Potty training sleep regression. Help!

So my 2 year old started potty training 2 weeks ago and it went really well…..except that he isn’t dry at night and is waking every hour asking for his pull up to be changed. He obviously isn’t ready to be dry overnight as he’s always had a really full nappy by morning.

This is honestly making me wish I’d waited longer to potty train, which is such a shame when he’s doing so well during the day.

Before starting I had no idea that potty training could affect sleep so badly. Has anyone experienced the same thing?

I’m really worried that we’re going to be stuck like this for a long time because I don’t see him being dry at night anytime soon 😩

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’m as sleep deprived as when he was a newborn!

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He's not supposed to be dry overnight. It's a hormone that has to develop which can take years. Concentrate on day time, lots of praise. Maybe go back to nappies at night, we found pull ups a bit annoying!

I’m not trying to get him dry at night. He’s always had pampers night time for bedtime and used to sleep through and then have a heavy nappy in the morning.
But now it seems that even though I’ve told him he is allowed to still see in his pull-up at night, the sensation is waking him up. And he’s asking to be changed constantly throughout the night.
Sorry, I probably wasn’t clear in my post. I blame it on the sleep deprivation 😂

He must be a really light sleeper! Does he stay dry after a nap?
Have you just flat out refused to change him? And just said it's time to go back to sleep?

he is quite a light sleeper. He does stay dry during his nap 😊 so thankfully nap time isn’t disturbed.
I did try that once but he just wouldn’t go back to sleep until I’d changed him

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