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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read all 4 pages but when DD was 8 we had success with a bed wetting alarm. If you follow the instructions exactly as stated, it works! But I would only use it on a motivated child. [/quote]

Like all solutions, it works for some children, but not all.  Be careful about trying to make a one-size-fits-all or one-solution-fits-all statement.

It works for some children that are not deep sleepers.  There are many deep sleepers who either stlll don't wake up, or wake up so slowly, that they wake up too late.  In our case, with the alarm, my child was slow to wake and would wake up after his accident and still have a wet bed.  Then, because he was woken up, often from REM sleep, he would be very tired and cranky the next day.  It not only didn't help, it doubled the problems.  The bed alarm was worse than the bed wetting.[/quote]

That's because you are not supposed to just rely on the alarm and do nothing. Of course they would sleep through it. By son did. You have to jump out of bed when you hear the alarm, wake up your kid and walk them to the bathroom. After a few days of this it did the trick for us. I'm sure there are some kids for whom it will not work, but not even trying is ridiculous and a disservice to the child.[/quote]

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