Tight sleeper - night time training?

iriska_meller

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 12:37 pm

My dd is 3 1/2, she's been trained during the day for over a year and never has accidents, b''h.
Night time is a different story. I have limited fluids after 7 pm (she goes to bed around 10), always make sure she uses the bathroom before going to sleep, and then in the middle of the night she is wet through. Most of the time she doesn't even wake up and sleeps wet till morning unless I change her.
I tried numerous times, unsuccessfully, to wake her up around 1-2 am, while she's still dry, but she just doesn't wake up! Besides, my dh told me to stop it "because you're ruining her nervous system".
Good nites help in the sense that they keep her dry. However, when I experimented with not wearing them, at least she would wake up in the morning and run to the bathroom. When she wears them, she just pees in there even if she is already awake.
I know that she is still very young, but I see no progress, I.e. she has never gone through a night dry, and her sleep is as tight as ever.
Day nap - sometimes she wakes up dry but most of the time she doesn't.
Any advice?
p.s. she is otherwise healthy and has no developmental issues, b''h.

cubbie

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 1:07 pm

When you say she is soaked through is she wearing a diaper at night or underwear? I'm asking this because my dd now 3 1/2 has been daytime dry for a long time but wore a diaper at night which was always soaking in the morning - she has NEVER woken up in the morning with a dry diaper. So I didn't push nightime training because I assumed she wasn't ready, then one night about 2 months ago she announced that she wanted to sleep in underwear, so I let her. I was really nervous and kept going in to check her but she stayed dry all night. She wet herself on the second night and third night and that was it, she's Bli Ayin Hara not wet the bed since. I don't get it because she doesn't get up in the night to go, nor does she run to the toilet first thing in the morning. Also we did a chart where if she was dry in the morning she stuck on a sun picture and if she was wet she stuck on a raincloud picture and she knew that if she has a full week of sun she gets to make a big sun activity.

PIP

Tue, Aug 12 2008, 8:59 am

Don't base anything from naptime. I noticed naptime is totally different with my kids. No matter how trained the are, I guess they are in such a deep sleep during naptime my kids almost always make. (My 5 year old stopped at about 4 1\2)

My pediatrician said the only way to try it is to stick her in underwear at night and if she does it, she does it, if not, my pediatrician told me it's not going to help her if she wets the bed every night, it won't help her gain more bladder control from wetting the bed. Just put a pull up on her and call it a day and try again in a few months. She's also a really deep sleeper. (She's also a very laid-back type of kid that could be why also.) We've been trying for a year, now she's 4 and still not staying dry.

yo'ma

Tue, Aug 12 2008, 9:04 am

I keep my kids in disposable diapers (the disposable part is for gamzu Wink

), until they are ready. Which means that they have a dry diaper for 2 or 3 nights. Sometimes they are 4 years old when that happens. Different kids, different ages.