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The use of diapers and pull-ups can cause emotional harm when it comes to bedwetting, leaving children feeling ashamed, embarrassed, and stuck in a cycle of dependency.
Leaders in the diaper industry, like Goodnights, began marketing directly to parents of bedwetters, using a “pain point” to make it seem like their product is a resolution to the challenging problem of bedwetting. What these companies don’t see is that diapers and pull-ups send a message to children that they’re not capable of controlling their bodies, reinforcing negative self-talk and low self-esteem.
And because diapers don’t address the underlying deep-sleep disorder causing bedwetting, use of these products only delays treatment and prevents the opportunity for their children to achieve good sleep. It’s time to ditch the use of diapers and pull-ups, because what seems like a convenience is actually costing your family both emotionally and financially.
Many teens and adults who reach out to us have been wearing the adult diaper, Depends, to bed at night, and they share with us how humiliated they feel.
We’ve heard stories about adolescents and pre-teens wearing pull-ups who expressed the same feelings of shame after their younger siblings already outgrew the need for a nighttime diaper.
Bedwetting is not just a childhood phase; it’s a sign of a serious, underlying sleep disorder that needs attention. The use of diapers poses both a delay for a permanent remedy and a continued financial and emotional expense. It also cuts off the opportunity for good sleep, since the sleep disorder causing bedwetting also causes sleep deprivation.
Diapers Don’t Address the Underlying Deep-Sleep Disorder Causing Bedwetting
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We want to correct the abnormal, extended deep sleep that’s causing bedwetting.
Sleep is a natural state of rest for the mind and body. A third of your life is spent sleeping. In fact, sleep is not a passive state. A lot goes on in your body during sleep, and your brain organizes and solidifies learning and memory which improves your concentration and promotes innovative and flexible thinking. Sleep strengthens your immune system and enables repair of your nervous system. A good night’s sleep relieves stress by quieting your nervous system and establishing a sense of well being. With bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis), a person may sleep for 10 hours, yet only have the experience of seven or eight hours. That equates to a sleep deficit. which means bedwetters are not always receiving the necessities of sleep expressed above.
Sleep begins in stages 1 and 2, (theta sleep) and then progresses to 3 and 4, (delta). After stage 4 sleep is complete, stage 3 and then stage 2 are repeated before entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is where we dream. Once REM sleep is over, the body usually returns to stage 2. We then cycle through these stages approximately four or five times throughout the night. During the last one or two cycles, there is no delta sleep at all.
On average, we enter the REM stage approximately 90 minutes after falling asleep. The first cycle of REM sleep might last only a short amount of time, but each cycle becomes longer. REM sleep can last up to an hour as sleep progresses. Good quality sleep requires both non-REM and REM sleep in uninterrupted cycles.
In most studies, sleep electroencephalograms have demonstrated no differences or only nonspecific changes in children with and without nocturnal enuresis. When surveyed, however, parents consistently maintain that their child with bedwetting is a “heavy and deep sleeper.” Other surveys have found that children with bedwetting are more subject to “confused awakenings,” such as night terrors or sleepwalking than children who do not wet the bed. Source: American Family Physicians – 2003.
Bedwetters remain primarily in the Stage 4 sleep, and they’re not continuously cycling, and, therefore, limiting or bypassing REM (dream sleep.) This compromises restorative and restful sleep, and why we often see bedwetters with mood irregularities, ADHD symptoms, difficulty awakening in the morning, and struggles with focus. This excessively long and deep Stage 4 sleep also severs the connection between the brain and the bladder, and THIS results in bedwetting.
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