ECing at night?

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  • xmum
  on Apr. 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM

• Yeah I think you can take her to the bathroom at night if she needs to go. If she pees before bed does she need to go again before morning? At 18 months she can probably wake up and tell you she needs to go, but if she doesn't then she might wet her/your bed. I actually think that wetting the bed helps children learn to wake up and go to the potty at night. My son is 24 months old and he wakes up at night and calls out to us if he needs to pee. Once we started potty learning and had instructed him not to go in his pants but his potty chair instead we never put another diaper on him. It's too confusing for it to be okay to pee in your pants some of the time, so I would encourage you not to use diapers at all and just deal with any accidents without getting upset. Sometimes X wants to play with us or uses the potty as an excuse to get up and play but I just try to keep the talking to a minimum and the lights low.
  

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  • avastdevice
  on Apr. 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM

• Thank you and we will start tonight w/o diapers. We been EC'ing since she was 3 months and this has been holding us back. Thank you again for the simple advice you've been a life saver.
  

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  • demonkitty
  on May. 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM

• my son is 4 and still doesnt wake up in the middle of the nite to go potty but he doesnt potty on himself either in the middle of the nite. once he wakes up in the morning he goes straight to the bathroom. what stopped him from using the restroom in the middle of the nite was limiting his drink supply. he gets something to drink with dinner and then nothing else after that. he also goes to the bathroom before he lays down for bed. it works for us.

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  • lukesmyboy
  on May. 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM

• Kara ha been diaperless at night since 5 months. We sometimes take her asleep and she goes right away. We also take her when she wakes at night to nurse/pee. We leave all the lights off and only say "go potty" once or twice softly and she goes and we go right back to bed.

  
  

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  • RissaJ523
  on May. 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM

• I take my daughter to pee at night have done so since she was 3 months old. We started ECing at 2 months old. In fact the only time she consistently ALWAYS will go on the potty is at night. During the day she'll got on the potty if it doesn't interfere with her play time. Otherwise, she throws a fit. We use cloth diapers so she still feels the wet/poopy feeling if she goes in her diaper during the day, but the most the time we leave her diaperless and just clean up the mess. At night she used to sleep with us and I could tell she had to go because she'd kick a lot and try to nurse but keep poppin on and off. Now she sleeps in her crib and wakes up and calls out to be taken to the potty. My daughter sleeps for 5-6 hours at night without going potty and then has a very full pee when she does wake up to go. I always just bring her back to bed with me and nurse her to sleep. She used to stay up for about an hour when she was new to nighttime ECing but that didn't last long. I just refused to play with her. I'd let her stay awake and nurse her, but other than that she was laid on a blanket on the floor or in her bassinet while I read a book. After about a month of that on a regular basis she figured out we weren't going to play at night and now she just goes right back to sleep. For me 1 month of going off our sleep schedule is worth it so that I don't have a bedwetter on my hands.
  

  
  

  
  

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