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A Girl's Guide to Bedwetting

Understanding Bedwetting from a Girl's Perspective

By Kelly Burgess

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Taking your daughter's bedwetting seriously before the generally accepted timeframe can save her from having her bad feelings about wetting the bed negated. And if your daughter is obviously distraught about her bedwetting, then she's also highly motivated to change, which is important because Dr. Friman points out that dealing with bedwetting requires a lot of cooperation on the part of the child.

One reason bedwetting can become a more urgent issue for girls is that girls tend to start having sleepovers at a very young age, Dr. Friman says. This brings up the embarrassment or worry factor on the part of a young girl that she may have an accident.

Hope says that sleepovers were a big issue for her daughter. "She was so worried [about having an accident] that she didn't want to go on play dates or sleepovers," she says. "When we had sleepovers here she and I had this big thing we would do where I would distract her friends and she could sneak in and put a Pull-Up® on."

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