How do you nighttime potty train?

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Is there something you can actually do to help it along or do you just have to wait for it to happen by itself?
My kid turned three a few months ago and we’ve recently just gotten daytime potty training down. But other than no liquids like 30 mins before bed, I don’t have a clue how to start nighttime potty training.

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You basically have to wait until they're ready. You can't tell their bodies to wake up when they have to pee if that makes sense? You have to wait until nighttime diapers are dry when they wake up.

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You have to wait for it to occur naturally. The body produces a hormone that makes you produce less urine at night. My daughter is 2 and 2 months, and hasn’t been wet overnight in almost 2 weeks. We didn’t do anything to train her.

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Its actually something you can't train 🤷🏼‍♀️ its not something they learn. Its today with hormones etc for them to be able to control their bladder when they are not aware... my eldest was completely dry in the day by her second birthday... no accidents...she wasn't dry at night until 4 years and 4 months.

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Agree to wait. Our daughter was nearly 4.5 and still wearing pull-ups at night. Until she was consistently overnight for a few weeks then tried underwear. That was about 6 months ago and she’s only had 1 accident that whole time. 
I don’t see a point in rushing it 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I was going to hold off when we potty trained our son at 3.5 years old. But once he was getting the hang of it he just started staying dry at night. Occasionally he would wake up in the middle of the night crying to go pee and we would help him. I also limit drinks after dinner so he doesn't wake us up to go potty. I have heard of other parents waking their kid up around 10-11pm to go potty so they don't have an accident.

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My daughter potty trained at 2.5 years and for a week or so I'd wake her up to go potty in the middle of the night. It really messed with her sleep and so we stopped doing it and she was fine. She hasn't had night time accidents and is almost 4. I think you have to wait until they are able to have dry diapers throughout (which she did but I was still worried about accidents)

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When we started potty training (my daughter was 2) we went cold turkey w/ diapers, we decided to train for both daytime & naps/nighttime, I purchased washable pee mats for her bed (4 total so some could be in the wash & some could be clean & ready to go), we put a little training potty right next to her bed on top of a disposable pee mat, we would have her pee right before bed & the 1st several weeks she wore no underwear or pajama pants to bed, there were a few accidents but not a lot. 
In the Oh Crap! Potty Training book the author mentioned going in before the parents go to bed & waking them up just enough to pee again but we knew our daughter would wake up fully & freak out if we did that so we just rolled the dice & it was mostly fine. At any rate in the year & a half since there’s been maybe 4 nighttime accidents, two when she was sick w/ a stomach bug & two since Covid has turned everything topsy turvy, apparently stress can cause regressions :(

How do you nighttime potty train?

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