A few months ago we talked to BM about trying to start night-time potty training with SS3. He's totally the type of personality that he's lazy about most things. We figured he is just lazy with his night time peeing, too -- that he knew he had a pull-up on so instead of getting up to go to the bathroom he would just go in it. I vented on here that BM refused to do it. She said she refused to clean up a mess every night.

So we gave it a few more months for SS3 to mature a little more, and this week decided to try it out. We bought a mattrress protector, and when DF was putting it on the bed, SS3 was asking about it. He explained that it will stop the pee from soaking into the mattress. DF woke up SS3 at midnight to go to the bathroom. Then he thought he might make it til he woke up at 6am. First night, didn't work. I was talking to SS3 after waking him up and finding he'd gone pee (tried to make it light-hearted and not too serious, so as not to scare him or anything, and talked about how he'll do better the next night). His response was SOOO friggin' cute! He said, "Yeah, that white thing didn't work." OMG I was laughing so hard! He's so innocent -- he misunderstood what DF explained to him and thought he meant that the white mattress protector would actually STOP him from going pee at night! Soooo cute!

Anyway, last night we tried again. We put him in only underwear, thinking he might actually "feel" the wetness instead of just laying in his wet pajamas under covers, which would make him wake up. We were trying to figure out if he wakes up at ALL when he pees or just sleeps through it.

Annnndddd we've discovered that he sleeps right through it. Also, he didn't even make it until midnight before he peed the first time. So it's apparently not a lazyness factor, it's just that his bladder isn't big enough and he doesn't have enough control of it yet. Okay, so we are a little bummed but oh well.

So I feel like BM "won"...we were soooo hoping we could just announce to her that he's night-time potty trained now! I know that sounds dumb but I'm just being honest.

Now for some advice -- should we keep trying? Or just give up and try again in a few months? I know boys take longer, I know sometimes it can be until they're 5 or 6, I know it all depends on the kid...

I'll be on maternity leave soon and it really won't be a big deal to keep washing sheets and stuff for the 3 nights a week we have him, so I'm sort of inclined to keep trying and hope that he'll start waking up to go pee -- or will that just be a losing battle? We're also considering a bed-wetting alarm but we're not sure about it, since it just wakes them up after the fact anyway (is that really "training"?).