Potty training at night advice

RainbowDreamer

I wondered if anyone had advice in past experience to when to potty train at night.

My 3 and a half year old has been in underpants in the day for about 3 months now. He rarely has an accident unless we are out for a long time and cannot get to a toilet quick enough, it if he falls asleep.

I have been putting him in pull UPS for bed. He has a potty in his room, but will wee in the pull up when wearing it. His pull up is always full by morning.

He also goes to his dads 3 nights a week and I have no idea how he manages potty training there.

busiscoming2

What's a Portugal?

I found with my kids, once they are dry during the day, they become dry at night about 6-12months later. I'd just keep putting the nappy/pull up on at night until it has been dry in the morning for a few nights and then try him without one. Pampers used to do a special nappy sheet thing, I used to put that under the cot/bed sheet until I was convinced they were night trained.

RainbowDreamer

Sorry it should of said "potty" I am writing on my mobile and forgot to read through before sending. My auto correct lines to change words.

Lunar_Eclipse

RainbowDreamer wrote: »

He has a potty in his room, but will wee in the pull up when wearing it. His pull up is always full by morning.

What I would do depends on whether his nappy is full from a wee first thing in the morning (could be almost the second he wakes up), or whether he is urinating throughout the night.

If it's the former and assuming he doesn't have any developmental issues, I would simply stop using nappies altogether. I'd also put the potty in the nearest bathroom/toilet and not in his bedroom.

Alternatively, perhaps his brain isn't developed sufficiently to go through the night yet, so I'd continue with nappies. I've read that children supposedly stop wetting themselves at night when a certain part of their brain develops to enable them to do so (sort of like a switch going off in the brain between night & day.) I tend to think it's probably true since both my girls were dry at night before being dry/out of nappies in the day. Unusual I know. That was at 12 & 18 months, so I tend to think you could probably stop using nappies altogether. However, one of the boys in our NCT group was dry before 2 during the day but not till around 7 years old at night, eventually done by training using an alarm and parental waking.

Lots of children still have night time nappies at 3 1/2, although I know many parents are motivated by 'starting school'.

barbiedoll

If he's dry during the day then he's well on the way to getting dry at night. It does take a little longer, but do the usual things, (no drinks after 6pm etc etc) and give him a chance. My son was in pull-ups at this age, eventually he asked me if he could go to bed wearing his underpants instead. I also used the Pampers waterproof sheets and I think we had one or two accidents but that was it.

Speak to him about it, he may remember waking up when he has a wee in his pull-ups, it could be early morning and he's still half-asleep. He will get more control over his bladder at night sooner or later, but give him time....it always seems to take boys much longer than girls for some reason!

BitterAndTwisted

3 1/2 year old nippers, especially boys, don't have the physical development to be dry at night, so trying to potty-train him is futile. Leave him in his pull-ups at night and only stop putting them on him when he is always completely dry. No healthy child that I ever knew or even heard of started secondary school incontinent.. Please sto worrying about it. He'll be dry when he's ready.

Kids as young as that usually pee upon waking, so there's not much you can actively do to help him.

flutterby_lil

With my son he was dry during the day at 2 years old, when he was 3 I just took the pull ups off at night and he went to bed with nothing but pyjamas at night. Since then, 6 months ago, we've only had about 4 accidents. He goes to toilet just before bed and has a potty in his room. He gets up and wees on the potty in a morning, never known him to go once he's been in bed. We did lift him for about a week at 10pm ish but he never did anything, we disturbed him so gave that up.

flutterby_lil

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

3 1/2 year old nippers, especially boys, don't have the physical development to be dry at night, so trying to potty-train him is futile. Leave him in his pull-ups at night and only stop putting them on him when he is always completely dry. No healthy child that I ever knew or even heard of started secondary school incontinent.. Please sto worrying about it. He'll be dry when he's ready.

Kids as young as that usually pee upon waking, so there's not much you can actively do to help him.

Sorry I disagree, my 3 and a half year old nipper, a boy, is dry at night.....

Rikki

Both my two boys were fully potty trained by three. (They had to be dry by the time they started kindergarden at three.)

I don't understand while people seem to leave it so long before they start. Surely the longer you leave it before you start the harder it is to break the nappy habit. I though leaving them in a night time nappy would make them lazy.

coffeemonster*123

from experience i'd say each child varies, but agree with other poster who said don't make a big deal of it, he'll be dry at night in his own time.
Pull ups can be expensive, if he's not too wet perhaps you could try cheaper unbranded nappies? HTH

thunderbird

My eldest son was dry at night at same time as during the day (can't remember what age). But my youngest carried on wearing pullups at night for a very long time. He just slept so deeply, he was completely oblivious to the fact that he needed a wee or had had a wee. Leaving him without pull ups on was pointless as it just meant he spent the night lying in a wet bed (that still didn't wake him up).

Don't worry about it, he won't be wearing them for ever :-)