Bed Wetting

Have you stopped giving her drinks a few hours before bedtime? What about waking her up when you go to bed, which I'm assuming is a few hours after she goes and put her on the potty to try and go and then hopefully if she'll go this will be her last need to go for the rest of the night. I'm not sure if that's a feasible option, I've heard of some parents being able to do this with their children, but I know personally I could never do that with my daughter, she wouldn't wake up unless I totally woke her up and then she'd never go back to sleep, but if your daughter is easy enough to at least stir enough to get her on the potty and have her try and go with being easy enough to get her right back in bed so she goes right back to sleep then maybe you could give that a whirl.

I didn't quite understand your question, is it that she's going to her potty but not pulling down her panties and just sitting on it and going with her panties up so she's peeing through them or is it that she's peeing, but then the excess is dripping onto her panties after she's done going that's causing the wetness?

If it's that she's sitting on the potty and going with out pulling down her panties, you could try putting her to bed with out panties on, sometimes it's recommended to do that anyway to so called "air out down there" (not to be too graphic), but so that there isn't constant moisture inside the panties that can sometimes cause infections, etc. so it might not be a bad idea to go w/out panties if she's not pulling them down to go is indeed the problem.

Good luck!!

I'm impressed. 21 months is really early to be potty trained at night. I think I would continue putting pull-ups on her for awhile, then every month try panties again. Maybe she's just too sleepy to be coherent. There's nothing worst than washing wet sheets!!!!

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I agree...21 months is awfully young to be in underwear at night. Maybe there's something about being in panties, that registers somewhere in her mind, that she must wake up to go potty, while the pull-ups don't trigger that thought pattern. I know that my kids have been half asleep and pee'd "in" the potty with the lid closed in the middle of the night! My son also seems to have amazing presence of mind for some things while half asleep and act like a zombie for others.

Just last week, my son got up and walked into the family room, looking like he was sleep walking, climbed up on my husband's lap for about 20 seconds, before he climbed back down and started to walk away. My husband thought that he was confused, so he said, "where are you going?". At that, my son turned around and climbed back on his lap, eyes half closed, without a word. 20 seconds after that, he pee'd all over my husband! It was like my son knew to head to the bathroom, but the slightest interruption, broke that thought, while he was half asleep.

At the same time, my son has climbed into bed with us in the middle of the night, carting obsure toys along with him, muttering, "we're out of ketchup".

Since you're daughter is not even 2 yet, I would simply put her in pull-up for another 6 months.

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Age is not important. If she's ready she's ready regardless of how old she is and obviously she was or she wouldn't have trained so young and easily. My brother (no joke) was fully trained at a year old. I don't encourage going backwards and using pull ups, you're encouraging regressing (in my opinion) and will make it more difficult to explain down the road when you want to switch her back to panties again. I say stay with your efforts, try cutting out drinks a couple hours prior to bed. It's no different than if you had successfully trained her at a year old and then 6 months down the road she started having accidents all the time, I'm sure you wouldn't want to revert back to diapers instead you do what you need to to work through the problem ... don't encourage and praise and get all excited and reward and then turn around and go back to pull-ups .... very confusing for the child, but that's just my opinion.

Is she awake when she pees on the floor. I'm thinking it could be a stress thing. When she has panties on, she's worried about keeping them dry. She wakes up a little when she has to pee (which she's more aware of when she has panties on because she knows she has to keep them dry), gets out of bed, but doesn't really know where she is, and just pees where she thinks she should (unfortunately, on the floor). When she's wearing pull ups, she sleeps more deeply, and doesn't pee because she doesn't really have to go that much. My son (who is 31 mo) also manages to keep the pull ups dry quite often, but not always, even though he's been daytime potty trained and wearing undies, since he turned 2.

Just use the pull ups at night, she can wear them for 2 or 3 nights as long as they don't get wet, and try panties again in a few months (or many months, or whenever). Just keep it low stress, and you won't have to clean pee up off your floor.