him for it but discussed why it had happened.

By talking to her about the methods and letting her help decide it will probably be a less painful experience for both of you.

Hope that this helps.

Andrea - posted on 01/22/2009

Absolutely my daughter was two in April 08 and I had her dry day and night after one week just after her birthday. Cut down her drinks before bedtime and make sure she visits the loo before bed. All I did was take a potty into her room and lift her out of bed straight onto it before I went to bed . She would always have a pee and never fully wake up and I could just put her straight back to bed. i found using nighties instead of PJ's much easier for this. She only had one accident the first morning. Just make sure you take her to the loo straight away when she wakes up and keep saying don't wee don't wee if she is desperate she willl soon get the hang of it. After a few weeks the wee through the night becomes less and less and you will be able to leave her all night.

Leanne - posted on 01/22/2009

hi, limit drinks before bedtime i.e nothing an hour before bed.  you can buy a waterproof sheet and some pj`s that your daughter will think are really special. also reward a dry night but let her know a wet night is not good. i know it may not sound good but a firm hand works wonders.  tell her big girls do not wet the bed and she`s a big girl now. a few wet nights might happen before she can manage but the waterproof sheet helps. good luck

Jennifer - posted on 01/22/2009

Our dotcor told us it was totally normal and ok for our oldest to still be wetting the bed sometimes.  He is 5 1/2 and we have him wear a pull-up everynight.  When he potty trained at 3 we had him wear pull-ups for a while and then stopped.  He did ok for a while and then started wetting the bed sometimes again.  I got so tired of changing the sheets and having to bath him again in the morning but he refused to wear a pull-up again.  When we had our second son, last Feb, he agreed to start wearing pull-ups again, I think b/c the baby was wearing a diaper--a little attention.  It has been almost a year and he still wears a pull-up to bed.  In the last year we have only gone through three packages of pull-ups..between him wetting them and them tearing...not too bad.  But I am still grateful when his pull-up is wet that I wasn't forced to change the sheets that morning or bath him again!  It is also so good for on vacation and having friends sleepover.  His friends don't even know--we just go upstairs and he quietly puts it on and it looks like underwear anyways.

So...don't worry.  They say it can also be heredity and my husband wet the bed til he was older too.

Lorry - posted on 01/22/2009

I believe that this is mostly a matter of what the parent can put up with. Our 3-year-old is still wearing Pull-Ups at night, but I forgot to put them on her one night and she woke up dry. My inclination was to let her try again without a Pull-Up, but my husband felt uneasy about that--he doesn't want to deal with cleaning sheets, etc. in the morning before going to work. So we decided that that she can wear her Pull-Ups and if she has four consecutive dry nights, then we would do without permanently. She has been better about waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but if she is really tired, she'll sleep right through. I guess my point is (it's a long one, I know:) that there is no guarantee that there won't be accidents. If you're OK with that, then go for it without the Pull-Ups. If not, then maybe your daughter just needs a little more time with that aspect of potty training.

Katie - posted on 01/21/2009

Great post!

I have no advice, but can totally relate. My son will be five at the end of April. He is our first, we have no idea what to do. He wears a pull up and it is usually wet by 1.00am. No drinking past 7.00pm, we just don't know what to do. Both our boys are deep sleepers, sleeping from around 7.30pm to 7.30am without interuption, and have done so since around 12 weeks old... I would welcome suggestions as well...!

Bonnie - posted on 01/21/2009

just go for it!! my daughter is 2 and she was wearing underwear during the day and diapers at night. then one day i just randomly decided i would put her to bed in undies..and she did great she only peed once and it was the 3rd night..but its been like 3 months now..as long as she goes right b4 i put her to bed and catch her as soon as she wakes up its all good(and she sleeps 12 hours or more a night)..so yeah my advice..be ready for cleaning the bed up once or twice but just go for it!!

Therese - posted on 01/21/2009

My first mistake was that she still had a cup she was attached to...with mostly water & a tad juice.  So, I had to be strong enough to cease that & then work on the next stage.  Upon doing that I think she has had a harder time going to bed.  So, some nights she is almost up until 12am!!! I'm a night owl so I hope she isn't taking after me! I'm trying to get her to lay down earlier each night to get her back onto her schedule.  She does so well throughout the day with going potty.  All of these suggestions sound great.  One question though:  What is a bed-wetting alarm???

Marissa - posted on 01/21/2009

My husband and I had the same issue.  When our daughter turned four, we stopped all pull-ups.  We reinforced the idea that she was a big girl and the she was going to wear big girl underwear at night time.  She wet the bed consistently for about a week.  We made sure she went to the bathroom before bedtime.  I then began to wake her before I went to bed (about 11pm or midnight) to go to the bathroom again.  After about 2 weeks, she woke by herself to go to the bathroom.  She's now 4 years and 3 months and sleeps through the night, dry as a bone!  Good luck and don't give up!

Dawn - posted on 01/21/2009

I agree, our daughter is almost 5 and goes 4-5 nights without wetting the bed, the rest of the nights she sleeps right through peeing and than wakes up in the morning wet and cold! When she has had a long day she is less likely to wake up and go at night...a friend wakes her daughter up before she goes to bed, takes her potty and she falles right back to sleep.

Julie - posted on 01/21/2009

Unlike other stages of potty training, I think staying dry at night really is just physical maturity. If she doesn't wake up she doesn't wake up. If at five she still isn't dry at night, I'd get a bedwetting alarm. Those things are AMAZING. One of my sons was still intermittently wetting the bed in when he was 9 so we decided to use one with him. It took only three accidents, then he was completely "cured."

Wendy - posted on 01/21/2009

I bought my kids glow in the dark underwear and told them if the peed to bed in them they would stop glowing. They didn't want their cool underwear to stop glowing! Also, I would lay down some plastic under her sheets just to make sure it doesn't soak into the mattress!

Brenda - posted on 01/21/2009

Honestly, I'd just go for it.  I took away all diapers (pull ups) from my son and finally started to get him really potty trained.  He sleeps all through the night without accidents.  I'd try to get her to potty before bed, though, and as soon as she's awake.  You might invest in some bed pads for a little while to put her on (they're not too expensive for the disposable ones). However, if you want to wait, I'd trade regular pull ups for the Good Nights that look like underwear to kinda switch it up to a more "big girl" style with the wetness protection and see if she starts staying dry all night.