They say every cloud has a silver lining. It turns out that ours comes with a leak-proof guard to lock in moisture. In the ongoing saga of our night potty training travails, we had to switch Ben from Pull-Ups to Goodnites because he outgrew and outwet them. While at Target yesterday buying GoodNites for the first time, I winced because they cost almost double the price of Pull-Ups. Yet when we arrived at the register, I was thrilled to find out that they are FSA-eligible so we can get reimbursed for them out of our Flexible Spending Account. We switched to a high-deductible health plan this year with an FSA and apparently incontinence counts as a medical need. If only they counted diapers as well. Babies can't help that they wet their pants too, you know. :)
Note: I don't mean to poke fun at or express displeasure in Ben. He is an extremely deep sleeper and physically can't wake up to go to the bathroom at night. He hates for other people to see his Pull-Ups and tonight when some friends unexpectedly came over after he'd put on his PJs, he changed back into regular clothes with underwear because he was embarrassed by his GoodNite. If things don't get better, we're considering buying him a Potty Alarm for his birthday.
Do any of you deal with this issue? Any tips or thoughts? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this means washing fewer sheets in the future.
4 comments:
Hey Nollie, don't know if you remember me, but I'm JoEllen Morris from HBS and I read your blog regularly. And thoroughly enjoy it every time.
I had to comment on this issue, b/c my girls had a major issue with this. They too had to move to "Good Nights" and stunk up the upper floor of our house. When F was almost 8, we decided to try out an experiment- basically did a bunch of stuff involving: 1. Restricting water after 7pm 2. waking them up 2-3 x a night to go "try"(I had to set an alarm or I'd forget- the first time was only 45 mins after they went to bed) and 3. Incentives. It took about a MONTH or 2 before we saw any results, but it cured 'em both. Praise be. Good luck to you!
We had a similar problem with Ethan, he was an extremely deep sleeper as well. He never really had accidents during the day, but occasionally at night he did. Your other reader's comment is really good advice. We restricted his fluids at night, and ALWAYS made him go to the bathroom right before bed. We still have to be diligent about this, and he's almost 6. We haven't had an accident for a few years though! I just don't think he would wake up to take himself to the potty even now! Good luck, this too shall pass, I promise!
yep, dealing with this with Weston....he is not even 4 yet so I am not really doing anything right now about it...but I know we will have to deal with it eventually....same deal with Ben, he is a deep sleeper....
Hey Nollie!
Good luck!
The only things that I know that have worked is limiting fluids(which we do with Bella and sadly I do with myself so I don't have to go). And waking them up to go just before you go to bed (11 pm or whenever).
Love ya!
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