Night Pottying?

[mrssandro]

Meh..I let her wear night diapers until she was about 4. She started having them dry at that point.

It's one those processes you don't really need to rush. They eventually grow out of it.

[kitty]

The bad news is I still can't get my 4 year old to get up and go potty by herself MOTN. The good news is that we introduced a "dream pee" with much success. We take her to the bathroom every night before we go to sleep around 10-10:30. She doesn't wake up; it is more like a sleepwalking situation and I just plop her right back into bed afterward. This lets her make it to 6:30 wakeup time without any issues.

[Deleted]

Waking to potty is a physiological thing. It can take years after potty training to happen and it's totally within the realm of normal.

My DS has been PT since 23 months. He still wears a night pull -up to bed at a little past 3.5, almost 2 years after PTing. He has woken up dry only a hnadful of times in the past 2 years.

I just wouldn't worry about it yet.

[laurenh]

spunbutterfly we are in the exact same situation. The only way she gets out of bed is when her Gro-clock turns to the sun lol.

ETA: She currently just wakes up and cries until someone comes, then immediately says she needs to go. It's not a good system but I don't know how to fix it either.

[mrssandro]

I don't think at 3 DD got the concept of getting up herself at night.

This is a odd situation though.

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Aug 14, 2015 10:54:12 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

Ok, repeating cause apparently I was unclear.

He has decided to not pee in anything other than his potty on his own, even though he's in a diaper at night. We didn't realize that was why he kept waking up and whimpering all night until 4:30 this morning when I thought it was weird he kept waking up to whimper for 15 minutes.

Is there an easy way to teach a 3 year old to go to the potty himself in the middle of the night?

Can you leave the hall and/or bathroom lights on for him?

Also you probably need to explain to him that he can get out of his bed. Did you just move him to a big bed? My kids didn't understand they could get out of their bed on their own after we moved them out of a crib, until we explained it to them (wish I hadn't done that!!). Maybe practice during the day that he can do it from his bed.

My kids always came into my room to wake me up to take them potty once they did it. Which is hilarious because they all have bathrooms connected to their rooms so they had to walk much further to wake me up to take them.

[thebreakfastclub]

My son is almost 2.5 and has been potty trained for about a month.

I am finding that 90% of the time, he is waking with a completely dry overnight diaper now. Maybe this will be your case too as you move forward.

[laurenh]

spunbutterfly they're even almost the same age - she turns 3 on 9/21. I'm just going to keep telling her she's allowed to go to the bathroom and hope it helps. Hopefully they'll catch on soon enough.

[laurenh]

We have a Bemis Next Step seat on our regular toilet and she just uses a step stool. Maybe he'd go for that so then the emptying part isn't a concern?

[NandaB]

I would keep reminding him that he can always get up to go potty, or call you to help. He'll get it soon

ETA: The right words, because I posted precoffee

[cleosprite]

I leave a little potty in his room and tell him he can get out of bed to use it whenever he wants, and that we will empty and flush it in the morning.

This was mostly to stop the "I hafta go potty" bedtime delaying tactic, but maybe it would work for your situation too.

[hopecounts]

I agree if he is waking up but isn't sure about getting up and going on his own put a little potty in his bedroom and remind him at bedtime that if he wakes up and needs to potty he can use his little potty because he is a big boy.
Also get him a flashlight to use to 'see'

[anaps28]

We had pull ups on at night well thru 3 BUT this may be a situation where you just go in and plop him on the toilet at midnight OR Maybe a baby bjorn type potty in his room?

DS1s bathroom is in his room and he still won't get up to go in it himself. He would rather walk across the top floor and go in ours.

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Aug 14, 2015 11:04:30 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

Aug 14, 2015 10:59:04 GMT -5 @mrsgreeko said:

Can you leave the hall and/or bathroom lights on for him?

Also you probably need to explain to him that he can get out of his bed. Did you just move him to a big bed? My kids didn't understand they could get out of their bed on their own after we moved them out of a crib, until we explained it to them (wish I hadn't done that!!). Maybe practice during the day that he can do it from his bed.

My kids always came into my room to wake me up to take them potty once they did it. Which is hilarious because they all have bathrooms connected to their rooms so they had to walk much further to wake me up to take them.

He's been in a "big boy" bed for about a 1.5 years now. Holy shit, it's been a while.

Did they try to pour the potty out themselves? I think that's another concern I didn't think about. Oy. Potty training is for the birds.

I'm not sure what you mean by pour the potty out themselves? You mean a little potty? We only used those for like the first couple of weeks of PTing because they were so little (not yet 2 years old). But the time they were going at nighth they had been sitting on the regular toilet for some time.

[af1212]

Aug 14, 2015 10:52:49 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

Aug 14, 2015 10:45:41 GMT -5 @mrsgreeko said:

Waking to potty is a physiological thing. It can take years after potty training to happen and it's totally within the realm of normal.

My DS has been PT since 23 months. He still wears a night pull -up to bed at a little past 3.5, almost 2 years after PTing. He has woken up dry only a hnadful of times in the past 2 years.

I just wouldn't worry about it yet.

He is waking himself up but won't walk to the potty himself because he doesn't leave his bed until someone comes to get him. It's a weird situation I guess.

My daughters are both the same - ages 5 1/2 and 2 1/2. The 5 year old just started going by herself about 4 months ago.

I may still be misunderstanding your question but when they wake up in the night and have to pee we just take them to the bathroom.

[DarcyLongfellow]

My 6 year old won't get out of bed to go to the bathroom by herself. We've told her countless times that if she needs to potty, she should just get up and go. But she just won't do it.

Our solution? We got a new baby monitor when she was 3.5 because she had been in bed calling for us to tell us she had to go to the bathroom and we didn't hear her, so she wet the bed. So we got a monitor so we could hear her (since our old one had broken).

Also, I take her for a "dream pee" before I go to bed. That's harder if your son is in a diaper. Could you use a pull up instead? DD1 goes to bed between 7 and 8. When I go to bed between 10 and 11, I go in there, pick her up, walk to the bathroom, set her little tushie on the potty, and tell her to pee. She doesn't even wake up.

[rxbeth]

My daughter is just over 3 and night time traines herself in the past few months. We still leave a monitor on because she just cries when she has to pee and we take her. I think it will be awhile before she goes on her own. She doesn't have to go every night. It's sporadic.

[drloretta]

Can you put a potty in his room?

[penguingrrl]

It took a few nights of telling my oldest that she didn't have to wake us up, she could go to the bathroom on her own for her to get it, but then she just started going into the bathroom and back to her room on her own. She was close to 3.