Underwear Tantrum

My daughter has been daytime potty trained for quite a while now, but nighttime is a whole other story.  I have attempted to tackle this battle quite a few times - realizing that her body just wasn't physically ready to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. 

Well, recently, we've decided to tackle the "battle" again.  I saw an advertisement for those bed pads that you can put down so you don't have to change the whole bed sheet every time there is an accident.  This was exciting for me because that was mostly the reason I hadn't tried putting her in panties to sleep yet - changing the sheets in the middle of the night after each accident did not sound fun to me.  I went to one store to find the pads and could not find them anywhere.  Come to find out they do not carry them, so they sent me to the health section for elderly people where they had bed pads.  I bought them, and then later found the kid version at a grocery store.  I decided to try out both and compare. My opinion, I have decided that the kid version with the sticky part on the back that keeps it in place is much, much better. 

First night - We lay the bed pad down, she gets dressed for bed, she puts her underwear on instead of pull-ups.  I take her to the bed 3 times throughout the night.  She is dry each time, but the third time I take her she complains that she doesn't want to get up to go potty anymore. In the morning, she is a tad wet but my husband and I make a big deal of how great she did. 

Second night - She decides she doesn't want to wear the panties to bed, she doesn't want to "grow up", she doesn't want to get up in the middle of the night to go potty because she is too sleepy.  She just wants to go back to wearing her pull-ups.  It is an all out fight to get her to put them on.  In my head, I debate whether it is worth all this...I tell her that we at least need to stick it out for a week and see how she does.  Finally, we get her to put them on and she does fantastic.  She goes potty each time I take her through the night and is dry all the way through until morning. 

We're on night 3 as I type this and I am praying that she'll continue to do well and that her body will eventually get used to waking up and going potty on her own.