Tips for changing your baby's bladder at night

As the saying goes, you don't know the difficulties of being a parent until you are one. After having children, many young couples will find that raising a child from childhood to adulthood is not a particularly easy thing. For example, when the child is an infant, when to change the baby's diaper and how to change the baby's diaper effectively are actually very learned things. Parents need to learn more in practice to truly master this skill.

Is it okay to hold a child's bladder at night?

No, in fact, if you don't hold your child to pee, the child will learn to pee independently earlier. Studies have found that many children who wear diapers to sleep at night can control nocturnal urination, or hold their urine all night until morning, around the age of 2 or even earlier. This is because children who are not held up while urinating have always urinated based on their urge to urinate, so they have a better grasp of their urge to urinate.

Most children who need to be helped to urinate at night still need their parents to get up in the middle of the night to help them urinate when they are 2 years old. Children who are held up to urinate too often are always confused between urinating based on the urge to urinate and urinating based on the action of being held up to urinate, and have a poor understanding of the urge to urinate.

When the baby is three months old, the muscles in the baby's cervical spine are strong enough to lift his head independently. At this time, if the mother holds the baby to urinate, the baby's head will not droop down and injure the cervical vertebrae. Therefore, if you want to hold your baby to pee, you can wait until the baby is over three months old. Hold your baby's thighs with both hands and let your baby's body and head lean against your body so that you can help him/her urinate.

Mothers can practice the habit of urinating and defecating during the day. First of all, the mother should observe the baby's own defecation stimulation reaction. Generally, the baby will have red face, frowning, staring eyes, twisting legs, etc. during defecation. The mother should immediately take the potty and make "um, um" or "hush, hush" sounds to induce defecation. Be careful not to take too long. If you can’t expel it, try again after a while. You will get used to it if you persist. If it is winter and night, when it is too cold and the baby sleeps long at night, mothers can use diapers appropriately for their babies.

1. Observe your baby and understand his bowel movement pattern. When and how often does your baby usually poop? Does he always poop at a certain time, such as right after waking up? Or does he make certain sounds, movements, or facial expressions when he has to poop?

2. When your baby sends out typical signals that he is about to have a bowel movement, use both hands to gently separate his legs from behind, and help him sit in the air above the toilet, urinal, spittoon, etc. If your baby is still very small and has difficulty holding his head upright, let his head, neck and back rest comfortably on one of your arms or your abdomen.

3. When your baby is defecating, you should make a "hush" sound, or other sounds similar to flowing water, or say "pee". The purpose of this is to make him associate this sound with defecation.

5. Place a urine pot next to the bed when you go to bed at night. Before your baby wakes up to feed at night or when he shows signs of irritability, help him urinate. Mom can also put diapers on her baby at night, but this may confuse some babies. If you want your baby to sleep naked, don't forget to put two or three waterproof diapers under him to prevent him from wetting the bed. When he wets his diaper, you can gently pull out the top waterproof diaper to minimize disturbing his sleep.