PT'ed at Night

My girls have been pt'ed since they were 2. However night time is STILL a problem. I know that it is not a learned behavior but I am still starting to become concerned that they are almost 4 and still wake up with their pull up full.

We limit their fluid intake and the potty is the last stop we make on the way to their bedroom. Is there anything more I can do?

 

My sitter said that one of her DDs wasn't night trained until she was over 5 years old. Have you talked to your pedi about it? It doesn't sound completely uncommon from what I've heard, but if you are concerned, I'd talk to the pedi at your next appointment.

 

We are still in diapers at night too but at their bday I am going to start trying. One more tip I know is to take them to the bathroom when you go to bed so there are less hours. My sister put the little potty in their room so they could just get up and go without having to go to the bathroom. Are you cutting off liquid like 1-2 hours before bed? It takes a while to go through their systems. talk about how they need to wake up and go in the middle of the night. I am also going to start a sticker chart for dry nights. Just some ideas.

 

I also wonder what would happen, or what happens if you don't put a pull-up on? If you say OK tonight we are going to wear our big kid underwear ALL NIGHT long. If you have to go potty make sure you get up. Leave the light night on or whatever makes it easy for them.
My 27 month olds (boy.girl) wear regular underwear to bed, the downside is they usually wake up and appear in my room at 4 or 5 am. They have to pee. So I help them go potty and help them back to bed again. Now I just need to get them to leave me out of the equation and go potty at 4am by themselves lol
Sorry Im not much help! I just wonder if subconsciously they might have more control over their bladder if they had real underwear and knew they needed to get up to potty...

 

Some children just produce more urine while sleeping than others. Your body is supposed to slow urine production while sleeping. We know a few older children that have to be awakened in the middle of the night so they can make it all the way through without having an accident. Just a thought, it can actually be medical and not their desire to stay dry/wet. Although they are still pretty little, hopefully their bladders aren't just big enough or they just sleep too soundly to wake up when needing to go. I'd talk to the pedi and give it some time.
Joshua has been dry for months at night, but Jesse still has some accidents at night. We keep him in an All In One cloth diaper just in case. My 10 yr old can still have an accident from time to time if he has too much to drink and is super tired.

 

I had the same concerns and asked their doctor when I took them in for their four year well visit and she said that there is no concern about it right now. Sometimes it just takes a bit longer to be PT'ed at night... around 6 or 7 is when there would be more concern. :hug:

 

Hi:

My DD is night trained and has been for a long time. She's 4. My DS, however, is still in a pull up at night. Every morning, it would be soaked. Then for a while, it was just wet. Just this past week, he has had 4 or 5 dry nights in a row. He knows that when he can get to 7 dry nights in a row, he can wear underwear to bed.

I think you've just got to just let nature take its course, so taht night training happens on its one (when the brain is sufficiently developed to wake your kids up to go at night.)

Meg

 

My just turned 6 yr old still wears a pullup at night. Sometimes the nerves aren't developed enough to send the signal to the brain that the bladder is full while they are asleep. It's something that matures with time. I mentioned it to the ped at his 6 yr visit, not because I'm concerned, just that I thought it should be on record since they always ask about bathroom habits. She agreed that it is nothing to worry about until they are 7 or 8. Aaron has always been a heary wetter and sound sleeper. We've tried some incentives but that is what convinced me this is a developmental issue, not a behavioral one.

 

It takes longer to PT at night. My two are still in pull ups at night, but have been waking up dry for the past few weeks. They really want to wear underwear to bed (like their big sister) so I told them they need to wake up in the middle of the night if they need to go potty (Emilie does about 3 times a week) and be dry in the morning. We are going to the beach next week so I told them after we get back from the beach, we will try to have them sleeping in underwear.

There is really nothing you can do to "train" them at night. The only thing you can do is limit fluids before bedtime and you are already doing it. Hang in there, it will happen.

 

Like the others said, you cannot "train" them to be dry at night. Simply because you train a conscience brain, but during sleep you are dealing with the unconscience. They will stay dry when their body is ready. All putting them in underpants at night before then results in middle of the night bed changes--I know, for months before Marcus' body was ready, he really wanted to, and would put on underpants, only to get me up in the night to change the bed.