which is something nobody wants! Unless your child wakes fully at
the drop of a pin, I wouldn’t worry about her waking for good if you
rouse her to pee in the middle of the night. She’s likely to stay at
least partially asleep. The harder part is holding up her limp weight.
Mostly-asleep kids are kind of like wet spaghetti. Heavy, wet
spaghetti. Get her to the potty, and then you can just hold her up and
whisper for her to pee. I’ve always found it helpful to make a sshhhing
noise (similar to the sound of peeing) in the child’s ear. Even half
asleep, your child may indicate she doesn’t have to pee. Just pull up
her pajamas and put her back down. A really good trick is to use a big
plastic party cup (or any similarly sized reusable container). You can
just stand your child up—this works for both girls and boys—and
have her pee in it. Mostly-asleep kids are easier to hold this way,
since they’re taking some of their own weight, and the whole thing
goes quickly and smoothly.
It seems obvious to me, but I’ll say it anyway: you don’t want to
turn on bright lights and try to lug your child to the bathroom (hence
the suggestion that you keep the potty near your child’s bed). If you
do, you’ll have yourself a wide-awake toddler party at 2:00 a.m. Not
desirable.
Once you figure out approximately when your child is typically
peeing at night, you can cut down to just one waking. I have found
that it helps a lot to tell your child—right before he goes to sleep—to
hold his pee until you come for him. It’s his last conscious thought
this way, and works its way into his subconscious. You can then start
scooching the time of the pee waking a little bit each night, till it’s
about two hours before his normal morning wake-up time. If he can
make it to two hours before his normal wake up, that’s a good sign
barry
(Barry)
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