[kelceesmom]

So Kelcee can go for hours without peepeeing in her pants. I will put a diaper on for naps and at night. How do you, if you can, train them for sleeping? Help me out here folks. I would love to just get rid of the diapers all together.

[dawnrenee58]

No idea. Watching this thread..........

[mommieof2cuties]

With Ben we used pullups at night and made sure he peed before naptime. My bigger issue was the carseat since pee smell never really goes away. We use the pullups still for the long car rides. FYI boys can pee on the side of the road, girls cannot! We also carry a potty in the suv and will pull over anyplace and put the kids on it! The only problem with this is my son when we go out to eat would rather use the potty in moms truck as he so well puts it! Best of luck! Oh...at night he told us he was ready to go without pullups by waking up and calling for me to go to the bathroom with him.

God Bless,
Summer

[DPline]

Keep in mind that some kids take a LONG time for their bodies to be able to recognize they need to go when they are sleeping and wake up. I was just talking to the doctor today about this as my 9 year old still wets at night. And he definetly isn't the only 9 year old I know who still does. So my feeling is that you can't night/nap train them. It is whether their body can or can't wake them. But may you have better luck than me!

[Foley79]

I have taught preschool for 7 years and like to call myself a potty training guru. If they are staying dry through the night they are trained, ditch the diapers. If not they just aren't ready yet and keep the diapers for sleeping.

[vernellinnj]

Yep, my godson is 8 and still wears pull ups at night.....

[loveajax]

Denise, DD is in pullups at night. I am trying not to have her drink after dinner, go to the toilet before bed. Most days now her pullup is dry in the morning, but she's not completely "there" yet. I am still at that "freakout" stage when we are going for more than an hour car ride (do I put a pullup on or not?). I am trying not to, to have her "go" before we leave, etc. GOOD LUCK (it's hard to believe it's "diaper ditching" time....so cool in most ways, so sad in others -- where's my baby?!).

[2manyks]

i agree with the others. if they are not ready then they ant do it. some of my kids trained at night when they were 2 and others were still wetting the bed at 12. but you can try it a few nights and see. she may not like the wet bed abd then realize she can do this. if she just pees and pees for several nights in a row then she doesnt get it and still needs pull ups. as far as naps go this is what we did. i bought the water proof pads. they make them in crib size and they are the same washable water proof pads i put on the changing table, only bigger. i put that down over their quilt and had the child sleep on that sans pullups so they could practice for a nap. it kept the bedding dry if they did have an accident.

[ourdreamcametru]

Once we started training with all three of our children we were done with diapers. I do not like pullups because they are too much like a diaper and if they get wet there is no mess to "sit" in so that they feel the wetness. Both our boys were trained before they were 2 and both only took one week to be totally trained both day and night. I always kept a change of clothes in the car incase there was an accident when we were out but never had to use them. Castle on the other hand just about killed me trying to get her to even use the potty once but once she used it she was trained within a week also. She has had one night time accident and one accident during the day since August!!!!! My best advice is to take one week where you stay home totally for two days and wear only panties taking her potty every 45 minutes. After the first two days at home take short trips out still wearing panties and take her potty at the store so she understands there is a potty there also if she ever needs to use it ( I use a portable folding potty seat for this) It can be frustrating but taking one week for only this is well worth it in the end!

[Hollygirl]

This brings up a question that I am having about when to even start potty training. My boys will be a year old next month. My mom started potty training my brother, sister and I at 18 months. So, that's the advice she gives me. However, they will be 18 months old in September and I didn't think that beginning to potty train when it will start getting colder is a good idea. I, too, believe that once potty training begins, the diaper and pull ups are out completely. (I had a friend who would put her 3 year old in diapers when they left the house, even though she was completely potty trained at home, and she would just tell her dd to go in her pants because she didn't feel like taking her while they were out) Therefore, I figured I needed to wait until warmer weather and they could just run around in their underwear at home and any accidents wouldn't result in having to change all their clothes. They will turn 2 in March of 09 and I was thinking of beginning around May of that year. They will be 26 months old. Is this too late to start. Is there some window I might miss. I also have to keep in mind that they were born at 28 weeks and our doctor has told us that they will be 3 before that 3 month difference won't matter anymore. What do you guys think??

[feelingreyt]

I personally think you will have better results if you wait until your children are atleast 2 yrs old. I waited until my oldest showed me signs she was ready to train, she was almost 2. It didn't take long at all because she was ready, that is the key. Now my son on the other was not ready until he was 3. I started trying at about the same age my dd got trained, big mistake. It just led to frustration for us both. When he turned 3 it was like a light bulb flashed in his head. He is 3 yrs and 4 months old now and is completely trained. I still put pull ups on him at night, but he wakes up dry every morning, I am just using them until we run out. He wears big boy underwear wherever we go.

I think it confuses them if you put a pull up on them when you are going out. They need to know that they should use the potty all the time, not just when it is convenient for mommy!

Also, why "rush" into potty training? They are only babies once!

[loveajax]

Hollygirl, not too late AT ALL...I think they say the "average" age for potty trainingis 26 months for girl and 30 months for boys. Also, I have to say, DD has taken to going on the toilet like a fish to water, but only because we never really "pushed" it. Of course, I would have pushed it if she was getting closer to going to nursery school because they usually have to be p trained for that.

I may try to stop with the pullups. Today, DD asked to wear a "diaper" because she said, "hey, I can just pee in it." (Regressing? arrggh!).

[feelingreyt]

Kelceesmom, Only your dd knows if she is able to go all night without wetting herself. If she wakes upin the morning dry and if she gets up the middle of the night to go potty, then you know she ready. If you try to push her, you may cause more frustration then anything.
On the other hand, if she knows she has a pull up on she might just use that instead of the potty. Maybe try not using the pull ups/diapers during her nap and see what happens.
I have a neice who is 8 and still has to wear a pull up at night. She has a very weak bladder and it is beyond her control. Making her sleep in panties, in my opinion, could harm her self esteem and would not be a good idea. All children are unique, what works for one does not always work for another, as I'm sure you already know!

[Kirsty814]

My son just graduated out of pull-ups last year...he was 5. He's been completely potty trained since the day he turned 3, but had trouble making it through the night.

He was fine with pull-ups until he had his first sleepover at his friends house and saw that he did not wear pullups. He came home wanting to try underwear at night. Most nights he just didn't wake up to go and would have an accident. He started to feel so frustrated with himself. I then discovered Malem enuresis alarms on ebay. I got one. AMAZING. In one week of using it, my son would no longer have accidents and he's been pull-up free for 4 months now--he's maybe had 3 accidents that whole time.

You just attach a clip to the kid's undies and pin the alarm to their pajamas. It wakes them up with different sounds or vibrations when it senses wetness. It worked for us, but he had to be old enough to want to try it. I wouldn't use it before age 5. Pull-ups are fine until then.

[mommy3]

I'm with the no-pull-ups team, just feel it's a step that we don't need to make. Panties or diapers, period. With all three of mine (and it's working for #3 as I write this), I waited until they ASKED for underwear. With my girls, they wanted "panties, pretty panties", ha. This meant that with each child, we had the potty books and all the stuff but it was there, for them to partake of and no pressure from me. In fact, my littlest one, decided on her own at 18 mos. to use the potty, just when she wanted and by choice; I was really surprised. She's now 26 mos. and really ready to do it all herself. She's gone a full week now with no wet diapers during the day. I put a diaper on her for naps/nighttime and will continue (as another poster shared) until she is dry for naps, then finally nights. I let my children be in their own potty-driver's-seat, basically. It takes patience, but they are happier -- susan