Hannah’s been toilet trained during the day for more than 6 months now. At this point I feel confident taking her everywhere in underwear, and accidents are increasingly rare. Really, this has been one of the best milestones for me, and makes just going through our day so much easier.
Of course, this is only part of the process. For many many months we still had Hannah in pull-ups at night. At the same time, I was growing ever more pregnant and considering the logistics of dealing with late pregnancy and the newborn period alongside changing sheets at 4am. I decided to bite the bullet and let Hannah wear underwear at night a few months ago, with the thought that if it didn’t work now, it was going to have to wait a long time.
Hannah was totally game. She kept asking me to wear underwear to bed, and I kept putting her off. At a friend’s recommendation I bought a couple of waterproof pads that go over top of the sheets so that if she did wet the bed I wouldn’t have to be re-making it in the middle of the night. When I told Hannah that she would be able to wear underwear to bed she was excited and declared her undying love for the pad.
So, how has it gone? At times, not so well. In the first few weeks she wet the bed 8 or 10 times, and once she even did it twice in the same night. She only managed to hit the pad about 25% of the time, but I worked around that by sticking the dry pad over the wet spot and waiting until morning (she does have a waterproof matress pad so we are covered that way). I attempted to give up, and asked Hannah to return to pull-ups, but she refused. So, we talked some more about gettting out of bed if she needs to go, and I gave it another try.
Then we turned the corner. Pretty much overnight 
we started having far fewer accidents, and on many mornings I open Hannah’s bedroom door to find her awake and sitting on the potty. There’s been a slight increase in night-waking, but it’s a small price to pay for dry sheets. So, I’m cautiously optimistic. I expect that there will be periodic accidents for some time to come, but we haven’t used a pull-up in months and I’m ready to consider getting rid of the half-box we have left.
Now, I only hope that sharing this with the interwebs won’t jinx us, and lead to more night wetting. Fingers crossed.
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