Dry except when wearing night time pull up.

[LidlMermaid]

Dad is 2.9. We started potty training 2 months ago and she reliably wees/poos on the potty it toilet all day. We have very few accidents.

However, as soon as we put her pull-up on for bedtime, she wees in it. Even if she's just had a pee on the toilet a few minutes before. Tonight she's wet 2 pull ups in the space of 15 minutes. Once they're wet she wants them changed so I suspect she's doing it for attention as it often happens as soon as we tuck her in and leave the room. It's driving me mad as she's dry the rest of the time and will tell us when she needs a wee or just goes and uses the potty herself. How can I break this behaviour?

A lot of people face night time training totally separately. We struggled with the day time so haven't tried night time at all yet. Just wait until they're ready is my motto!

It's not really night time training I'm worried about though. The wees in the pull-up happen immediately before bed in the 20 - 30 minutes or so between getting pyjamas on and doing stories/cuddles and lights out. Or immediately after lights out when she's still awake and could ask to go to the toilet like she does al day. The rest of the night once she's asleep is not an issue...I don't expect her to be dry then, although she often is.

I haven't got experience of this so it's only an idea. I've found the advice on MN admit attention seeking behaviour invaluable so if you suspect it's this then I'd look at other posts. But my suggestion would be perhaps suggest nappies to her? If she's strong willed she might hate the idea of a baby nappy and the incentive of being a big girl might get you closer to her being independent at night. You could also try explaining the first time you change her pull up that if she wees again that you won't be able to change her as you're going to bed too. Me giving my daughter a warning always seems to work, even if it's picking a dropped toy up for her in the high chair, I say OK but I won't be able to pick it up again so hold on to it tight and LO and behold she doesn't drop it. Same with more food or anything. If I say "after this.. " she finishes, there's no more, and then she's happy. It does sound like a fun bedtime game so if she's testing how many times you'll come in, try telling her and see how it goes. Best of luck to you, great job on the daytime training:)

I've threatened nappies like a baby but she seems keen on the idea so I'm reluctant to go there in case it sets back her potty training as she really is more or less perfect the rest of the time.

I'm certain it's attention seeking so I'm going to try the warning thing tomorrow night. Thanks for the suggestion.

How did you get on lidl mermaid? :)

She asked to go go the toilet when we were doing stories and i praised her lavishly for telling mummy she needed to go and not peeing in her pants. 10 minutes after I put her to bed and left the room, she peed in her pull up and demanded to be changed. I changed her and explained that I wouldnt change her again if she did it again but she was asleep a few minutes later so wasn't an issue.

Thinking of refusing to change her at all tonight. We make sure she pees right before bed so when she does wee in her pull up its just a dribble so I don't think not changing her would be an issue or particularly uncomfortable for her.

That sounds like you've already gone from two changes after bed time to one change. Being hugely optimistic she might've gone to sleep because you said you weren't coming back. Who knows. I hope things have continued to improve:)
We seem to be going backwards with daytime accidents but hey Ho. I'll post for advice if I spot any patterns!
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Not wishing to tempt fate but we've now had 2 nights with no changes needed! I told her that if she wet in her pull-up that I couldn't change it so she had to tell me if she needed to wee before bed...and she did. Early days still but I'm hoping that issue is behind us now. And she's been dry both mornings so we may also be on the road to being dry at night too...fingers crossed.

Keep at it with the daytime training...you'll both get there eventually. We had days where I thought we were going backwards too and almost reached for the nappies many times but I was afraid of undoing any of the positive work we'd done and having to start from scratch again. Best of luck!

Make that 3 dry bedtimes!