Bed Wetting - San Diego,CA

Nightime and daytime potty training are seperate. I don't think she is regressing, I think she is maybe just sleeping deeper and unable to wake up - which is normal. Most kids are not night time trained until the ages of 5-7. Regression if it happens, will happen when the baby comes or when she starts preschool - so you aren't there yet. For sure, take her to the ped. if you are concerned to rule out anything medical - but I'm pretty sure you'll hear the same thing. You could do one of two things - set your alarm for midnight or so and wake her to go to the bathroom or diapers. I know you don't want to do diapers - can't say that I blame you, but she needs her sleep too and waking up wet is disruptive to all. *Note: I did read that you woke her at 3am - speaking from personal experience here - My Mom used to do that (we were a family of bed wetters) and it would only make me go in to a deeper sleep after I used the bathroom and I'd almost always pee the bed right before my normal wake up time. I think if your going to wake up a child to use the bathroom, around midnight is better. My daughter just started staying dry - she is 8! (again, bedwetting is in our family). Both of my kids are such deep sleepers. My son is 5 and still wears pull ups. I did bring this up with their dr. to rule out anything medical. As a side note - I was talking with a bunch of Mom's from my daughters kindergarten (when she was in kindergarten) and this topic came up - it was nice to hear how honest they all were when the admitted their kids were either still in pull ups at night or having accidents - it's really very common.

I would make sure there is nothing medical going on if there isn't I'd put her in an overnight diaper/pull up and not make a big deal out of it. She's little.

**ADDING THIS: Even my Daughter's Teachers, from Preschool to Kindergarten to 1st Grade... ALL said that kids these ages still have accidents and it is expected and normal. AT night, the kids wear night time diapers. Normal. BUT, the parents won't admit it, but they tell the Teachers.
Accidents WILL happen. It is childhood.
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Night time dryness... is not something that is BIOLOGICALLY attained, until even 7 years old, and is normal. And per Pediatricians.

It will fluctuate.
It is not 'regressing.'
It is childhood.
Pee accidents happen.

Just get a waterproof bed pad to put directly under her.
I got mine from Amazon.

My daughter, was already 5 years old, and wearing a night time diaper. Normal.
She also sleeps very heavily. Once she even dreamed she was on the toilet, until she felt herself wet.
No biggie.

And yes, changes can tweak them and their peeing and accidents. It will pass. Make no big deal of it. That will make it worse.

Maybe it's too cold in the house for her to get up and go to the bathroom.

This is normal for kids who are trained. Accidents happen. You can take her to the doctor to make sure she doesn't have a bladder infection. That could be the cause. If it's not medical, it could be that she's in such a deep sleep or the changes in her life - although exciting to her - could be causing some problems that she doesn't realize. Definitely don't go back to diapers but you can get some sort of pad to put under the sheets just in case so she doesn't ruin the mattress. This will pass eventually. Good luck.

We are having the EXACT same issue at our house. Thinking about getting him checked for a bladder infection just to rule it out (we've had a couple of daytime accidents in the past week, too). Anyway, no advice, just wanted to thank you for posting and let you know you're not alone :-).

She is still very young. It could be the stresses you mention, or she could just not be ready yet. My son was potty trained at 2 1/2, but at 3 started wetting the bed. After a full physical workup (and I recommend you get one too to rule out physical causes) the pedi told me he probably was finally getting back to his natural sleeping patterns. She thinks he just got comfortable with wearing undies and started sleeping deeper. For the 1st 3-4 months the whole undies/pottying thing was new, after he got used to it he reverted to his normal sleeping patterns which is a very deep sleep. When that happened he was too deeply asleep to react to the physical signals and slept right through them. We have occasional dry nights now, and it's almost always when there is something going on he's excited about and therefore sleeping lighter.