Bed wetting children are more common than most people think. Thirty-five percent of toddlers aged three and approximately ten percent of children aged 5 years still suffer from bed wetting occasionally. Also, it’s perfectly normal for a child to keep occasionally wetting the bed either during the day or at night, until they’re 5 years old.
Officially, bedwetting is a term used for children aged 5 and older who have trouble staying dry at night, but we as parents freely choose this term to describe our toddlers’ inability to stay dry at night because many toddlers can control their bladders at night by around the age of three.
To help bed wetting children resolve their problem we must first find the actual cause of bedwetting before we can proceed. Understand your toddler will probably be more embarrassed than you when it happens, and showing anger in these situations is unfair, unhealthy, and it’ll make the problem worse than it is because your toddler will build even more anxiety than he or she may already have.
There are several reasons why your toddler still wets the bed and it has nothing to do with misbehaving or laziness. Studies show there is usually a family history of bedwetting, so it’s likely someone in your immediate family was also a bedwetter! Taking this into account, one of the best ways to solve your toddler’s bedwetting is to politely ask around next time there’s a family gathering starting with the toddler’s grandparents. Toddler grandparents sometimes hold the best answer to getting rid of bedwetting because the parent of the toddler or a sibling was a bedwetter themselves!
Another common cause of bedwetting is simply the fact that some toddlers learn to control their bladder better than others by being able to recognize when their bladder is full. Toddlers are also more likely to experience bedwetting during sleep after they’ve just learned potty training because they’re so used to having that security blanket called a “diaper” so parents usually opt to keep their diapers on until they feel adequately confident the child won’t urinate in the bed during sleep.
In rare cases, children can be diagnosed with urinary tract problems which contribute to the child urinating more frequently than normal, and sometimes physicians prescribe medicine to help with these types of problems.
Here are some tips to help bed wetting children:
1. Never get angry with your toddlers when they wet the bed. It will add stress, confuse them, and you’ll move further away from resolving the problem. On the contrary, encourage them and make a big show by displaying your pleasure when they stay dry.
2. Allow no liquids two hours before bedtime, and make sure your toddler urinates sometime before going to bed. Your toddler will not always be able to pee before beddy-bye, but make a consistent effort for your toddler to go before they hit the sack and you’ll see this tip pay dividends.
3. Make it easy and as comfortable as possible for your toddlers to make their way to the toilet by providing adequate lighting through the use of nightlights, etc.
There was a recent study conducted that showed children who were breastfed were far more likely to abstain from bedwetting than those who were not breastfed, but these studies continue and are not yet conclusive. The vast majority of toddlers stop bedwetting altogether by the age of 5, so keep the faith and keep searching for ways to encourage your child to stop bed wetting. Finally, parents usually don’t seek professional help for their bed wetting children until their children experience bed wetting between the ages of 6 and 7.
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