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When children are young, usually aged 7 and younger, the issue of bedwetting is very common, and parents often seek ways to help their child come over this stage of growing up. While it is frustrating and embarrassing, bedwetting has no connection whatsoever with psychological or physical issues. In 98% of the cases dealing with bedwetting, the child simply sleeps too deeply and is not able to recognize that he/she needs to use the bathroom. The majority of the time you will find that wetting the bed will right itself. However there are some things that you can do to help your child stop wetting the bed sooner. Here are a few ideas to help you along. * If your child has a set bedtime, make sure that two hours before this time comes that you do not give your child any liquid. Before this time, give your child as much liquid as he/she wants. This will help prevent dehydration and constipation that happen a lot with children. This will not alleviate your child of bedwetting, but it will reduce how many times your child wets the bed on average. * Use Bathroom: Right before you put your child to bed you usually have them brush their teeth. Well as a part of the routine make sure that they also use the bathroom and empty their bladder. Even when they say they are done, have them try to squeeze out more, if more comes have them do it one more time. This is referred to as double voiding. * With many children, their bladders are too small to be able to contain urine throughout the length of the night. To help this, try bladder stretching exercises. These exercises are fairly simple. If your child has to use the bathroom, ask him/her to hold it for 10-15 minutes longer and try to increase the time very gradually each week. This can take weeks and sometimes months, so parents, be patient when dealing with bedwetting. * Visit the Doctor: Sometimes that can be a problem that causes your child to wet the bed. So you may want to check with your doctor just to make sure. * Use an Alarm: You can purchase moisture pads for your child's underwear that sense when your child begins to urinate. An alarm will sound or in some cases a vibration will alert and wake your child that he needs to go to the bathroom. Over time children can get used to getting up to urinate in the night when you use this method. * If nothing else is working, use medication. Medication dealing with bedwetting is able to slow the body's production of urine. This relaxes the bladder which helps your child sleep at night without wetting the bed. These medications may have side effects, so it is best to use these as a last answer. * Most importantly, when trying to stop your child from bedwetting, do not scold him/her. If you scold your child, he/she will just feel worse and will feel very ashamed that the problem is his/her fault. It's not. Be supportive and keep trying.
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