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Any tips for night potty training?

My daughter is 2.5 and has been potty training. We have gotten to a point where she is potty trained during the day while at home. She still wears a pullup to bed & during her nap & while out in public. We were discussing our plans with night potty training and discovered we have a lot of questions about this. When do you know they're ready to start night training? How did you get started? I'm guessing doing it similar to day training by just stopping the pullups would work. A big question we have is about her getting in & out of the bathroom if she needs to at night. Right now we have the child door knob protectors on the inside of her bedroom door & also on the bathroom door. We had to put the one on her bedroom a while back when she was first realizing she could open the door to keep her from wandering around or playing throughout our apartment. Do we need to take the child-proofing off the doors to allow her to get into the bathroom at night if she needs to? And how do we keep her from coming out of her room & playing? Is it even safe at this age for her to be in the bathroom by herself?

Sorry for all the questions! Thanks for the help!!

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    with my daughter, she was in bed about 4 hours before i was, so before i went to bed i would go get her, carry her to the toilet sit her down and turn on the water in the sink, she would instantly go the bathroom, then i would put her back to bed. as she got older she would wake up on her own and i would walk her to the bathroom and then walk her back her room. and for when she needed to go in the middle of the night and i was asleep i had her come and get me. i made sure she was blocked off from the rest of the house though. she could get to my room, her room and the bathroom. hope this helps =)

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    It is utterly common for a baby to not be dry at night time at that age.It's first-rate to not strain approximately it as then what would occur is she would begin to believe apprehensive or careworn and so that you can best result in extra rainy beds. She is most commonly a deep sleeper and isn't conscious of it.I suppose you must return to hanging a nappy on her at night time simply in the intervening time,supply it a holiday and take a look at once more in a couple of weeks or so.That approach you are taking the strain off however I'm definite she has no manipulate over it and won't experience being rainy or being disturbed within the night time. I suppose treats won't support considering that I am supposing that if she does rainy the mattress the deal with will probably be denied and that becomes whatever very bad.Chocolate may not support specially if she has no manipulate over her mattress wetting.You must certainly not make this a lot of a fuss in the case of a childs mattress wetting.I am not sure why a small piece of chocolate might be any such gigantic deal to her.You could wish to present it a little bit extra most often so it isn't any such gigantic deal and now not on a deal with groundwork simply "Here's a few chocolate."

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    when we started potty training our daughter she was about 20 months, and we didnt seperate it into day and night. She tells me when she has to go potty and i take her to the toilet. At night we do not give her liquids or food before bed so hopefully she wont have to go, she is now two years old, we dont like her going into the bathroom alone, i'm just paranoid i guess, so we have a little plastic potty that we leave in her room. If she has an emergency at night and needs to potty she just uses that and we dump it in the morning. i think 2 1/2 might be old enough to use the bathroom alone but i wouldnt trust that she would just go potty then go back to bed, she might wander about

  • 10 years ago

    control what she drinks and pullups dont work try goodnites they work better i hope i can help

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