Keep track of your child’s bedwetting with this convenient bathroom diary
Many children wet the bed. While bedwetting can be distressing for both you and your child, it doesn’t mean that anything’s wrong. Most children grow out of bedwetting on their own. But tracking your child’s habits, as well as wet and dry nights, can give you information to help prevent bedwetting.
Use this Children’s Bathroom Diary to keep track of your child’s bedwetting. You can fill it out right here before you print it, or print it now and fill it out over the day.
Make the most of this tracker:
- Fill it out every day for at least a week. Print a new copy for each day.
- Write down what, when and how much your child drinks each day.
- Keep track of how many times your child goes to the bathroom every day.
- Encourage your child to use the bathroom every night before bed.
- Use the diary to praise your child for dry nights, but don’t punish or scold for wet nights.
- Stressful events or unexpected changes to routine can also lead to bedwetting, so keep track of those, too.
- After you've used the tracker for at least a week, share it with your child's doctor.
How does bedwetting happen?
When your bladder is almost full, nerves in your brain tell you when it’s time to urinate. When children wet the bed, they don’t wake up when their bladder sends the signal that it’s time to go to the bathroom. But there are things you can do to reduce your child’s need to use the bathroom at night and help your child recognize and wake up to this signal. Tracking your child’s bedwetting may be the first step in the right direction!
What or when your child has been drinking may be contributing to bedwetting. By keeping a bathroom diary, you can see at a glance what drinks may be causing your child’s body to make more urine during the night. If you also keep track of stressful events or changes to your child’s routine, you can get a better view of how these affect your child’s bedwetting, as well.
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