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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, asserts that most pediatricians don’t know how to treat bedwetting.
Frustrated parents are often told, “Don’t worry about bedwetting. It’s not a big deal. Your child could outgrow it one day.” Yet a major study in the British Journal of Urology (May 2006) concludes that most children won’t outgrow bedwetting unless they get help.
Unfortunately, the notion that a child will outgrow bedwetting has been normalized by the medical community, and it’s time to end this outdated mindset. Not only is the wait traumatizing, but if the bedwetting were to magically disappear, then the root cause–an abnormal, deep-sleep disorder–will remain in place for your child’s lifetime.
This means related symptoms of the disorder can surface in the future, including: Sleep apnea, sleep walking, sleep talking, insomnia, excessive snoring, and teeth grinding. Plus you can expect increasingly difficult mornings. Bedwetting is a red flag. It tells us that your child isn’t getting good sleep. You’re likely seeing the effects of this on their behavior, mood, energy, and focus, which grow more challenging over time.
Wetting the bed can be an assault on a child’s self-esteem, especially for an older child or teenager. Very often they suffer in silence. 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. And 18 years-olds ready to embark on a new college adventure are often faced with the task of having to hide their bedwetting and fearful that they actually can. There’s no doubt about it: The longer bedwetting goes untreated, the greater the potential for psychological and emotional harm. We see this on a regular basis.
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Mother/Daughter Team
Barbara J. Moore, Founder, and Gaile Nixon, Director of Patient Care
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