2nd dry night for ds 7.4. Is this it?!

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Ds has had very few dry nights in his life, and even fewer of these have been in a row.

At 5 he had his HUGE (surgeon said biggest he'd seen) tonsils and adenoids removed due to sleep apnea.
Dr had mentioned that his brain was so concerned about keeping him breathing, it didn't care if he wee'd but that this would likely resolve itself after surgery.
It did, for 3 nights.

Fast forward a couple of years solid of brick-heavy pants every morning (and occasional wet beds too despite pants), we are on our second morning in a row of bone dry pants.

I don't want to be too outwardly excited at home in front of ds as he can't control it, so I want to be excited here please!

Could this be it, or just a lucky streak?

Well I am almost too embarrassed to post this mornings update but here goes...

I went to work last night leaving dp to set up the alarm.
Got in at 1:30am and it hadn't gone off, fell asleep at around 2:30, still nothing.
Great, right?

Got up just after 8am having heard nothing, and ds appeared shortly afterwards asking if I could help to remove his alarm.
Of course, and what did I find?
I found that dp, who has managed to live alone, and manages an office for a huge company, had clipped the alarm sensor to the outside of the pants.

Yeah, the outside of the waterproof pants specifically designed to stop the feeling of moisture passing through.

Egg: I have just guffawed out loud and DH asked what on earth was up. We're in the car...

That is wonderful. Your poor DS must have had tangled wire between his legs all night. Take two...

Dp says he was following the instructions, so I looked at them too.

The picture does indeed show the alarm clipped on the outside of underwear not waterproof pull ups, and if he had read them, they clearly stated underwear.

Dp is a bit indignant, and I look like >

Assuming that he's been trussed up good 'n proper tonight... Good luck!!

Well I hope so after the teasing dp endured today

I'm in bed, door open, all quiet so far...

So ds was wet but nobody heard the alarm go off.
What are we doing wrong?!

Just had our first alarm.
It was awful tbh

I went in and ds was showing no signs of stirring so I gently shook him, nothing.
Progressed to gentle shaking and saying his name, nothing.
Eventually got him to wake up by practically dragging him out of bed after he had pulled the covers back over him 3 times, and he just stood there sobbing

Got him into the bathroom where he did manage a fair bit of wee tbf, then he unclipped the sensor, I dried it, he put on dry pants, clipped him back in, and he went back to bed.

He sobbed the whole time and I had to be far more stern than I wanted to get him to do anything.

Just hideous.

He was wet this morning, said his alarm went off again so he just took it off.
Neither dp or I heard it.
Guess I'll be sleeping in his room tonight.

Oh egg that sounds tough
Dd had three dry nights but not one since.

The curse of the heavy sleepers. [hugs]

Yes, heavy sleeping was such a good thing when the dc are small, but I'm kind of cursing it now!

Dd on a sleep over tonight so I've pinched her lovely memory foam mattress and will be on the floor in with ds tonight.
Good job I love him

DS, now 9.10 was also dry late (I think about 7.9 but the memory fades). We saw the enuresis nurse, 3 appointments then DS was declared dry.

We didn't’t get an alarm or medication. Advice to drink more in the daytime to train his bladder, avoided blackcurrant and caffeine. We were also warned not to have milk as the final drink of the days as the fat content makes it more likely they will wee (please don't ask me to explain, I don't egg it either).

Hope that helps.

Hi audit, well done to your ds!
We have tried all those things for months unfortunately

Much better night last night, I kept stirring and checking the time and by 5am had convinced myself that the alarm had come off, but it went off at 7:20, ds was straight up and off to the loo.
Obviously it was much easier for him at that time than the deep, dark hours, but pleased nonetheless

Oh, well done, Egg. (Sorry; been away for a few days, and list the thread of the thread a but...)

It is so tough on them, particularly at first. Still, I can see lots of positives in there: there was still some left by the time he went to the loo, which means that his waking mechanism IS there, albeit in need of a tweak, and it seems that it's definitely down to simply being a v deep sleeper. Needing to shake him with all the vibrations and that racket going... Yep! Sounds very familiar. It will get less hard on him once his subconscious as well as his awake persona twigs that it's going to help him to achieve his goal. Then he'll get over the horror of being awake at night, and will get used to it.

Is that a silver star for getting some in the loo?

You can be very tight and reuse dry night pants for the first session in the following night. If they're dry, we reckoned reuse was the way forward to avoid financial ruin!

Yes we have been re-using dry ones, they're too expensive not to!

Wondered where you were, abandoning me in my time of need

We were away for the weekend, and I was in "lurking but not really posting" mode!

You do feel horribly mean at the beginning, don't you. But they don't remember it, it's not personal - and it's worth it in the end. Your DS seems to have made a promising start, and he'll soon get the hang of the getting-up routine.

Dp slept in with ds last night.

Ds came down at 8:10am, dry night

Woohoo! And they're.... Off!

Well I'm in with ds again tonight, actually hoping for a middle-of-the-night-alarm, that he wakes up to by himself.
I think that will give me reassurance that he can do it, and I can reclaim my half of the big bed

Fingers crossed for you that it wakes him up, and that he acts on it. It's normal for them to need -err- encouragement! DS tends to go between 10:30 and 01:00 - Sod's law it was always stupid o'clock when it was my turn.

Alarm went off at 1am, didn't wake him up.

So hard to believe an alarm doesn't wake them.

Dd has been having wet and dry nights. Wet today but she had a huge wee on getting up so I was kinda happy. I was out last night and I know she tried to wee just before sleeping but nothing came.

I have had more dry nights since egg started this thread than ever.

I'm amazed it doesn't wake him!
I clearly remember dreaming that a fire alarm was going off but it was a dream so I didn't need to wake up.
Then I remember waking up bit by bit, and thinking that ds would surely stir.

The alarm thingy that's attached to his pj top not only shrieks, but vibrates quite strongly too.
I called his name twice and he woke easily enough after that, I didn't enenvisage having to sleep in his room tbh.

Ds also has needed talking through the steps each time too, I know he's sleepy but...I don't know.
It's just not what I imagined I think.

Well done to your dd All, I'm glad someone is getting somewhere

You're definitely on the road too, Egg: my DS was exactly the same in terms of not waking up. It still amazes me that the buzz, vibrate and alarm had zero impact. But it is slowly but surely working on him! Oh well. If nothing else, it'll convince you good and proper that your baby days are behind you! It was a good shock to our system...

DS and DH are off to stay with Grandma - all set for a subtle appearance sans night pants.

Oh lemon your ds must be so excited!