How to Night Train

[Andrewsmom70]

Here are some suggestions on how to successfully night train your child.

1. Make sure the child pees right before bed.

2. Right before you (or your spouse/mate) go to bed, wake your child up and have them go again.  You don't have to fully wake the child up.  Help them get to the bathroom, have a nightlight or a dim light on so the child isn't greeted by regular bright light.  Help your child get undresses and to the toilet.  Once they are done, help them get redressed and back to bed.

Waking them that one time might be enough to get them thru the night without any more accidents. 

3.However, if it's not, you may need to do the following- wake them up again around 3AM and do the same thing you did in #2 above.

4. If the child is still wetting after being woken up twice in the night, you may need to stop all liquids 2 hours before bed.

5. If stopping liquids 2 hours before bed and waking them twice in the night isn't enough to get them dry through the whole night, you may need to stop all liquids 3 hours before bed.

6. If none of that works, your child just might not be able to stay dry all night yet.  Some kids just aren't able to for a while.  Keep in mind that bed wetting is a lot of times hereditary so if you or your child's father was a bed wetter, your child might be also.