Toilet Training In Progress

YQ is turning 5 this year & I know it's sort of late to start toilet training her at night, but I keep telling myself that it's better to be late than never right? Hubby always nag at me to toilet train our kids as early as possible but I'm pretty sure many FTWM out there will agree with me that time is never enough & to juggle between our work in the day & family after work is so tiring (well...unless our energy level is super high & never feel tired at all).

Anyway for YS, I rely on the childcare centre to toilet trained him during the daytime. He will wear training diaper during night time until he is able to control his bladder without wetting himself in bed anymore, that probably ended when he was about 5 too. I did not need to wake him up at night & he just stopped automatically. 

YQ has already been toilet trained by the school during the daytime & usually I will let her wear training diaper during night time. During the Initial training stage I will get up like a zombie in the middle of the night & wake her up from her sleep to go and urine. Sometimes when I'm too tired, she will wake me up instead & tells me that she wets her bed. Therefore I will be the one changing her bed sheet in the middle of the night & dump the soiled bed sheet into the washing machine to wash *faint*.

I realised the recent waterproof mattress protectors which I bought were not very suitable to use as the material (TPU film) were easily damaged when I put into the dryer to dry. Thus urine was able to leak through the waterproof mattress protector and dirty the mattress. In the end, I let YQ resumed back to training diaper again in case of hiccups. I searched frantically almost everywhere for a suitable mattress protector online & managed to find one type to my liking (which I waited for a month for the stocks to arrive *_*). This saddle style mattress protector from bumwear is so convenient that I can just put it on top of the normal mattress cover & if she ever wets the bed again, I just need to remove the top part & replace with a clean one. I bought 2 so that I can interchange both whenever its needed.

At the same time I also try to use the reward system for encouragement. I will reward her with a star every day if she does not wet her bed. But if she wet herself then the star will be forfeited. For every 10 stars she accumulated, I will reward her with something.So far, she has improved bit by bit everyday.