I thought I would share (tentatively and with fingers crossed) our successful method of dealing with bedwetting in 7 year old DD.
I read on here about a night-time alarm working and I thought I would give it a try. It has worked miracles so far, so I thought I would share too! I won't name the product as this is not an advertisement, but if anyone want to know specifics, feel free to PM me.
Our DD was never ever dry overnight. We took a relaxed approach and left her in sleep pants, occasionally trying -lifting, removing sleep-pants, but there was no progress. I would check her in the early hours and she would be fast asleep in a soaking wet bed.
I couldn't really see how an alarm would work, because she clearly still produced a lot of urine at night and seemed to be too heavily asleep to realise she needed to wee. But once she turned 7 and wanted sleep-overs, Brownie camps etc - we needed to do something.
So we bit the bullet and bought an alarm system. We bought a wireless one which just involves pulling on a pair of pants with a small transmitter attached. I have plugged the alarm in on our landing so that if it does go off, I wake up and can help DD. I have put sleep pants over the alarm pants so that I don't have to strip the bed if she does have an accident.
The first night she wet twice, but then in the two weeks since we started she has only had two accidents and they have been tiny spots in the pants rather than the usual soaking. For the last few days she has been dry all night.
She is so pleased with herself and we are amazed that we have made any progress at all, let alone so drastic and so quick. I thought I would share incase anyone else is secretly despairing like me.
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Twogoodreasons · 07/03/2013 09:22
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