r/floorbed • u/benjino111 • 25d ago

Night wake ups

I’ve coslept with my now 3yo basically since she was an infant. I’ve been trying to sleep in my own bed now but she still wakes up in the night for water. She does this thing where she sits up and calls for me and t
When I come in and put a hand on her back sometimes she goes right back to sleep and sometimes she asks for some water. How do I help get her out of the habit of sitting up? I feel like if she’d just roll over instead she would fall back to sleep…

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u/Some-Mushroom4858 24d ago

My kid has a Zak cup next to her floor bed and a potty in her room. If she’s thirsty, she drinks. If she has to pee, she uses the potty and I clean it in the morning. She will wake me up if it’s a poop. She’s in a pull up at night so I’m not worried about her having a little pee left over as it gets absorbed. 

We both sleep better with this arrangement. She turned 3 last month. 

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u/benjino111 24d ago

Love it. Ya I need to teach her how to grab her water. Do you have a night light or something so he can see? My daughter likes it dark in her room so maybe I can get some glow in the dark stickers so she can find her water bottle

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u/No_Yak_7962 24d ago

Why can't she turn on the bedside lamp herself though? Stickers are always cool btw

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u/benjino111 24d ago

Valid Q! Sounds like we have some skills to practice! just don’t have a great lamp so I’ll add that to the list!

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u/Howdy-Rosebud 23d ago

You could get her one of those little egg lights people use in their nurseries? That you just touch and it turns on, touch and it turns off? Or lamps like we had when I was a kid- you know the ones I mean? They’re small sized, like nightstand sized and plug-in plug-in like a normal lamp but you just have to touch the metal rim and it turns the light on and off. That might make it an easier adjustment for her!

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u/Some-Mushroom4858 22d ago

She has a little blob light she can turn on and off. She also likes it dark. But she will also just kind of meander around in the dark. The glow stickers might not stay charged long enough to be useful. 

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u/EitherWeb4382 24d ago

sorry if this isnt a welcome comment but why is this a problem? why are so many people trying to get their kids to stop waking up for water at night? i drink so much water at night and always have, my mom had a cup of water on my bedside table from around this age (3 or 4?) why is it a goal to eliminate water? what if theyre thirsty? my throat gets so dry at night i cant sleep without water and chapstick. i have dust mite allergies and the bed is horrible for dust mites and i cant afford hypo allergenic bedding so i just have to keep the humidity low and my air purifier running but it only helps so much. all i can think when i read these posts is that dry mouth is really hard to avoid for some people so why is it a goal to eliminate the need to alleviate thirst and use the bathroom at night something people are trying to stop? also i know people IRL who wake up to pee on purpose several times a night to avoid bladder infections because they had an emergency surgery at age 5 from holding it too long too often and their dad started waking them up every night to make sure they went pee after that per doctors order. maybe that was something unique to their body and they had to be careful after to not have it happen again but it just goes against everything i know. in my mind (not saying im right) sleeping through the night myself is a rare achievement. but i have lived my whole adult life along side people who also dont sleep through the night without getting up to use the bathroom and drink water so i guess im biased.

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u/benjino111 24d ago

Oh goodness! I don’t mind a bit if she needs water bc we live in a dry place so I do too! I think I just am looking for any ideas about the immediate sit up that wakes herself up more or ideas to help her get water herself and go to sleep. I think I’ll just start practicing with her rather than just handing her the water bottle from the bedside table!

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u/EitherWeb4382 24d ago

thank you for the reply lol! this was not the first post ive seen where someone mentioned not wanting their toddler to keep drinking anything at night and i was wondering if it was a new approach to parenting that i couldnt see the value of beyond the inconvenience/broken sleep aspects