Broad question here... generally, when should most kids have over come the night time potty training business? our 2 year old little girl has been day time potty trained since she turned 2, 4 months ago. At almost 2 years 4 months, I was just curious about the night time potty training business? We put her on the potty before bed, and again around 10pm, and at least 2 times a week she's dry, but the other days she's still wet. Again, just curious, I know each kid is different!
Why do I get the feeling from the responses below that the moms who are giving me advice think I'm some kind of worrying freakish mom? I'm not... just curious, that's all. This is our first child and it's all new to me. I don't know how things work... and I like to know what I'm getting myself into, or what could be around the corner. Thank you to everyone who answered kindly and respectfully.
My daughter has gone 3 nights without "tee-tee in the diaper". When she wakes up without tee-tee in the diaper, we have a dance party, followed with high-fives. When she tee-tees, it's ok... I tell her "it's ok, we'll try again tonight". Being "too young" or not, she's old enough to understand that peeing in the potty is best. Maybe she can't hold it all night right now, and that's ok. We can still talk about it. I don't scold her if she goes, it's totally fine. She's doing a great job. My husband was 12 when he stopped wetting the bed... he has a short urethra. He had to wear pull-ups to sleep overs, for fear of wetting his sleeping bag at a friends house. Kayleigh could have the same thing, but I'm doubtful... if she goes 3 nights without peeing, then she doesn't have a short urethra. My mother-in-law tells me it was a nightly thing with her boys. It's something they grow out of, they learn to hold it all night or wake up. their muscles get stronger.
Night time is totally different. Her body needs to be ready - so you can't train. It's a developmental thing like walking. My 6 year old JUST got it.. so I know it can be frustrating, but don't push or punish. Just get some pull ups and be patient. She's still very young :)
When she's ready, she'll be dry. You can't "train" her to stay dry at night, it is a physiological thing, her little body just can't do it yet.
I have a 5 year-old who still wears Pull-Ups at night, and it is more common than not among his friends and other kids we know of the same age.
My advice would be not to worry about it and stop waking your daughter to use the potty in the middle of the night. It isn't helping her. Just put her in a diaper or Pull-Up overnight until she is consistently dry for a few weeks in a row. Don't make a big deal out of it, it isn't something you or she can force, but you'll know when she's ready.
By the time she is an adolescent she should be dry all the time. Although some teens do still have accidents that is very very rare.
If you search for this topic in the search box you'll get tons of responses to the very same question.
She is too young to even expect her to be dry during the nighttime. She most likely will be like most kids and do it by age 5 or 6.
Night time dryness, is a physiological development. The organs/brain/bladder/myelin sheath development developing more. It is different, than day time pottying.
Night time dryness, can take up until even 7 years old, to develop.
And this is normal.
Your child is very young.
My daughter, even at 7 years old, had night time accidents. Normal.
I simply have like 4 waterproof bed pads, from Amazon, that I use under my kids.
My son is 6 and is still wet at night, and is not dry yet. He is also a heavy sleeper etc. And he is in night time diapers. So are many other kids that I know of, that are his age. Our Pediatrician, is not concerned. And, he and I explained to my son, that his body is still developing. My son is other wise an "expert" at pottying. During the day, of course.
Day time and nighttime, pottying are 2 different things, with 2 different timelines.
my son was dry at 3. mydaughter is still wet every single night at 7.
so each child is differnt. you cannot train them for this.. their brain has to wake them up to go potty. until then buy pullups.. and dont even mention it to the child.
Daytime potty training and night-time dryness are 2 completely different things. My son was day and night trained at 2 1/2, my daughter wore pull-ups to bed until she was almost 7. Th difference as that my son is alight sleeper and my daughter sleeps like a rock. My daughter still very rarely wakes up ay night to go pee... her bladder is just mature enough now to hold it through the night.
She'll be ready to stop wearing pull-ups when she stays dry every night for a couple of weeks, and even then you might want to make sure that you have a plastic cover on the mattress. Until then I wouldn't worry about it.
Good luck~
No way to train for nighttime dryness. My son was dry at night at 2 1/2 but he didn't get daytime trained until he was almost 3. Daytime pee was the last thing he perfected so your daughter is doing great.
Protect the bed mattress and let her sleep.
My first was always dry at night but my 2nd didn't get it down until she was 4 1/2. She just turned 5 and still has an night accident about once a week. I wet the bed until I was 7.
My 4 year old still has a nighttime pull up on at night. My co-workers 5 year old does as well.
We use a pull up. A. we both work full time B we live in a condo, where it costs us $1.50 a load and we can not always access the washer and dryer.
I think they say "most" kids will outgrow nighttime wetting by age 7. My daughter has been dry since she was just turning 2, that was actually a cue to me to potty train, and she potty trained quickly and easily. My son still wets occasionally at age 10 (he has seasonally allergies and the bed wetting is always worse when his allergies flare up). My other son is still in pullups at night, he is 5. He is wet most mornings when he wakes up. I think 2 is quite young to "expect" or anticipate dryness. Obviously it does happen (as with my daughter), but I don't think it is very common at that age. I would quit waking her up, disrupted sleep may only make things worse for her. I would put her in a diaper or pull up at bedtime, or get a waterproof pad for her bed, then just be patient. It could be another month, another year, or another decade......
