night time toliet training

apparently there is no link between day and night training. maybe you might have to put a nappy on her after she is asleep. perhaps try her in some pull ups (you can get cloth ones too on TM) so they arent like a nappy. i think if she is wetting more than once a night then you might be flogging a dead horse trying to "train" her.

i think - but not sure - that it is a chemical thing with night training.

Yeah I have also heard that you can't train them - they will just do it in their own time and it isn't like day time training. I think ideally she should be able to last through the night without going at all before attempting with no nappy. I plan to ditch the nappy when I have about 5 or 10 dry in a row in the morning. Haven't had one yet so I have no idea when it will be lol!

if they have been dry for two weeks solid, i would take the nappy away and see what happens

argh, good timing with this post.

Ayja is only 5 months out from school and we are finally trying her over night.

Mike had problems with bedwetting up until about 8 years old and apparently if a parent was a bedwtter up past about 5 years then there can be a 50% chance one of the kids might be too.

Paris we never pushed, but noticed around 4 that her night nappy was predominantly dry most mornings, so started letting her wear undies overnight, getting hr up just before we went to bed once only for the loo, which worked well. and we did that up until just after she started school, although f she's had a reallllly busy day and she's toasted when she goes to bed, then i will still wake her before i go to bed sometimes just cos i know she's in a really deep sleep and might not wake. We've never had a wet bed from her ever. we just let her take her time.

Ayja of course wants to follow her sister, the only problem being, she's an even deeper sleeper than her sister, and her night nappies are NEVER dry, in fact they are saturated most mornings... so instead of going cold turkey, we are trying her with pull-ups so that she can get up to the loo without the hassle of putting a nappy back on.. but with some degree of protection in case of accidents. We tried for half of one night and went to get her up for the loo but we'd had a busy week last week and it was not a good night to try, she was deep asleep and when woekn she screamed uncontrollably at us. so nope, not good timing, and a nappy got put back on.

Tonight is the first night and we plan to hopefully get it sorted over summer.

Once we know she can do it with the pull-ups, then we'll try nappies for her as i think that she might be the one we have problems with possibly.

Each kid's different, because my kids are really deep sleepers, I tt during the day at just over 2 years, during day sleeps at about 3 and a half years, and yeah, tried for overnight at about 4 and a half years, stopped getting paris up for toilet stop just before 5 and a half years. I took it really slowly and just let them lead it for the night time stuff. The other main thing for me is that I always do it over summer holidays, when the weather is warmer for them, less clothing to worry about, easier to get washing dry if i have to, and most of all, the family is relaxed and there is less of the rush of everyday routine so it can really just focus on getting that sorted before all the new year activities start back up again.

Good luck Kaz. I'd say try the pull-ups because she obviously wants that independance, to be a bigger girl etc, but her body isn't quite ready for it, and certainly, getting hr up every 3 hours is going to drive you batty. , Ayja likes the idea of them because they have disney princess on them and she hates the idea of a wet bed.