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[quote=Anonymous]#1 I started teaching her to pee in the toilet at 18 months my by putting her on the toilet every morning when she first woke up, but got rid of the underwear (Oh Crap book) at 2.5. She hadn’t even wet her overnight diaper since 18 months. We had major power struggles over trying to pee before bed. She thought it was impossible to wet the bed. It was infuriating!

#2 My second was resistant to most things I encouraged her to do, so I waited until she turned 2.5 and then went full force again— Oh Crap style again. It was a messy, awful experience for 3 months, maybe longer. Her preschool teachers were amazing. They were so supportive and became so intuitive about getting her to the bathroom. When she turned 3, she decided she didn’t want pull ups anymore. I think we had two months of changing sheets a couple times a week. We got rid of the crib at that point and put the mattress on the floor. The theory was that she could get up and pee as needed, but she never did that by herself at night. The key was her body learning to hold pee through the whole night. We were very sleep deprived. She only recently started sleeping through the night again— until 5:30 to 6:30am.

I’m so glad to be done with day and night training— kids are 5.5 and just about 3.5 now. I agree that it is just a developmental thing for kids. I was an occasional deep sleeping bedwetter through my 6th year. I remember feeling like I didn’t want to wake anyone and stripping my own bed. My kids are actually much lighter/worse sleepers than I was. That probably helps.[/quote]

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