Bed wetting alarm

[Anonymous]

An alarm is literally the only thing I returned to Amazon in disgust. It came off my kids underwear which gives it the same signal as being wet and woke everyone up. My poor kid was crying “ I didn’t pee”. She was so upset by it. I’m the end after trying everything it was just time. She is 9 now and wet the bed about a month ago. Before that I think it had been about a year.

[Anonymous]

My child older than yours was wetting the bed nightly almost every night about 1.5 hours after sleeping. I tried treating constipation, waking at night, with no success.

I did research and learned that some kids bladders don't mature until later and don't make the hormone (ADH) that keeps your body from producing as much urine at night until later (this is why most kids outgrow).

The doctor suggested we try DDAVP med and DC has been dry ever since. You are supposed to take a break every 3 months to see if your child is naturally producing ADH on their own.

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to say, no one should (or has yet, thank goodness) flame you for pull ups in a 7 year old who still needs them. My son would pee once or twice a night (I know because of all the many attempts we all do to go without the pull up!) until he was 7. Around 7 and a few months, something just changed in his body and he stopped. He doesn't get up in the middle of the night to pee and sometimes doesn't even pee immediately upon waking. He has a bladder of steel, which is crazy because he needed a pull up to sleep for so long. It's so hard to be patient, but its possible that this will just take care of itself.

[Anonymous]

Bed wetting alarm worked for the one that we used it for. I had to turn off the sound portion and only use the vibration part. Consistency and persistence are key. We had a lot more issues potty training him day and night, but I don't think that was a result of using the alarm. He's the kind of kid that only wants to do things when and how he wants to.
My older DS required more hands-on training. I determined the most likely times he wet the bed at night. Twice per night one parent would take him to the bathroom. Most of the time he had to pee. When he said he didn't have to go, we still went through the motions. It took months of consistency, but it did work. It did get better after just a couple of weeks, but I kept at it to make sure that DS really developed the habit. I was committed to making this work because DS would often wet through Under Jams larger size. He hasn't had an accident since.
The most important thing about potty training is that the kid has to be onboard and really want to be potty trained, particularly as they get older.

[Anonymous]

I have a 7.5 yo boy still in pullups overnight. It's wet and heavy every morning. This is a kid who has never (literally) had a daytime pee accident since being daytime trained at 2.5.
I ask my pediatrician about it every well visit. The response is always "you don't need to do anything about it yet".
I do worry about sleepovers and the like - thankfully, with COVID, there's none of that happening at the moment, and I figured he will outgrow it at some point. If my pediatrician says I need to tackle this, I will.

[Anonymous]

Stupid question for those have that used them--but can a bedwetting alarm be used *with* a pull up?

5 yo DS is nowhere near close to being dry at night, but has expressed an interest in trying the alarms. He still absolutly soaks a pull up every night (he actually still wears leftover diapers, but w/e).

Would an alarm still be able to go off inside a wet diaper...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 7.5 yo boy still in pullups overnight. It's wet and heavy every morning. This is a kid who has never (literally) had a daytime pee accident since being daytime trained at 2.5.
I ask my pediatrician about it every well visit. The response is always "you don't need to do anything about it yet".
I do worry about sleepovers and the like - thankfully, with COVID, there's none of that happening at the moment, and I figured he will outgrow it at some point. If my pediatrician says I need to tackle this, I will.

We had the same with our DD. She wore pullups until she was nine. When she was 9.5, we did 2 weeks of DDAVP and she has not wet the bed since. We did try the DDAVP when she was 7, but the first dose upset her stomach so we didn't continue.

[Anonymous]

Is it wrong to not want to address bed wetting? Ds is 5 and its easier for me to keep him in diapers at night. I don't want to deal with the mess or laundry. I have no desire to tackle this problem. I rather wait till he stops on his own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 7.5 yo boy still in pullups overnight. It's wet and heavy every morning. This is a kid who has never (literally) had a daytime pee accident since being daytime trained at 2.5.
I ask my pediatrician about it every well visit. The response is always "you don't need to do anything about it yet".
I do worry about sleepovers and the like - thankfully, with COVID, there's none of that happening at the moment, and I figured he will outgrow it at some point. If my pediatrician says I need to tackle this, I will.

We had the same with our DD. She wore pullups until she was nine. When she was 9.5, we did 2 weeks of DDAVP and she has not wet the bed since. We did try the DDAVP when she was 7, but the first dose upset her stomach so we didn't continue.

Curious why you only did DDAVP for 2 weeks? I thought you had to do it for a trial of 3 months? Such great news it worked after 2 weeks?

[Anonymous]

I just read that raisins naturally raise your production of ADH and so some people swear by eating them before bed. Have not tried it, but am going too.

[Anonymous]

I'd much rather buy a pack of pull ups once a month than put 6 yo DS on any kind of medication to address bedwetting. He'll grow out of it eventually. He wakes up every morning with the pull up wet and almost leaking, so I suspect we're quite a ways away from him being dry at night.

It's not a big deal, and DS isn't bothered by it, so we won't be disrupting the family's sleep with an alarm anytime soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question for those have that used them--but can a bedwetting alarm be used *with* a pull up?

5 yo DS is nowhere near close to being dry at night, but has expressed an interest in trying the alarms. He still absolutly soaks a pull up every night (he actually still wears leftover diapers, but w/e).

Would an alarm still be able to go off inside a wet diaper...?

No. You clip the alarm to the outside of the underwear right where the pee will hit it first. You would also buy a set of bed pads. They’re soft cloth on one side and plastic on the other. Put one on top of the fitted sheet so your child sleeps on top of it.

When you start using it, your child will continue to pee. He’s in such a deep sleep and can’t “hear” his own body’s alarm to get up. The alarm clipped to his underwear is designed to teach that. The second it senses the pee, it goes off. My son slept through the alarm the first few nights. I had to wake him as I walked him to the bathroom with soaked underpants. He had to learn to associate the need to pee with waking up and going to the bathroom. Gradually, he learned to stop peeing after the first drops hit the alarm sensor and was able to make it to the bathroom. And soon after that, he was dry.

When he is wearing the alarm and soaks the bed, just change the pad, his underwear and pajamas, and put him back to bed. You won’t need to wash any sheets. Get 5-6 pads and wash them every few days.

All that said, 5 is too young. All but 10% of night wetting resolves by age 6. So I might just let it ride some more.

[Anonymous]

Used the malem alarm when DD was almost 7. She asked. Older brother had stopped wetting at night at the age of six. She was upset that she had not. I told her that I wet the bed till nine and then she shouldn’t worry. She was really adamant so we did the bedwetting alarm. You have to follow the regimen exactly, and it worked like a charm. Heck, I found out that my grandmother used a bedwetting alarm for my mother when she was around 10. Of course, they were different then as it was an alarm attached to a pad on the bed instead of something attached to your underwear, but the concept was the same.