Night Potty Training
Im back with some more potty training tips! This time it’s all about nighttime, and again, we didn’t follow many of the “rules.” To start, for some odd reason, after he turned 2, if he would sleep in a regular bed, (at my moms or when he was sick and in our bed) he wouldn’t wet his diaper. (also we never used pull-ups. I wanted to go right from diaper to no diaper with as little confusion as possible) So when we changed his crib into a bed he could get out of, we thought it was time to take this step for nighttime! At this point he was just under 2.5 years old, and had mastered daytime potty training. So new bed, it’s go time!
Tip #1 FLUIDS – I’m still breastfeeding Grayson before bedtime. So taking away fluids before bed was never going to work for us. I needed to be able to give him milk, and put him to bed right after. So we really pushed for after dinner to not be drinking as much, then when it was time to brush his teeth, he had to sit on the potty until he pee’d. Then milk time, and bedtime.
Tip #2 EXPLAIN – Yes they are little, but if they’ve understood and got the day time potty training down, nighttime isn’t overly different. Explain to them what will happen if they don’t get up to pee. Tell them to go to the bathroom, come to your room, yell for you, whatever you want them to do just explain, and tell them! They will eventually understand.
Tip #3 LOCATION – Is the bathroom far from their room? Ours isn’t, it’s literally the room beside Grayson’s. But that being said, it is pretty scary to get up and find the bathroom in the nighttime. So we tried putting a nightlight in his room, the hallway, and the bathroom. This did not work hahaha. He was still too scared. Then we put his potty in his room and that worked! He got up and would use it when he needed to.
Tip #4 NEW – This tip is also in my blog post about day time potty training which you can find Here. Get them some new pyjamas, new blankets, new stuffy even! Anything to use to try and help them not want to pee on their new items.
Tip #5 PATIENCE – Ya it sucks getting up in the night because they’ve pee’d the bed, but remember it isn’t fun for them either. It will happen when they are ready and all you can do is support them and let them know it’s ok!
Alright that’s it! I hope this helped at least 1 person! We had a pretty easy time with it. it was only a few times he wet the bed in the middle of the night. And then only a few times he woke up in the morning to a wet bed. BUT when we moved, the first month was wetting the bed allllllllll the time! He did it more in that month that he did in 6 months combined! It was not fun at all. But thankfully it all stopped and no problems anymore. It was a rough month lets just say that haha
Lots Of Love ♥
Kaitlyn XO
