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Post by cinnamon on Jun 12, 2017 7:45:03 GMT -6
DS (3 next week) has been peeing on the potty for a few months now, but it's definitely hit or miss. He has just started waking 4x a night asking to go potty. I know I should be grateful that he wakes up to go, but he is waking everyone in the house when he gets up so that we will help him. Any advice on how to lower the number of wakings? Or am I SOL until he figures it out?
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Post by billyhorrible on Jun 12, 2017 8:39:45 GMT -6
My oldest (5) still wakes up 3-5 times a night to go to the bathroom. I don't think there's anything you can do to stop them from waking up, but eventually he won't need as much help.
At your son's age, we ended up taking the rails off his crib and converting it to the toddler bed precisely because he was waking at night to go to the bathroom and needed assistance.
I'm also going to throw this out there. When we were going through these night wakings, they got really bad before they got good. So he would wake up screaming and crying because he wasn't fully awake, but had to go to the bathroom. When I tried talking to everyone I knew, none of them had ever experienced this. Their kids either woke up wet or dry. No waking up at night. I guess it's not super common? So if you have any questions/comments/concerns, hit me up. I've been through it.
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Post by acw816 on Jun 12, 2017 9:00:07 GMT -6
My daughter is 3 and she does not wake up during the night to potty, instead she still is using a pull-up. Have you ever woke him up to go potty at night? Maybe I should start that?
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Post by billmurray on Jun 12, 2017 17:56:20 GMT -6
No advice, but I'm here to commiserate. DS (turning 3 in 2 months) does this sometimes. He'll wake up really upset in the middle of the night and when I go into his room he says he has to go potty. It happened last night, actually. But sometimes he's already gone in his pull up (which he sleeps in), and he no longer has to pee when we get to the bathroom. Other times he pees. He goes right back to sleep after, but obviously it would be easier for me if he just woke up dry.
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Post by cinnamon on Jun 12, 2017 21:51:59 GMT -6
billyhorrible I had the same problem with my friends - no one dealt with it until PT was over and even then only occasionally. It still surprises me that he won't ask at all to go during the day but will ask multiple times at night. Once he is ivermectin his cold, I plan to start restricting water a bit before bed to see if that helps decrease the number of wakeups.
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Post by Taitai on Jun 14, 2017 22:13:52 GMT -6
We found that with DS, we need to wake him twice a night and have him go on the potty in order to avoid accidents in bed or have him wake up yelling to go to the potty. For whatever reason, if we wake him at midnight and 4am, he goes immediately in the potty and then falls straight back asleep. If we wait for him to wake on his own, however, he either pees himself before we get to him, or he goes on the potty - but then he is restless the rest of the night and takes forever to get down.
Just sharing our experience. We're hoping to only have to wake him around 1 or 2am in the next few months, and then hopefully go down to no nighttime waking/potty breaks. He's only 27 months, so I think he might need to get a little bigger before he can hold it longer.
Hope you are able to sort it out - night wakings suck.
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Post by cinnamon on Jun 15, 2017 3:07:21 GMT -6
If we wait for him to wake on his own, however, he either pees himself before we get to him, or he goes on the potty - but then he is restless the rest of the night and takes forever to get down. This is me, right now. He woke up at 145am, asking to go, and then refused. Got up at 245am and had peed out of his pull up. Changed him, but he keeps screaming out that he needs to go potty/poop even after just taking him. Is this toddler dramatics or something different?
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Post by Taitai on Jun 15, 2017 3:54:35 GMT -6
If we wait for him to wake on his own, however, he either pees himself before we get to him, or he goes on the potty - but then he is restless the rest of the night and takes forever to get down. This is me, right now. He woke up at 145am, asking to go, and then refused. Got up at 245am and had peed out of his pull up. Changed him, but he keeps screaming out that he needs to go potty/poop even after just taking him. Is this toddler dramatics or something different? I'm honestly not sure why it works better for us when we wake DS up to go to the potty, versus when he wakes up on his own with the urge to go. I have a theory that maybe when they wake up on their own, they are so tired, disoriented, and uncomfortable that they become more difficult and upset. Versus, if you wake them up, they kind of will go on auto-pilot and be half asleep while using the potty. By the time you get them back in bed, they haven't completely woken up yet, their bladder is empty, so they just go quickly back to sleep without a fight. I dunno...but that seems to be the case wth DS. Sorry I can't offer any better advice - I guess just commiseration. We are not fans of setting our phone alarms in the middle of the night to take DS to the potty!
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Post by cinnamon on Jun 15, 2017 7:29:50 GMT -6
This is me, right now. He woke up at 145am, asking to go, and then refused. Got up at 245am and had peed out of his pull up. Changed him, but he keeps screaming out that he needs to go potty/poop even after just taking him. Is this toddler dramatics or something different? I'm honestly not sure why it works better for us when we wake DS up to go to the potty, versus when he wakes up on his own with the urge to go. I have a theory that maybe when they wake up on their own, they are so tired, disoriented, and uncomfortable that they become more difficult and upset. Versus, if you wake them up, they kind of will go on auto-pilot and be half asleep while using the potty. By the time you get them back in bed, they haven't completely woken up yet, their bladder is empty, so they just go quickly back to sleep without a fight. I dunno...but that seems to be the case wth DS. Sorry I can't offer any better advice - I guess just commiseration. We are not fans of setting our phone alarms in the middle of the night to take DS to the potty! Well, thanks for the advice. We will have to try that and see how it goes ☺️
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