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.

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.

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.