Hi! My daughter is three and a half and has been daytime potty trained since she was around 2. She has recently begun waking in the night to use the toilet. We struggle with her sleep a lot, frequently waking and trying everything to get me into her room. This ranges from turning the tonie box back on, putting her blankets back on, adjusting her door so it is in the position she’s requested…. The list continues. I have recently begun refusing to go into her room in the night, there are often lots of tears before she finally puts the tonie box back on, gets into bed, and goes back to sleep. With the recent development of toilet trips, it is very difficult to know when she actually needs to go and when she’s just trying to make me get up. I’d say 50% of the time she actually uses the toilet and the other 50% she’ll sit on the toilet and reel off her lists of demands before telling me she doesn’t actually need to go.
WHAT DO I DO?! I don’t want to prevent her going to the toilet and potentially stunt her developmentally and make night time potty training harder down the line. But I also don’t want to keep getting up a fuelling the need to get me into her room when she wakes in the night. She has slept through on a couple of occasions, but most nights wakes between 2-5 times.
(There is a baby gate on her room to prevent her from wondering the house or coming into my room when she wakes and refuses to go back to sleep)
Please help!!!