Night time potty training. Did you do this?

[LGBirmingham]

If you night time trained your child rather than just waited for them to be dry please share your experiences with me.

Did you lift? What are people's opinions on this?

I didn't bother lifting, it seemed to me that it would just encourage weeing without being fully awake.

My DS was consistently dry at night by 5.5. A few accidents since but maybe once a month, easily managed.

Put a pull up on and you don't need to be woken up 🤷‍♀️

Unfortunately I get woken up if he's wearing a pull up! He wees, it wakes him, he shouts or comes to our bed. If it wasn't like this I wouldn't be here.

My eldest wore pull ups at night until he was around 9. Its not something you can train. He's nearly 14 now.

Just wanted to update on this as it's so frustrating when you don't hear back from people on here. So we made great progress, after a bit of a set back. I tried lifting ds, not sure if it made a huge difference as the first night he had an accident but then had a couple of dry nights with the lifting. Maybe the lifting helped or maybe it was just him progressing and realising the nappies were no longer there. But then he got a UTI which obviously meant a few wet beds. I continued with the lifting and when that cleared he seemed to be pretty much dry at night. He will have an occasional accident maybe once a week, but often that is a small one and he finishes on the potty. I'm really happy with that progress and one accident a week is not a problem at all.

I'm still not sure if the lifting actually helps or not. We've been away on holiday this week and had to stick him in pull ups because there are no waterproof sheets where we are staying. As it seemed safe I decided not to lift as an experiment and I really don't think it's made any difference to the likelihood of an accident. He's had one wet pull up this week.

What has been noticeable without the lifting is he has shouted out in the night to be taken to the toilet more nights than maybe he would have done with a lift. But he is aware of the need to go so not having accidents in the middle of the night. He's probably sleeping longer without the lift but more likely to wake in the middle of the night to need a wee. Whereas with the lift he'll sleep through pretty consistently but is more likely to wake earlier in the morning needing the toilet and then be too awake to go back to sleep.

Anyway we're really pleased with progress in our household and in our case it does seem it's possible to train night time dryness for anyone wondering. It's also improved sleep which is great and DS's confidence. He was so proud the first few times he actually just got on the potty himself in the middle of the night. I think we should have just got rid of nappies when we trained in the daytime, as this is when his terrible sleep started, because he was aware of weeing in the night and it woke him up. That was definitely a sign to just get him out of nappies altogether which we ignored for too long.

Also to clarify, I am lifting somewhere between 10 and 11. Not doing any waking up early in the morning or anything.