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Night time Potty Question with a three year old?

  • Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:23 pm

My daughter is three years old and will be 4 in Nov. She’s been pottied trained but at night she wets the bed. It’s strange because she use to wake up dry even before she was fully potty trained but now I am washing sheets more frequently. I’ve stopped given her drinks 2 hours b4 bed, made sure she goes potty b4 she goes to sleep and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m getting frustrated because I know alot of kids her age I know don’t have this problem. This sometimes i even wake up in the middle of the night to put her on the toilet but sometimes I be so tired and knocked out that I wont wake up until morning. I just started the calender thing where she get to put a sticker on every day/night where she’s accident free. This morning i was carrying her to the bathroom and she was still sleep of course and she just peed right on my arms. I need some advice should i go back to buying pull ups or would that make her feel like its ok to pee because she has one on?

Also she starts Head Start in fall so I dont want them to have to tell me that she pees everyday at nap time.

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Would it be out of order to ask the babysitter to take my son to the potty in the night?

  • Posted on January 17, 2011 at 1:23 pm

My son has just turned 4 and we are currently trying to night potty train him. He stays dry but if he wakes up he often pees himself. We don’t want to put him back in pull-ups.

He doesn’t drink for two hours before, and we take him to the potty before he goes to bed (6.45pm), 10pm and when my baby daughter wakes me up at 3am.

My husband and I are going out at like 7.30pm.
Would it be out of order to ask the 17 y/o sitter to carry our 4 y/o to the potty, stand him up by it and get him to pee while he’s still half asleep? If he wakes up before the bathroom he usually pees himself. Or should we just risk him wetting the bed? We will be getting back at about 1am.

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Should I ask the babysitter to take my son to the potty in the middle of the night?

  • Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:23 pm

My son has just turned 4 and we are currently trying to night potty train him. He stays dry but if he wakes up he often pees himself.

He doesn’t drink for two hours before, and we take him to the potty before he goes to bed (6.45pm) and at 10pm and usually in the middle of the night too, when my baby daughter wakes me up at 3am.

My husband and I are going out for the 1st time since my baby was born. We are leaving at like 7.30pm.

Would it be out of order to ask the 17 y/o sitter to carry our 4 y/o to the potty, stand him up by it and get him to pee while he’s still half asleep? Or should we just risk him wetting the bed? We will be getting back at about 1am as it’s an hour drive. We don’t want to put him back in pull-ups.

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Some potty training advice…and what book(s) do you recommend?

  • Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:24 am

My daughter is 21 months old and I am starting to think about potty training. She is showing some of the signs that she is ready. She will hold herself when she is peeing (in her diaper), she has words for pee, poop, and potty. She will sit next to me on the step stool while I am going, and try to wipe for me haha. I haven’t gotten her a potty chair yet, just the seat that goes on top of the toilet and I don’t care for it too much. She pretty much goes #2 at the same time everyday and it’s well formed. She can communicate very clearly with me, she is able to say short sentences about three or four words long. It’s hard for me to tell how long her diaper stays dry for. Does it for sure depend on how much she has had to eat or drink?

Does it seem like she’s showing enough of the signs? Is there anything else she should for sure be doing before we get started? Also, what are the steps you took to get your child ready to potty train (ex. read books, introduce potty, buy pull-ups, buy underwear, etc.)? Did you go slow and do it little by little or go “all in” and potty train as quickly as possible to the finish? I would like to buy my daughter some books to get her ready for this new adventure. Which ones seemed to help your children the most? Or which ones did they seem most interested in?

I’m expecting baby #2 in December and I would really like to get baby #1 out of diapers soon!!!! :)

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Any ideas on my 4 yr. old and potty training?

  • Posted on November 17, 2010 at 3:24 am

My daughter has been quite easy with potty training. She was daytime trained in one day when she was 3 (just a yr. ago now), and we started working on staying dry for naps and nighttime at age 3 1/2. Nights have been great, no accidents ever. Naps have been a different story. She was going thru times of staying dry for a couple weeks, then all of a sudden having an accident or two. After awhile, she started staying dry. All of a sudden, she’s having more ‘accidents’ than before, even when cutting back on drinks and using the potty before naps. A couple times recently, the sitter even said my daughter didn’t even take a long nap, if any, just laid quietly and still had an accident.
I’m wondering why the different behavior all of a sudden. I know she is already capable of staying dry at naps, and don’t know if these are truly ‘accidents’ or if something else is going on. She is able to get up and use potty if needed, she has before. Anyone else have a similar experience?
That’s the only thing I can guess too, is the attention thing. No, nothing has changed at all that I know of, at home anyway. It’s just her and me, nothing new or different. The sitter said nothing has changed at her house either, she has 4 kids of her own and she doesn’t know why this may be happening either.
My mom actually tried a reward after the terrible time we had last week, telling her if she stayed dry this week she would take her shopping and buy something. She stayed dry 2 days, and then wet the next two days. I’m clueless right now!

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Night time potty training?

  • Posted on October 30, 2010 at 5:24 pm

My daughter is 2 1/2. She’s been potty trained since 24 months, but she still wears a pull up at night. She’s usually wet in the mornings, sometimes dry, and sometimes wakes up to pee.

Occasionally she’ll spend the night with my sister. She wears a pull up then too, but always wakes up dry.

I don’t give her anything to drink before bed. Do y’all think she somehow subconsciously knows she can pee in her pull up at night? I’ve been thinking of putting her to bed with panties on, but I really don’t wanna clean up a wet bed. What do y’all think?

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Potty training a 3 year old girl at night?

  • Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:24 pm

What helped you with getting your little girl not to wet the bed anymore at night.

My daughter just turned 3 years old 2weeks ago and she seems to keep her underwear dry during the day it’s just at night and I stop letting her have any thing to drink at 6:30pm since her bedtime is 8:30pm but she still seems to wet the bed at night.

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How did you know when your child was ready for the potty?

  • Posted on August 18, 2010 at 9:24 am

My daughter is 17 months and I am starting to think ahead for potty training. She finally does not drink milk through the night so she is much dryer through the night. She does not tell me when she pees or poos so would it be much harm for me to introduce her to the potty yet?

How did you know when your child was ready and how old were they when you started?

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nighttime Potty training my daughter?

  • Posted on August 15, 2010 at 3:23 pm

My daughter is going to be four in july and I still have her wearing diapers to bed at night. Each night she wakes up soaked and some nights I have to change her in the middle of the night. I have her go to the bathroom before she goes to bed and I have not allowed her to take anything to drink with her when she goes to bed. She goes to bed somewhere between eight and nine depending on my schedule. She comes home from the baby-sitters around 5:30 so between the time she comes home and the time she goes to bed she has about 20 ounces of liquid on average. How can I get her to stay dry through the night? She tells me that she does not want to wear underwear however she refuses to wake up and go potty during the night. What can I do?

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