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5 Tips to Stop Bed Wetting

These 5 Tips to Stop Bed Wetting have helped us to potty train our girls and hopefully they help you too!

As much as you love your child, every mom has a phase that they really dislike about parenting. I learned with my oldest daughter that the most challenging part of the toddler/preschool years for me was potty training. This life skill that seems so obvious and natural as an adult, has to be taught and requires extreme levels of patience.

5 Tips to Stop Bed Wetting

I survived potty training Brady but feared round 2 as Colby started getting older. Fortunately, I picked up some tips and tricks the first time around that reduced the amount of time it took to potty train by 75%…during the day. Night time potty training has been a battle on its own. Once Cakes was daytime potty trained, she was trained at night. For Cupcake, daytime potty training was a snap but she is struggling with staying dry at night.

Midnight bedding changes are no fun for anyone in the family. It’s still something that Cupcake is working on, but we’re seeing great progress by consistently following the tips below. If you’re struggling with this very subject, I encourage you to try these out and rest assured that your child won’t be going to college in their diapers!

5 Tips to Stop Bed Wetting

1. Manage what your child eats and drinks before bedtime. Cupcake loves a cup of milk at bedtime and it helps her drift off to sleep but all of that liquid just increases the likelihood she’ll have an accident in the middle of the night with a full bladder. Try shifting your child’s eating/drinking schedule to allow more of a buffer right before bed.

2. Teach your child to imagine themselves dry. Encourage them to use those little imaginations to envision themselves having a successful night without any accidents.

3. Create bedwetting alarms. Set an alarm on your phone for increasingly longer intervals so that you can wake up and remind your child to go potty. As unexciting as it is to interrupt your sleep, it’s a lot less disruptive to know you’ll be waking up to help your child on the road to success than being awakened unexpectedly at 2 am to a crying child with messy sheets.

4. Use helpful products like Pampers UnderJams. Children develop at different rates and may not be ready to sleep through the night right away. Keeping Pampers UnderJams on hand provides night wear leakage protection that features a NightLock ultra-absorbent core and is more like real underwear with quiet, cloth-like materials and a low waist.

5. Be consistent – don’t give up on your child. Wetting the bed can be embarrassing. You’re their biggest cheerleader and supporting them and encouraging them to stay positive and confident will do wonders in ensuring their success.

Learn more about Pampers Underjams by visiting their website where moms can learn more about enuresis, watch videos, and read articles with insights from moms that are leading pediatricians.

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Does/did your child suffer from enuresis (bedwetting)? Do you have any tips to stop bed wetting?

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