How to night train your child to urinate

Bedwetting is the most common problem for many children and also the most troubling problem for parents. Bedwetting not only causes trouble for parents, but also affects the mental health of children. Training your child to urinate at night can effectively solve the problem of bedwetting. Asking children to get up at night to urinate will affect their sleep quality and may also cause them to feel negative emotions. Therefore, parents should consider many aspects when training their children to urinate at night.

Do you need to wake your child up to urinate at night? Parents at home and abroad have different views on this issue. Parents in China, especially the older generation, believe that children should not wake up on their own when they feel like urinating at night. Younger children, in particular, need to be woken up by their parents and reminded to urinate, otherwise they are prone to wetting the bed or holding their urine.

However, most parents abroad believe that children sleep deeply at night, and if they are always woken up in the middle of the night to change their diapers, it will affect their sleep quality, which will be detrimental to their physical development in the long run.

In fact, the baby's excretion ability at 18-24 months is not completely autonomous behavior, and generally children do not need to wear diapers after the age of 2. Therefore, after the child is 2 years old, you can wake him up at night to urinate.

When training your baby to get up to urinate at night, you need to find the right direction. Every parent hopes that they can master and train their baby's urination and defecation, which can not only allow the baby to get better care, but also make themselves more relaxed.

But ideals are full and reality is skinny. When it comes to training babies to urinate at night, many parents do not know how to get twice the result with half the effort.

In fact, as long as you find the right direction, training your baby to pee at night is so easy!

1. Correct your baby’s work and rest problems

Nowadays, many young parents are accustomed to going to bed late, and even their children also eat late and go to bed late, which eventually leads to serious problems with the children's work and rest schedule.

For example, if a child is severely sleep deprived, his neurological function will not develop fully, which will affect the development of the urinary system. Therefore, if you want your child's nighttime urination training to be successful, preschool children should go to bed before 8 o'clock every night.

2. Don’t let your baby drink too much water before going to bed at night

If babies drink too much water before going to bed, it can easily irritate their bladder and make them feel the urge to urinate at night. In order to prevent your baby from urinating frequently at night, you should try to let your baby drink less water before going to bed.

3. Wait for the baby's perception ability to improve

It takes a process to improve a child's perception ability. During the daytime toilet training, you should observe your baby's performance more. Many babies will have some different behaviors before urinating, such as solemn look, dazed look, etc.

As your baby's perception improves, it will become easier for him to get up to pee at night.

There are also small details that need attention. Training the baby to urinate and defecate requires parents' patience and skills. This is a milestone in the baby's growth. In this process, if parents do not handle many details well, it may affect the baby's life.

Take the problem of training your baby to urinate at night as an example. In addition to grasping the correct direction, you also need to pay attention to the following issues:

1. Training should be gradual

Although it is understandable that parents want their babies to quickly master the skills of controlling urination and defecation, the editor believes that nighttime peeing training for babies is a gradual process. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, otherwise it may cause the baby to be disgusted.

The correct training order is: first train the baby to control bowel movements and urination during the day, and then train the baby to control urination at night.

2. Communicate more with your baby

Many babies are used to wearing diapers at night, and when they reach the age when they should stop wearing diapers, they will become overly dependent on diapers, which affects their toilet training. At this time, the mother should tell the child that he is already a big brother or sister and cannot always wear diapers and should manage his own urination and defecation. This will make the baby understand why he should do this and reduce his resistance.

3. Parents should have the right attitude

When your baby wets the bed, you should not blame the child for having to wash the sheets repeatedly. Instead, you should tell them that bedwetting is because they are not grown up yet, but you should also let them know that bedwetting will cause trouble for the mother. Or let your child experience the feeling of getting wet so that they can understand it positively.