My son will be 5 in september and I still can't get him to wake up dry, but his sister is 100% fully potty trained day and night in a matter of days and wears underware to bed and has since less than a week after she started potty training. But with my son I tried limiting his drinks after a certain time, waking him up to pee and he would still wet the bed. I am so sick of washing sheets every morning and I have to use the laundromat because I live in an apartment that doesnt have a w/d, so I'm wasting almost $15/wk just in washing the sheets every week, which I can't afford to be doing. So, I hate to say this but after a couple of months I've given up and put him back in pullups. I have always had the plastic mattress covers on all the beds so all the mattresses are protected. I know he doesn't sleep hard or anything, it has to do with he just would rather sleep in the pee than get out of bed and pee.
Quoting kimikylemama:
I wake him up before I go to sleep around 11 and he's already soaked, I've tried earlier but I think he will not pee all the way before he goes to bed and then pee more as soon as I leave the bedroom. I think he's scared to go by himself because I know he's scared of the dark thanks to his father-grrr. I even leave the kitchen light on all night long, but that still doesn't help. I know he's being lazy because he has had some days in the past where he would wake up dry but 90% of the time he's soaked. I know his dad was horrible when it came to potty training. His sister is the one that told me how bad he was about staying dry. I don't know if our families it just has to do with the boys and not wanting to use the toliet. Because I remember my mom thinking that my younger brother was going to go to kindergarden in diapers, lol. But on both sides all the girls were easy, all us(my sister, my sister in law and myself were less than a week) but the boys (both my brothers and him) were just horrible. But to me it just seems too long after him being potty trained to not being night time trained as well. He's been day time for over a year and a half, around the time he was 3-3 1/2yrs. I just don't remember my brothers being so hard to night time train.
It may seem harsh but he's old enough to understand that his behavior has consequences. So, what I'd do is put him into a cool/lukewarm shower every time he wets himself. Let him know that if he makes the choice not to get up and go to the toilet then he is also making the choice to get a cold shower. It may seem mean but it's more about cleaning him up and making him know that the cold shower happens because he decides not to go potty.
Do you have a baby monitor in his room so he could call out for you to go with him to the toilet in the night? If not, I'd recommend that too, especially if you know he's truly scared of the dark.
Quoting MedicSas:
im in this same situation and i am so lost about what to do...
I've provided some ideas in my responses in this post.
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- kimikylemama
on Aug. 2, 2010 at 2:41 AM