Night Time Potty Training - Corvallis,OR

I would wait a while longer. There's still development that needs to happen for night-time dryness, even after a child is 100% daytime potty trained. Forcing the issue can lead to bed-wetting issues...
In fact, some kids (my youngest included) just happen to be bed-wetters for years after they are daytime trained. My son wet the bed until about 6 years old. Sometimes he would wake up and go, but not others. It's far better in the long run to deal with nighttime diapers/disposable underwear until she can stay dry than to let this become an emotional issue as well.

If you tried, probably what would happen is that every once in a while she'd wake up to run to the bathroom. But many mornings (or in the middle of the night) she'd wake up, upset, with everything soaked. You could give it a try and see if you want to. But for me, it wouldn't be worth all the laundry. I'd wait until she wakes up dry fairly consistently.

What did I do - I waited until my son was completely dry every night before nighttime underpants. Then, when he had a relapse (after new baby was born) we went back to pullups for a few months until he was consistently waking up dry again.

I think you could try it, but you should also be prepared for some middle of the night sheet changes (or in the morning if she just doesn't wake up at all). One good idea is to put sheets on the bed, put a plastic sheet over that and another fitted sheet over the plastic one. That way if you have to do a middle of the night change you just have to strip the top sheet and the plastic sheet.

I agree with others that there is no night time "training." You have to wait for their bodies to be ready.
My 5 and 6 year old girls still wear pull-ups to bed. My 6yr wants to stay dry but just can't. She wakes up and tells me she's dry but then she's actually wet. She also says she wet, when surprise - she's dry. She's always been such a deep sleeper. Her cousins on dad's side of the family didn't stay dry until 5-8 yrs old - in fact one 9 yr old still has wet nights.
We keep calendars for each of them and they get a sticker for each dry morning. 2 weeks straight and I'll take the pull-ups away. So far for each girl they've never gone more than 3 nights in a row dry.
It'll happen on it's own and for us pull-ups are no big deal.

night dryness in a physiological thing, not a behavioral issue. I left my kids in pull ups at night until they woke up dry every morning for almost a month. They were young, not yet 3, when this happened for them, but it is totally normal for this to take up to age 5 or 6. My nephew was 8 and my cousin was 12. It is just something you have to wait out or all you will get is a unhappy, wet, discouraged child, and a lot of frustration and laundry for you.

I'd say give it a try...the worse thing is a few nights of changing sheets. and if she isn't ready and it isn't working, then go back to pull ups. They do have some night time training underwear with rubber on the outside. Those might work too. Sometimes it just takes trying new things. But I am also in the wait until wake up dry camp, but every single kid is different and it is worth trying things. My daughter was potty trained at 2 1/2 and not night time trained until about 3 1/2 - so almost a year. I waited until she was a month of dry mornings until we switched. My daughter is an extremely heavy sleeper - literally, a Marching Band could go thru and she would not wake. We have had maybe 3 accidents since then (she is now 4 1/2) and mostly have been when she was sick. I think for the most part, kids are night time trained somewhere between 3 and 5.

I guess what I am saying, is do what works for you guys. :-) Either way, something will work, right? :-) Good luck to you.

My kids were SUPER heavy sleepers. Slept through fire alarms, house alarms, dogs barking, you name it. My boys were around 8 before they could make it through the night. My 9 yr old daughter was JUST able to stay dry at night. She wore pull-ups and on occasion, I didn't know she was out, so she would have to wear underwear to bed. Each time, she wet the bed. So, I knew she wasn't ready. We even purchased the WetStop alarm that we had used for the boys (non-consistently, really). We hadn't started to use it, yet (would have to work it for ME to hear the alarm, since my daughter would not be able to wake for it. I kept putting it off, since I like my sleep...LOL!) Anyway, last weekend, we ran out of pull-ups again. She went to bed and woke up dry. We were cautiously excited. I got more pull-ups (she begged- just in case). I told her we weren't going to use them until she had a "wet" morning. She never did!! Low and behold, she has been dry for more than a week, now. It was just her body finally being ready.

I would say that you could put her to bed with underwear on and see what happens. If she's not ready for that, wait. She should really be on board with the process. For my daughter, on the nights we ran out of pull-ups, I would lay a fleece blanket or large towel under my daughter. I would also lay out an exra pair of pj's and underwear. That way, if she wakes up wet and wants to just pull the blanket/towel off and change, then go back to bed. At 3 1/2, she may want "mommy" to help, but it's an option.

See what your daughter is ready for- if she wants to try to wear underwear at night. She may be all for it, or she may not feel comfortable, yet. There's no rush at this point. I wish you the best of luck! :)

Your daughter might not have been in a deep-sleep cycle when she woke up on the couch – those cycles occur at regular intervals during the night, and a fever or feeling ill could have had her sleeping more shallowly, and even being on the couch may have kept her sleep more shallow. At any rate, she was able to wake up because she wasn't sleeping as deeply at that moment.

That doesn't mean she'll be able to wake at will during a deep-sleep cycle at other times, any more than you can.

Thus, there is no such thing as "training" at night.

When she develops the bladder capacity and sphincter control, AND when her brain matures enough to begin sending chemical signals to her kidneys to slow down urine production during sleep, THEN your sweetie will begin to wake up dry in the mornings. For some kids, this occurs somewhere between their second and third year. For many others, they don't get there until they're well into their grade school years. An unfortunate few don't get that magic combination until puberty.

Most all children would gladly stop bedwetting by the time they reach 5, but simply can't. Adding the burden of making them believe it should be under their control simply creates unneccesary emotional suffering.

I could have written a post almost exactly like this last week!!! My daughter is the same age, and almost same situation in the mornings except my husband and I don't know if she's wet because she was taking her diaper off before we saw it! So after a discussion with a friend, I tried putting her in underwear after asking her if she wanted to stay in diapers (and her response was no). Three nights in a row - no accidents!! But then two nights in a row, she peed and never woke up. I figured right now we're just taking it 1 day at a time. I know she can physically do it since she did it three nights in a row, but does that mean her body will 'wake' her up instead of just peeing all over her bed? I am not sure about that yet. So for now, I've doubled up on the mattress pads/lining under where she sleeps and just plan on doing lots of laundry in the next few weeks while we figure it out. If she does have an accident, it's usually in the first 3 hours of sleeping then she's dry the rest of the night and we'll just let her sleep with us so we don't wake her brother.

I'd say give it a try for a few days and see how it goes. BUT, my experience so far has been if she's wet in the mornings, then she's not ready even if she can physically hold it. It doesn't mean her body is signaling to her that she has to wake up and go.

Good luck!