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.
im trying to find any information i can , my teenage daughter has a small bladder , and im trying to find out if they is anything i can do to help her , shes at the stage , its embarasing for her, she takes desomelt at night , they ok if she doesnt drink at night , i have tried waking her up through the night , but that seems to make her more tired and frustrated the next day , the doctor told her to do pelvic exercises and that hasnt seemed to work ,
If she has a small bladder, as you say, unfortunately there really may not be a whole lot you can do except to wait for it to grow a little bit. It frequently happens that kids' bladders don't grow fast enough to keep up with their bodies, and in the teenage years, when the body is growing very rapidly, this can be a big challenge if the bladder isn't keeping up. She could quite literally have the bladder capacity of a toddler trying to cope with the demands of a rapidly growing teenager's body. The good news is that her bladder WILL grow at some point -- while she may never have a completely "normal" sized bladder even as an adult, it should grow enough to get her through the night at least, with maybe one trip to the bathroom at the most.
In the meantime, the best thing you can to is to support her and reassure her that she isn't the only one, and that the problem isn't forever. Talk to her and listen to her feelings about what is going on. If the medication is keeping her dry at night the majority of the time, keep going with it for awhile and ask her what she would prefer to do to help manage the nights where there are accidents -- whether it's a plastic sheet, a pad on the bed, or a "pull-up" type undergarment to help keep the bed dry. Whatever makes her the most comfortable is key at this stage. If her bladder remains small, she may eventually have to learn to wake up and get herself to the bathroom during the night (some people have to do this throughout life!) but the time to work on that is when she doesn't have a lot else going on -- preferably when school is out -- and she can afford to nap during the day if waking up cuts into her sleep at night. Don't wake her up more than once a night, in any event -- if you wake her up once to empty her bladder and she still wets afterwards, it just means her bladder probably isn't ready to make it through the night yet. If that happens consistently, maybe give her a break from the night waking and use other methods of dealing with it for another 6 months or so and then maybe her bladder will be a little more mature.
Good luck to you both! I really feel for your daughter because I had exactly the same condition (small bladder) when I was growing up. There are no easy answers but it will get better with time! If you want to talk about any of this more, please feel free to send me a message -- I'm very glad to try to help any way I can.
and said it still needs to grow to catch up to the rest of my body
and said that is why i pee the bed
the doctor said my bladder will grow bigger then
i will stop peeing the bed