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How to know when your baby is ready to sleep through the night without the diaper?

My girl is almost 3 years old and she goes on the potty all the time, never misses. Even her day time naps are ok, she wakes up dry but when I tried to put her to night sleep in panties instead of diapers we had a disaster. She would sleep through, she was cold and wet from her chest to feet but she wouldn't wake up. So when and how do I start this last transition?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    At night they just sleep so much heavier than they do even at nap time during the day. It is ok if they have to wear diapers for a while at night. I went several months with my son, and only about 6 weeks with my daughter. You will know when it is ok to do without diapers at night. The biggest key is if the diaper is dry in the morning. If you go for a week or more with dry diapers in the morning, and she goes to the bathroom as soon as she gets up, then she can exhibit control at night. Also, watch your liquid intake at night, and make them go potty right before they get in bed. We rarely have accidents at night anymore.

  • 1 decade ago

    I just potty trained my almost 3 daughter. I would put her to bed with a pull up and after she had about a week of waking up with a dry one then i put her to bed with underwear. There are a couple of things you may want to think about. When is the last time she is drinking before bed and are there any bed wetters in your family or the father's family because that is a genetic thing. Another thing you can try is walk her to the bathroom around 11pm so she gets used to the feeling during sleep as to what it would feel like.

  • 1 decade ago

    She may need help at night for a while. During the day, she can responed to her body to go, but when she is asleep, she may not get the message. Plus, since she is going every couple of hours during the day, her bladder may not be able to hold all night. Some kids are as old as 7 or 8 before night time is no longer a problem, some older then that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    my son is almost 3 and we are potty training too. he does so well in the day time but i still put a pull up on him at night just in case. nap time isn't as deep of sleep as night time so that could be the case with your little one. i'm not sure there is a "right" answer to your question - we are just taking queues from our son and going at his pace. :)

    as for limiting fluids - i am totally against that. if he is thirsty - my son gets a drink. and i would like to add that my son has been dry in the morning for over 3 weeks - even with night time drinks.

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  • 1 decade ago

    We never ran into this problem....My son is 3 and ever since he has been able to use the potty he has, and if he has to go in the middle of the night he wakes up-goes to the potty-and goes back to bed. My only suggestion would be to limit liquids before bed time, at least that will give her a chance....

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    5 years ago

    somewhat than attempting to get him on a recurring, i could be specializing in making those evening feeds much less tiring. forget the crib. save him in a bassinet by using your mattress or on your mattress, in case you're comfortable with that and could do so effectively. while he wakes, you attain over and %. him up (or roll over), and nurse. Neither you nor he wakes up completely, so while he's completed, he will drop back to sleep and you are able to too. except he's grimy, dont' concern approximately changing the diaper. If he's grimy, exchange him first, so which you do no longer wake him up back after he drops off to sleep. in case you utilize fabric, evaluate disposibles at evening to make your existence less demanding. keep in mind, none of that's perpetually. Your infant continues to be a newborn, In a pair of weeks or months he will possibly be sound asleep longer and larger, and you are able to then circulate him to the crib, circulate back to fabric at evening, and paintings on a 'bedtime recurring.' yet a 'bedtime recurring' for a infant who's eating each and every 2-3 hours around the clock is fantastically pointless, because all hours are a similar to him.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have just undergone this feat. My daughter would stay dry at nap time but over night just wasn't working out. So I started to limit her liquid intake in the evening. She goes to bed at 8pm and I wouldn't give her anything drink after about 6:30pm Then first thing in the morning i would remind her to go potty. It's worked so far

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Its time to set your alarm clock. Now is the time to start waking her up a couple of times in the night to pee. When my daughter was three we set the alarm clock to ring three times during the night. This establishes a circadian rhythmn in the brain and she will start waking up in the night to pee.It will take a couple of months but it is a guarantee that she will start getting up in the night to pee.

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