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Home › Articles › Bedwetting › Sheets, Stars and Sodas

Sheets, Stars and Sodas

Which Techniques Are Right for Your Bedwetting Child?

By Lyn Mettler

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Waking Your Child up at Night

Many parents of bedwetting children feel that if they wake their child up to use the bathroom several times during the night, they will prevent accidents. Logically, it makes sense, but it's not always helpful.

"My stepdaughter was a heavy sleeper at that age and seemed to sleep right through the urge to use the bathroom," says Laurie, a mother in Kansas. "In fact, she'd wake up cold and soaked in the morning and wonder how she got that way. We tried many things, from waking her at 2 a.m. and carrying her to the bathroom to using an underwear alarm that would sound if it got wet. In the end, the solutions were as stressful as the problem. We began having her wear GoodNites® to bed, and we were all more relaxed."

Alyson also felt trying to wake up her son to use the bathroom was too much of an ordeal. She said he was very hard to awaken, and when he did wake up, he was very irritable. He was also waking up tired, so the family decided it was not working for them. "The more I make a big deal out of it, the more it becomes a big issue for him," she says.

Dr. Nagaraju, however, feels that it's not a bad idea. He suggests waking up the child once – maybe as you're on your way to bed – so, he says, "They get into going through the ritual of using the bathroom."

The National Kidney Foundation cautions that while waking your child up to use the bathroom may help keep the bed dry, it rarely helps a child stop bedwetting.


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