I’m the “dream pee” method advocate above. Two more thoughts. Yikes, 2.5 is so young to expect all night dryness! I can’t believe how pressured parents feel these days to night train their kids at such young ages. Second thought - doesn’t every woman who ever gave birth experience the need to “dream pee” almost every night? Don’t tell me that sleepwalking to the bathroom in the middle of the night isn’t essential to getting a good night’s sleep! Anyway, could we please all just allow middle of the night bathroom trips for anyone at any age We’re all drinking gallons of water all day per health recommendations.

Totally agree with the “dream pee” method. Transition her to a toddler or twin bed, “wake” her (she’ll be half asleep)gently before you go to bed (10pm - midnight, whenever). Sleepwalk her to the potty - hers in her bedroom or the family bathroom. Put her on the potty. She’ll pee, and then you sleep walk her back to her bed. No drama, lights low. It’s pretty simple. Don’t worry about “when is she going to stop needing me to do this.”

Anonymous wrote:OP - I would transition her to a bed, but I would personally wait at least a month until potty training has really taken hold and you're less likely to have a regression.

In the meantime, consider just waking her up before you go to bed. That way you'll be less likely to have an additional wakeup some other time during the night.

Op here. That makes sense. We daytime potty trained over thanksgiving so this is very new!

OP - I would transition her to a bed, but I would personally wait at least a month until potty training has really taken hold and you're less likely to have a regression.

In the meantime, consider just waking her up before you go to bed. That way you'll be less likely to have an additional wakeup some other time during the night.

If she is waking up to pee, I would go with it and take the side of the crib down. We did the same for our 2.5 year old son, and there were some accidents, but it went smoothly enough. He had his own bathroom, and we kept a nightlight in case.

But what actually worked best for him was putting him to bed at 7pm and then taking him to the toilet at midnight. He would then be dry until morning. He never remembered being taken to the toilet. If I didn’t do this, he would wake up on his own at 1 or 2 am, and his aim was pretty atrocious. We stopped the midnight visits a few months after he turned 3. Interestingly, up until the age of 6, when he was extra tired, he would often wake up in different underwear. He said that he would pee a few drops, wake up, go to the bathroom, and change his underwear. It made me think that some kids are just sensitive to the sensation of urinating at night at an early age, just as other kids are not. So I would take advantage and go ahead and let your daughter ditch the diaper. And since this was our last kid, hallelujah, not having diapers in the house was amazing.

My nearly 7yo DS is still not dry at night. Pediatrician says it’s normal.

Put her in a bed. We kept a small potty in DDs room until she was almost 4 I think. So she could go at night without help.

Anonymous wrote:We potty trained our 2.5 year old a few weeks ago. She’s doing really well. At night, she’s been waking us up to pee once or twice, which I guess is good, it’s just unexpected since the books say nighttime comes later. She’s still in her crib so we have to get up and help her. It’s then hard to get her back down. We end up doing a mini nighttime routine (one book, two songs, lights down low). I feel like oh cheap is pretty light on details on how to night train. Is this just how it’s going to be until she can hold pee through the night? Should we convert her crib? Do away with night time and nap diapers altogether? Would love some tips about what to do at this stage of potty training. I feel unprepared! And I miss all of us sleeping through the night!

I did concurrently. If she's waking up and asking to pee at night, I'd say concert her crib to a toddler bed and have a little potty in her room, put her on and back to bed, and lose the diaper, absolutely! No question!

Anonymous wrote:This is so tough op! I usually advocate staying in the crib as long as they are happy there but this is always the issue that is a problem. We waited to night train as a result but our kid wasn't doing it on their own, it's probably good to go with it if she's already naturally doing it. For the pp, if it helps the pp I was worried at 3.5 because our son also was incredibly reliant on the diaper and never woke up dry (potty trained easily during the day at 23 months) and then at 4 said I'm done with my diaper and night trained no problem on his own. I had multiple friends have this happen so have hope pp!

OP you could try taking the side of the crib off and putting a little potty next to her bed so she can just get out and do it quickly and then hopefully back to sleep. I definitely wouldn't make a habit of something where you're turning on any lights at all and reading books in the middle of the night. Maybe there is some music you can turn on for her as she's falling back asleep? This is a tough one! I would want to follow her lead since she's doing it on her own but it makes other sleep things more difficult.

PP here. Thank you! It does help to know it can happen on its own. The Oh Crap method is not working for us.

Op again. These are really helpful comments. Thank you. Sure was hoping to keep her contained in crib as long as possible but also appreciate we don’t want to lose momentum here.

If she’s waking you up to go I’m not sure you have a choice here: you need to convert the crib and stay teaching her some independence with the potty at night.

One option since she’s so young would be a training potty in her room or just outside her room so she can go without your help. Though that would mean fudging on hand washing and stuff for nighttime pees. You have to decide if that’s okay, knowing these are probably going to phase out.

If you keep doing potty trips with her, you need to make them as low key and conducive to returning to bed as possible. Keep lights off (good nightlights will also be helpful when she’s fully independent with this), minimal talking, and don’t redo the bedtime routine— it’s straight back to bed, though I might rub her back until she fell back to sleep. All requests for books, songs, or any form of comfort other than a gif or back rub would get “no, it’s too late, time for sleep.” She has to learn how to fall back asleep more easily in this situation.

Speaking of phasing out, you can probably help that along by: limiting fluids after 6pm, ensuring she uses the potty before bed and first thing in the morning

This is so tough op! I usually advocate staying in the crib as long as they are happy there but this is always the issue that is a problem. We waited to night train as a result but our kid wasn't doing it on their own, it's probably good to go with it if she's already naturally doing it. For the pp, if it helps the pp I was worried at 3.5 because our son also was incredibly reliant on the diaper and never woke up dry (potty trained easily during the day at 23 months) and then at 4 said I'm done with my diaper and night trained no problem on his own. I had multiple friends have this happen so have hope pp!

OP you could try taking the side of the crib off and putting a little potty next to her bed so she can just get out and do it quickly and then hopefully back to sleep. I definitely wouldn't make a habit of something where you're turning on any lights at all and reading books in the middle of the night. Maybe there is some music you can turn on for her as she's falling back asleep? This is a tough one! I would want to follow her lead since she's doing it on her own but it makes other sleep things more difficult.

Op here. Thanks for that! Good to keep in mind!

I don't know what you should do but I definitely regret keeping DD in a diaper so long after potty training. She is 3.5 now and very attached to peeing in her diaper at night. I would not recommend waiting too long.

We potty trained our 2.5 year old a few weeks ago. She’s doing really well. At night, she’s been waking us up to pee once or twice, which I guess is good, it’s just unexpected since the books say nighttime comes later. She’s still in her crib so we have to get up and help her. It’s then hard to get her back down. We end up doing a mini nighttime routine (one book, two songs, lights down low). I feel like oh cheap is pretty light on details on how to night train. Is this just how it’s going to be until she can hold pee through the night? Should we convert her crib? Do away with night time and nap diapers altogether? Would love some tips about what to do at this stage of potty training. I feel unprepared! And I miss all of us sleeping through the night!