Friday, February 25, 2011

Dry nights goals

When someone spoke to me about her intention to bring her girl to see doc regarding
bedwetting issues, it strike me hard, did I not put in effort, or rather did I stopped putting effort in Pearl's dry night training which we started sometime ago?

I started it when she was five, encouraging first, then pressurizing when she didn't progress. A reward system was also put in place. She was getting better but in a very slow pace.

However, things changed when Amber, who's 2 years her junior started to announce that she does not want to wear diapers at night anymore and she did it with only about 5% of accidents. Pearl, who's very 好胜,begins to feel very stressed up as she thinks that being the elder one, she should be able to be diaper-free earlier than her little sister. Every morning she wakes up, she'll first check her own diaper then ask me whether her little sister wet her bed the night before. She even suggested that I wake her up twice instead of once at night. To avoid causing emotional turmoil to her, I explained to her that to be able to be diaper-free at night really depends on individual. Some kids can achieve that earlier then the rest because their body are ready earlier, and that is something we cannot control. Most importantly, that its nothing wrong to be a bit later than the others as long as we had tried. Now, we can only keep trying.

I have came up with the following plans and hope we can achieve 100% dry nights soon

1. Night milk to be taken at late afternoon instead so bladder have lesser liquid
2. Empty bladder right before going to bed
3. To wake up for toilet again about 2 hrs after bedtime
4. Back on reward system
5. Lots and lots of encouragement.

If we don't succeed after 3 months, I'll get the urine detector. If still cannot, she'll have to see doc then. Good luck to us!

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