Ok, as of July my son was fully potty trained-night and day and VERY rarely had accidents. In the past 2 months he's still been great during the day, but has an accident almost every night. We've tried stopping liquids up to 3 hours before bedtime and waking him up so he can go potty, but neither seem to help very often. Now, it is very rare uf he doesn't have an accident at night.
Would it be bad to try to put him back in diapers at night so we aren't constantltly having to wash sheets/blankets then work on night-time training with him later on, or would that confuse him too much?
I'm moving this to the Night Training forum for the group. There's a great post at the top of the forum there telling how to night train.
I'd try doing a night time retrain before I went back to diapers/pull ups overnight. Otherwise it might lead to him totally refusing to use the potty at all, even during the day.
Let me know what questions you may have.
If he's a hard sleeper, it may be that you need to help set a new pattern by waking him up every night for about a month in order to get him used to sleeping more lightly. I did that when I initially night trained my son. I'd wake him up right before I went to bed (around 11PM) and got him to go potty. After a few weeks, even before I touched him to wake him, he was already sort of stirring and then eventually got to where he was fighting me about getting up so I know he was sleeping lighter.
I wouldn't put him back in diapers/trainers. It would confuse the poor little guy. My sons pediatrician had suggested it, but we didn't take the advice. And my son refused to wear the plastic one with his undies at night. I woke my son up around the same time every night to get him into the routine of waking up to go potty. We also leave a small light on for him to make his way to the potty. We haven't had any issues since. :)
Back in pullups for nap after a year???
- imapepper
on Jan. 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM