When and how did you start nighttime potty training? My daughter turned three a few months ago, and during the day, she wears panties and goes poop and pee in her potty. Occasionally, she’ll have an accident and poop a little in her panties, but she realizes it immediately, and it almost never happens. We put her in a pull up at night, and very rarely will she wake up with pee in it. It’s usually dry, and she goes potty as soon as she wakes up. She has a bathroom beside her room, but she’s a heavy sleeper and I don’t think she will wake up to potty. Should I just put her in panties and put a waterproof mat under her and let her figure it out? Should I wake her up to potty in the middle of the night?
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Sounds like she is ready. Its a matter not giving her anything to drink before bedtime and to save the mattress I would put the protective bedsheet. She probably isn’t peeing at night already, Accidents will happen but with patience she will get there… I wouldn’t wake her up to go unless she has accidents but that is a good idea if they happen but first work on the no drinking. But she sounds way past ready, she and you are already doing good.
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We did it all at once. Night time we make her pee before bed. No drinks a half hour before. She was potty trained a little before 3. She will be 4 in 2 weeks ans probably 3 accidents the past year. Mainly when she falls asleep before we have her use the potty
Stay up all night!!! 
Never wake a sleeping child. She sounds like she is an early night dry kid.
Just put a waterproof on her bed. And remember she is only three.
You are lucky she is night dry.
And its a toilet, not a potty.
My son (who took forever to potty train) at 4.5 decided he no longer wanted to wear a pull up to bed…and that was that! He just did it when he was ready. He also drinks a lot at night and only has had an accident in bed once or twice.
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We used to put pull ups on my son at night once he was daytime potty trained. After about a week or 2 of him waking up with a dry pullup I just started putting him to bed in underwear. Once in awhile hed wake up super early and either run to the bathroom himself or wake me or my husband up to take him.
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My daughter didn’t fully night time potty train till she was 4.
I just waited it out and eventually it was just a waste of money to buy pull ups anymore cause she wasn’t peeing in them so I put her in panties and she hasn’t peed since.
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Honestly, mine woke up dry every day for a week. She was night time potty trained first. If she wakes up dry she’s ready.
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Don’t wake her up to potty. Wearing a pull-up at 3 years old at night is no big deal. You can try the big girl panties at night and see how it goes. Just be consistent. Sounds like she is doing really good!
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My youngest didn’t fully train for bedtime until she was 4. She wore panties to bed and I woke her up around 2am to pee. I did this for a week. She had maybe 2 accidents. We’re going on like 6 months now pull up free and no accidents 
When I noticed my almost three year old waking with a dry diaper fairly consistently I went straight to underwear. I have a soaker pad under his sheet for the odd night he has an accident but I honestly can’t remember the last time he had one. I went completely off his vibe and didn’t try to push it. He was daytime trained for a little while before I even thought about nighttime. My biggest advice is to not try and push it… feel them out and pay attention to when they’re showing signs of being ready and lots of praise when they do well 
I would wake mine before I went to bed 1130 ish and make them go. Then in the morning they would be dry.
Stop drinks an hour before bedtime. And you just need to wake up with her every 4 hrs and take her to the bathroom she’ll catch on. Mine were all done by 2 with no accidents
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After my daughter was potty trained for a week like day potty trained I just kept notice if she was waking up dry multiple days in a row we stopped the diapers at night. She had 2 accidents since September but when she does she wakes us up and would be upset that she was wet. We got a water proof mattress cover 
If she’s wearing a pull up, and waking up dry, what makes you think she won’t do the same with panties?
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I potty trained my granddaughter Abt 2 months after she turned 2 and for the nighttime training I put a mattress protector on her bed and she slept in panties. She had a few accident’s at night but after Abt a week she learned to wake up to go potty. My grandson I potty trained at 3 and the same for him he’s 4 now and every once in a long while he’ll still have an accident in the bed but for the most part he wakes up to go potty too
Nothing to drink a few hours before bed and wear regular undies. Ofcourse a mattress protector under the sheet.
I stopped drinks an hour or two before bed time and made it routine to use the potty before bed (or try to).
My daughter who just turned 5 in Oct just became fully potty trained. I never pushed her to potty train. I waited until she was ready & honestly it’s been a breeze. She goes to the adult bathroom now & even wakes herself up in the middle of the night to go potty. Since October she’s only had 1 accident & we were out at the doctors office & she didn’t know in the back offices they have potties. Luckily she was was wearing a pull up at the time because it was the beginning of potty training.
Everyone frowned upon her being 5 still not fully potty trained & the criticism would make her clam up & not want to go but with COVID & being home with no judgments she has made it easy to focus on her training.
The best advice is to limit drinks before bed & try to get them in the habit of getting up in the middle of the night so no accidents. I also bought her bedtime trainers in case of unexpected accidents but she’s now enjoying her panties. Don’t forget the matress cover.
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We just put the water proof cover over our kids mattress she wet one time never did it again
You don’t need to wake her up to pee! Have her pee before bedtime. Put her in underwear for bed. She will occasionally have accidents but that is normal. Also agree cut down on drinks a while before bedtime.
Mine was a HEAVY sleeper! 6 years old and she finally is out of diapers at night. It didn’t matter what I did. She drinks like her momma- 7pm oh crap I haven’t had any water! I couldn’t tell her- no honey you can’t have a drink. No one harassed us about not being “trained” at night. For sleepovers I’d let the friends mom know and they were very supportive. When their body is ready they are ready.
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If she’s staying dry at night, I’d put her in panties and give it a go. But no turning back to pull ups.
Tip… use a waterproof mattress pad and fitted sheet… cover that with a second waterproof mattress pad and fitted sheet. If she had an accident during the night just pull off the top fitted sheet and top waterproof mattress pad and your good to go for the rest of the night.
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Puppy pads are a midnight saver. I layer 3 bed sheets with them in between. Accidents happen. 
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I started at around 14 months. I noticed for a couple months that he would wake up in the morning dry. So, we tried big boy undies. He regressed a bit then got used to undies and we started a routine. I bought a potty seat for the mornings. For a couple weeks as soon as he woke up he peed. Eventually he was dry for about 5 minutes then wet himself. Then it was 8-12 minutes and he’d ask us for his potty. Now he’s almost 2, for the past 3 months, he wakes up, plays for about 15 minutes then asks us to open the door for the restroom,ask for help (sometimes) to pull down/up his pants and then goes.
We usually stop drinks around an hour before bed, but even if he has some water or something its the same way. He still has a pad underneath his sheet, but he doesn’t really have accidents. Except maybe a couple times but thats not bad at all.
We are working towards day training though. Now and then he’ll take off his diaper and asks to go to the restroom. Sometimes he makes it and sometimes he already went in his diaper
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Nvr used anything at night, when she was potty trained ( took 5 days ) from beginning to end, she nvr had an accident at night, but every child is different
Once he started waking up dry I threw out the pull ups. Very few accidents.
That is great she uses the potty during the day!
Ever parent is different and succeeds in many ways. This is just what I did with my 2 kids.
-I didn’t deny them drinks. If they were thirsty, I let them drink. Maybe I should have but I know how I feel when I’m thirsty. Lol. I just couldn’t do it.
-Bedtime routine included trying to get them to use the bathroom.
-They wore underwear during the day and Pull Ups at night in case they had an accident. That way the bed stayed dry. Pull Ups were a lifesaver!
-Eventually, the night time accidents decreased. It took a while but I didn’t force it or ever wake them up.
-Hang in there. It won’t last forever. 
when I went to bed I kinda woke my kids up to potty sometimes they went and sometimes they didn’t. stopped giving drinks after a certain time
I won’t let my daughter have a whole drink before bed I usually just let her take a sip or two of mine if she’s thirsty. I make sure she goes potty before she goes to sleep, and I got a waterproof bed cover to put on her mattress because she does have the occasional accident but they were much more frequent before we stopped letting her have drinks before bed. It went from once or twice a week to maybe once a month if even
I stopped drinks a hour before bed and I always made sure they went to the toilet before bed and they just did it… Then go used to waking up to go to the toilet by themselves… shall be doing this with my 3rd child when he older enough xx
My daughters 2 an she’s been toilet trained for a couple months now I just put her in her undies an she hasn’t had an accident yet just goes toilet as soon as she wakes up, just take the risk an hope for the best 
I woke my kids up when i went to bed and if I spoke up in the middle of the night myself to go to the bathroom. I also had them potty right before getting into bed, and before each meal and before leaving to go anywhere. (Just like my parents did to me. I still have to go at those times lol.)
My son was day potty trained (including nap) a whole year before he was nighttime trained. We just kept him in pull ups at night until he went two weeks walking up dry (mind you a year later) and then he was fine wakes up in the middle of night if he needs to go maybe had an overnight accident once every 4 months or so but that’s on me when I keep him up late or overtire him.
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I would wake my kids up in the middle of the night…walk them to the bathroom and hold them there then walk them back…half the time I don’t think they ever even knew it was happening then eventually they just did it themselves…but it is good to have a plastic sheet under the reg sheet because there will be accidents but they eventually get it…doesn’t take long
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My son never really relied on pull ups at night. We would wake him up when his daddy came home from work to go potty. So every since then he never had an accident.
My 6 year still needs a pull up at night. I want to be done wearing them but I don’t think it will happen any time soon. Her older sister stop needing a night time pull up shortly after she turn 3. I guess I’m kinda looking for some advice too.
If she is waking up dry in the morning, then she is most likely already night time trained. She may have an occasional accident, but that is normal. You could continue with the pull up, or you could leave her in her panties and see what happens. To protect her mattress and make for a quick change in the event she has an accident, you could make her bed with a fitted sheet, put down a flannel backed table cloth (or similar) and then another fitted sheet. If she has an accident, pull off the wet sheet and protector, change her jammies and put her back to bed. Congratulations and best of luck on the next stage of growth.
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My oldest had night time accidents until he was 6. He also had a medical condition. My middle stopped having night time accidents at 2 when he was fully potty trained during the day. My youngest was about 3 and a half when he stopped having night time accidents, he was potty trained at 3.5
Basically I am saying every kid is different and if she is waking up dry most nights I would just use panties and a plastic/rubber mat just incase. After a year of no accidents get rid of the mat.
I put my boys in underwear at night as soon as they potty trained during the day time. I used a disposable puppy pad under their sheet to protect the mattress and it took maybe a month for all 3 to have no more night accidents.
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If I put diaper on my daughter at night she would pee. If I didn’t she wouldn’t
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Night training IS NOT A THING! It’s developmental. And until your child is developed enough neurologically and muscular, it will not happen. Some children are not fully developed enough upwards of 8 years old. So please DO NOT PUNISH FOR ACCIDENTS. Do not make them feel bad. IT’S NOT THEIR FAULT.
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I never woke up my kids at night unless they got sick in their beds. Put down either a water proof sheet or even just a garbage bag under the sheet and put her in underwear. If she’s waking up dry she is already good to go. Just make sure as soon as she wakes up to take her straight to the potty…
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Cut back fluids before bed, make her go before bed, wake her before you go to bed to use bathroom. Then first thing in morning. Eventually they can hold it and they also become familiar enough to wake and go
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If shes waking up dry and knows to go when she wakes up then put panties on her at night also. I did that with my youngest daughter. She had 2 accidents and didnt like the feel of being wet and then from then on she was good.
I would not wake her up. Have her wear panties to bed with a waterproof mattress cover. As long as she is waking up dry more often than not, keep it going. If not a pull up might be necessary for a while. Day time is easier to master. Took my boys at least a year longer to sleep thru the nite without wetting accidents. One of my boys took a long time to be continent thru the night. About a month before he turned 6 years old I told him that 6 year olds don’t wear pull ups to bed. It prepared him because when his birthday came he reminded me that 6 year olds don’t wear pull ups. Never wore one again and never wet the bed. I think he was ready but needed a plan if that makes any sense.
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I have an 8,6,and 5 year old that wet the bed still almost every night. My 6 year old isn’t as bad as the rest. My 12 and 9 year old were a breeze I mean my 9 year old still had an accident once in a while up until about a year ago but we blamed it on a traumatic event because she never had accidents until our house burnt down 3 years ago
This sounds like my son and I just put him to bed in undies and a waterproof mat, and he never did go potty. We just make sure he goes potty before bed. I think he’s maybe had 2 accidents in 2 years. Sounds like she’ll be fine!
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My son is 4 and I just let him potty train at night when he was ready. He used the potty during the day but wore a pull up at night for about a year. I don’t like to wake a sleeping bear!
My 6yo boy never had a single accident since trained at 3, and my 5yo boy still has nighttime accidents about once a month. I still keep him in underwear, because to me the laundry is cheaper than the pullups would be. I say try the underwear, and then see how many accidents happen and go from there. Ultimately it depends on your laundry tolerance limit.
Don’t wake her to go potty… I’ve never heard of that… I’d just give an amount of time for her to stay dry at night and then switch to panties. It doesn’t really sound like your daughter would need any nighttime training at all. She’s old enough and sounds like she has accidents few and far between so I’d just either wait until she has so many nights/weeks/months dry at night or even give her the option. Maybe she will have an accident at night in her panties and she won’t like it. Maybe not. But it’s worth a shot. Also, you could make sure to limit evening drinking too so that her bladder doesn’t fill so much so quickly. Good luck!!!
Do away with the pull ups at night. It will click just like daytime. My youngest was fully potty trained at 15 months she is now 16. She rarely sleeps a full 8 hours and when she does it is very deep sleep. Ahe slept this way even as a baby
If she wakes up dry she is already trained. Trust is what you need to do. Just make sure she goes before bedtime and limit liquids after dinner.
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Let her figure it out. My daughter night time trained herself at the same time as day time. I was putting her In diapers and they were always dry and I was like eh let’s see what happens 
she doesn’t have any issues and she’s a crazyyyyy heavy and crazy sleeper. She just gets up and goes first thing in the morning. 2.5 and 100% trained 
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You can try the underwear and the plastic and see if it helps. When my now oversized smelly hormonal teenager was a wee one he wanted to ride the school bus because he seen it go by every morning. He was potty trained during the day and pull ups at night. I told hi. He had to wear h iui s big boy pants all the time including to bed and no pull ups, no going potty in his pants or he wasn’t allowed on the bus. He wore his big boy pants from. That night on with little accidents the first few nights. He got the hang of it. So it basically is what ever works. Just dont rush it, as it may backfire
Let her wear underwear to bed & do the puppy pad nite time pads over the sheet so if there is an accident you just replace the pad. The pads are for kids, not called puppy pads,lol!
My now 4 year old asked to stop wearing pull ups at night about a month or so after he was day trained we had a couple of accidents, but he’s done great since.
Mother of 4… training… not going to work… unfortunately. Kids will develope that when their bodies are ready. I had one that i limited liquids for hours! 
… forced the bathroom during the night (which makes their bodies use to peeing at night… even giving medication to “dry” for sleepovers… nonetheless… out grew it when ready.
The punishments… visible annoyance… made shame that much worse
I so wish i could turn back time to re-parent!
Let the child know…its not their fault and its very normal just no one talks about it.
Releasing that pressure from them helps tremendously. I was fortunate thst only 1of 4 struggled… mostly due to sleep issues.
Good luck and breathe. Find your patience as those nights were super hard for us both… stripping beds…laundry… and parenting a child with embarrassment and shame … itll pass. Hang in there!
My suggestion put her in reg panties if she wakes up wet, she want like it, she will train quickly
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When you go to bed take her potty. Let her sleep In a pull-up . Let her sleep. She will outgrow it.
Put big girl pantries on her and plastic/rubber plants over them and a plastic pad under her and praise her for being a big girl and not wetting the bed. Eventually take off the rubber pants if she seems to continue to be dry
I would wake my daughter up maybe a hour or two after she feel asleep and take her potty. After a few weeks she stopped wetting the bed.
Just use pull up at night .Don’t wake her she will eventually stop at night.
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Do not wake her up to go! Make sure she goes before she goes to bed. If she’s dry most of the time, let her wear panties, if not, a pull up. No biggie, eventually she will stay dry.
No food or drinks after supper…then bath and bedtime routine…bathroom visit just before bed. Pull-up til you see they are ok thru the night.
Avoid liquids at least 40 minutes b4 her bed time …make sure she goes to toilet minutes before sleep time this should become a habit n she will be ok …
When you go to bed, pick her up & pop her on the toilet, she’ll have a wee without being fully awake & then put her back in bed & she’ll go straight back to sleep
If they are consistently dry when they wake up then you’re good to go. My middle daughter was night trained before she was during the day.
Cut off drinks an hour before bed and make sure she pees before bed and you should be good after a couple days
If you wake her up to potty you will just be training her to wake up at a certain time every night. That is not the goal.
I put a waterproof mat and stopped liquids an hour before bedtime.
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My daughter is 6 and still wears pull ups to bed
My daughter made it easy in me when at 3 she announced no more pull ups at night! Ok, put down waterproof mattress cover and went with it. Amazingly, never an accident.
Id stick with the pull up only at night and just give it time. At this point in the process it will just kind of happen naturally.
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Use underpads at night while your child wears his/her underwear
We doing that now with my nephew we wake him up during the night to go
Limit her drinking after 8 in evening
Limit their fluid intake a couple hours before bedtime and make sure they go potty before going to bed. I put a training potty in my kids’ room for the first few months in case they had to get up and go in the middle of the night and they were in pull-ups until waking up dry for a solid month.
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I used a water proof pad for my heavy sleeper
Stick with the pull ups
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I’d say stop the pullups at night iv never used pullups at night for either of my kids and they have never had issue but every child is different try that and see if it works it could be a comfortable/ familiar feeling at night that may be why she’s wetting
We put towels under the sheets. Made sure the bathroom was used before bed. Stayed in under wear. One kid had a few accidents and then fine and one just never had any accidents
My boys are 4 and 6 and still in night time pull-ups 
I feel like our 6 year old is close to being ready, but they are heavy sleepers and do not budge once asleep. I figure they will eventually be ready and I would rather by pull ups than change sheets constantly throughout the night. Our 3 year old daughter could care less about potty training Good luck.
My daughter is 7. She’s the only one I have had issues with. She is a heavy sleeper. This is what the doctor suggested.
When my daughter was potty trained in the day I didn’t put a diaper on her at night right when she turned three and she never had an accident at night. Just try it out all kids are different but if she rarely pees her diaper she’ll rarely pee the bed. My daughter would wake up if she had to pee and tell me although it’s not fun to go in the middle of the night it’s way better than diapers
Just keep her in pull-ups at night if she needs it or you don’t want to worry about wet laundry. Night training is actually more about physical development and hormones than anything.
I used the pull ups at night and eventually when they stay dry on their own for a good amount of time I would then start trying to go without the pull-ups.
Just make sure she goes before bed. It takes time. When my kids got potty trained they were in a pull up at night and once they are dry go ahead and not put one on her. And go ahead and put a mat under her sheet just incase there is an accident for easier clean up. Mine still have accidents every once in a great while and they are 5 and 7
All kids are different, once my kids were potty trained they never wet the bed at night. I just put them in underwear, all our mattresses have covers on them. Your child may need a pull up at night for a few years until they grow up more, she may not need anything. My children dont wake to go to the bathroom, and I havent cut liquids before bed. Its really just the luck of the draw. If she wets the bed at night you may need to limit liquids close to bed time. Its trial and error! Best of luck!
When I potty trained my children they wore underwear all day (night and day). I stopped their liquid intake by 7pm. They used the bathroom before they went to bed and I woke them up in the next hour or so for them to go to the bathroom. I did this a couple of times and eventually it became a habit for them.
Usually if they dont drink anything after 7 she wont need to go but shes doing excellent i would continue with the pullups for a while
Take her potty before you go to bed. I would take my son to the bathroom at 11:30 and midnight, he never had another accident. We just had to do this for a few months
Sounds like it’s going good. Don’t rush to get her trained to the point she gets up at night if sh already rarely wakes up wet and goes when she wakes up. I’d try panties and double make the bed or buy some toddler pee pads or a rubber sheet to protect the mattress.
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Take her to potty everynight for 3 weeks right b4 huh go to bed to get her used to it then she will start waking up on her own
Nappy dry. Great don’t start new thing she’s doing really well put to toilet as soon as wake up. Good
No. Pull up. When it’s dry she’s done. Get her to pee one last time before you go to bed.