Why does a 6-year-old baby wet the bed?

Every couple will become more attentive when they have a baby. Watching the baby grow up little by little, the parents will be particularly happy. When the baby is young, he will always wet the bed, and we all think it is normal, but sometimes the baby will still wet the bed when he is five or six years old. It is fine during the day, because the child already knows that he should go to the toilet and pee on the toilet, but why does he still wet the bed at night? So let’s take a look at what causes a 6-year-old baby to wet the bed?

1. Develop the habit of urinating before going to bed: Do not let your child drink beverages or water 2 hours before going to bed, and develop the habit of urinating before going to bed.

2. Don't let your child get too excited before going to bed: Let your child go to bed on time every day. Don't tease him too much before going to bed, don't do strenuous activities or overly exciting games, and don't watch stimulating movies and TV shows, so as to avoid overexcitement of the brain and induce bedwetting at night.

3. Don’t let your child be too tired during the day: Keep a regular daily routine, avoid excessive fatigue and mental stress during the day, and it’s best to take a nap to prevent being too tired and sleeping too deeply at night. It will make it difficult for your child to wake up when he needs to urinate, and it will also be difficult for him to be awakened by his parents.

4. Establish a nighttime urination reflex: In the early stages of treatment, parents should find out when their children are most likely to wet the bed at night, and use an alarm to wake them up half an hour in advance to urinate, so that the wake-up ring and the bladder filling stimulation occur simultaneously. After a period of training, a conditioned reflex will be established, and the child will be awakened by the stimulation of a full bladder at night and can control urination on his own. It should be noted that when waking up a child to urinate, you must make sure he is fully awake and urinates completely while he is awake. Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to establish a conditioned reflex of urination while he is drowsy.

5. Train your baby's bladder function: encourage your child to drink more water during the day, and try to extend the interval between urinations to increase urine output, train your child to hold urine appropriately, and improve bladder control. When children urinate, encourage them to urinate intermittently and then urinate completely to improve the control of the bladder sphincter.

We have solved the problem of why a 6-year-old baby wets the bed. We usually don’t have much time to be with the baby, but we should pay good attention to the baby’s education. We can’t scold the baby for wetting the bed because the baby is also very shy about this issue. We need to think of a more comprehensive way to tell him and take care of the child’s feelings.