“Mommy… *cry*…”
“Felix wet his bed. Again. I thought we sent him to the washroom the previous night, before they retired to bed!” Yen was exasperated. Felix does not exactly help when he stood there wailing, inconsolable. How can we help? Why is this happening? Rachel does not seem to have this problem. Not in her younger days. Not now.
How can we stop him from causing us this inconvenience?
Out of ideas, I tried getting him to wear a diaper. This was in a bid to try and get him to resist it, and be more aware of him problem. I was naïve. Felix thought for a while. He resisted my 'diaper'-idea for sometime, saying he was a “big boy”. But threw in the towel, eventually. He gamely accepted the “preventive measure”. Oh no! Not exactly what I had in mind!
But the idea seemed to work. That night, Felix did not wake up to visit the washroom. We found his diaper dry too. We lavished praise on him, and again, on the second night, he kept it dry. Even better, he woke us up to tell us he wanted to use the washroom. He let out a little whimper, but pulled out his diaper and did his business.
The third night was better. He did not cry, and visited the washroom again in the wee hours of the morning. So my wife said Felix knew how to hold his bladder at night and could go on without diapers again. How wrong were we? We paid another heavy price. Another wet bed that night.
I went to the trusty Internet and ran a search on Yahoo!’s search engine. According to kidshealth.org, the condition is predominant amongst young children and they will “grow out of it”. Eventually.
A random site suggested using hypnotism. Another site opined the use of medication and even using some alarm to wake the child up to visit the washroom in the night. Do we really have to go that far and take such drastic measures? Sigh.These mornings, when we wake up early in the morning, we would go and check on our children, exactly Felix. And if he has not wet his bed yet, we would carry him in his sleep to the washroom, waking him up in the process for a pee, and carrying him back to his bed for a further few moments of shuteye.
Hi Brother,
ReplyDeleteToilet training at night is never easy, on the kid and parents. Yes, I do agree that children will out-grown it but that is with parents effort and not just leave it to GOD.
For Felix, U can try waking him up in the mid of the night to clear his bladder. Doesnt sound good cos that mean one of u have to wake up to do this job.
Advantage is u probably wun have wet bed in the morning. The kids will sleep better after toilet visit.
How do we stop waking up at night? U start delaying the wake up time till morning. Example, U wake Felix up a 2am to pee for a few night then try 3am then 4am and eventually no wake up.
Along the way there will be accidents, believe me the body are adjusting.
I believe Felix do want to be able to stay dry as well.
Jia you ok. It took me 1yr to train Janelle to be accident free and yet 3 month for Julian. Each kid is different, challenges are part of parenting.