I still take my almost 5 year old son to the bathroom every night to go potty because if we don't he won't soak through his pull up and drench the bed. I won't limit liquids either because you're purposely dehydrating your child and I happen to have one that needs to be reminded to drink water during the day because he's so busy playing. I'll take him needing to be taken to the bathroom for another 2 to 3 years over him getting constipation from lack of appropriate hydration.

Your kid is two and a half and I'm not sure how you expect for them to go potty which is what you've apparently taught them one) while asleep since that's when they're sleeping at neurochemical process and two) without a potty to go into since they're trapped in the crib.

Again this makes sense to you as an adult but you're not logistically setting it up for your child and you're also not responding appropriately to his or her developmental abilities.

Day and night potty training are not really related.

2.5 yrs old is very young to expect night training (also note that kids with ADHD are very, very late to staying dry at night. This is not their fault.)

Why not put on pullups with doublers in them, a pad underneath and wait until your child is ready?

You could also wake them right before you go to sleep to give them another chance to urinate but this is miserable for them.

Relax. This is not a big deal unless you make it one. Please do not stress your child out about this.

Anonymous wrote:We did daytime potty training a year ago, at 18 months. Now, I’m trying to take advantage of Christmas break to train for nap/nighttime. The first three days were perfect - I explained about removing the diapers, she was really into it, put small potty in her room, no issues either nap or night.

Since then, we’ve had 4 days in a row with the crib soaked. She also pooped in the crib once when she wasn’t even sleeping (playing in crib at naptime). I’m really frustrated. She’s not really interested in putting on the diapers again. Should I force her to go back to them and try again in 6 months? Or just keep washing her sheets twice a day and hope it clicks? Are there any strategies I’m missing?

What?? Was it an accident or she did not care that she pooped in the crib? Maybe she needs to be on a small nap cot instead of the crib.
I suggest you keep her in diapers for some time.

I was training my kids from the time they were 6 months old. What did that mean? I would take off their diapers and make them sit at a baby pot after each meal until they pooped or peed. I had a good sense of when they wanted to poop. My reason was their comfort. I was sure that they preferred to poop in a pot instead of soiling themselves. Then the diaper came back on.

By 2 yrs old, my kids were pooping and peeing in the pot by themselves once they woke up. Of course, I was cleaning them. At home, they were wearing normal cotton underwear. We had baby potty at every level of our home and we also kept it in the yard. When my kids wanted to pee, the pot was right there. When they took a nap or slept for the night or when we were outside our house? Back into diapers, pull ups etc.

Diapers and pullups at night went on for several years for my son. My daughter was toilet trained very early. My son would have accidents at night, until I started to pick him up at night from his bed, carry him to the bathroom and make him pee and back into the bed. 2 weeks of doing that, and he learned to get up to pee.

And while my kids knew how to wipe themselves etc, I was at home wiping and then washing their butts till they were seven years old.

Yeah part of potty training is teaching them to get up and go to the potty. If she can't get out of her.crub, how's she supposed tomdotnhat?

But if she's truly peeing while asleep you're just pushing her before she's ready.

I agree that 18 months is a bit too early.

Aside from that, you really can’t have a child locked in a crib when you expect them to be toilet trained. Toilet trained means they can get themselves to the toilet.

If you’re doing EC then you need to cosleep and be right on the child at all times.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18 months is young. This is the problem. Unless she is 4+ having accidents at night, there is really not a problem - just you not willing to put a diaper/pull-ups on for sleeping. That's on you.

Ridiculous. All three of mine were fully trained by two.

Irrelevant since OP's child is not fully trained --she's constantly peeing in the bed and has even pooped in the bed. Some kids might be fully trained by two but the child in question is not. Kids are ready for night training at different times.

Only one answer - pullups for naps and night. 2.5 is crazy young to expect them to sleep potty train.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are really misinformed.

You should NOT be night training until your child wakes up dry. Are you a teen mom?

OP here. I'm not a teen mom, and I think you might actually be misinformed. The concept of pullups and keeping kids in diapers until 4-6 is really not normal in many other cultures. I'm from a European country where it's very common to train at 18 months. When I trained my first at 2.5, friends and family from back home thought that was late.

With my first child, we completely removed the diapers at age 2.5 and she had no trouble with it day or night. That's why I figured #2 could handle it at this age as well. Like I mentioned in my first post, she really wanted the diapers off and isn't interested in going back to them. I already suggested it and she indignantly told me that she's a big girl and no longer wears diapers.

We're going to convert her crib to a toddler bed and try for another week or so since we're on winter break anyway. And I'll try to watch her PM liquid intake more closely. If she keeps having trouble, we will try the pullups.

I am not the one who locked her kid on a crib and is mystified why she keeps peeing in her crib.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18 months is young. This is the problem. Unless she is 4+ having accidents at night, there is really not a problem - just you not willing to put a diaper/pull-ups on for sleeping. That's on you.

Ridiculous. All three of mine were fully trained by two.

NP. Different kids are different. Just because yours was fully trained at that age doesn’t mean every child is capable of the same. Our pediatrician told us that you can’t night train if the child’s body isn’t ready. They can’t just wake themselves up on command. Some children are capable at that age, but many aren’t, and that isn’t unusual.
My oldest trained at 2.5, and we are doing the same with younger DD at similar age.

Anonymous wrote:18 months is young. This is the problem. Unless she is 4+ having accidents at night, there is really not a problem - just you not willing to put a diaper/pull-ups on for sleeping. That's on you.

Ridiculous. All three of mine were fully trained by two.

Op, different kids are different kids. I day trained my first at age 2 and he nap trained immediately and night trained himself on his own- underwear 24/7 a few months before he turned 3. I trained my second also at 2 using the same method and she was a lot slower to pick it up in general, still wets the bed a couple times a month at naptime and wets herself almost every night. She is almost 3.5.

She’s way too young to be night trained.

I don’t get it. How is she supposed to go potty during naps or at night if she needs to potty?

Anonymous wrote:What does training for nap/ nighttime mean if she’s trapped in a crib? What is it that you’re asking her to actually do, OP?

To a lot of people it seems to mean dehydrating your kid so they don’t need to pee at night. I think that’s what the OP wants to hear? Limit her liquids after 6pm or whatever.