Sippy Cups/ Pull Ups

I've made the decision that we're giving up sippy cups and going strictly to cups with a straw and regular cups on his 3rd birthday in April, he has to learn, spills and all ; )

Use large waterproof pads under her bottom sheet and layer it over another sheet and pad, that way if she has an accident you simply strip the top layer of sheet and pad with a minimum of fuss. I "borrowed" a couple of the pads my dad uses for his accidents and they work great, you can find them in the adult diaper section and simply toss them when wet.

My grand kids are 5 and 8 and if they take a drink on the carpet they better have it in a take and toss with a straw of they get grounded for 2 hours from TV, games, computer, outside, whatever they are wanting most right then. I have new(ish) carpet and it is beige. Therefore drinks are never allowed on it that are unprotected.

Even when the other 5 grand kids come visit they use cups with lids and straws too. They may look like grown up cups but it is all the same concept.

If she is dry each and every morning when she gets up she is ready to do big girl panties. There is no such thing as night time training. Either they are dry or they are not capable. It is not "fixable". If she is not dry there is nothing you can do, limiting drinks won't help, waking them up won't help because as soon they fall asleep again the urine starts leaking out.

The brain tells the kidneys to stop producing urine when the person falls asleep. They when they wake up it tells the kidneys to start up again. That is why most of us wake up and all of a sudden we feel the strong need to go pee. It is not like that with kids. They don't get that until the brain starts sending it.

Some are able to stay dry all night at 3 and some are not able to until puberty hits, around 13 even.

So, if she is wet when she wakes up save yourself time, effort, and all the extra money that laundry creates and let us use pullups all night until she is staying dry all night for at least 2 weeks.

My daughter is 5 and still, we still use sippy or lidded cups. Most of them have straws now. However, at meals, we use regular cups.

I suggest going to target and purchasing and waterproof matress cover. They are not expensive and work well. Those smaller pads (like for adults) don't cover the whole bed and if your daughter is like mine at all, she is all over her bed. My daughter has been night time trained since 3 and I still have that waterproof mattress cover on the bed. It has saved the mattress for a few accidents but mostly vomit)from when she has gotten sick. I suggest the fitted kind. I have both a fitted and an unfitted one, but the fitted one makes making the bed easier.

I stop with sippy cups at age 2. Unless we are in the car, my oldest, who is 2.5 uses a regular size plastic cup.

I have heard suggestions that if your child goes 10 days with a dry pull up at night and during nap, its time to ditch the pull up. They have plastic mattress liners at babies r us...

go to the adult diaper section of the grocery store. They have big square pads that you can put between her sheet and her mattress. It's like a puppy pad that people use to train puppies to pee on when indoors.

my son is 3.5. He wears a pull up at night. I have started logging his "how did you wake up? dry or wet?" since i don't feel like washing wet sheets every day. I decided that after he goes 4 nights waking up dry, then we'll try being a 'super-big-boy' and wearing underwear to bed. I am also writing down whether he stays dry b/c he woke up in the middle of the night to pee or if he just slept all thru the night. So keep a log and see what's going on with her body before venturing into 'panties at night.'

my daughter is 4 and uses regular cups and sippy straw cups. we have a rule that cups are to stay on the kitchen table.

My daughter stopped using sippy cups when she was just over 2. My son is 2 now and we are phasing them out. He is more attached to it than his sister, so he still asks for the sippy cup at least once a day (vs a regular cup) so I give in, but will try and completely phase it out by the time he's 2.5. They both use sports bottles and straw cups if they want to, but those are not allowed out of the kitchen, unless we are outside. If they want a drink they come back to the kitchen to get it. I think a 4 y/o should be okay with not using a lid of any kind as long as they are in a spillable area, like the kitchen.

For the bed they do sell water proof mattress pads as well as plastic "cases" for the mattress. I actually have both for my daughter's bed, not really sure why, but I like protection I guess! ;) Anyway, she actually has two mattress pads so that if she has an accident in the middle of the night all I have to do is change the sheets and pad. I don't wash in the middle of the night! This also comes in handy if she vomits in the night as well. She also has a few sets of sheets for these reasons, and so that I don't have to rush to do laundry even on a regular day! If you have a Bed Bath and Beyond near you just use the 20% off coupons to get a better price. Babies R Us (depending upon the size of her bed) might have them and Target does too.

at 3 we were using regular cups. Yes you have the occasional spill, but that is true whether they are 3 or 30! For night dryness, try getting 2 or 3 water proof mattress covers and layer them with full sets of sheets, so if she wets you can pull off a whole layer and have the next set of sheets all ready to get her back to sleep as fast as possible.

We just use a shower curtain liner under the mattress pad to protect the bed. Works well and is cheaper than the ones made especially for this. Also, we don't layer like other people suggested. I just pull up the covers at the foot of the bed and the kids lay down there.

As for sippy cups, I don't generally let drinks out of the kitchen (so no sippies even for the 2 year old), but we use Take and Toss cups with straws if the do have a drink anywhere else or in the car. I don't know how, but those things don't leak!! (I don't toss though - we reuse for about a year or so.)

we have sippy cups, straw cups, and regular cups - anything without a lid has to stay in the kitchen (the two times i have tried to allow this rule to be bent to see if he was big enough - SPILLS both times. forget it! -at least i was smart enough to give him water lol)

i have looked all over for lid cups that aren't babyish sippy cups, or giant travel mug/coffee mug types. can't find them. so we're still operating on the old plan. so my 5 year old often is drinking out of a sippy cup. grr.

i'm sure the ladies have filled you in on plastic matress protectors. ours came from walmart, it was around $20 or less i think. good luck!

I still used the sippy cups for car rides at that age, and around the house cause we save the cup in the fridge I used the cups with a lid and straw. Since I do daycare I use these type of cups/lids http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2KJke0Bb.... for ALL the kids - I don't want a toddler accidentally knocking over a cup of milk - my day is busy enough!!

As far as night time diapers - do NOT stop those until she is DRY overnight for at least a week. Seriously, it is NOT worth the loss of sleep on everyone's part, the extra laundry, the hassles. Night time dryness is caused by a chemical they develop as they age, it is not a learned thing, it never will be "learned" it will just happen. If the child is over 8 yrs old, THEN you can get medicine to stop it, but before that, just let them have the night time pull up and don't stress it.

My DD is 20 months old. I phased out the sippies around her first birthday. They were too much of a hassle to me. lol. I keep a regular cup of water in the kitchen on a stool that she can reach, and it stays in the kitchen. We have a sport bottle for her to drink out of in the car, park, etc.

As for bed protecting, you can buy waterproof bed protectors, or you could try getting some large puppy training pads. That's what my cousin did, and it worked for her. :)