Night time potty training tips

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Hi,
My Son is three and fully toilet trained in the day and want to start looking at the nights. Have a new baby arriving in a month so thought now could be a good time. Due to badly designed stairs, he has a baby gate on his room door frame, which means he cant access the toilet. I've thought about putting a potty in his room on some puppy pads with a night light.
Any tips you could give me?

He always has a wet nappy, I'm no rush but it took him 10mths not to poo his pants daily, so I'm prepared for a long process.

I put DS1 to bed in just a pyjama top, with a pampers bed mat on top of his sheet, potty in the room and told him he had to get up at night basically. Took about a week for him to get the hang of it.

My son dry as a bone since 2.5 just turned 4 wet at night. Watching this thread

you cant train for night-time. They need to be making a hormone that suppresses urine production plus need to be able to wake when they have a full bladder. I would wait for dry morning nappies tbh

Totally agree with pp - you can't train to be dry at night. It's a hormone thing.

I half agree with the others - it is a hormone thing, but I don't think you have to wait til they do it spontaneously or wait for dry nappies. People I know who waited til their child had dry nappies tended to be waiting longer than those who just took the night nappy away and did some "training".

I think it's a mix of the child being physically able and being shown what the expectations are. Obviously if they aren't physically capable of going through the night then no amount of training will change that though.

We put ds in training pants (like a thinner version of pull ups - they felt wet to touch if he did go in them) about 3 months after he'd totally cracked daytime toilet training. He wore them for about 3 or 4 months and then started asking not to wear them. After three dry nights we agreed to give it a go. He had a whole week of dry nights straight away (was around 3.4 years by then) then a few accidents then was done! I tend to agree that you can't really 'train' them for night like you can in the day, but I think the thinner 'night pants' (as we called them) helped a bit with our ds as he could feel if he'd wet himself and didn't like it.

It is down to hormone production that controls the muscles so its something that happens on its own
When he has had a week of dry nappies on the morning then you can try him without night time nappies
He shouldn't be needing to go to the toilet during the nighecwhile he is asleep so a potty on his room is not necessary
He should get into the habit of emptying his bladder before he goes to bed and again first thing in the morning
Some people lift their sleeping child during the night and sit them on the loo but I think this is a bit cruel.

I can't see how lifting a sleeping child can be "cruel"

However, I don't think it's helpful as it is still encouraging the child to wee in their sleep, whereas you want them to get out of that habit and wake if they need to wee.

Thank you for all your thoughts and opinions x