

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Touchstone; First Paperback Edition edition (June 16, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501122983
ISBN-13: 978-1501122989
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (379 customer reviews)
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The daytime potty training worked ok, but the nighttime training section was BS (as in, the author wasn't lying, she was just making stuff up without regard to the truth). The author’s method of waking up the child multiple times per night is worthless. My own son was day-time potty trained and I decided to try the nighttime training process described in the book when he turned 3. I set alarms for myself to wake up my son and have him go potty. Over the course of several nights, he either wouldn’t go potty, or had already peed himself and was happily sleeping in his pee. The method seems to assume that the child will go at the same time every night, but this doesn’t really make sense, because it depends on a lot of factors like how much the toddler drank in the evening and when they drank it. My son certainly wasn’t consistent.Since things weren’t adding up, I decided to research the matter further. I found a multiple-study analysis by the NIH, which determined that parent-initiated waking of a child at night had no effect on long-term nighttime dryness. ("Nocturnal Enuresis: The Management of Bedwetting in Children and Young People.") Nighttime training seems to depend on a child becoming aware that their bladder has filled, which they won’t really learn when it is someone else waking them up.In the nighttime section, the author claims that "The bladder is being developed at this age, and if it develops fully without the practice of holding and consolidating, those muscles will atrophy, and you will struggle indefinitely with bedwetting." This is complete nonsense because the same muscles are used for daytime and nighttime, so if they are day trained, their muscles aren't going to atrophy for nighttime use.
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