Calling all moms! I have a 4 year old daughter that is fully potty trained during the day, but at night is still in pull ups! She doesn't wake up to use the bathroom (we have had numerouse discussions about getting out of bed to use the bathroom, modeled etc.) and the pull ups are soaked in the morning. I have a friend that allowed me to borrow the bed wetting aparatus that sounds an alarm to wake the child (haven't used it yet).....any suggestions...my husband will be out of town this weekend so I'm able to try most anything

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By grace alone

I think that your panicing a little bit..... Night time potty training comes naturally more then being taught ( in my opinion anyway). If you start out with some basic like limiting the amount of drinks before bed...three or four hours before and using the bathroom before going to bed, she will get it....

My children pottly trained very easy...but my friend had a son who was wearing pull ups at age 6 at night...they dealt with the matress alarms, got him up every other hour at night, and the endless medical tests and he just finially out grew it...when you think about it when we were kids they didn't have all these fancy gadgets and we learned .......

Just hang in there......becuase the more negative vibes she gets the longer it will take....

Our son was the same way! I mentioned it to his ped and he said in his grumpy (but lovable) way: I don't even want to hear about that until the kid is 5 1/2! A few months after DS turned 5 he went from flooding the bed EVERY night to totally dry!
I would say, give your DD a little bit more time and be glad she's keeping her diapers on (my DD did not).

I have an adult son who was 12 before he finally stopped wetting at night. He was on medication from the doctor and that didn't always help. It's a familial thing and is more common in boys than girls. He outgrew it - finally - and we were all relieved. It's a very difficult thing for a child to go through. Just be positive and try not to ridicule or embarrass the child. They really can't help it.

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Thanks for the advice ladies; I think I'll do as mentioned and give it a bit more time and also mention it to my ped. the next visit!

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By grace alone

Thanks for the advice ladies; I think I'll do as mentioned and give it a bit more time and also mention it to my ped. the next visit!

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By grace alone

Just to let you know, my daughter was pottytrained at 3 and we would put her to bed at night in the pullups and she would wake up soaked. Finally I said this is enough its stinky and I can't deal with this anymore... well she ended up only peeing the bed once after we stopped using the pull-ups (I personally think they're a set back in every way I hate pull-ups even for starting to potty train) When we put her in underwear at night I was panicked too and thought I was going to have to wake up a couple of times every night to change everything but that didn't happen. I think that alot of the time it might be out of pure laziness that they go in the pull-ups.

My son was in Pull Ups until he was 5. He was potty trained just great during the day....The Dr told me a nerve has to be developed enough to wake them up, ever notice how soundly kids sleep?
It just takes as long as it takes and I think too much pressure from mom at this time will only make your child feel bad about something that happens "to" them. Good Luck!

She wet the bed and we just let her wear pullups. Even after she was mostly dry at night she had a lot of accidents in bed at night. This happened until she was in 2nd grade. I would definately say not to make fun of her about it and also to tell her that she is definately not the only one (there are lots of kids with this problem).

One other thing I read when we were going through this with DD was that milk and other dairy products were especially bad to drink at night (they trigger the bed wetting in some way). She used to always drink a glass of milk with her bedtime snack and when she quit doing that it definately seemed to help.

We have church on Wednesday nights and I help with a class of kids that range in age from 3 - 6. The evening starts out with a supper around 5:15 and then we have class from 6:00- 7:15. Well, in our class we do a lot of playing and the kids do a lot of running. One girl in our class still wets the bed at night and her mother has told me that she cannot have a drink at all after 6:00. So after all of this playing all the other kids go get their drinks and we have a little snack and here is this little girl and can't have any drinks. I really feel sorry for her (she is 4 years old). It has pretty much made her quit playing with the other kids and she just sits and plays by herself with a doll or something most of the time. I figure it's because she doesn't get as thirsty that way.

I have 3 children. My first son (now 20) was dry during the day at 2 1/2 but was 6 before he was dry at night. He also refused to wear diapers after he was potty trained so I changed his bed almost every night for years. His Dr. said he would not worry about it until he was 7. The bed wetting slowed down as he got older and stopped by the time he was 6. When my second son came along I just kept him in diapers at night after he potty trained at 2 1/2. At between 4 and 4 1/2 I took of the diaper to see what would happen and he stayed dry from then on. Neither boys ever got up to us the bathroom at night. My third child a girl was potty trained a week before she turned 2. From the very first day she was dry day and night. The first night she got up on her own and used the bathroom in the middle of the night. All children are different and I don't think there is anything you can do to make them dry at night.

Well try not giving much to drink & making them go before bedtime & then taking them one more time after they fall asleep this works with my 6yr old at least. And now doing it with my 3yr old. BTW my 2 oldest did have a terrible they were in kindegarten before it stopped.

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