Stop Bedwetting in Seven Days by Alicia Eaton

Author:Alicia Eaton [EATON, ALICIA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

DEALING WITH ACCIDENTS

It is possible that your child will be dry every night from Day 7 of this programme, but it’s probably unlikely. Planning in advance will make any accidents much easier to deal with. Have plenty of spare sheets and bedding as well as a plastic protective cover for the mattress.

Consider making up the bed with two layers of sheets and placing an absorbent mat or pad in between these layers. If your child does wet the bed in the middle of the night, you’ll be able to quickly remove the top sheet together with the absorbent pad, giving you a ready-made dry bed for him or her to climb into quickly. This will minimise night-time disruptions.

This period of adjustment, should only last a few weeks, so consider organising extra help for yourself if you feel you’ll need it. Could wet bedding be sent to the local laundry for example? Could you purchase some extra linen cheaply, to give you plenty of spares to use? The easier you can make life for yourself at this moment, the better support partner you’ll be for your child.

Your child is going to need you to stay positive, confident and relaxed with him as you work through this system. Don’t let something like a few wet sheets spoil this for you all.

It’s a good idea to encourage your child to play a part in changing any wet beds. Some parents groan when they hear this as they have got into the habit of clearing up after their child and worry that getting them involved will be met with resistance but it’s an important part of the process of learning how to take responsibility for yourself.

If your child is still quite young, this can be kept to stripping off the wet sheet and putting it in the laundry basket, with an adult finishing things off for them. This is not designed to be a punishment, in the ‘you made a mess – you clear it up’ vein, but it definitely does help the penny to drop quicker if your child can accept responsibility for the wetness and ‘ownership’ of the problem. They’ll start understanding the consequences of not keeping control of their bladder – as they strip off the bed, that little voice will be chatting away inside their heads, enabling them to think a bit harder about the how, what and why of their problem.

I always tell children that the ‘good thing’ about problems that we ‘own’ is that we can find solutions for them much more easily. For example, if a dog walked past your front garden each morning and decided to have a wee against the gate, it’s going to be quite hard to get it to change its’ behaviour. It’s not that easy to change someone or something else. The good thing about your child’s bedwetting is that they cause it to happen. And things that you ‘start’ you can also ‘stop’. We can all take control of our own problems.

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