I have posted a couple of times this week already about nap/night training my 2 1/2 year old daughter who has been daytime trained since 19 months. I'm happy to say that she had two dry naps in a row (we put her in Gerber cloth pull-ups with a plastic cover because one of the days her nap was at her Grandma's house and she sleeps on a couch there that isn't protected)... maybe having something against her bottom that felt totally different (both from a diaper and from her regular undies she wears all day) helped her be more conscious of it or something, I'm not sure. At any rate, we had thought we'd work on naptime for a week before trying night time.
Well, at bedtime, she said she wanted to wear her "new" underwear again (the cloth pull-up), so we decided to give it a shot (I consider this the same as putting her to bed in undies, because they don't absorb much). Her last drink was a little (not much) water at dinner around 5:30 and then peed twice before bed, the last time at 7:30. We woke her at 11 before going to bed but she had already peed and hadn't woken up from it. It had soaked out of the plastic cover and onto the sheets, etc. My husband took her to the potty and she still peed a lot. Next I woke her at 3am and she was dry; took her to the potty and she went. When she woke up at 6:30 am she was wet again; not sure when she did it.
Does this sound about right for the first try at night time if she has never woken up dry before? Should we stay the course? What do you all think? Thanks.
Yep, I'd stay the course and see how it goes. Give it about a week and if there's no difference, you may need to give it a little longer.
Back in pullups for nap after a year???
- EmilySusan
on Nov. 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM