When do we stop night pull-ups?

[Anonymous]

After a year of potty training struggles my 3 year 8 month old daughter has finally mastered peeing and pooping on the potty and has been major accident free for like 6 weeks now. It is such a relief.

Now what to do about night-time. I am reluctant to have her sleep in underwear rather than a pull-up because a) I don't want her to maybe have a psychological set back if she has a night-time accident (she gets upset if she gets her special underwear wet) and b) I'm not convinced she's physiologically ready to go 8pm to 8am with a full bladder. She wakes up in the morning with a dry pull-up about 50% of the time. My husband thinks it's time for her to sleep in underwear.

Any advice/thoughts out there? TIA!

[Anonymous]

I have 4.5 year old that still occasionally uses pull up....worried about it, spoke to pediatrician. He said the number one thing with NIGHT training is to NOT make an issue. She woke up dry a couple of times, we took them off and she does okay and then will have an accident. The ped said NOT to endlessly talk about it, etc. There is NOTHING the kid can do about night...and I recently read an article that a child is not expected to be totally dry until around 6. Every kid is different...we totally do not sweat it in our house...

[Anonymous]

Kids often can pee in their bed up until 8yrs old, not uncommon at all. Expecting majority dry nights before 4 yrs old is a bit agressive.

Realax, eveyone is eventually potty trained, right?

[Anonymous]

My DD was in pull ups for a full year after complete daytime potty training. Sometimes she'd wake up dry, but sometimes they'd be completely wet.

She just turned 4 and only recently stopped wearing pull-ups at night. HOwever, before we go to bed we get her up and put her on the toilet. She almost always goes.

I would not stress it at all. Wait until it comes naturally.

[Anonymous]

Our son is 5 and still uses night pull-ups. He has gone periods where he's dry but then will go back to being wet for many nights running, despite the same night time routine. We tried eliminating the pull-ups when he was 4.5 and staying dry for about 2 weeks. He did great for 10 days, then went back to being wet for as many days. Right now, having started kindergarten, we're waiting a bit before trying again.

At his 5 year check-up, the pediatrician said it's completely normal and it's a question of their body developing sufficiently.

[Anonymous]

I had the same worry but was too busy to get around to doing anything about it. About a month or so after turning 4, DD announced she was tired of diapers and was going to sleep in her panties. That was it. I don't think there have been any accidents, but we have a plastic sheet under her sheets just in case.

[Anonymous]

My 3.5 year old is in underwear. The result? I end up changing his sheets several times a week. But he really wants to wear underwear to bed. So, I just suck it up and do laundry more often. He can usually stay dry if we get him to go to the bathroom right before bed (after books) AND I wake him up and take him to the bathroom right before I go to bed around 11:00. But sometimes (like last night) he has already had an accident by that time. Other times, if I go to bed earlier, I don't see the point in waking him up. Sometimes he stays dry, sometimes he doesn't. That said, it bothered him much more to be in pull ups than it does to have an accident at night (meaning, he isn't embarrassed or upset by the accident). So, I'd say talk to your daughter about it; see if she'd rather continue pull ups, or if she's ok with having accidents. I don't think wearing pull ups is going to hold back the process of being able to make it through the night, if that's your concern.

[Anonymous]

If the pull ups don't bother her, leave her in pull ups. It's much better than doing lots of laundry. I wish my 4 yo daughter would agree to wear pull ups at night, believe me. I'm not sure why your husband is forcing the issue.

[Anonymous]

I night trained the same time I day trained. We had accidents about once a week initially, and now far fewer.

I don't mind washing the sheets, and I have a plastic cover over her mattress to keep that clean.

To avoid night-time accidents, you can just take your little one to the bathroom right before she goes to bed, and then again right before you go to bed. You don't have to fully wake her, but just pick her up, and sit her on the toilet and make pssing sounds and telling her to go.

[Anonymous]

I stopped about a month ago, she will be 3.5 in November. The pediatrician had suggested stopped a few months back. I found that she used the pull up as a crutch, would pee right after waking up not while sleeping. I bought two water proof pads (the ones that go on top of the fitted sheet) and put her in underwear and she now knows that she needs to go to the potty when she wakes up. So far she has had 4 accidents but most of them have happened when she did not go to the potty before going to bed and we are still working on the routine.

I have to say that I am happy that I do not need to buy pulls-up and an added bonus is that she is so proud that she now wears panties to bed.

Give it a shot and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I night trained the same time I day trained. We had accidents about once a week initially, and now far fewer.

I don't mind washing the sheets, and I have a plastic cover over her mattress to keep that clean.

To avoid night-time accidents, you can just take your little one to the bathroom right before she goes to bed, and then again right before you go to bed. You don't have to fully wake her, but just pick her up, and sit her on the toilet and make pssing sounds and telling her to go.

We did the same as above. My DD is 3 yrs 3 months and for about 6 weeks I changed sheets once or twice a week in the middle of the night. We are careful to have her go potty before bed and limit drinks to sips after 7pm (unless really needed of course). We tell her to come wake us up if she has to go potty at night and over time she began to realize it and wakes me when she has to go. That happens about 2 times a week now. Better for me than pull-ups or bed changing. Over time I can see progress. We still have an occasional accident, of course. Hang in there, as others have said, it might take until she is much older. We have lucked out.