How Parents can help

The most important thing that you can do for your child when they start bed wetting is to reassure them. They need to know that it is perfectly normal for children their age to wet the bed. Children need to know that it isn't their fault. You shouldn't punish them for bed wetting and make sure that nobody else in the family teases them. If you wet the bed when you were a child, you should tell them, so that they realise that you understand what they are going through. Remember, you child isn't doing this on purpose, they can't help it.

If you think that the bed wetting is occurring because your child has gone through a big change in their lives and are feeling stressed, try to help them through this difficult time before starting to tackle the bed wetting.

You can make night time accidents much less stressful, use a mattress protector under the bed clothes so that it is easier to deal with soiled bedding and prolongs the life of the mattress. An older child can help change the bed but don't make it seem like a punishment.

For some children, a moisture alarm can work. These are attached to the nightclothes and go off when they come into contact with moisture. The idea is that they wake the child up so that they can go to the toilet. The point of these is to re-educate the child so that they wake up when they need away.

Bed wetting can be caused just by a child being frightened to get out of bed during the night to go to the toilet. Leave the light on the landing or get your child a torch or nightlight so that they can see to get to the bathroom.

It could be as simple as the child drinking too much before they go to bed and the bladder not being able to hold all the urine. So make sure they don't have a lot to drink for a couple of hours before bed and cut out any drinks with caffeine in. Getting the child up a couple of hours after they have gone to sleep and take them to the toilet can help as long as they are awake when they go.

Get your child to practice pelvic floor exercises to strengthen the bladder or to hold their wee a little while before going to the toilet to stretch it. Try practicing getting up to go to the toilet during the day. When your child needs a wee, they should go and get into bed and pretend to be asleep, pretend to wake up, go to the toilet and pretend to go back to bed and go back to sleep.

Above all, reassure your child that you still love them, even after they have had an accident. They feel very bad about themselves after they have wet the bed and, if they see it has upset you, the will feel even worse.

While your family works through ththis phase give yourself and your child some piece of mind with some sort of waterproof bedding. Most waterproof sheets and bedding solutions are noisy, plastic, uncomfortable and obvious 'pee sheets'. If you want a waterproof sheet for your bed-wetting that is comfortable, quite and nice looking try Brolly Sheets.

Brolly Sheets are the answer to noisy, plastic, uncomfortable and obvious waterproof bedding. When quick bed changes and quality matters give your household the best solution to deep sleep bed-wetting with Brolly Sheets.