How to potty train overnight?

Question

My 3 and 1/2 year old girl is potty trained except at night. We are still putting her in a pull up. How is the best way to potty train her during the night? She is really wet when she wakes up even when we cut off drinks around 6 pm (bed around 8:30).

Answer 1

As shde gets older it will get better. Some children cannot make it through the night until much older. The only real option is to get her up every several hours to take to the bathroom. But is that really soemthing you want to do? i mean, it will require you to wake you up to and it might be years before she is capable of going all night.

Answer 2

With my son he was the same, totally potty trained through the day and naps, so one night we put a plastic sheet on his bed and put him to bed in underwear. We made him take a big pee right before and also put a potty in his room. We told him over and over that if he had to go to go in the potty or wake us up. Suprisingly enough, it worked. He has had 3 overnight accidents in the last couple of months but that's only to be expected I think. Anyways, it can't hurt to try and if it dosn't work, try again in a month or so. Good luck!

Answer 3

I agree with many of the answers and my tid-bit of advise is that children wet their pants alot when they're cold, even if your house stays at a comfortable temp, a breeze or draft could make her wet her pants more. Waking my daughter up accomplished nothing she was too tired and didnt go pee when i put her on the toilet. Seems to me that she peed early in the am if that kinda helps. Good luck. Oh and our Dr mentioned that wetting the bed is hereditary.

Answer 4

wake her up at 11pm,2am,5am to go to the bathroom

Answer 5

kids will always have accidents when they are sleeping. Don't put 2 much pressure on her to get up at night to go to the washroom. Eventually she will be able to hold it. Seems like you are doing the right thing by cutting off the drinks before bed. The best thing to do is to just keep telling her that if she wakes up at night and has to pee to go to the washroom, otherwise she is sleeping and doesnt realize that she had urinated.

Answer 6

i dont know. my lil one was potty trained in one day. no joke. they hated being wet.

Answer 7

Hmm.. well I was going to say dont let her have a drink after a certain time but you already do that.. my biggest thing was getting them out of pampers all together.. when i was potty training my girls (4,3) they would be using panties during the day and i would put pull-ups on them at night and get frustrated that they would be soaked.. so i decided to just let them sleep in panties.. YES they had accidents.. but it happens.. And I come to find out.. if you put your child in a pamper.. that have that feeling that its ok.. take that feeling away and see what happens!

Answer 8

in the middle of everynight (before she wet the bed so make it kinda early but so their still asleep) pick her up and take them to the bath room and put them on the toilet they'll ushually go and just keep repeating that for a while...

Answer 9

Don't cut off drinks - dehydrating your child is a HORRIBLE idea. If she still wets at night, it's because her bladder hasn't caught up to her body size. Keep giving her pullups.

Answer 10

Are you getting her up as soon as she wakes up? Or is she laying there awake for a while? Make sure she goes potty right before bed and as SOON as she wakes up.

And no, cutting off drinks is not mean, it's part of potty training.

Also, if all else fails, bribery always works! :) good luck!

Answer 11

What I had to do with my daughter was to wake her every few hours and take her to the bathroom.  After a couple of weeks her bladder muscles were strong enough that she could hold it through the night.  Some kids will continue to have bed wetting problems even after they are potty trained and that is more psycological and should be dealt with accordingly.

Answer 12

It takes time dont rush it. It will all come together--her bladder isnt ready to wake her up at night yet. Give her a few more months. It should come on its own! Good Luck.

Answer 13

have no clue

Answer 14

IDK what to tell you except theres special diapers and stuff for kids who pee at night so they like hate the feeling when they pee and stuff sorry im not much help

Answer 15

Just like being day time diaper free, night time diaper free comes at different times for every child.  You will find some children who day and night train all at once, but many more will not be ready to be night time diaper-free until a few years after they are day time diaper-free.  Waking a child up through the night to urinate is a choice for some parents.  I personally found it extremely disruptive to both my sleep and my child's sleep.  My child was drier in the morning but both of us were rather cranky, so I opted to not go that route.  Instead, I just waited for their bladders to mature enough naturally to be able to go through the night.  I am mom to 4 kids and each one was night time diaper-free around 5 years old.  It is pretty normal for most children to be day and night diaper-free by 5-6 years old.  For some children, staying dry through the night takes a bit more time and maturity to reach.  Sometimes a child will be well into elementary school, sometimes as old as 12, sometimes older, before their bodies have reached the point where they can stay dry most nights.  I think if you are cutting off her liquids by 6 PM and she is using the potty before bed at 8:30 yet is still waking up very wet she is still not physically at a point where being night time diaper-free is a reasonable expectation.  Perhaps an overnight diaper would work better if she is leaking through a Pull-up.  Pull-ups are actually not designed for overnight usage, but rather are back-ups in case of accidents.  There won't be too much concern about still wetting at night until she has reached about 8 years old.  It is just a matter of growth, development, and maturity which all can take some time.  ADDED:  Most cases of night time bed wetting in older children are simply because the child's body is not physically ready to stay dry all night.  Very few cases actually involve any form of emotional or psyhcological problems.

Answer 16

nothing much you can do, cutting off drinks is kinds mean

Answer 17

I have a 6 year old that still wears pull ups & a 4 year old that is completely potty trained. The Dr says the bladder is just not ready yet. Be patient. i know it's awful buying the pull ups when you just want to be done. When she wakes up dry for a week or so, she should be ready. Good Luck

Answer 18

Try actually waking her up to go to the bathroom.  Set yourself to get her out of bed and have her use the bathroom right before you go to bed (I'm assuming you stay up until 10-10:30). You will also probably want to do this at least once in the middle of the night (3am?).  It should help her get used to waking up to go pee.  Also, you may want to reconsider the pull-up if she doesn't wake up once she is wet.

Answer 19

Its my understanding that its not called potty trained at night.  Its called not going when you're asleep.  So with that being said, I would make sure she has absolutely nothing to drink before bedtime.  I would also make her go or at least attempt to go before she falls asleep.

Answer 20

hi! umm i"m only 12 but i think i have a solution because i have a 5 year old brother and a 1 year old sister.

maybe if put a plastic starter potty in your childs room and her that it's there she will go. or you can have night lights guiding her to the bathroom. i hope i helped

Answer 21

What a freak?

first

Answer 22

what i tried with my daughter was, she would go to bed about 8 and i wouldn't go to bed until about 11/11:30.  Before i went to bed, i would go into her room, pick her up and take her to the bathroom.  By carrying her, she didn't fully wake up, but still went to the bathroom and didn't pee the bed (still had some accidents for a little while)  Also, i made sure she knew she was allowed to get out of bed to go potty at night - make sure she's not scared to get up out of bed.  Also, she didn't like having pullups put on, even at night.  So, what i told her is, if she went 3 nights dry, she got to wear panties at night until she had an accident.  She was night trained within a month.

Answer 23

Just put her in regular underwear she will stop within a week pull-ups absorb the wetness. Underwear dont she will be uncomftorable and want changed and she will stop

Answer 24

Dr.phill has a very good book out about potty training.

Answer 25

make sure she goes b 4 bed

Answer 26

Sounds like you are doing everything right. I would try putting a waterproof pad underneath the sheets and letting her sleep in big girl panties- not a pull up. The pull up lets her know that she doesn't need to get up to go potty. By letting her sleep in panties, she will not want that icky feeling and it may trigger her to get up to pee. If not then she may be a heavy sleeper and it may just take her getting a little older before she is able to sense the urge of a full bladder while she is sleeping. Potty training is coming soon for our little one, so this advice comes from my sister who has 3 kids. Good luck!

Answer 27

Have her sit on the toilet until she goes right before she goes to sleep .. its been working for my son.

Answer 28

my daughter was 5 until she didnt wet the bed, dont push her, some take longer than others, just incourage her, make sure she goes right before bedtime

Answer 29

Make sure she is getting her rest times during the day.  If she crashes hard in the evening because she didn't nap adequately, it may be interfering with her ability to recognize that she is doing it at night.  If that doesn't help, I would say its a matter of time still.  She's young.  She will out grow it.