started potty training now dd won't go to sleep

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DD is 20 months and has been potty training for a week. We started because she seemed to be very ready for it (she'd been telling us for weeks before she did something and was taking herself to the potty). It's going okay, accidents aplenty but mainly if she is too occupied to think to ask for the toilet. The main problem is at night though - she is insisting on going to the toilet over and over again, most times there is no action but if I say no she gets very upset. She's only just gone down tonight at 10.30pm, and it's been similarly late for days now which can't be good for her.

Has anyone had a similar experience? What did you do? Is she just asserting her independence or is she getting very uptight about the whole thing and can't relax enough to go to sleep?

Haven't done this before so would appreciate any advice anyone's got.

We went through a patch where my dd1 was very anxious about weeing at night while she was potty training, and it badly disrupted her sleep. But it passed. I don't know whether it's connected, but she was dry at night very early, too.

Don't worry, it'll be (like everything else) Just A Phase.

With all of ours there was a phase when they first trained, when they wanted to wee several times after they had been put to bed. Not in the run-up to bed, only after the drop-sdie of the cot had been lifted.

So we always take them at the first request, but not thereafter (unless more than, say, 45min have passed since last wee - but that's very rare, as they're generally asleep by then). Yes, they rebel and object, but it's the same as any bedtime rebellion: to be firmly and gently squashed.

She's practicing a new skill, the same like I'm sure she kept standing up in her cot at bedtime when she first learned to pull up.

seems to have settled down after a couple of v tiring weeks. Thanks for the advice!

I was just coming on here to start a similar thread, but after reading your posts, maybe I need to stick it out a little longer and hopefully my DS will start sleeping through again.

Daytime pants is all going well, but he wakes (even though he has pull ups on at bedtime) about 2/3 am, wonders into my room and says he needs a wee. I take him, put him back to bed and this may happen again before morning.

So, put a potty in his room and told him if he needs to go at nighttime, do it in the potty. Worked for a couple of nights, then last 2 nights, back in my room saying needs a wee. I told him to go back to his bedroom which he does, but I then can't get back to sleep. AAaahhhh!!!

Unless any other suggestions, will sit it out and hope fingers crossed he will start to sleep through and wee in his pull ups if he needs to ... that's what they're on him for afterall!!

Always feel better after coming on here with you mumsnetters!

Got the same problem DD2 has just been potty trained (turned 2 yesterday). Shes absolutely fine in the day but we are having lots of requests to pee after she's put in her cot, then in the night and she's now waking an hour earlier than normal because she needs a pee. She's exhausted (and we aren't too happy either)

Any advice/reassurance that it will pass? Should we put her in a proper bed and put a potty beside it or hang on with the cot and hope it passes?

Thanks

hurray we're not alone! ds2 23 months and dry and clean in day, tonight (yet again) took off his nappy once in cot bed and shouted needed wee, went up put him on, he squeezed out a dribble, I prized him off potty and put nappy on (no complaints) left, another shout maybe 15mins later, when upstairs to find ds in bed, no nappy and wet bed after complete bed and pj change left him and he's gone to sleep - driving me potty!
so sorry no advice but we're going through it too, never had this with ds1 at all!

My DS3 is sorted now and no longer waking in the night - yippee - so patience worked this time. He wears pull ups still although they are dry most mornings, does a wee before bed (no night time milk anymore) and sleeps from around 7pm til anytime from 6am which not as bad as it could be...

hang in there ladies, hope things sort themselves for you too