Night time toilet training.

Hi everyone smile

I am a Mum to a beautiful 4 year old little girl- and currently 26 weeks pregnant with my 2nd.

My daughter has been showing signs for a few months now of being "ready" to not wear pull-ups during the night ie; waking up with a dry pull up around 5 out of 7 nights of the week.

I need ALOT of help.. I am not sure if I am doing the correct thing- or even if it's working or going to work eventually. We have been waking her up a couple of hours after she goes to bed and taking her to the toilet- she seems to need to go around this time.

She will have a little bit of water with her dinner at around 5:30-6 and that's the last drink of the night. She is to go to the toilet before she goes to bed at 8. I would think that all the fluids in that 2ish hours would come out in that toilet session but having to need to go a few hours later is what's baffling me.

If I don't wake her up a few hours after she goes to sleep (around 11pm) she will wet the bed. Why was she waking up with dry pull ups for most of the week but now when I take her out of them she wets a few hours after she is put to sleep?

Am I doing the right thing by waking her, or is this a waste of time? She is such a deep sleeper I'm not sure if it's going to eventually help her or not.

Has anyone else had this problem? What do I do??

Please help!!

Thanks smile

Hi there

I currently am going through this with my 4 year old daughter too! Some times she will wake up dry (this is without pull-ups) for 3 nights running and then will have a couple of nights wetting the bed. We have tried everything from waking her up to not letting her have any fluids from about 5pm onwards but it doesn't seem to make a difference! She too is heavy sleeper and when she does wake up wet she tells me she has been sweating so she is obviously not aware she has wet the bed!

I too would be interested in hearing suggestions.

Hi there

I currently am going through this with my 4 year old daughter too! Some times she will wake up dry (this is without pull-ups) for 3 nights running and then will have a couple of nights wetting the bed. We have tried everything from waking her up to not letting her have any fluids from about 5pm onwards but it doesn't seem to make a difference! She too is heavy sleeper and when she does wake up wet she tells me she has been sweating so she is obviously not aware she has wet the bed!

I too would be interested in hearing suggestions.

Hi there,
My dd night trained at around 2.5-3 yrs. However she was never dry at night. Her nappy was saturated every single morning without fail. One night she just flatly refused to wear a night nappy (she had been day trained for at least 6 months) so that was that. Because I knew that her nappy was always wet, I knew she would just wet the bed. A lot of the time she was in our bed because we cosleep and frankly I just didn't want to be changing sheets in the middle of the night. So I used to take her to the toilet a couple of hours after she went to sleep. She didn't wake up, I would bring the potty in and just hold her and sit her over that. She would wee. I would then do it again before I went to bed at 11:30 ish and dh would do it before he went to bed at about 3 ish. We did this for a couple of weeks and then dropped the 3 am wee. After another couple of weeks we dropped the 9:00 wee. And a few weeks after that we dropped the 11pm wee. She has very rarely wet the bed. Maybe a handful of times in 5 years now. I never woke her up to do it. I don't believe in restricting fluid at all. Imagine how hard it would be if someone told you there was no fluid after x amount of time. Its just too important to your body. I just kept an eye on her water bottle. She had one for bed. If she drank more then a quarter before she went to sleep. I knew she would wee within an hour of going to bed so I made sure I took her then.

No idea if that helped you at all. Basically though, I am just saying they don't have to be dry to be ready. I am also saying that I don't think there is anything wrong with them going at night either. I have always been to the loo in the night and I think it would be silly to assume a kid shouldn't have too. It would depend on their body, the temperature, their fluid intake. I think its better for a kids self esteem to be out of nappies too.
Good luck with it!