These children struggle every day with the shame and embarrassment and teasing brought on by their bed-wetting. They need your support to overcome the problem. Bed-wetting is usually not an emotional, learning or behavioral problem. Your child is not wetting the bed on purpose. However, children who do not get help or who are punished for bed-wetting might develop emotional or behavioral problems.
Most children stop wetting the bed at night by the time they are four or five.
Children who continue to wet should be assessed by a pediatrician or a family doctor. This may be a sign of more serious problems. Since infection of the urine can cause wetting in a few cases, every child with wetting needs to be checked. Some children produce more urine during sleep than others. Other children have bladders that do not hold as much urine.