Bedwetting Alarm with Volume Control, 6 Selectable Sounds and Vibration

I never write reviews. And I feel badly about it because I rely heavily on them when I make purchases. So this busy mama of four is taking the time to write this review because it has impacted my life in such a significant way that I have to share my story!My son is 5. I had him potty trained right before he turned 3. Mostly. He was NEVER able to keep dry at night. Everyone said it's a bladder maturity thing. Everyone said he will eventually grow out of it. Well 2+ years later and he is still peeing in his pants every single night while he sleeps and I am trying to be patient while praying and hoping he won't be 10 years old and still wetting the bed every night!So I did a little research. Turns out he wets the bed at night because he is a deep sleeper and he has not yet made the brain to bladder connection to wake up to go to the bathroom. So that is where this alarm comes into play. I admit I was quite skeptical. Or perhaps simply cautious in allowing myself any form of optimism? Anyway, this is how it works: you clip a sensor to their underwear, clip the alarm to the top of their shirt (or arm, with included arm band), and when they start to urinate while they sleep, the alarm not only rings, but vibrates as well.I chose this particular bed wetting alarm because it has customizable options. You can determine how loud you want the alarm to ring, which was important to me because my son shares a room with my 1 year old and I did NOT want my baby waking up. The unit never woke the baby on the lowest volume setting (I never tried it any louder). You can also choose to turn the ringer off completely and have it just vibrate, or turn the vibration off and have it just ring. So that was pretty cool. I chose to do both, volume set to lowest option.There is a cute little sticker chart that comes with the product, that for a 5 year old is super exciting. There are 3 sticker options: sunshine - for a dry night, partly cloudy - for a semi-wet night, and a stormy raincloud - for a wet night. A few days into week 1 and I wanted to give up already (LOL) because who wants to go back to newborn days of waking up in the middle of the night? Not me! But other reviewers said to be consistent, so consistent I was. It was hit or miss at first, in terms of how he did. The alarm went off every night for 9 nights, but some of those nights he had only barely started to urinate and he made it to the restroom! Exciting stuff! I still had to change his underwear because the sensor is super sensitive so any form of dampness and it'll go off. My husband thought it was ridiculous and borderline child abuse (exaggerating) putting this contraption on him every night, and it didn't help my resolve. Well then this happened: Day 10, 11, 12, ...seven days straight completely DRY ALL NIGHT!!! I am completely astounded at how well this thing worked. Last night my son and I were both so excited for him to go to bed without the alarm, and he did it again! He used it for a total of 15 days and we no longer need it.I do not think I can truly express how grateful I am to the creators of this alarm system, and to God for guiding me to purchase this! Its affordable, easy to use, and it really truly works!Here are a few tips/tricks:*As another reviewer recommended, I put underwear on first, clipped the sensor to that, and put a pull-up on over his underwear, so night time changes were a breeze and he could go right back to bed. Brilliant.*Also from another reviewer - if you are worried about your fingers getting too close to private areas, you can clip the sensor to the underwear before they put it on. It's actually easier this way so you don't accidentally clip something else by mistake. Ouch!*Some reviewers mentioned that they have sweaty kids and the sensor would go off from sensing perspiration. I do not necessarily have a sweaty kid, but what I did, that I think might work for those sweatier kids (those with boys), is I clipped the sensor to that extra flap of material in their underwear that boys have. I think it kept the sensor a little more away from his body, but still worked perfectly whenever he started to urinate. Just a thought.*Be positive and supportive with your child and dry nights are only a few weeks away! :-)I hope this review helps others not only choose this item (because it rocks), but also helps with application and just encouragement to power through! And my prayers that this works just as well for you!

I will start this review by saying that the previous reviews were critical in helping us stick with the process and ultimately in making this experience a success which is why I wanted to add a review and share our experience.The child who underwent this treatment came to stay with us for awhile due to some challenges at home. When he arrived he had been wearing pull-ups at night for years and would only occasionally have dry nights. After doing some research we decided that an alarm would be the best support/intervention and I ordered this alarm based on the simplicity and positive reviews. While I had read the directions and personal anecdotes I was not fully prepared for how intense and iterative this experience was going to be.The alarm worked exactly as promised, when wet it goes off. The noise and the vibration work well. The variety of sounds was useful too, especially since one of the sounds didn't seem to effect him as much as the others. The problem we encountered was not the alarm but the child keeping the alarm on. The plus side of having an 11 year old do the intervention is that he could snap the alarm on and off on his own, which I could see being hard for little hands and fingers. However, he was also taking the alarm off at night because, well, he could. This lead to the treatment needing to go on for a longer amount of time. We tried to reason with him and celebrate when he would keep it on, but often in the middle of the night he would take it off for whatever reason and then would wet the bed.The plus side was that there were a good portion of nights when he kept the alarm on long enough for it to go off and stimulate his brain and body to get up. These nights led to him being able to get up and go pee when he needed to, before wetting the bed, and also staying dry longer through the night. The final and longest hurdle was staying dry through the final morning hours.Once he could make it through the night he was mostly wetting the bed early in the morning. Then it moved to him waking up at his normal hour while wetting the bed, which was accompanied by "the dream". The one where you think you're on the toilet but you're not actually. This last phase was hard because he would stay dry all night and then in the last moments of the morning it would happen, and he would have already taken off his alarm during the night. We tried adding an alarm clock to wake him up earlier, but that didn't seem to help. There was one point in week 9 when he had kept the alarm on all night and then he began to wet the bed, the alarm went off and he woke up quickly and finished in the bathroom. This was the last day he wet the bed. It seemed as though he just needed that final alarm to go off in the morning.Around week 6 we had 7 dry nights in a row and he was convinced he didn't need to wear his alarm. As we were working on him taking responsibility for his dryness we told him we supported him and let him make the choice. That night he wet the bed and felt really disappointed, like he had messed up the progress. We told him what was most important was that he believed in himself and that he kept working at it.The attitude and positive self talk was a huge part of the work. Initially he would say that he was broken and that there was just something wrong with him which was why he couldn't do it. We started saying some phrases every night before bed to help combat this and create new habits, "I can do this", "when I wake up in the morning I go to the bathroom" and "If I have that dream I need to tell myself I am not in the bathroom". We also started doing a meditation at night to calm down and stay positive.It took 10 weeks to stay dry. He has been dry for almost a month now. This was a lot of work, but totally worth it. There was a lot of sleepless nights for me waking up to make sure he woke up or make sure he was still wearing the alarm. There was still a lot of laundry and purchasing of pads to keep the mattress dry (we used a plastic sheet and the pads). We talked about pee A LOT. We didn't want to sweep anything under the rug or make him feel ashamed. We talked about how urine moves through the body, how our brain works when we need to go pee, and we celebrated every dry night or if it wasn't dry that he at least kept his alarm on.This alarm helped this kid achieve a goal that had seemed out of reach for so long. Once he made it through the 14 days he told him mom that his body just decided it was done wetting the bed.Sticker chart: We used it. He was motivated by seeing the progress and it was a useful tool for talking about the process and seeing the growth, especially on those days when he regressed. The stickers had different meaning throughout the process which helped us focus on what was important at different times.Rewards: We tried to motivate with rewards. While they kept him engaged at the beginning, they became less important later in the process.Waking with the child: our rooms are right next to each other so I didn't sleep in his room with him but I was able to hear the alarm if I kept our doors open so that I could go and wake him up when it started going off and get him to finish in the bathroom (very important part of the process)The right underwear and placement: Athletic material did not make for great underwear and the placement of the alarm was really important. He used cotton boxer briefs and it seemed best when it was placed on the front flap.