Plus Wireless Bedwetting Alarm

This thing exceeded expectations. I was unsure if it would work because I could not figure out why my 5 year old was incontinent at night, every night. At week 1-2, the alarm had him getting up 1 time a night to go to the bathroom, needing to change his pants, but not the bed. He immediately LOVED IT. I cannot understate the affect that just a little bit of progress had for his confidence at the start. I immediately found out his wake response was just non-existent, which is probably why he responded to this so well. At week 3-4, he got up maybe 1 out of every 3 nights to use the bathroom, the other nights just being totally dry. And now here I am after 5 weeks, coming back to Amazon to see if I can find any information on when it’s considered too early to stop wearing it because it’s been 10 days since the alarm has gone off at all. That’s when I realized I should probably leave this review.

This review is long over due, but I was afraid to jinx things. My 10 year old son has consistently wet the bed since he potty trained at 3.5 years, and I mean EVERY NIGHT. I accepted it because my brother and my husband's brother wet the bed as kids. My parents bought the alarm when my brother was probably around this age. It did nothing but wake the rest of the household up while my brother slept through it. He wet the bed until he was 12 and was able to take the prescription drug that was available. He took it until he was 16. We tried a lot of things for my son. No dairy in the evening, limited fluids at night, chiropractor, waking him up before we went to bed (most of the time he was already wet, or we would wake him, he'd go and then still be wet again sometime during the night). He wore a pull up every night, he would go through the pull up, through the pea pad mat on his bed and through the sheets and mattress protector. It was constant laundry for me but what was worse was that he was really starting to get embarrassed about it. I made an appointment with our family doctor to discuss it. I had heard there was a new Rx drug that they were giving to kids as young as five that didn't have the same side effects as the Rx drug that they typically make you wait until the child is 12 to prescribe. The doctor seemed receptive to the idea of trying the prescription but he said first he wanted to run a couple of blood tests to make sure that there wasn't an underlying issue. I got a call three days later from the nurse saying that all the blood tests were fine and that the doctor wanted us to try an alarm for 30 days and if that didn't help to contact him and we would discuss again. I was so frustrated. Not because I was in a rush to push some pills on my son, but because I wanted some relief for him. I knew from my brothers experience and the way my son slept that this alarm was NOT going to wake him up and retrain his behavior. I was 100% sure that I was just throwing money away. When the alarm came I explained it all to my son. He was not very receptive but I said we had to try it. He didn't like wearing it clipped to his waistband. He said it was uncomfortable. He happened to have one pair of pajama pants that had a pocket in them so he put it in the pocket instead. He said that was much more comfortable. I hopped on amazon the next day and ordered 6 pairs of pajama pants with pockets. I was shocked first time the alarm went off and I ran to his room to find he was awake and getting out of bed. This kid sleeps like the dead. In the past we would wake him up to go to the bathroom and he was an absolute zombie and wouldn't remember it the next day. That first night he got up, went to the bathroom, changed his underwear and went back to bed. The alarm didn't go off again that night. It was consistent that whole first week between 12:00-12:30. I figured we had at least pin pointed when the trigger was. After that it was all over the board. He was waking once a night, his underwear just barely damp, would go to the bathroom, change and back to bed. We had 2-3 nights in a six week span that he was actually wet and I know he was overly tired those nights. I will say that if your child sleeps hard like mine does you'll want to be close enough or be able to hear the alarm so you can get up to make sure they are awake and moving, also, my son needed help getting the receiver hooked to a new pair of underwear (it's kind of tricky). December 22nd was the last night the alarm went off. He's been dry ever since. I made him continue to wear the alarm through January and I left his pea pad mat on his bed until about 2 weeks ago just to be safe. This alarm worked for my son when I was certain it would not. I had no faith in this idea. It was worth every penny (and really it's a drop in the bucket when I consider what I have saved on pull ups and laundry). Try this! I wish I had done it years ago.

TLDR: Bottom line is that it works and I wish I would have done it earlier.My son is almost 5 and completely day toilet trained and has been for a year or more. But at night he would soak... like not just pee occasionally, but he couldn't do pull ups, even night ones... because he would pee too much for the pull up. We had never had a single dry night. At some point he started to wet during his nap at school, so we started to put him back in pull ups even during the day... and then he started wetting in that more regularly. I had heard over and over again that kids would just naturally night train and the "kids can't control that... so you have to wait it out" philosophy. My other kids naturally stopped wetting at night when they day trained... And then I started doing more digging - holding and consolidating is a skill that kids learn during the day and they can also learn it during the night, but if they go too late without "making" them, they develop the opposite habit of soaking at night and it becomes much harder to train.If they are still peeing every hour during the day, probably not a good time to try this, but if they can hold and consolidate during the day it is best to train before they have built up the bad habit of wetting when they have a diaper on. Honestly, with this child, it was the same during the day- if he had underwear on (or no underwear a la the Oh Crap training method), he was fine, but when my MIL who didn't trust him not to have an accident would put a pull up on, he was go in it. For night training this was the perfect solution because it would wake them immediately once they have peed so that they know that they have done it. My son is a heavy sleeper so we had to go wake him, but we would catch it pretty fast. For the first week, every night was at least 5 alarms, by week 2, we were down to 2 wake ups, by week 3 we could wake him up once to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and he could make it to morning. This week, we have already had 2 dry nights with no wake ups and no alarms! (And he has stopped wetting at school, too!). No more embarrassment at school, my laundry pile - though still deep and wide - smells a lot better, and he was just so proud of himself to have the sunshine sticker the last couple of days.Connecting the sensor is a bit of a pain, but it stays on and of that I am glad because otherwise he probably would have taken it off. I am sharing my review since my son seems to be a bit younger than a lot of the other reviewers and that made me think that perhaps I had to just wait it out, but I am glad I didn't. I will be delighted not to need it anymore very soon!

I bought this for my 8 year old who still had frequent accidents (average 6 nights a week, sometimes 2 in one night). Within the first month it decreased to about half (and the ones she did have were considerably less than she used to have). It is now July and she has only had about 1-2 since June and only her underwear was wet, not the bed.It is a little loud, but it never startled her. In fact, a couple times she slept through it and I had to wake her up. She liked being able to pick the alarm sound.The only reason I did not give it a five star is because it can sometimes be tricky to place. It took my daughter about a week to figure out how to do it on her own when she was wide awake, but struggled to do it when she had to put it back on after an accident. For the price though, it was well worth it.Overall, I am very happy with it.