Recently potty trained and now...

[HorseyTheUnicorn]

My newly 2 year old DD was potty trained a few weeks ago. She has since self-trained through the night. My problem with this is that she is waking early because she needs a pee, but once she's awake she's up for the day.

We're still putting her in night nappies and I had absolutely no intention of taking her out of night nappies yet. The last couple of nights she has been so upset about getting her nappy on. She gets lots of cuddles and reassurance about it being ok to use her night nappy but she just doesn't seem to want to.

I'm not really sure what's best to do, but I wondered if this could just be a phase? Could she go back to using her night nappy? I'm considering that I might have to start getting her up to the potty before I go to bed but she seems so young for doing that and I'm concerned it would just bring problems of its own.

Anyone have experience with this?

My LO was potty trained around the same age but we did have to get her up to go to the toilet at around ten thirty because her bedtime was early. I got rid of the nappies overnight pretty quickly because she didn’t like them and I thought it could be confusing.

She always got back to sleep very quickly and almost sleepwalked through it after the first few times. Eventually it stopped being necessary and a wee before bed and first thing was enough, sometime before she turned three.

I think it’s a really bad idea to tell a child who wants to go to the toilet IN a toilet to wee in her nappy.
would you wear a night nappy and consciously wee in it then keep wearing it for a few hours?
No, you wouldn’t.

So you want her in nappies so she sleeps later? But she potty trained which is fab why would you put her backwards and put night nappies on her?

just either get up earlier accept it’s a phase or delegate to your parter, or pop a potty in her room and ask her to use that till a time on her grow clock? If she uses an alarm of night clock or similar?

is she coming into you? Or calling out?

It's more that it's just caught us on the back foot a bit - started potty training less than a month ago and she's been dry overnight for the last week. I was in absolutely no rush for that to happen and I'd read online that it can be a phase but wondered if that was really the case. If it was to turn out to be a phase, I wouldn't want to have rushed to take her out of nappies if she was going to start needing them again.

She stays in bed trying to get back to sleep when she wakes up but I go through if she calls out for the potty. She's still in a sleeping bag so can't do the potty by herself, she's only just 2 so I wouldn't expect her to do that anyway. I'm not that bothered about getting up but she's absolutely shattered.

I'm thinking we will have to start getting her up to the toilet. @nameobsessed did you use pull-ups? I looked up the Eric website after posting this and they recommend not lifting for the toilet as it can make night time accidents more likely. I know it's something a lot of people do though

Hi,

I didn’t use pull ups at all, she was reliably dry very quickly so it felt like a step backwards and she didn’t like them.

I didn’t actually lift her, she still walked in and had a go at wiping and washing her hands it was just in a sleepy state. I just woke her up with ‘its time to use the bathroom honey’ and guided her by the hand.

I think that's what they mean by lifting, it's just the terminology they used. But if it worked, it worked. Thanks for your replies, it's helpful.