setbacks, and still a little unclear on how this is supposed to work.

[EmilySusan]

So about a week after we started potty training during naps, and day 4 of night training, my daughter got a stomach bug and was having diarrhea in her sleep! Poor thing... she hasn't pooped in her sleep once the whole year since we day trained (perfect timing). So we had a rough couple of nights but still resort to diapers.

We're back to waking her at 10:30/11 pm and 3 am.  Since the diarrhea, she hasn't had a full dry night., but her wets have been more minor than they were before.  My husband and I are trying to just buck up and go with this, knowing it won't last forever... but will it?  I guess I'm still unclear on the goal of this method of night training:  is she learning to wake herself up to pee, or is she learning to hold it longer/through the night? Or a little of both?  Right now it feels like mom and dad training ourselves to wake up at 3 am again (we've just gotten out of this habit -- we also have a 1 year-old).  What signs should we look for that we can change this?  Are we supposed to be expecting to wake her for another week, several weeks, months?  She's still totally out of it when we wake her; I think last night my husband said at 11 pm she was sleeping on the potty.

Thanks!

[Andrewsmom70]

It takes about a month of doing something every day for it to become a regular part of our lives.  So, just keep up with the waking and it should help her sleep lighter so that she can feel the "need to go" feeling while asleep so she can wake herself up to go in the night if she needs to.  Also, as time goes by, she'll be able to hold her bladder longer and longer just like we as adults do.

Did you or hubby have problems bed wetting when you were kids?  If so, it can be hereditary so that might be part of the issue as well.