Ask Mamalettes: How To Help Your Children Stop Bed-wetting

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Almost all young children bed-wet, it really is not a cause for concern until they come of age where it’s expected that they’d be able to control it.

Most children achieve some degree of bladder control by 4 years of age. When grown children keeps bed-wetting it causes distress in both children and their mother.

A Mamalette asked this question on our forum;

“Dear Mamalettes, please how can I stop my 8 years and 6 years old children from bed-wetting? They don’t eat dinner and no more drinking of water for them once it’s 6 pm, I wake them up any moment I’m awake in the night to urinate, yet they will still bed-wet and they always feel sad for that, thanks for your advice” 

Our Mamalettes responded and these are some of their responses:

“My kids are 5 & 3 years, I make sure they wee before going to bed, in fact we carry them to the bathroom every 3 hours to wee. That has really helped.”
Eunicefelix

“Make sure they take their supper before 7 pm or 7 pm then after that stop them from taking water or eating any other thing till they go to bed. Make sure they wee before going to bed and take it as a point of duty to wake them every 3 hours that is 3 times before day breaks. Madam stop over sleeping so that all this will work out and please this is not maid’s work because she might sleep off as well and if you can’t wake up yourself let your hubby wake you up always. Let it continue till they start waking up by themselves when they become used to it.”
Chybiz 

“Wake them up every 2 hours in the night they will get use to it and start waking up by their self to go and wee.”
Littlefire
 
“Monitor and wake them up, set your phone alarm for 12 am and 3 am let them eat latest 7 pm that’s how I did for my baby boy that is 2 years and 3 months, now if he wants to urinate he will wake up.”
Adesalam Kehinde R
 
“Sometimes its hereditary. Since she has done all what she said she did then it may be hereditary. Before they clock 10 or 12 they will stop.”
Aisha Iyabo Kamal
 
“Dear poster if it had been one person, I would have said that it happens. But two of your children bed wetting at those ages makes d matter a serious one. Please check what they eat and the time they eat it. Above all pray that whatever the cause may be that God should intervene.”
Monica Nwachukwu
“Hand them over to God in prayer, you’ve done all in your physical power to prevent them from bed-wetting but all to no avail, just keep praying over it and also pray with them too before they sleep at night. Don’t underestimate d power of prayer.”
Ekundayo Morounranti Oyesola Ayeku
“Monitor and wake them up in the midnight, then with time they will get used to it and wake up by themselves.”
Onyinye Ubah Ndugba
“This is a great task you have to indulge yourself in, by waking them up every two hours after they might have taken their dinner around 6 pm, then they should play less around that time because too much play can also be the cause.”
Iyabo Olaosebikan Olopade
Bed-wetting usually goes away on its own, and unlike adults children urinate much more frequently, in some cases as often as 10-12 times each day. So set bed-wetting alarms, making sure that they play less when it’s getting late, do not yell or purnish your child for bed-wetting, let him take care of cleaning up himself, since he’s old enough to do that. And if there’s a day he doesn’t bed-wet make sure to praise him.
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