Understanding Night Time Potty Training

Many children are potty trained during the day long before being potty trained at night. Readiness for daytime potty training is not a sign that your child is ready for nighttime potty training. The sign to start nighttime potty training is seeing your child wake up with dry diapers on a regular basis.

Your child need two physiological abilities to master nighttime pottying. He needs to hold pee for longer period of time and to wake up if he need's to pee in the middles of the night. Awareness, control, and interest all work hand in hand. If your child is a deep sleeper, he wont have the awareness. If he doesn't realize the need soon enough, he may not have the control. If his bathroom is too far from his bedroom he may not have the interest.

Fortunately, your child can sleep in his favorite character pull up with out any physical discomfort or troublesome anxiety. The American Academy Of Pediatrics say nighttime potty mastery may not occur until four or five years of age.

Your child's night time success has much to do with your pre-bedtime routine. It's up to you to make good decisions for your child. Your potty training child is too young to comprehend the consequence of drinking too much too late in the day. And if he understands the connections, he is too young to delay the gratification of enjoying that last glass of water.

Stop drinks a few hours before bedtime. Make a potty stop the last thing you do before the last good night kisses. If you have an extended truck-in routine with multiple stories, you may allow your child that one extra trip out of bed. Watch out, however, for hourly requests to use the potty after lights out, chances are these are clever ways to capture your attention and not really about pottying at all. Finally be clear about what your child should do if he needs to potty. Choose a routine appropriate for his age and abilities. Do you want him to call you? Do you want him to walk to the bathroom? Which bathroom? Are there any other rules like, "AND GO RIGTH BACK TO BED".

If you notice your child is usually dry at night, there might be a simple explanation for the occasional wet nights. It might have been the night your child fell fast as sleep driving home from his grandparents and never made the last potty stop. If everything seems the same as on his dry nights, just relax and wait. Check with your pediatrician if your child starts having nighttime accidents after six months of night time mastery.

Attitude is everything. Wearing pull-ups at night frees your child from the pressure of mastering something that is temporarily beyond his ability. Waking up in a wet bed is very unpleasant and has no ultimate teaching value. Explain to your child that he can wear his underpants at night when he wakes up dry in the mourning for a week or two. Do not add the pressure of counting the calendar days with her, this is not a situation that she need external motivation. Night wetting is about physiological maturity.