Our Message For Parents
We know you’ve been trying everything to help your child or teen stop their bedwetting: Endless Google searches, implementing multiple methods, and ultimately taking repeated shots in the dark. How we’re able to offer real help is by getting to the source of the bedwetting: An inherited deep-sleep disorder, (parasomnia). This brings about a permanent end to bedwetting, PLUS an end to the frustration, the expense, the fruitless efforts, and the energy expenditure.
Fortunately, we have a science-based method aimed directly at correcting the disordered pattern of sleep. It’s actually unhealthy deep sleep–the kind where a bedwetter won’t hear a smoke alarm or feel an earthquake. This poor quality sleep often affects daytime functioning – energy levels, mood, outlook, etc. – and often produces symptoms that mimic ADD or ADHD.
You can read more about the misdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD here.
Everything Changes For The Better
Everything changes for the better once we correct the underlying sleep disorder. Benefits we’ve seen over the years include:
- Experiencing restorative sleep for the first time each night
- Waking up refreshed and dry each and every morning
- Enhanced ability to focus
- Improvement in schoolwork
- Greater ease with social interactions
- Heightened self-esteem
- Increased well-being and sense of satisfaction
- Increased levels of energy and/or decreased hyperactivity
- Ability to attend sleepovers and camp without anxiety or fear
- Elimination or diminishment of ADD/ADHD symptoms – likely to eliminate the need for medication
Click here to head to Our Approach page to learn more about our program, The Bedwetting Cure™.
What does NOT CAUSE bedwetting?
- Psychological irregularities
- Physiological challenges
- Fluid consumption
- Toilet training mistakes
- A missing hormone
- An underdeveloped bladder
- Erratic bedtimes
- Constipation
- Poor diet
- Laziness
- Sexual abuse
- Narrow palate
- Tongue tie
- Spinal galant reflex
What does NOT CURE bedwetting?
- Medication
- Pull-ups or Goodnites
- Alarms by themselves
- Mats, pads & bracelets
- Restricting fluids
- Changes in diet
- Hypnotherapy
- Psychotherapy
- Constipation therapy
- Vitamins or supplements
- Tongue tie correction
- Palate expanders
- Rewards or punishment
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Removal of tonsils & adenoids
- Awakening in the night for trips to the bathroom
- PTNS – Posterior Tibial Nerve Stimulation
Please know this: All of these attempts to cure bedwetting only scratch the surface because they have no relationship to proper treatment whatsoever. That’s why families try these things and experience no results or only temporary ones. That means both money and time were wasted, and disappointment was the outcome. It’s heartbreaking for both the parents and the child.
Message From A Doctor About Outgrowing Bedwetting
Dr. Diane N. Rosenbaum, a psychologist at the Center to Assist in the Regulation of Enuresis, which is part of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said even many pediatricians don’t know how to deal with bedwetting.
Frustrated parents are often told “Don’t worry about bedwetting. They will outgrow it!” A major study in the British Journal of Urology (May 2006) concludes that many children will never outgrow bedwetting – unless they get help.
If a seven-year-old still wets every night, it’s almost certain they won’t stop without getting proper treatment. This study found that if a seven-year-old is wetting just one or two nights per week, he has a 96% chance of wetting as a 13-year-old. If someone is wetting three to six times a week, they have a 76% chance of wetting until at least age 19.
Most importantly, IF someone outgrows bedwetting –which is a relief from wet sheets– what they won’t outgrow is the disordered pattern of sleep, which will affect their quality of sleep for a lifetime. Unless and until you correct the disordered pattern, bedwetting will persist. Moreover, waiting to outgrow bedwetting is not only painful, it’s also not probable.
Psychological Effects of Bedwetting
Wetting the bed can be an assault on a child’s self-esteem, especially for an older child or teenager. Very often they suffer silently. The single greatest fear is being “discovered,” which often causes them to withdraw, or to feel the need to “harbor a secret” to avoid being teased or feeling ashamed – sometimes even with siblings.
Older children still wetting will often avoid participating in activities such as camp or sleepovers with friends. Ultimately, the longer bedwetting goes untreated, the greater the potential for psychological and emotional harm.
Our Invitation To You
We invite you to reach out to us for an initial informational conversation to answer your preliminary questions. At that time, you may wish to schedule your First Step Consultation. No obligation.
We have been ending bedwetting for 50 years. We know what it takes. A dry bed every morning is within reach when you take The First Step here.