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I have been using Kushies training pants for the past week and my dd has been dry through the night 2x. This may seem good but, it was the 2nd and 3rd night she wore them and it went downhill from there. I saw at a website that they don't recommend restricting fluids or getting kids up in the middle of the night. They suggest having her go potty right before bed and by a $90 bed wetting alarm! Anyway, just wondering if anyone else is having or has had this problem and if so, what worked for you. I thought maybe the unpleasantness of a wet bed would help her wake when she's gotta go, but no. Does anybody use goodnites? My dd is only 3 1/2, but I was a bedwetter myself at a lot older age. Any advice?
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I had a lot of problems with my first dd who is now twelve and is fully potty trained by the way...lol I thought when she was 3 it would never happen. My daughter was a heavy/deep sleeper...she slept through anything! I would stop fluids after 6pm and make her go pee before bed.....drag her out of bed at midnight which she slept right through...even peeing...and place her back in bed and she still would wake up wet the next morning. I was so fustrated. The pediatricians advice was basicly she possibly has a small bladder and seeing that she was a deep sleeper it was common for her to be delayed in potty training through the night. He said there was meds she could take but that will just postpone it....as soon as she stopped the meds we would be back to the same problem. Bed alarms would probably not work and basicly she would probably not wake up anyway.
Lastly he reassued me that it would happen eventually...to be patient and keep doing what I was doing. Well, it did happen eventually...right before kindergarten actually.
My son was no problem at all he stopped wearing diapers at 2 1/2 and that was that.
Now I am back at the same stage you are...my youngest dd who turned 3 in August has been completely potty trained during the day but still wets at night. I use the new pull-up made for night time...they work great. I am hoping she won't be as hard as her sister.
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My oldest was a tough one for night time training. For a little while, I kind of just monitored him really closely in the night to see exactly when he was wetting the bed. It turned out that it would be 11pm and 2am. So I started going in and getting him up to go pee, just before those times. Eventually, we eliminated the 11 and later the 2am. It was a pain in the rear getting up at the right time, but a whole lot easier than changing a whole bed in the middle of the night.
I didn't have to do any of this with my youngest.
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At 3 1/2 I wouldn't be to concerned yet. My daughter is 3 and still wears pull ups at night. Most mornings she is dry but on ocassion she is wet. I believe my son was 4 before we able to stop using the pull ups at bedtime.
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What worked for me was not putting a pull-up on at night all together. The worse part was having to change everything out in the middle of the night when they DID wet the bed. I would make them use the bathroom right before they got in the bed, and then if and when they got up and wanted to go potty in the middle of the night, if not and if they wet the bed, they would get me up and I would have to change them out. But to save the hassle what I did, was bought extra fitted sheets, and just layered them with plastic, then sheet, plastic then sheet..so I would only be changing their PJ's if they wet during the night, and for the sheets, I would just pull off the top layer of sheet, and the plasic. It saved me lot of time during the night.
With my older one, he used to get up in the middle of the night if he was wet, and actually go change his PJ's himself, and put the wet ones in the laundry basket and put a blanket on top of his wet sheets, and go back to sleep. Many night I wouldnt know he did it until I woke up the next morning and found him in different PJ's. LOL. And he was 3 at the time.
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My oldest ds just turned 6 and is wet more than he is dry most nights. He is a very heavy sleeper. We tried limiting fluids, pottying before bed and waking him up before we went to bed to take him potty, which was very difficult because he slept through it. Imagine holding him up, pulling down his pants and "pointing" it down for him so he doesn't pee on the wall! Not good on the back! His doctor just said that he has to grow into his bladder. OTOH, our 4 year old was dry at night ever since he was potty trained at 2. Good luck!
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All four of my older ones were night trained the same time they were day trained. My last two did not do it, though. Both were daytime trained at age two..just after their second birthdays..it took my now 3 1/2 year old about a year to stay dry at night (and wouldn't you know it LAST NIGHT she did wet the bed..but that is VERY rare!). The youngest has only been daytrained for a few months, and she is soaking wet every morning. We are still in diapers. I just can't see paying extra for pullups until she outgrows the diapers..and hopefully that won't happen! I agree with everyone else...at this young of an age..I wouldn't worry about it. Just know that it will eventually happen!
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My dd started staying dry same time she was day trained at 2 years. My now 2 year old ds still wets at night sometimes so I put an overnight on him. Not that is the best to do but I'm lazy (no really I have three young kids and hardly any sleep anyway I'm not going to be changing sheets in the middle of the night). No drinks after 7pm and they both go to the potty RIGHT before getting into bed. But at this age I wouldn't worry about it.
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I have two still in pull-ups at night because they are such heavy sleepers. We have limited drinks and they go to the bathroom before bed, but they just still have the accidents (and they just turned 5 & 6). Unfortunately, both of their grandmothers were bedwetters for the longest time, so they may just be also. Don't worry about your little one. It will come in time and there are bigger fish to fry.
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My Dr. told me if 1 of the parents was a bed wetter than a child who is wetting the bed will follow them.
My Dr. recomended fluid restriction and to wake up my son right before we go to bed. I know you said that you read not to do this.
My ds is 6 and still about once every other month will wet the bed. I bought a waterproff matress pad and then got tried of changing and washing his sheets that I bought I believe from one step ahead a waterproff pad that goes across his bed so when he wets I just have to wash and change that pad.
Good luck