Night Time Potty Training - San Antonio,TX

I got all three of my kids up before I went to bed and let them go potty, usually sometime after 10 and they go to bed between 7-8pm..they also went to the bathroom before they went to bed. I put them in underwear. I did this for a couple months and it has worked for all three. Still doing it with one. They all basically slept right through it....I just have to either carry them or lead them to and from the bathroom. IT works.

With my boys, I put them in overnight pullups. I had them stop drinking after dinner except for a sip with teeth brushing. I had them go potty right before bed. I had them go potty when they got up. Eventually a child's bladder will be able to make it through the night. I told them to get up and go to the potty if they felt like they needed to at night. I put a nightlight in the bathroom. I also put a plastic lined mattress pad on the bed. After they had a few weeks with dry overnight pullups, I put them in underwear. We have had a few accidents but not too many. This worked well with both of my boys.
Good luck.

We offered our son a trip to his favorite restaurant if he went 7 days with a dry diaper. He would get 5 days then start over and it took months. I made a "Countdown calender" over and over. By the time he got it he wanted to sleep in big boy underware at night too and we haven't had an accident yet?!?

dear J.,
dont give him any water and hour before bedtime. and if you want to initiate itnstead of letting it happen naturally, wake him when you go to bed, so he can potty, and then set your alarm so he gets up again. after awhile he should get the idea.
M.

Some children's bodies are not ready to go 8-10 hours without peeing. I kept my children in pull-ups at night until they went 7 nights in a row and then switched to nderwear or panties. Of course, no drinks after dinner, unless we've been running around outside. I just waited until their bodies were ready.

what i did with my kids was i didnt give them any drinks for like an hour before bedtime and if they wet the bed or anything in that nature i cut back another hour and boom they were potty trained at night as long as they dont go to bed with a full bladder they have no reason to pee till they wake up in the morning and i always put a travel potty by there bed just incase they had to really go but mine never used it though

If you are already using pullups for nighttime, that's half the battle right there. If you are using diapers at night still, get some pullups a few days before you run out, and use the last diaper to say 'bye bye diapers!' so that he understands that it's time for him to start being dry at night.

Make sure you have a cloth-based waterproof bedpad to keep under your son as he sleeps, and have a couple of extras. Having it now and having him learn to sleep on it will help with bed changes later.

Do limit his drinks before bed, especially any soda which should not be given after supper in any case. Watch also that he doesn't drink milk after supper. Water and juices are okay but small amounts. A few sips of water before bed (after he empties his bladder) should not be harmful if he's thirsty.

Wake him up to potty before you go to bed. This will get him used to the idea that if he needs to go, he should get up rather than wet his pullup like he's done with diapers.

Once he's had a week or two of dry pullups, then you can make a happy time of switching to sleep in real underwear.

Sometimes, even after all that, you can get a child who just cannot learn to keep dry at night. Some children get to be seven, eight, nine years old before their bodies mature enough to stay dry at night. Some never do and have to have medicine to help them. This isn't the child's fault...never put the blame on a child if they are unable to stay dry at night; his/her body just isn't ready. But the vast majority of children will do just fine.

Good luck!!

What I did with my 3yr old was cut off juice and milk 1 hour before bed. So all he is allowed to drink is water. He tends to drink a lot less of that and he has to go potty right before he climbs into bed! It seems simple but with these two things he stopped going teetee in the bed, but I dare not forget one of them! Good Luck!

I am a child care provider and have potty trained many children. I find that not giving the child too much to drink after 6-7pm will help with bed wetting. If this does not work, set an alarm to wake the child and take him/her to the potty. I do not recommend pull-ups, they are too much like a diaper and the child will wet in them. I would not waste the extra money on them. I hope this helps.

D. Nims

We've been going through this with our 3 1/4 year old. He's in underwear, mostly has no problem at nights but does have occasional accidents (usually when his dad is out of town or we let him drink lots late). What has worked for us is 1) stopping most fluids by 3 p.m. and giving him only minimal after that (he drinks alot in the morning) including one half glass of water at supper and one half glass of warm milk at pre-bed storytime 2) making sure the very last thing he does is go to the bathroom before climbing into bed and we make sure he actually does pee at this time 3) leaving a light on in the bathroom with it fully set-up to his needs and a night-light in the hallway. We encourage him to go by himself at night anytime he needs, but if he gets scared to go on his own to just call for mom or dad and we'll help (we always praise him when he does this and always hold in our wish for more sleep ourselves :)

Also, if he has an accident we let him know its no big deal and in addition to having some impermeable pad under the sheets, we frequently have one on top of the sheets that we can just whip off and do a quick wardrobe change if need be - with no worries about the sheets themselves. If we don't have a pad on the bed because we've forgotten, or used up one the night before, we usually put a towel or other thick blanket down for him to sleep out the night on and then change the sheets in the morning. One last piece of advice, keep a spare cover blanket handy too. Our son sometimes sleeps wrapped in his quilt and we have to get him a fresh cover too as the quilt gets wet. In a pinch, you can also turn the quilt around so the head portion is at the feet and vice versa so he will have something dry to sleep under until morning.

I believe the less disturbance during the night the better, though some may be shocked that I don't immediately change all sheets, pads, covers, and all.

Good job getting him trained at two years old, it is not the easiest thing in the world that is for sure. When my son was nightime potty training I would have him go potty befor he would go to sleep, I told him that he could have some water befor pee pee time but after that no more. I would also wake him up periodically during the night and stand at the potty with him untill he went pee if he did. I didn't get the best sleep i've ever had during that month or so but it worked for me. I only woke him up maybe twice a night, if he went pee the first time i didn't wake him up a second time. Also it helps to invest in one of those plastic covers for the mattress so the mattress doesn't end up smelling like pee. Good luck!