It sounds a lot more interesting than it is. We are working on getting Amelia to sleep without a diaper, so for the past couple months, I’ve been waking her up at 11pm (give or take 20 minutes) to go to the bathroom. It’s the only thing that works. If you let her sleep through the night unawakened, she’ll have an accident, and if you take her too early, she’ll have an accident as well.
What’s been so surprising is that I still haven’t been peed on during the trips to the bathroom. I wake her up and grab her out of bed – she usually tries somewhat to get away but can’t. Then I set her immovable carcass on the toilet and somehow she wakes up enough to go potty. This is usually where I also end up taking off the flip-flops she’s put on the middle of the night (that girl loves shoes). We pull up her pants and she’s back to bed. All but one night she’s fallen right back to sleep.
Fortunately for me, it’s not hard work. It’s just that I have to keep myself up late enough to take her. I’m a bit of a night owl, so it’s not the worst thing, but there have been a few nights where I was really tired but I stayed up just so I could take her potty at 11. To make up for all these late nights, I actually feel asleep at 8:15 one night last week. That’s got to be the earliest I’ve been asleep in 10 years.
Amelia’s doing very well with this schedule though – we hardly ever have to wash her sheets – I just hope she can figure out how to make it through the night before I get too old for this.
Speaking of that, it’s time to head upstairs for a rendez-vous.
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