Alarm for v heavy sleeper dc, even slept through fire alarm at premier inn!

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Trying to encourage dd2 to get herself up in to the morning but we have a major problem in that we have not yet found an alarm that will wake up her up! She even slept through the fire alarm at a premier inn in the early hours of the morning, sirens, flashing lights, the rest of us jumping out of bed and she didn't even twitch.

We have tried foghorn alarm, a rooster and an extreme alarm with whistles,,bells sirens etc going off and it stiil doesn't wake her, we even tried a combination of 2 phones and my kindle at the same time and nothing.

We're running out of ideas, anybody got any?

I think you can get vibrating wristbands? Not sure if that would get her up though! Has she been checked over by a doctor? It seems unusual to sleep so heavily, although I know teenagers do sleep more heavily than adults.

She needs to get her head into the mindset that she needs to get up at a certain time. DB2 was like this and I was, a little bit. How old is she?

She's always been a very heavy sleeper, she has never needed a huge amount of sleep but when she's asleep she's asleep! You could literally do anything to her in her sleep and she wouldn't wake. She wasn't dry at night til she was 8 and I'm pretty sure that this was because she is a heavy sleeper. The wirst was when she was sick, we would find her lying in sick where she had tgrown up while still mainly asleep and lain back down in it, thankfulky it didn't happen very often but it wasn't pleasant

Wow! That’s also incredibly dangerous. Thank goodness she didn’t choke to death on her own vomit. That must have been scary.
I second the idea of a vibrating watch style alarm. But I also wonder if you’ve ever seen a doctor about this? There’s heavy sleeping and heavy sleeping. This is not normal!

A vibrating one:
www.amazon.co.uk/Sonic-SBB500SS-Alarm-Shaker-Version/dp/B000OOWZUK?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Apparently children who sleep very heavily through fire alarms do wake up when the alarm is a recording of their mother saying urgently NAME WAKE UP NOW.
I read that in a newspaper so it may or may not be true!

Dh used to be a really heavy sleeper until his mid 20s and would sleep through anything. The only alarm that worked was an old fashioned bell and hammer one.

There was something in the news last year saying many children didn't wake up to fire alarms but more woke to an alarm which was a voice recording. Could you record a voice telling her to get up and try that?

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In terms of fire alarms, I'm hard of hearing and have a vibrating pad for under my pillow and a loud siren with flashing lights. Might be useful for her when she's older and living alone.

here are alarm clocks with vibrating pads for the hard of hearing. The site blurb mentions those who sleep through alarms

www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/shop/alarms-and-alerts/alarm-clocks/

Sorry Hodge didn't see that you posted a link to one.

With the vomiting she would stir, half sit up, throw up then lie back down in it, totally unaware of what she had done, we discovered this after hearing her being sick a couple of times, it was almost like she was in a sort of trance. We spoke to health visitor when she was little who was unconcerned and U guess we have just accepted it.

We realised a couple of years ago on watching Naughty Children on I think it was channel 4 that she had a lot of the signs of delayed sleep phase disorder(think of an extreme night owl). My dh also has many of the signs as did his dm although not as extreme as dd

If she’s showing signs of a sleep disorder I think it would be wise to get her to a sleep clinic. GP can refer you. I would very gently suggest that a sleep disorder might be a little bit more serious than a family anecdote about DD sleeping through fire alarms. Sorry. I really don’t mean that to be unkind but chronic lack of sleep is pretty dangerous, not to mention horrible to live with. It’s very difficult isn’t it, you get used to something and then you don’t see it as perhaps as much of a problem as it is

DD is a heavy sleeper and only now at 17 is she able to start waking to an alarm though still needs someone to keep on at her as she will just fall back into a deep sleep. So reading this with interest as soon we won't be about to get her up.

She used to sleep through us lifting her head up off the pillow, shouting in her ear. When she went to friends for sleepovers I would have to tell them she isn't dead in the morning just very difficult to wake as if you didn't know you would be very worried.

It's a genetic thing that runs in families. Being a heavy sleeper is caused by a variation in the ADA gene causing increased slow wave sleep!

I know you’ve said you tried flashing lights but have you tried something like a Lumie where it gradually gets brighter?