Nighttime potty training

[champagneplanet]

Hoping to get some advice on how we can get DD2 dry at night. She is 3 and a half and we potty trained at the beginning of lockdown in March and she took to it fine, only took a couple of days, very few accidents since and the accidents she has had are when she has a sneaky daytime nap and she doesn't wake up in time.

She wears a pull up for bed, has always been a brilliant sleeper and very rarely wakes up at night. She has milk before bed as part of her routine and we do toilet before she goes to sleep. Her nappy isn't full in the morning but it's definitely not dry.

Should I be worrying about this or should I leave it to see if maybe it happens on its own. We didn't have this with DD1 as she was dry at night first and why we potty trained her for day time.

You cant really train for night time. They need to produce a hormone that limits urine overnight plus need to be able to wake when their bladder is full.

My dd was potty trained just before her 3rd birthday, i kept her in pullups at night until she was waking up dry, it just kind off happened on its own and then I stopped using the pull ups, got a waterproof mattress protector and kept clean pyjamas and fresh bedding out incase of an accident in the night.
Could you possibly give dd her bedtime milk a bit earlier? That might help. But she will naturally do it when she is ready x

She's 3, completely reasonable not to be dry overnight. My eldest was potty trained at 2.5 but wasn't dry at night until almost 7 years later. Youngest potty trained at a few months off 3 and was dry overnight within days. Its hormonal you cant train it before they are ready

As others have said nighttime is not something you can really train on. My son is also 3.5 and he was dry during lockdown at night but since going back to nursery he's gone back into pull ups at night (we've put it down to him being more tired and sleeping deeper). Giving milk earlier will increase chances of pull ups being dry in the morning but otherwise I'd just wait until they're mostly dry.

It’s still young. If her nappies are warm - ie she has wet them just before waking, then I’d maybe try without. My eldest was clearly weeing in his in the morning because he didn’t want to get out of bed for the loo, and his nappies were wet and warm. He’d been dry through the day from 2.5, so at 4 I just took the night nappies away and he was fine.

We were told that stopping drinks towards the end of the day was not only potentially unkind but also could be counter-productive because it could irritate the bladder and cause it to be emptied when it might not otherwise be. We were also told that lifting was not a good idea unless the child was woken fully, itself not necessarily a good idea. If childrenregularly did a "sleep wee" it reinforced weeing while asleep rather than encouraging the signals which would wake them. I fear, as we found out, there is nothing to do but wait, hope, and invest in sensible protection and a good washing machine. Not what you want to hear but the result of experience with 5.

Thanks everyone, she's done so well so far and she's only little so i'll just carry on with a nighttime pull up for now.

It's all new as DD1 basically decided to potty train herself, she was brilliant!