Thread: Please, Please, PLEASE help b4 I lose my mind(potty training issue)

Originally Posted by Urban Cowgirl

I have question for those of you who have benn through this. How do you get them trained through the night? DD does fine during the day and during nap, but we still have to use a pull up at night, more often than not she wets. should I be waking her up in the night to go potty?

No drinks before bedtime. Make a point to set your alarm, and make them get up sometime in the night and go potty. You might want to watch them and see how long between potty trips during the day before you decide when to get up with them, or, if you get up, or DH does during the night, make them go too. Also, make sure they go potty right at bedtime.

Maybe he wants to be done with diapers. Now that the weather is getting warm...perhaps walking around without a diaper will be the answer for a while. Do you have a potty seat you can stick in his room? I agree that you need to start "bribing" him with somehting. I also used m&m's.

Originally Posted by gatorbugger

Duct tape all the way around at the top, might at least slow him down (of course my daughter always managed to just scoot out of the diaper anyway). And if it makes you feel any better, my daughter, every day at nap time for about 3 months managed to get her diaper off and smear poop all over the walls by her crib. I thought I was going to go insane, lol

LOL! Duct tape was what I used with all 3 of my kids--at the end, make a little tab by folding the tape over on itself, start taping in the back and go all the way around the front and to the back again--the tab is so you can easily get it off again and if you start in the back, they can't reach it. I also used to put them in 1 piece outfits with ZIPPERS--then take a diaper pin and pin the zipper tab to the top of the outit--they can't get it off.

it's a boy thing~lmao
get a dog~ewwwwwwwww~i no it is nasty but my little boy did that a few times and the darn dog grabbed it before i could do a thing about it!
onesies work great too.

Originally Posted by Quaker_Parrots

No drinks before bedtime. Make a point to set your alarm, and make them get up sometime in the night and go potty. You might want to watch them and see how long between potty trips during the day before you decide when to get up with them, or, if you get up, or DH does during the night, make them go too. Also, make sure they go potty right at bedtime.

Do you think 2 & 1/2 is an appropriate age to start this? Cannot believe this, I posted here last night and this morning she was dry. i swear that kid is determined to make a liar out of me LMAO

Both of my kids used sticker books (like coloring books, but they come with sheets of stickers that go in certain spots). When I knew they had to go #2, the book would distract them long enough for it to happen. That was our problem in the beginning-- they just didn't understand that they were supposed to actually poop in the potty. Once it happened a few times, plus they knew they could work on the sticker books, they were much better about going.
My husband and I always joke that they are conditioned to poop whenever they get stickers. My oldest is 6 and he still likes to look at the books when he goes. I just stock up on them at the dollar store. They don't even care if they do the same ones over and over.
I never had one actually take the diaper off and go on the floor. I did try the thing where you let them go naked because some brainiac doctor decided that kids really want to be clean and will not soil themselves. I think your kid and mine proved that theory wrong. My son just went on the floor. After that incident, I would just take him to the bathroom when I knew he was doing the dance and get him distracted with the sticker books until he actually went. Good luck. Sometimes it seems like it will never end. . .