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What is it in the brain that occurs that actually signals the body to respond at night?
That's a really good question. And we don't know for sure, but it just does seem to be part of the maturation process. Newborn babies we don't expect to be dry, and we know that when the bladder is full, it reflexively just contracts and pees. And that's the way it's meant to do. And so only if those contractions are inhibited by the brain does it not pee, and somehow the connections need to be made between the brain and the bladder and those connections are then able to stop the bladder from peeing when it's full. How that happens is mysterious, like a lot of brain development is, but we know it happens, and it sooner or later will happen in just about everybody.
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