Bed Wetting Alarm Reviews Please

[MaidMarian]

My almost 7 year old daughter is still struggling at night. We limit fluids before bed, go to the bathroom right before bed and wake her up twice during the night. She still does not make it throught the night dry. Physically she checks out fine. She is an extremely sound sleeper and just does not wake up. We're thinking the bed wetting alarms might be worth a try. Does anyone have any experience with them they could share? Any other things that have been helpful?

 

[Ferrante8]

My almost 7 year old daughter is still struggling at night. We limit fluids before bed, go to the bathroom right before bed and wake her up twice during the night. She still does not make it throught the night dry. Physically she checks out fine. She is an extremely sound sleeper and just does not wake up. We're thinking the bed wetting alarms might be worth a try. Does anyone have any experience with them they could share? Any other things that have been helpful?

Hi there !! I am the mother of 6 and my son (10) has just out grown bed wetting for the most part !! he had wet the bed every night since he was potty trained by the age of 2 1/2. i had spoken to the dr. on many occasions and did a lot of research. They all say that they will grow out of it, girls by the age of 10-11 and boys by the age of 12-014... YIKES and so heart breaking b/c now are the years of sleep overs ! He wore GOOD NIGHTS and they work ! I was always told NOT to wake him from his sleep and my dr was very against the alarms and any other gagets !! I also limited drinks at night ! If bed time was 9 then no more drinks other than water from 6:30 and on. that eventually helped and still does ! If he is drinking milk or juice and its close to bed time then he may wet. We never made a big deal of it and he has never been embarrassed of it, but then ag`ain we didnt make it a topic in front of people ! I would just give it some time and see what happens !! so my advice would be stop waking her b/c that doesnt seem to be working and if she doesnt want to wear a night time underwear than cover the mattress with a crib saver ! they work better than plastic mattresss covers are washable and DO NOT make noise when on the bed !! That was something that he loved no cracky plastic noise !! good luck and I totally understand your frustrations !!!

 

[J'aime Paris]

My best friend used an alarm for her son. She said it didn't help at all, because he'd turn around in his sleep and the alarm sensor fell out of place.
She ended up taking him to a chiropractor, and within 5 visits he was dry every night.

 

[disney1990]

I have know children to wet the bed until age 10 or 11. I too have heard that alarms do more harm than good. I highly recommend Good Nights instead.

 

[MaidMarian]

Thanks for the encouraging words. She wears under jams so that helps. We've never made a big deal of it and always tell her its nothing to be embarrassed about. Your right though about it being the age of sleepovers, she had an embarrassing encounter at a friends house (with the tactful little brother) but her friend stuck up for her. She really wants to stay dry and we tell her she will when she's ready. We just want to do anything we can to help.

 

[kandb]

The only thing I see an alarm doing is making her feel like she "did something wrong". I can't even believe they invented something like that. My daughter had a friend (6 1/2) sleep over last week and her dad called and just said to remind her to put on her pullup at night as she gets into a real deep sleep and doesn't wake up to go. To be honest, I didn't think twice about it. My daughter said something to me but I just explained that she sleeps real sound and forgets to wake up to go. since I made no big deal out of it, neither did my daughter.

 

[daisyduck123]

The alarm worked like a charm for me back in the '70s.

It also worked on several other kids in the neighborhood. When one kid was done with it, it got passed on to another house, and so on & so on.

 

[mjkacmom]

Works great! My pediatrician suggested thebedwettingstore.com. I don't know of any child who used this product who didn't stop wetting the bed within a week. Some kids are just deep sleepers, and need assistance in learning to wake up at night.

 

[jel0511]

DD was a bedwetter as was DH. He was adament that we DO NOT use an alarm for her to help her, as that was what the ped was recommending. See, he had the alarm as well and he's emotionally scarred from it's use, he didn't want the same thing for his daughter. We brought her to a pediatric urologist for an eval, peds don't have the specific knowledge and tests available that they do, as our ped kept telling us the same things, she'll outgrow it, there is nothing medically wrong, etc. The urologist told us that our daughter's bladder was actually too small for her age, which what was making her wet her bed. We did eventually go the medication route, as eventually even underjams/ pull ups weren't containing her nighttime wetting episodes. She did outgrow it once she hit puberty, but it still was tough until then..........

 

[2kids1dog]

We had a great experience using it with my DD when she was 6. Just having it made the difference...I think it only went off once. She used it for 3 weeks and then stopped and never had a problem again. I think we spent $60 on it - but it was well worth it!

 

[leblanat]

This is my seven year old son. He went from a terrible sleeper in diapers at 2, to sleeping like the dead and wetting at 7. He checks out healthy, too. Ultrasounds, too. We tried the alarm. He slept through it. We never did.
His pediatrician says they aren't all that great. And the kid has to wet to make it go off. If they are that asleep and already mid-pee, how do they turn it off to get to the bathroom?
Anyway, he is on a med called desmopressin now that he takes an hour before bedtime. It limits urine production, but he still needs pull-ups as it only limits, doesn't turn it off. And we still wake him and take him. We are waiting to see if he grows out of it. His ped. did say to start him drinking a lot more during the early day to stretch his bladder so it can hold more during the night.

 

[Grendalynn]

I can really sympathize. DS12 was a bed-wetter and occasionally still does.... we tried the alarm, we tried limiting liquids, we tried everything. I would get so exasperated. I was forever changing sheets and washing soiled pajamas. I bought the alarm off Ebay and it didn't work... it either didn't go off or DS slept through it.

This was our child that took forever to potty-train. I thought he would go to kindergarten in pull ups! He was always had accidents and just followed him all of his life so far. My dad was a bet-wetter and so was DH = Doc says its hereditary... DS8 and DS5 rarely have accidents and DS12 still has moments...

We stuck with Under Jams & Pull ups. When he would have a sleep over he was very careful to change privately and pack jammies that concealed his secret. We limited his drinking before bed and were sure to get him up to go to the bathroom when we went to bed. We used pull ups (what feels like) forever because it was exhausting changing the bed every day. It just made our lives easier and DS woke up happier knowing his bed wasn't soaked and smelly.

DS was checked out and he is healthy and everything is working properly... Unfortunately its a developmental thing and they will grow out of it in time. Chances are the child is just and embarrassed as we are frustrated having to change sheets every other day. Hang in there - it gets better!

 

[aladams2]

We tried the alarm w/ dd9. Didn't help, just woke everyone else up. Took her to my chiropractor and she's waking up mostly dry now, which was a huge difference. He wanted us to keep coming, but like most , money is tight. We went about 4 times. May go again for a few more visits just to see how things are working out. But going from wetting every night, to maybe once a week is a huge improvement.

 

[MaidMarian]

What does the chiropractor do that effects bed wetting?

 

[1308Miles]

My DS was a late potty-trainer (just turned 4 when he decided that it was the 'right' time. ) He was easy to day train but nights were difficult. We tried the Malem Ultimate bedwetting alarm on the advice of my SIL and within 10 days, he was waking up completely dry and was SO proud of himself. It was absolutely amazing...the alarm itself is pinned to your child's shirt or nightgown and the sensor is clipped to the front of his/her underwear. We never had a problem with the sensor falling off. I HIGHLY recommend it!

 

[Jill in Chicago]

Our oldest, now 23 years old, was such a sound sleeper. We used the alarm and did medication. (Sorry but I can't remember what.) For the first WEEK all the alarm did was wake me up. My son was so out of it, he didn't even know what was happening. The alarm was SO loud, but it didn't really wake him up.

The second week he would wake up, but twirl around in his room, totally not knowing what was going on. (Yes this was heartbreaking to be a part of.)

The third week he woke up, by HIMSELF, and went to the bathroom! Unfortunately he forgot to lift the lid. (I was still thrilled.)

The fourth week he woke up, turned off the alarm, went to the bathroom (lifting the lid) and took himself back to bed. Done!!!

And truly that was it. Bed wetting was over. We talked it all through ahead of time. He wanted to end the bed wetting. It was very traumatizing to him. Yes the alarm was hard on him, but I think it would have been harder to get older and older and still have to wait for all of this to end.

My father was a bed wetter. His older son, from his first marriage, still wet the bed at 17 years old! So everyone does NOT grow out of this.

 

[Chelley00]

We are in our 3rd week of the alarm.

Our pediatrician said bedwetting is normal until the age of 12. We just didn't make a big deal of it and just let DS (almost 7) be himself. However, he came to us embarrassed because we had a friend drop off their son at our house before school and DS was MORTIFIED that the friend may have seen his pullup in the trash.

The first week someone stayed with him at night to help him wake up and turn the alarm off and change. The alarm went off twice the first couple of nights, and then once for the rest of the nights. The second week the alarm went off only 3 of 7 days. This week (starting Friday for us) he's been on his own and it's only gone off once and that's because we went to the zoo and he drank a TON and we got home late and we're out of routine. Last night he actually got up in the middle of the night on his own to go.

I'd say talk to your child and if they are ready and willing, then go for it. Don't force it, and be prepared to do a lot of work the first couple of weeks to help them listen for the alarm and know what to do if it goes off. We started on Friday night so we could sleep in the first couple of day s We clip it to underwear and then put a pullup over it so we don't have to change sheets all night.

 

[aladams2]

What does the chiropractor do that effects bed wetting?

He said it was something with the positioning of the tailbone I believe. That they couldn't tell when their bladder was full, so they wouldn't wake up.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

What do they look like? Are you flying? Do you think if you put the alarm in your checked baggage for your next Disney trip, airport security might think it's a bomb?

 

[disneycruising]

I have 2 DS's, who are now 16 & 13. Both are very sound sleepers! They were both in pull up at night until they where 10 or 11. We never made a big deal out of it.

My youngest DS has a problem with night terrors...there was no way, I would have woken him up in the middle of the night!