Sleepwetting in the Child Care Setting

Sleepwetting in the Child Care Setting
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By Gabrielle Guedet, Ph.D.
California Childcare Health Program

What is it?

Sleepwetting is unintentional urination during sleep which continues beyond age 4 years for daytime and beyond age 6 years for nighttime.

Sleepwetting is a term used to emphasize the fact that the child is wetting while sleeping. This gives the parent and the child care provider a different view of the situation than the commonly used term “bedwetting.”

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