Top 10 Tips for Parents on Bedwetting from LloydsPharmacy pharmacist Alison McCreedy!
1. A general healthy diet and lifestyle can help with bedwetting. Why not ask your child how they are feeling? Are they having problems at school? Perhaps they are anxious about the arrival of a new baby brother or sister?
2. A calm bedtime routine that’s regular may help. A warm bath or shower followed by reading your child’s favourite bedtime story may help to settle and relax them. Changes in light can lead to the release of vasopressin which can cause bedwetting so turn down all the lights and make your child’s bedroom as dark as possible.
3. As part of the bedtime routine, encourage your child to go to the toilet before getting into bed and make sure they know how to get to the toilet during the night – is there an easy route from his/her bedroom? Is the door open? Is there a light to show the way?
4. Waking your child up in the night or carrying them to the toilet is unlikely to help with bedwetting in the long run. Support your child in overcoming bedwetting on their own.
5. Have spare bedding and pyjamas at hand to ensure sleep is minimally disrupted. Use waterproof covers on your child’s mattress and duvet or consider pull-ups as a short term solution.
6. Why not use a reward system to encourage your child to help themselves become dry? Give them stickers for going to the toilet regularly and encourage praise.
7. Throughout the day encourage your child to drink at least six glasses of water or water based drinks to encourage going to the toilet regularly.
8. We recommend avoiding fizzy or caffeinated drinks, especially during the evening as these drinks increase the need to urinate.
9. Keep calm and positive, bedwetting is not your child’s fault – as frustrating and stressful as it may be.
10. It’s never too early to ask for help. Bedwetting can be prevented easily and quickly with a range of medicines and alarms.
Remember, while it’s important never to blame your child, it’s also perfectly normal to feel frustrated. Pop in and speak to your local LloydsPharmacy pharmacist if you need support, or are finding it difficult.
The LloydsPharmacy pharmacists can offer advice and can also provide you with free Norman stickers – these are perfect as small rewards for your child when they have a dry night.
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What great tips – we’ve yet to enter the bedwetting stage, but I’m sure this will happen and come in handy when it does. Thanks!
No problem hun x
Great tips especially the one about keeping calm as we often forget about it.
Thanks hun x
Lovely tips. I am bookmarking this to read again. Potty training the kids soon.
Good luck hun, x
Great tips, I’ll make sure to share them with my friends who have kids. I’m sure they’ll be thankful for the advice as I know my friend is just going through this stage with her little one x
Glad to be of some help to others x
great tips. We are having issues and this may come in handy.
Great to be of some help to you’
Great to be of some help to you!
Lots of useful tips to help with this issue. Thank you.
Really good advice, stuff that I will keep in mind. My twins are dry in the day, but still in nappies at night. I think I will need these tips when the time comes to be nappy free at night. thanks xxx
Great tips that will come in handy for us in the future.
Great tips – Eliza used to be a nightmare but thankfully is a lot better now
That’s ok x
Oh that’s good to hear x
Oh that’s great!
Glad to be of some help to you hun xx
Some fab tips here. It can be so stressful but you just need to have patience, and reassure children that it’s not their fault. x
Yes I agree with you, thanks for you’re comment x
I don’t even know when to start trying for bed without a nappy. The whole thought terrifies me! Great tips I love the drinking regularly throughout the day tip, people often think you need to drink less but it’s definitely not the case.
I know it’s a scary time. Hope you get their soon. x
Great suggestions. For us the main impact is when she goes to the toilet before going to bed. She’s quite good actually for a 4yo. 🙂
That’s great x
Fab tips, we haven’t entered this stage yet but I like to be prepared x
We are quite lucky as little man only wet the bed once or twice. Never know what could happened to our next child, so thank you for sharing the tips!
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Thanks so much x
That’s ok hun, no problem! x
I think that using a reward system is a great way of controlling bed wetting and gives them the incentive to try their best.
I don’t have kids yet but I think my nephew is entering the bed wetting phase, I will be sharing this post with my SIL
Thanks for your comment hun x
That’s great, thanks x
It’s not fun, is it! Our two youngest wear nappy pants at night time but they’re always dry. I reckon it’s time to move them off them, so this will come in handy. Thanks!
That’s ok 🙂
Thank you for this very informative post Marie!
No problem hun x
Some really good tips on here. Limiting fluids at bedtime makes such a difference.
Yes it does, thanks for you’re comment.