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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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...? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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