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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with advice above but also: Have you tried a bedwetting alarm? I didn't think my 7- year-old was anywhere near nighttime dryness (woke every day with a sopping pullup, slept like the dead), which was fine with us (my father and brother were bedwetters until adolescence, so I wasn't unprepared for it). But it really bothered DS and he was embarrassed about wearing pullup. The pediatrician suggested we try an alarm. I was totally skeptical but within 2 weeks of starting the alarm he was reliably dry every night. [/quote]

She sleeps like the dead too!  We did try the alarm about 6 months ago and it woke up DH and I but not her.  She slept right through it.  A tornado can touch down outside her window and she would still now wake up.  Her pull is also totally soaked in the morning as well.  I never get mad over it.  Yes its frustrating but I know its common.  I just didn't know what to think when she peed herself when she was wide awake.[/quote]

This is the PP above. Just wanted to say that my DS was never awakened by the alarm either. When it went off, I would go in, shake him and call his name to wake him up, and get him up to change his pullup. Then back to bed. After several nights of this... the alarm stopped going off. I have no idea why this worked, but it did. Just providing encouragement that at some point you might tryit again, and that it might work even if the alarm doesn't wake him.

Re sleeping through the alarm: I have never seen anything like it. Pinned to his jammie top right under his chin, screaming loud, vibrating hard enough to shake his bed. He slept right through. FWIW, I remember my mother saying that if we ever had a fire in the middle of the night, she didn't know how she'd get my brother out of the house. [/quote]

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