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Provide a Good Environment to Prevent Bedwetting

Help your toddler or child to have dry nights by making their environment conducive to getting out of bed and going to the potty or toilet. Make sure their bed is not too high for them to get out, and make sure that the path to the bathroom is well lit – a nightlight in their room, one in the hallway, and one in the bathroom should work if your child is tall enough to reach the light switch. If your toddler still needs your help to use the toilet, but wants to use the toilet, lighting the way to your bedroom so they can get your help is also a good idea.

Also, for some reason, children who sleep in cold rooms are more likely to wet the bed. Keep your child’s room at about 70 degrees to make this less likely.

Bedtime rituals

For some children, when they go to the bathroom during the day, they do not always completely empty their bladder. Thus, they get used to a not quite empty bladder as being completely empty, and at night, before bed, they do not feel the need to go to the bathroom. During the night, urine production still occurs, and the bladder fills but the child does not wake up until too late.

This situation can be helped by:

• Limit fluid intake right before bedtime – finish a drink two hours before bedtime, and do not drink anything more until morning. Of course, if your toddler is very thirsty, it can be better to allow them to drink something and put a pull up diaper on them, or if a child, wake them up in the night to use the washroom. In some cases, limiting fluid intake might not actually help.

• Right before bedtime, insist your child use the bathroom and try to completely empty themselves. Do not stress this too much, simply ask them to sit on the toilet and try. If nothing comes out, do not comment, just move on to the next part of the bedtime ritual.