Bedwetting alarms. Bracing myself. Tell me what I need to know

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DD is turning eight and isn’t really anywhere near dry at night. It’s been known but I can count the instances on one hand and they were very sporadic. She wears a pull up each night.

Drinks are usually milk, water or weak squash (not blackcurrant) and not within an hour of going to sleep. No issues in the daytime. Awaiting ASC assessment.

GP has recommended trying an alarm before a clinic referral. I’m thinking of October half term to minimise the pain of sleep disruption. Dreading it.

Any tips and recommendations from those who’ve been here would be very gratefully received.

I slept on the floor for a couple of weeks next to his bed, this helped with pant changes. Bed mat and spare pyjamas and pants all ready prepared by the bed.. It was life-changing for him though - good luck

I don’t let my son drink milk at all (or hot choc etc)
We did the sheet sandwich thing- waterproof sheet/sheet/waterproof sheet/sheet so you only need to take one set off in the night. Had spare duvet (in duvet cover) and pillow and pjs on the side so could make bed in 10 seconds.

we found the alarm very good, he’s about 95% dry now.

If it's a case of not producing the vasopressin hormone to concentrate urine at night yet plus being a deep sleeper then be prepared for everyone else in the household to wake up to the alarm and for your child to sleep sweetly through it! We tried lots of things with first child who eventually was dry at night by 10 and with second child we just waited and they were also dry by 10. Both DC dry by day from before 2.

We used a wet stop 3 when DD was around that age.

It goes off when it feels any wet. I used it with pull ups rather than pants because it still goes off without the risk of a soaking wet bed.

It took a few nights to get used to but it worked really well. DD became dry at night within a couple of weeks. For her it was learning how to wake at the right time/feeling the signals. She is neurodiverse.

My son is seven we used a bed wetting alarm at the start of the summer to get him out of pullups. It worked so well he was dry within in two weeks. We used pullups over his pants at the start.
I slept next to him for the first night but showed him how to turn the alarm off himself and he managed it himself from there on. He’s not wet the bed in weeks, I wish I’d done it sooner

Googling Wet Stop 3 now, thanks. Sheet sandwich is a great idea.

Going to keep a very light diary for October - hope we have the success most of you did…!