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Why do I wet the bed?
The picture shows you how your body’s urinary system works. This is where your urine (everybody calls it “pee”) is made. When you drink something, it eventually goes to the kidneys.

The urinary systemFind the kidneys on the drawing.
The kidneys make the pee. The pee travels down little tubes called ureters and enters your bladder.

Find the bladder on the drawing.
The bladder keeps getting larger with pee until you feel like you have to go. After you pee, the bladder is empty. When you are asleep, your brain sleeps so deeply it does not hear the bladder when it tries to tell the brain to wake up because it is full. You wet the bed because your body hasn’t learned to hold the pee when you are sleeping.

Remember…Bed wetting is not your fault. Your brain sleeps so deeply, you can’t wake up. There is nothing wrong with your brain. With help, from our program, your brain can learn to wake up when your bladder is full.

 

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