my 2 and a half year old keeps peeing in the bed. what can i do to stop this?

Question

Every night me and my daughter have a rutine of going to the potty, changing her clothes, and giving her a sippy to put her to sleep. I get up at 3 in the morning to change her diaper, so she wont pee pee in the bed. but she needs her sippy to get back to sleep, so she pee pees in the bed by morning. I am tired of cleaning pee pee out of the bed. I know this is not normal behavior for a 2 year old. I am completly frustrated at the situation. During the day my daughter wears pull ups at day care, at home she wears panties, and at night she wears the diapers. I have been trying to reduce the amount of juice I put in her sippy. Please give me some advice...

Answer 1

It's not uncommon for a 2 year old to still pee at night. I would stop the sippy cup at night though if at all possible, because that's probably what's doing it. Also, try letting her sleep in the pull up. My daughter does and it works fine.

Answer 2

Sorry, but the only abnormal behavior I see here is coming from Mom. You said so yourself that you get up and change her clothes and give her a what? A what? A sippy CUP, not just a sip of water before putting her back to bed and then expecting her to wake up dry?????? What did you give her before she went to bed the first time? I'm pretty sure a sippy cup, eh?


You also said that you get up to change her DIAPER? If she goes to bed wearing a diaper and still gets the bed wet, the problem isn't with her, it is with you in not being able to be firm when she screams and hollers for her sippy cup. It is easier to just give in and let her drink so much fluid she will float away in the middle of the night.

Your answer is in exactly the question you posed here. Don't be lasy. Make sure she has good filling meals before bedtime. Give her a very small amount of water, make her drink it in front of you and take the sippy back to the kitchen sink. Read her a bedtime story every night. Get rid of the diapers and tell her how grown up she is when you start her on regular panties. Tell her all day long, every time you see her little face, remind of just how proud Mommy is of her BIG GIRL, wearing panties like Mommy! Positive affirmations will help more than you know. I am not saying don't give her anything to drink near bedtime, I am saying don't give her a whole cup of fluids like that before she goes to bed and when she wakes up. You need to stop that vicious cycle that you keep alive. By the way, it is perfectly normal for a 2.5 year old to wet the bed. If you punish her for it, do you???????? Then quit it. Good luck.

Answer 3

Slowly wean her off the sippy cup. By adding water every day to the cup, you will start to eliminate the amount of juice. By the time you get to 100% water, she will be less interested in drinking because it tastes good and only drinking what she needs to quench her thirst.
But, you do need to get rid of the sippy cup at bedtime completely to get rid of this problem.
My daughter was the same way, if she had a sippy cup she couldn't go to bed without a diaper. Take away the sippy cup and let her drink some water from a water bottle or cup and miraculously the accidents stopped.
She has been potty trained since Aug. and sippy cup free since Sept. (also when the accidents stopped).
I don't even give her a sippy cup during the day. We drink mostly from water bottles (because too much juice isn't' good for them anyway) and then a little cup of milk in the am and pm.
Good luck!

Answer 4

Actually, your 2 & 1/2 yr. old is acting very age appropriately! You are giving her a sippy cup right before bed! You need to cut out the sippy cup, but you still may have the problem, b/c as children get older, they produce more urine. I also think that the more frustration she sees you exhibit, it may make the problem worse. Also, is she taking off her diaper at night, or playing with it? Are you putting it on correctly? Either of these things could cause leakage.

Answer 5

You need to replace the cup with something else, a stuffed animal a doll or something. If she gets thirsty offer her a drink of water from one of those small dixie cups, but do not put her to bed with a cup especially containing juice as you are also risking serious permanent damage to her teeth. You need to limit her drinks about an hour prior to bed or you will continue to clean up the pee pee every morning. Her bladder control is not yet developed and limiting her fluids close to bed time would help her a lot. You might also look into getting a plastic cover for her mattress that goes under her sheet to protect the bed. Good luck.

Answer 6

Who told you that bed wetting is not normal behaviour for a 2 and a half year old!!!!!!!!!
I have four kids and bed wetting usualy stops around 5 years, but even after, little accidents still occur.
Put a night time nappy on at that age and cut down on the sippies.
You have to learn to say no to the sippies and don't give in to tantrums.
Bed wetting will stop when the child is ready.
And remember getting up and dealing with your child at all hours is part of being a responsible and caring parent.

Answer 7

Stop the sippy! She does not need the sippy to sleep. She is using it out of habit. It may be a battle for a few nights but just stop giving her drinks to go to bed with. You don't give your child food to go to bed with, they don't need liquid either.
Taking away the sippy will be harder on you than her. You will feel guilty when she cries but stay strong. She is going to be just fine without the cup. Just keep telling yourself that not having the cup will not hurt her, you are doing the right thing.

Answer 8

This *IS* normal behaviour for a 2 year old. Bedwetting is normal behaviour up to about age 9-10 years. It is NOT at all strange for a 2 year old to not be able to control her bladder overnight.

Why are you changing her diaper in the middle of the night? If you left her alone, would it leak? When you say she pees in the bed, do you mean her pullup/diaper? Or is she taking it off or leaking or what? Make sure you have a vinyl/plastic mattress protector under your fitted sheets.

Is she drinking juice or water at bedtime? Please say water! Juice will rot her teeth! Definately try to cut back on the water at bedtime. What goes in must come out.

Other than that.....RELAX. It is totally NORMAL for a child this age to not stay night dry! Her bladder is simply not growing as quickly as the rest of her body.

Answer 9

1) your daughter should NOT be going to bed with a sippy cup of JUICE....this will cause tooth decay. (I just paid big bucks for this one. My husband would not listen and thought that diluting the juice with a lot of water was a solution.). Get rid of all sippy cups with valves at this age. Give only water if you insist on keeping up this practice. Going to water only may change you daughters desire for this also. Invest in nighttime pull-ups. She's two and this is your life for the next few months (or years...I had one daughter who peed until 12 yrs old at night.). Stop changing her in the middle of the night. We have a nightlight next to a potty in our 2.6 yr old twins room. Our daughter sometimes goes in the middle of the night; but her sheets are never wet. She always gets up in the morning to sit on the potty by her dresser.

This time goes so quickly....don't prolong it as I did with my oldest by making it a big issue. Down play it with your daughter even though you feel stressed by it.

Answer 10

It is normal for a 2 year old to wet the bed - many kids wet the bed much older than that! Kids sleep so deeply they often don't wake up when they have to go to the bathroom.
Its normal and she will outgrow it in time. I don't see the point of waking her up at 3am to go to the bathroom - all you are doing is disrupting her sleep.

It will also help if you stop giving her a sippy cup at night - and if you do, definitely don't put juice in it, not for the peeing issue, but for her teeth!! Plain water is fine if she is thirsty at night.