Home Potty training at night?

[LovelyHearts]

My daugher is 28 months old and we''ve been potty training her since early December. She doesn''t ask to go all the time yet, but as long as someone remembers to bring her, she is fine and won''t have any accidents. She wears regular panties at home and at day care but during the weekend when we''re out and about, I do put a pull-up on her just in case.

At night though, I put a sleep pull-up on because she still sleeps in a crib. I''m trying to decide if I should transition to a toddler bed now so she can get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night? I don''t think she would know to wake up because she has been going in her diaper/pull-ups since she was born. The bathroom isn''t adjacent to her room though, it is actually down the hall and around the corner.

How did you potty train your child at night? Please share your experiences.

 

[curlygirl]

This is a great question but I don't think I have an answer for you!

The day my daughter decided she was going to wear only panties (around 2.5 years old/30 months), that was it. She refused to wear a pull up even at night. We expected many accidents but have only had 1 when we forgot to make sure she went to the bathroom before going to sleep. She is in a toddler bed, generally sleeps for about 10 hours at night and wakes up dry. There have been 2 occasions where she has shown up in my room in the middle of the night and told me she had to use the potty but other than that, she just holds it till the morning.

If you don't mind that she may have an accident, you might just want to try to let her go without a pull up one night and see what happens. Definitely talk to her about it and let her know that if she wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to use the potty, she should yell for you to come and get her out of her crib. Do you have a crib that converts to a toddler bed? You can also use that as some incentive to train her. Let her know that when she can stay dry all night, you'll move her to a big girl bed and then she can get up on her own and tell you if she needs to go.

I don't know if this is great advice or not but it's the way I would handle it! Your daughter is still very young so I think she's doing great already. I'm still dealing with trying to figure out how to get my girl to poop on the potty. I wish this stuff was easier!! Good luck!

 

[mrssalvo]

I made my girls wear the cheapo diapers to bed for several nights. Once they went for a good chunk of time without waking up in the night and having a dry diaper I let them start wearing their panties to bed. neither of them ever had a bedtime accident, but both were closer to 3. My oldest was 31 months and the middle one was 35 months.

 

[LovelyHearts]

Date: 2/16/2010 1:43:01 PM
Author: mrssalvo
I made my girls wear the cheapo diapers to bed for several nights. Once they went for a good chunk of time without waking up in the night and having a dry diaper I let them start wearing their panties to bed. neither of them ever had a bedtime accident, but both were closer to 3. My oldest was 31 months and the middle one was 35 months.

I don''t think my daughter is ready yet then. She still wets her diaper at night. Maybe the best thing for me would be to just wait until her diaper is dry when she wakes up before I start letting her wear panties to bed.

She doesn''t know how to go to the bathroom by herself yet. She doesn''t know how to pull her pants down or wipe (not properly) so maybe I need to work with her on that a bit more.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[LovelyHearts]

Date: 2/16/2010 1:29:07 PM
Author: curlygirl
This is a great question but I don''t think I have an answer for you!

The day my daughter decided she was going to wear only panties (around 2.5 years old/30 months), that was it. She refused to wear a pull up even at night. We expected many accidents but have only had 1 when we forgot to make sure she went to the bathroom before going to sleep. She is in a toddler bed, generally sleeps for about 10 hours at night and wakes up dry. There have been 2 occasions where she has shown up in my room in the middle of the night and told me she had to use the potty but other than that, she just holds it till the morning.

If you don''t mind that she may have an accident, you might just want to try to let her go without a pull up one night and see what happens. Definitely talk to her about it and let her know that if she wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to use the potty, she should yell for you to come and get her out of her crib. Do you have a crib that converts to a toddler bed? You can also use that as some incentive to train her. Let her know that when she can stay dry all night, you''ll move her to a big girl bed and then she can get up on her own and tell you if she needs to go.

I don''t know if this is great advice or not but it''s the way I would handle it! Your daughter is still very young so I think she''s doing great already. I''m still dealing with trying to figure out how to get my girl to poop on the potty. I wish this stuff was easier!! Good luck!

Hi! Thanks for sharing!

I''m worried that if she was in panties at night and she woke up having to pee, that she would just hold it and she''ll get an infection. Since she still sleeps in her crib, there''s no way for her to come to my room. Also, I keep the room doors closed and she doesn''t know how to turn the door knobs yet.

I think I''ll start talking to her about the toddler bed. Her crib does convert to a toddler bed (if we can find the side piece and the instruction manual, haha), but I might just buy her a dora bed. She loves Dora right now.

My daughter poops in the potty okay, but she doesn''t tell us when she has to go. We know when she has to go because she farts. That is not always a good thing, depending on where we''re at. I''ve gotten strange looks at Target before. LOL.

 

[somethingshiny]

Definitely work on pulling up the pants and wiping first.

JT was a bit over 2 when we started training. We transitioned him to a toddler bed at the same time and put a potty in his room. He would get up and use it first thing in the am. He was good at pulling up/down the pants and obviously we didn''t have to worry about wiping. He trained very easily, nights and days at the same time. He was not quite 2.5 when he was trained completely. I did have him sleeping in pull-ups those few months but I told him they were underpants so he wouldn''t pee in them.

 

[LovelyHearts]

Date: 2/18/2010 11:40:16 AM
Author: somethingshiny
Definitely work on pulling up the pants and wiping first.

JT was a bit over 2 when we started training. We transitioned him to a toddler bed at the same time and put a potty in his room. He would get up and use it first thing in the am. He was good at pulling up/down the pants and obviously we didn''t have to worry about wiping. He trained very easily, nights and days at the same time. He was not quite 2.5 when he was trained completely. I did have him sleeping in pull-ups those few months but I told him they were underpants so he wouldn''t pee in them.

Wow, 2.5! That''s awesome! I got a lot of crap from my co-workers and some friends for starting the potty training before she turned 3. They were telling me I was going to get her frustrated and was setting myself up for failure.

I definitely need to work with her on the wiping and pulling up/down pants first.

 

[D&T]

my DD never had pull ups in bed, she was in a twin bed right at 2 years old so that when/if she felt the urge, she would walk over to our room (I preferred my DD to wake us up for the time being just in case something happens ...like fall or slips on the pottyn we'd be there) anyhoot, we put her in regular undies so that if she had an accident... she would then realize... ooops, so this is how it feels to get wet (not so fun... so I better get up and go potty) We also have the waterproof mattress liner (still do and she's four and half) we only used pull ups for about one week, and decided it wasn't working for us, as it still felt like diapers to her so for a whole week we decided to take our chances and put her in regular panties, and suffer the consequences, during that week, we had two accidents that I could remember because she just wouldn't go, so we actually had my DD help clean up her mess