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Originally Posted by bloominsuz  Arghhhh,,, Am I the only one with a 8mo that still wakes in the middle of the night to pee. So now I've learned to pick up the water by 8pm, walk at night and maybe I'll get a full long night sleep. I've been doing this since she was 3mo and I broght her home. I'm afraid to jinx it but I think we've had a few days of no accident potty training and now I just need some sleep. She also wake usually around 6:30-7am (which I hear is normal) but I used to sleep till 9a ( I work till 11p). Any other suggestions? She also sleeps with me so I don't have to hear screaming from the living room crate. (Yes, I'm tired). I used to get kisses to wake up, now she just walks over me and growls to wake me lol, kinda funny. DH would love to give her the boot from the bedroom, but I won't have it, so she hopefully will start sleeping the whole night and we'll be good. |
its easiest to break the pottying in the middle of the night habit if you crate train (or at least it was for me). Morgan will absolutely NOT potty in her crate. So as she got older (4 -5 months) and i knew she could hold it all night i started to ignore the middle of the night cries and she did hold it all night.
Morgan slept in her crate and then her ex-pen for over a year. She was just too small for me to feel safe having her in bed with me. She wouldn't make a noise if i happened to roll on her so i was afraid i'd smush her.
Puppies get used to waking up in the night because that's what they've been doing all alone. They know that if they cry, you will get up and take them outside. So if you know that they can hold it, ignore them and they will go back to sleep once they realize you are not getting up to let them out.
Or if they wake up every night at like 2 am, start ignoring them for another hour and take them out at 2:30 or 3. slowly start adding more and more time until you get them to sleep all night.