Potty Training a 3 year old at night?

Question

My daughter is three she has been potty trained for a year durning the day. She has been asking to put panties on at night instead of a pull up. But when we put the pull up on her she wakes up in the morning wet. I just let her know that when she wakes up in the morning and her pull up is not wet than she will be able to keep her panties on. I'm wondering if I should just go ahead a let her sleep in her panties and see what will happen. I already have a mattress protector on her bed just in case. She can take a nap and not wear a pull up and will do just fine. I would like opinions on what I has worked for others?

Answer 1

try this first. leave the panties on and put a pull up on her too at night. and see what happens if she wakes up once she pees you should be fine to leave her in panties if not then shes not ready

Answer 2

Well, I have a boy and there's speculation that it is different for a boy than a girl. He is almost 4 (July) and has been potty trained for almost two years. He is also trained for nighttime as well. I simply put on the undies and let him go. I never used pull-ups at all. Once he pee'd the bed about twice, he never did again. I think that the knowing what it feels like to be wet like that really helped him associate not wetting himself. He also puts his "pee's" in the potty two seconds before bed and no drinks late at night. I say use the panties and see what happens. I have a friend who has a girl and she bought "pretty" panties for her little girl. Let her pick them out and everything BUT if she wet them she had to toss them. She was SO upset that cinderella had to be thrown away the first time she wet them that she didn't do it again. Good Luck!

Answer 3

For both of my girls once they switched to big girl undies that was it - I didn't go back to pull-ups at night. In my experience both as a mom and someone who's worked in childcare for several years, pull-ups have a very bad effect on the potty training process. Both girls were both completely potty trained right around their 2nd birthday. I used, and still use, rubber sheets over their mattresses, under the normal sheets. The first several nights they had accidents and then that was it, they did just fine after that. Also for the first month or so they were not allowed to drink more than a few sips after dinner, and I always had them go potty right before bed.

What I would suggest is to get rubber sheets and and extra set of bedding and let her sleep in her underwear, if she has an accident have her help you pull the wet sheets off the bed and clean herself up. It won't take long for her to figure out that it doesn't feel good to wake up wet. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

I kept my daughter in a pull up until she didn't have a wet pull up for a while at night. Try stopping drinks 1 1/2 hours before bed, making sure she goes right before bed, and see how she wakes up with her pull up. I wouldn't take it off and put undies on unless you want to change sheets every night, if she is waking up wet, it isn't going to change because she has panties on, she will just make a mess then, a mess that you have to clean up at 1 am. I'm not saying you shouldn't try because of that but if you don't change her before bed habits, then it might be sometime before she realizes she does pee at night. Some kids just don't get the urge to wake up at night. My daughter wore a pull up until she was almost 3 1/2 just at night, she had stopped for about 3 months and was doing great but then we had a baby and she reverted. I was being woken up enough at night, so we kept her in pull ups for a while, even if she argued about it. But being that pull ups were so expensive, we kept the clean ones and wore them the next night (she takes a nightly bath so she was clean I know some are saying OH gross but whatever) Good luck, this is such a personal choice, hopefully other peoples experiences help you out.

Answer 5

I would let her put the pull up on then the panties over it. Tell her she needs a few nights to stay dry before the pullup is all gone. Take her to bathroom before bed. Then wake her up and put her on the potty again when you are going to bed. Make sure she is warm. My daughter would always wet the bed when she got cold. Use the mattress protector and put a few beach towels between it and her sheets....they keep the urine from spreading all over the sheets and all...also helps with clean up. My daughter took herself out of pullups at night before I thought she was ready, but it did work out. We just ALWAYS took her potty at 11 before we went to bed.

Answer 6

My kids all did the same thing. They want to be big kids all the time but some aren't ready until they are older. Some are very heavy sleepers. I told my kids that when they could go dry for a week then they could stop wearing pull-ups at night. This worked for me and put the decision on them and took the pressure off me having to make a decision of when they were ready. If they wet at night then the count started at day 1 again!

Answer 7

Aww thats sooo cute. I was actually dealing with that when my son was three. Well I would put a pull up on him at night and just let him know what it was for and why he couldn't just wear his pj's. But then a good idea I came up with is that they have little pictures and stuff on the pull ups and he LOVES cars. So I bought the ones with the cars on it and told him that the cars are going to be mad if he gets them all wet. He did pee in them still a couple times after that, so it wasnt all I did actually because I know how hard it can be for kids to wake themselves up. I mean sometimes I have been so tired that I dreampt I was walking to the bathroom when in fact I was still in bed, I didnt pee in the bed though LOL I woke up. But for a child it is hard. At night time I watched him (not actually stared at him) while he was sleeping and listened to him. I noticed that he would kind of wine and wiggle around a little. I figured out that is when he had to pee. So what I did was went to him and kind of wispered and asked him if he had to use the bathroom. He would say yes, but sometimes he would say no because he didnt really feel like getting up. But the best thing for me to do is guide him to stand up (not fast), and just let him know I was taking him to the bathroom. Of course he was half asleep, but he went. I didnt that for a couple weeks. Sometimes he didnt pee at night though. It may be hard work but I just listen to him from the other room and noticed his noises and movements. It really helped. He is fully potty trained :) Good luck!

Answer 8

I was having the same problem with my son during potty training. What really helped us was making my son go to the rest room before he went to sleep. Then during the night if my husband or I got up to go to the rest room one of us would wake my son up and make him go again. My son would cry and complain. We would tell him that the sooner he went the rest room the sooner he could go back to bed. He eventually got the point and stopped complaining. This really helped and now we no longer have to wake him up throughout the night.

Answer 9

you additionally can purchase some mattress pads for peeing that way he can get the seen donning underclothes each and all of the time and if he has an accident all you need to do is take the mattress pad off and wash his sheets. i know it appears like multiple artwork, yet you need to keep away from the pull united stateswith this and he would be thoroughly used to lingerie extremely than perplexing him. I did the mattress pads with my son and he has had very few injuries and as nicely if he does have an accident he will awaken from the moist feeling. have confidence me it rather does artwork and your son won't ought to shop waking up at night and become under pressure and he won't get at a loss for words by ability of donning pullups then underclothes and likewise he won't become based on the pull up.

Answer 10

I have read about 'sleep walking' children to the potty during the night, so they can empty what is still in their bladder and not wet the bed. I haven't yet been able to try this (my daughter isn't two yet...not ready), but you could try that and see if it helps :)