Potty Training at Night – A Guide To Successful Night Training

Even when your child is clean and dry during the day, it may well be a few weeks or months before she can master night training. Her body may well be too immature to wake during the night when she needs the potty.

**Most parents wait until their child's diaper is dry**, or nearly dry, when they wake in the morning, **before attempting to night train.** However if you feel that she is ready then why not give it a go.

Choose a night when you are going to give it a go and just try her by leaving off her diaper.

* **Explain to her what she needs to do.**

* Take her to the toilet before she goes to bed.

* **Make sure she has a night light on somewhere for her to be able to see where and what she is doing.**

* Make it clear to her that she is able to call you for help if she wants it.

* **It may well be a good idea to wake her and take her to the toilet before you go to bed to begin with.**

If she wakes in the morning and **she is dry** then make sure that you **give her lots of praise and encouragement.** But, be prepared – not all nights will be dry nights.

As with the day time potty training, **they may have the occasional accident. Deal with these accidents calmly** without making your child feel as if they have done something wrong. Read the above chapter on dealing with accidents and the best way of doing this.

It's important to remember that **if she persists in wetting her bed** then you may want to speak to your child's pediatrician, as **there may be an underlying problem.** The next chapter will go into detail about these problems and how to spot them and deal with them.

**Chapter 7 – How To Stop Bed Wetting – Serious Potty Training Problems Solved >>**