Toddler bed fun

For the last few weeks, Jade has been waking up in the middle of the night, taking off her pants and Pull-up, wetting her bed in one corner and then going back to sleep in the other corner of the bed.  So, we figured, she doesn’t want to be wet, and we decided it was time to move her to a toddler bed so she could get up and go potty in the middle of the night.

Jade does not like sleeping in her Pull-up

So, Jade has been in her toddler bed for a week now, and we have had a different adventure every night.

Each night starts out the same. I read her a couple of stories. I take her potty. She washes her hands. She brushes her teeth. I tuck her into her bed and kiss her good-night. I walk out of her room and she begins to cry a few minutes later.  “Momma, take me potty.” She cries in bed for a little while and then gets up and walks out, still crying, “Momma, take me potty.” I take her potty.  She goes, and I tuck her back in bed.  She repeats this three or four times before she finally goes to sleep, usually almost an hour away.

After that, when my guard is down, that’s when other things happen. For the first couple of nights, she would take her pants and Pull-up off, and walk out of her bedroom, and stand at the gate crying, “Momma, take me potty,” with the bathroom and her little potty right behind her.  If I didn’t wake up and get to her in time, she would tinkle right there by the gate and cry until I came to change her socks and put her back in bed.

After this happening a couple of nights, the first time I hear the “Momma, take me potty,” I have gotten right up and taken her potty and she’s gone back to sleep with no problem.  Then, the night before last, she woke up, didn’t make any noise, and decided to play in the sink.  She dumped and splashed water all of the floor.  She didn’t make a noise loud enough to wake me until she started to yell, “Momma, I need to wear something different.” So, I walk out to the gate in the dark and step in water. I think she’s tinkled by the gate again and turn on the light to clean it up to find the entire bathroom soaked and her little cup half full of water.  She had her pants off, but her socks, Pull-up, and shirt were soaked.  I changed her clothes, had her go potty, and put her back to bed and then cleaned up the entire bathroom.

So, I’m having a lot of sleepless nights lately, and I’m hoping that we’ll get through this phase soon.  I’m so proud that she doesn’t want to go potty in her pants, and I want to help her with that the best I can. I just wish she would sleep at night.

If anyone has any advice they can give me, please post them here.  I’d love to hear how others have mastered the move to the big-girl bed.