Bedwetting Support Group

Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or the teen or adult years. Find others who are coping with a bedwetting problem and share your experiences and questions.

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Anxiety?

scutterbug
scutterbug
My 10 year old grand daughter just started wetting the bed after about a good year of not. It's been about 2 weeks now. Does anyone understand just how anxiety causes this? We have custody of her and there are dynamics in her life that cause anxiety, she just doesn't show it too much or talk about it, even to her therapist. Thanks, grandma
scutterbug
scutterbug
It's me again, several years later. My sweet grand is now sixteen. She did outgrow her bedwetting and also she is now our daughter. We adopted her a couple of years ago. She is the love of my life and is learning to face her fears. She is brave and stronger than she realizes, as are most children.
itsmaddy95
itsmaddy95
That's awesome! Thanks for the update. How long ago did she outgrow it? What helped her the most? How did she cope when she was having problems?
momsgonumber2
momsgonumber2
Hi Grandma,
The anxiety issue works both ways. By the time our children are 8, 9, 10 or older, their bedwetting causes the whole family a lot of anxiety. They only anxiety in our family of two of mine and two of his is when someone needs an enema for maintenance of bowel habits but it is soon erased once they have Bmd and are ready for bed. Two of them now knowing they will always wake of dry. A third is still wetting but nightly enema is starting to work after two weeks of keeping his rectum empty and not pushing against his bladder at night.
Make them go number two and number one will improve.