OK, after they are potty trained - I need experienced mommies help

My2Beauties wrote: OK, Hanna is pretty much PT'd now. She has only messed up one time in the past 4 days. Besides poopy, but that is a different ballgame! OK, nighttime - how long did you leave your kiddos in diapers through the night? How did you train them to get up if they have to pee in the middle of the night? Going out and about - how long did you continue to use pull-ups/diapers when you went for a car ride or to the store or anywhere with your child?

About the poopy , how on God's beautiful green Earth did you ever get them to poop in the potty? That child just really thinks that poop is for her diaper. She dissapers when she does that and you never know until you smell it!

TIA!

C&K*s Mommie replied: I was beginning to wonder the same about the nighttime PT'g too. We have not started that yet with Christian (well on a few occasions we did on purpose). On those few occasions it worked once or twice, but we did not stick with it, we were not ready yet. In just a few months we will start the nighttime Pt'g again. As for naptime she goes to the potty prior to and following her nap, and that way she can stay dry.

I hope someone is able to answer that question about training at night.

We still use pull-ups to go out and about, only on extended trips where I know access to the restrooms will be tough. Sometimes we do not even do that. We just take chances, but I do not want for Christian to have any medical probs by holding in the urge, and not going for hours (she can and still will do that). Christian will not use the public restrooms, still~ but if I had to change her pants, shoes and socks, I do not like having to walk 2 miles to the restroom in the mall or even in Walmart. ((both malls and all our Walmarts here have restrooms spaced way too far)) But I try to keep the trips short, anyhow. Just so she will be able to go pee when she needs to at home.

But it is all a chance that you take when going in public. If she is ready, I would have her go when you enter the store, maybe one other time while in the store, and if you know that it will be a period of time before the next store try again. You may have to limit her liquids while out and about, until she is comfortable in telling you everytime she has to go. It still takes time for a child to feel comfortable in telling you each and everytime she feels the urge to go.

Try taking the poop and dumping it into the toilet after she has done so in her diaper/pull-up. We did that for a short time, and just telling Christian each time that 'poopy goes in the potty'. Somehow she realized what that meant, and she started to go on her own. I still reccommend 'Potty Time with Bear' (Bear in the Big Blue House), he broke it down really simple with "the secret to going to the potty is listening to your body". I still use that line with Christian when she refuses to go even here at home, she is in the rebellious 3 phase and sometimes she does not wish to go.

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luvmykids replied: Congrats, you're almost there! We started limiting drinks about 1 hr. before bed and made sure potty was the last thing before; in the am we went straight to potty. Once they were staying dry we quit the pull ups. But my son was night trained right away, my daughter took another year. She's almost 4 and just recently sleeping w/o pull ups; she's a heavy sleeper and slept right through the urge to potty at night. Partly just depends on the child.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: Katy kinda trained herself. She was just staying dry so we stopped pull-ups. She did relapse right arround her third birthday and s now in pull-ups again and we are patiently awaiting her to be ready again.

eta. Katy was pooped trained first. It seemed easier for her to know when she was going to poop. And Matt will use the potty about half the time for poop because he has some of the "signs" so we will put him on the potty and so our little song and dance encouraging him to poop there.

ediep replied: I still put Jason in pull ups at night and I figure when he continually wakes up dry, then I put him in underwear at night. he will sometimes wake up during the night to peepee, and he will most of the time wake up dry in the morning.

I stopped putting him in pull ups during the day the same day he started peeing on the potty. He wore underwear in the car, to the store, wherever we went from day 1. I felt that pull ups during the day sort of gave him permission to have accidents.

the poopy just happened because he wasn't in pullups, so he either had to go in the potty of his undies....he had no problems going in the potty. i offered him a hershey kiss when he pooped on the potty and that was enough incentive for him.

good luck

daycare mom replied: I remember my mom telling me that she used to get up around midnight and take us to the bathroom, every night. Don't know if it worked. With my DD, when I saw a dry diaper 3 days in a row, we started leaving them off. She's only had 2 nighttime accidents in the last year and a half.

My2Beauties replied: Thank you guys so much for your help! I really appreciate it. Last night Dad said they were going to try undies and the waterproof pants over them, but she pees a lot at night still and I think that may have been too soon, so we'll see how it went when I call and check on her here in a few minutes. You guys are the best

coasterqueen replied: Can't help you with the poop issue because Kylie would do that in the potty before she'd pee when she started out.

As far as night training, Kylie has been night trained for 6 months maybe more. I don't remember exactly when. BUT I never helped her train. I just let her get there on her own with no pressure. It wasn't a big deal for me for her to wear a pull-up at night. I knew she'd start holding her bladder or getting up in the middle of the night to go all on her own in her own time and she did. She rarely ever gets up in the mid of night to go, she'll hold it til morning. BUT if I give her liquids past 7:30/8 pm she will have an accident. So we only have one rule and that's no liquids past 8 pm unless she wants to sleep by herself because she's not sleeping w/me or Dh if she does.

1moremakes4 replied: I remember the first time we let Taylor wear underwear to church one Sunday morning. I was so nervous! We sat her on the potty before we left home, as soon as we got to church, in between class and services, and before going home. She got so tired of it, but she didn't have an accident! We pretty much did the same thing whenever we went somewhere, and carried several changes of clothes with us everywhere.

We started letting her sleep in underwear when she went through about a week being dry until morning. She goes potty right before bed and then as soon as she gets up in the morning. She has had accidents in bed, but I have found that it's when she didn't go RIGHT before laying down at night.

As far as pooping in their pants, when Taylor was in her diapers still, she would dissapear into another room to "do her business". Then she would come back and tell us she had a dirty diaper. We started cluing into her dissapearing and would go put her on the potty before she could do anything in her diaper. Since she has been in underwear, she has had just a few poopy accidents, but they seem to only be when it's more like diahrea. I don't know if she just can't make it in time or what. She will tell us she needs to go poo poo and will run to the potty when it's more solid.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Both my oler kids are day trained - and mostly night trained. They still wear pull ups because they have accidents now and then... and it's way easier to change a pull up than to change the sheets at 3am.



Emilie stays dryer than Zach though, for some reason...maybe because she sleeps lighter and wakes up to go pee more....

Boys r us replied: I guess I was pretty lucky b/c both of mine pretty much were night time trained on their own. Brae more so than Tanner. The day I decided B was going to be poty trained was it for him..he ran with it! I put him in pull-ups at night for the first week, but realized that he was waking up bone dry. So I quit. Now of course, he has an occaisional accident at night, but overall he's 100% trained, night time..peeing and pooping.

Have you tried not doing pullups at all? It may help her decide that pooping in her pants isn't all it's cracked up to be when it's in her big girl panties.

I don't know..you just never know what will make it click for each kid.

fashionmumofboys replied: My 3 year old is fully day potty trained, but I still put pull ups on him during the night. I to am wondering what the magic trick is for the night time training.

My 2 year old has just been day potty trained for about 2 months now, but I still have him in pull ups during the day just in case. He does have the odd pee accidents, but never poops in his pull ups always in the toilet.

My2Beauties replied:
I have done no pull-ups at all during the day, just panties, but at night, I have been using diapers because they are more absorbent. She has woke up dry the past two mornings so we'll see. But when she does pee at night, she pees a river and pull-ups usually leak, so I just use diapers at night, I put them on her after she falls asleep and take them off first thing.