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The Bedwetting Doctor has everything you need to manage bedwetting. We sell the world's best Malem bedwetting alarms, proven to cure bedwetting.

Choose from a wide range of alarms to suit each individual child's needs.

07/06/2024

Are you unsure how to start your child’s bedwetting treatment? Follow these tips to get started on your journey towards dry nights…

1. Choose the right bedwetting alarm - it’s important that your child is happy and comfortable wearing the alarm at night
2. Make sure your child wants to become dry - they need to be motivated to use the alarm
3. Attach the alarm correctly - make sure that it’s going to sound properly on the very first signs of wetting
4. Make sure your child knows what to do when the alarm sounds
5. Help was your child up on the first few nights - especially if they are deep sleepers. After helping them for a few nights, they should then be confident to wake up, reset the alarm and go to the bathroom by themselves.

These 5 tips should help you to ensure that you start off the bedwetting alarm treatment in the best and most beneficial way possible.

Congratulations on taking the fist steps towards dry nights!

27/05/2024

Going on holiday should be an exciting time, but if you are going away over the half term, many children will be feeling anxious about bedwetting whilst they are away from home.

Here are some tips for coping with bedwetting whilst away from home…

☀️ Take a waterproof sheet or two - this will save needing to change all the bedding if bedwetting occurs.

☀️ There’s no need to stop your alarm treatment and lose any progress that’s been made. Switch your bedwetting alarm to silent vibrate mode for a more discrete alert if your child is worried someone will hear it.

☀️Avoid drinking fizzy drinks and caffeinated drinks, which can irritate the bladder.

☀️ Remind your child that bedwetting is not their fault. Make sure you are there to support them whilst you are away.

24/05/2024

Are you struggling with bedwetting? 🌧

Did you know that we have a free bedwetting guide?

Click the link in our bio to sign up to receive all the tips and advice you need to achieve dry nights ☀️

23/05/2024

Because many people can be embarrassed to discuss bedwetting, it can be difficult to know who to get help from and who to talk to.

Some helpful people that you might choose to talk to about bedwetting include…

💬 School nurse

💬 GP

💬 Enuresis clinic

💬 Us!

Our DMs are always open if you want general advice, help choosing the right alarm, tips for how to become dry at night, or just to chat to someone about it all!

Don’t struggle through this process alone, support is available❤️

22/05/2024

Why do children wet the bed?
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We all start off wetting the bed and the process of becoming dry is a learned one. But, for some children, this subconscious skill can take longer to learn than others.
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🌧 For the majority of children, bedwetting occurs because they have not yet developed the link that forms between their brain and bladder. This developmental link alerts the brain when the bladder is full, so that when we are asleep we wake to use the bathroom.
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Other factors that are often quoted as potentially contributing to bedwetting are:
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🌧 Too much urine production
🌧 Overactive bladder
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However, if the brain-bladder link was fully functional, both these factors would result in the child waking up to use the bathroom
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☀️ This means that the key factor that needs to be initially addressed in a bedwetting child is forming and strengthening their brain-bladder link
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21/05/2024

Although it might seem a convenient solution to your child’s bedwetting, waking your child up at set times throughout the night to use the bathroom is not recommended.

In order to become dry at night, their brain has to learn what it feels like to have a full bladder whilst they are sleeping. Waking them up when their bladder isn’t full, interrupts this process and may even delay their progress towards achieving dryness.

An alarm works by waking them up on the first signs of wetting, i.e. only when their bladder is full. This enables their brain to make this connection, eventually leading to dry nights.

20/05/2024

If your child was previously consistently dry at night and starts wetting again, this is referred to as “secondary enuresis”.

Secondary enuresis usually occurs as a response to stress. Has your child recently…

Changed school?
Moved house?
Had a new baby brother or sister?
Experienced family trauma, such as parental divorce?

To get back to dry nights, it’s important to address the underlying issue of the stress. Secondary enuresis can also be treated in the same way as primary enuresis (i.e. when a child has never experienced dry nights) with a bedwetting alarm

19/05/2024

Depending on your alarm, there may be a wide range of settings to choose from. Make sure you choose the right ones to optimise your child’s bedwetting treatment…
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🎶 SOUND - this might be single tone (always the same sound) or 8-tone (plays a different sound each time to prevent auditory accommodation)
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〰️ VIBRATION - this provides an additional sensory stimulus in addition to sound, to help wake up your child. This is also useful for children that may be hard of hearing.
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🎤 RECORDABLE - it’s been shown that the sound of a familiar voice is much more effective at waking a child up than the sound of an alarm. Use a recordable alarm for deep sleepers.
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🔄 SELECTABLE - a selectable alarm enables you to choose your child’s favourite alarm sound.
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Feel free to drop us a message if you need help choosing which settings to use on your alarm😊
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16/05/2024

This week is

Bedwetting children are often very embarrassed by their bedwetting and will go to great lengths to ensure that no-one else finds out.

By isolating themselves from others, children find it harder to socialise and interact with their peers, causing them to become even more isolated and lonely. Bedwetting can make a child feel ashamed, embarrassed and isolated and can also lead to bullying. These feelings, compounded with the thought that they have done something wrong to cause their bedwetting, can spiral deeper into feelings of anxiety and depression.

It’s important that children realise that bedwetting is not their fault. Bedwetting is most often simply a developmental delay of the link between the brain and bladder. Support your child through their bedwetting and talk to them about positive actions you can take towards becoming dry ❤️

15/05/2024

Remember, bedwetting is NOT your child’s fault - it is a subconscious process and so they should never be told off or punished for wetting the bed.

Instead praise and reward behaviours that are constructive for becoming dry at night, e.g.
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🌟 Remembering to go to the toilet before bed
🌟 Drinking plenty of water in the day
🌟 Putting their bedwetting alarm on themselves
🌟 Helping to change the sheets
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See our website for more information & for rewards stickers, certificates and progress charts ⭐️⭐️⭐️

If you found this post helpful, hit “save” or share it with someone else who is struggling with bedwetting too ❤️

Visit www.thebedwettingdoctor.com (link in bio) for more tips, advice and help on bedwetting

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14/05/2024

At what age should a child be dry at night?
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👧🏽 By age 4, most children have learnt how to control their bladder during the day, but nighttime dryness can take a bit longer to achieve
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🧒🏼 By age 5, many children will be having dry nights, but around 20% will still be wetting their bed by the time they start school
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🧒🏽 Guidelines state that bedwetting treatment is appropriate from age 5+
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👧🏻 If they are not yet ready for treatment, however, you can wait a little while. But by the time a child is 7, action should be taken to tackle their bedwetting.
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👦🏼 The earlier treatment can start, the more efficient and effective it is likely to be, although this does not exclude older children from the treatment process.
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Find out more on our website, or sign up to our free 7 day guide to bedwetting (link in bio)
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Save or share this post if you found it helpful!
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12/05/2024

Top tip 👌

Make the bed with two layers of sheets with a waterproof one in between.

Then, if wetting occurs, you can simply remove the top layer and there is a dry ready made bed underneath.

Save this top to help you in the middle of the night ❤️

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