Some parents would however involve their child in changing their bed wetting sheets and clothes. Also, cleaning mattress after bed wetting. Some parents would say that this motivates that child to wake up the next night when they feel like going to the bathroom. However, it is important to keep it as a no big deal issue to avoid too much pressure on the child. Too much stress and pressure on the child could make bed wetting even worse.

When involving your child in the cleaning process, make sure to keep a low-key attitude. Dealing with bed wetting is not about blaming, replacing the sheets is not about making your child embarrassed or being punished by the situation, it is about undergoing and dealing with the problem as a family.

Cleaning Up After Bedwetting

To reduce night time accidents, you could use mattress protectors, bed wetting covers of rubber and plastic. You could use a garbage plastic bag, split it open and cover it. You could even use old vinyl table cloth with the fabric side up. This could help protect your mattress from bed wetting stains. Always have plenty of sheets available.

When cleaning up after a bed time accident, doing it fast is important to make sure that the smell would not set in the fabrics. Remove the sheets and the blankets so the urine will not soak the mattress. Immediately place the sheets and the blankets in the washer. Your child’s clothes should also be washed immediately to avoid odor stains.

Aside from that, make sure that your little one is also clean. Wash with soap and water. Urine could cause rashes and irritation, so make sure that they are rubbed clean and wearing fresh clothes. Avoid punishing them, you may be irritated by waking up in the middle of the night to strip some sheets, but do not dump them on your child.

Dealing with mattresses may be more difficult, especially if there are no protective covers. You could start by pressing some rags or towels in the area where urine has soaked up the mattress. This would remove the urine that is still there. There are some fabric cleaners which could be used to clean a wet mattress affected by bed wetting like Urine-Off. You would just have the scrub the area with a sponge and dry it up with towels.

There may be instructions along with the mattress on how you could clean them. You could call the manufacturers if you are unsure on how to clean mattress. Vinyl mattresses are easy to clean, since you would just have to wipe it with cleaners. Spray it first with some germ-killing spray before remaking the bed. If your child is frequently bed wetting, then you would need to have the mattresses steam cleaned on a regular basis.

However, the most affordable option is buy a vinyl protective mattress cover.

Some parents may feel that this is very stressful, but it is more stressful on the child. It is not a child’s dream to wake up in the middle of night in wet pyjamas and soaking sheets. Understand that your child is not doing this to rebel or go against you. Over reacting about the incidents would only make the situation and the problem worse.

Here are some things that parents should say or do when dealing with their bed wetting kids.

1. Reassurance is important. Children may be disappointed when they cannot control their pee. They may feel frustrated since they think that they are the only ones who are still wetting their bed. Bed wetting children may feel isolated at times, since they could not go to sleepovers or camps because of their bed wetting. Make your child understand on how common bed wetting is among children; it is just that most children are embarrassed to talk about it. You could even share a story of another bedwetter of the family who was able to get over it.

Maintain communication with your kid

2. Keep your child’s self-image intact. During this stage, your child may feel that he has disappointed you and himself. Keep the accidental night time wetting in perspective. Motivate your kid to do better.

3. You could do some motivational peeing. This would involve your child visualizing himself getting up in the middle of the night and relieving himself. Cheer him up, you could drop a kiss and a word motivating him to stay dry through the night.

4. You could also play pretend. There are some children who do not bed wet when they are sleeping in other homes which mean that they cannot achieve the deep sleep in sleepovers. You could ask your child to pretend that they are sleeping in other people’s house and imagine that they would be dry in the morning. Eventually, the child would have dry nights at home when his mind and body connection matures.

5. Never fall into the bad patterns. Avoid nagging your child about bed wetting.

6. Having your child participate in sheet changing could surely make the process faster, however do not make sheet changing a sentence or a punishment. You could still involve then with sheet changing as long as they are up for it.

7. Do not punish. Treat bed wetting as a no-big-deal. Do not scold or ground him from any activities. Kids would mature and eventually outgrow bed wetting. Just make sure that you make your child understand that you are meant on helping him stay dry.

8. Maintain communication with your child. You may even be looking for a possibility of emotional stress as a cause of bed wetting.