A Good Attitude Can Help with Bedwetting
Stop Bedwetting
A Good Attitude Can Help with Bedwetting
If your child is wetting the bed, how you approach the problem can make
all the difference in the world in how easy the problem is to solve. When
your toddler wets the bed, while they may feel embarrassed, treat the
incident like any other accident: in a matter of fact way, clean up first
your child, then the bed. Encourage them to think positively and
visualize a time when this won?t happen. As a safeguard to protect their
mattress from staining, put a rubber sheet on their mattress, under the
mattress pad and regular sheets. Do not yell at or punish your child for
wetting the bed, often they have no control over what their body does at
night. Causing your child to become overly anxious about wetting the bed
may cause them to sleep less well, which may lead to increased
bedwetting. Instead, praise your child when the bed is dry in the morning.
If someone in your family had bed wetting problems, you may wish to tell
your child this story, to make them feel more comfortable about
themselves. Of course, it may also be embarrassing if your child chooses
to share this story at the next family reunion.
Regardless, reassure your child that this problem will go away as time
passes, and that many children wet the bed. Do not run out and buy every
single product on the market that promises to help your child stop
bedwetting ? your child will gain the impression that this is so
important to you that you?ll stop at nothing to end the bedwetting.
Instead, form a plan from the available methods to help your child stop
bedwetting and follow the plan until it does or doesn?t work, or you see
signs of a medical problem.
Remember that this will most likely just be a matter of time. Even if
your child has secondary enuresis and you have removed the stress and
gone to therapy, it can still take time for your child?s sleep and
bathroom habits to resettle, and thus for bedwetting to end. Give it time
and patience, and you will get past this phase easily.
Basically:
DO
? Be patient
? Clean up messes quickly, and if your toddler is older, have them
help clean up, before washing hands thoroughly
? On toddlers, using pull up diapers until they are ready to go the
night without a diaper may make life easier
? Put a rubber sheet on the bed
? Realize that this is just a phase, and your child will grow out of
this
? Be flexible
? Talk to your child about how the bladder works
DON?T
? Yell at your child
? Make them feel embarrassed or feel that bedwetting only happens to
babies; it?s quite common in toddlers and happens to a lot of children as
well


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