Bedwetting -How to Wake up Dry- My story

So you have a child who wets the bed night after night and You both just want it to STOP!? If your child struggles with bedwetting, I know your frustration. As a mom who helped her child stop bedwetting, my heart goes out to your child and YOU. Bedwetting is so relentless and isolating. But read on because there is definitely hope and help to stop the bedwetting forever.

My eight-year-old woke up wet night after night. We kept a no big deal attitude and did our best to encourage him that he would outgrow the bedwetting. But he began to fear that his friends would find out. Every time he was asked to sleep over at a friend's he would make up an excuse not to go. The bedwetting really began to chip away at his self esteem. As a parent, I just wanted to do whatever I could to make it go away. So I went on the internet and researched. Based on days of scouring the information, I decided that a bedwetting alarm was our best chance to end the wet nights. His pediatrician agreed, bedwetting alarm treatment is the most effective solution to end bedwetting.

 I talked with my son about them and told him to let me know if he wanted to try the alarm.  About a month after I mentioned them, he asked if he could give it a try. This is a key point, your child needs to be ready to cooperate.  I told him if I spent the money for the alarm, he would have to promise to use it every night.  I bought one that vibrated as well as sent out an alarm.  It clipped on the underwear in the spot most likely to get wet first.  A wire runs along to a small unit that pinned to the shoulder of his pajamas.  When the clip gets wet it sets off the unit which vibrates and sounds an alarm.  The first week my son slept right through the alarm.  I’d wake him, take him to the bathroom and take off the alarm.  He had to try to finish peeing in the toilet and change his wet clothes.  I would help him put the monitor back on.  I’d purchased several waterproof mattress pads, so we took off the wet one and replaced it with a dry one.  Then he would climb in and go back to sleep.       A few nights in the beginning the alarm went off more than once through the night.   During the first week he was wet 5 days and dry 2 days.  The second was a little better.  The third week he was wet 5 days again and began fighting me about wearing the alarm.  I calmly reminded him he promised to wear it.  Over and over, I said, “I know it is frustrating, but you promised.”  Or “You wish you would just learn to stay dry without wearing the alarm, but it's the only way to train your brain while you are sleeping.”  I was really careful to stay upbeat and positive, praising him for just wearing the alarm. He earned extra bedtime book reading when he cooperated willingly with the process. We made sure to fill out the progress report each morning, so he could see how he was doing.      When he would have a wet night and feel like giving up, I would remind him that learning something new takes time.  Then I would compare it to learning to ride his bike.  How hard it was at first.  Then when he got a bit better, he would still often fall.  But he didn’t give up, he kept trying and trying until he learned to keep his balance and now he never falls. The forth week, we had 4 dry nights in a row!     He wore the alarm every single night for ten weeks.  At the end of week 10, he had 14 dry nights in a row! The joy on his face when he realized he had overcome the bedwetting is one of my favorite mom memories.  We kept the alarm by his bedside in case of a relapse.  In the next six months, that only happened twice.  I often wonder if he would still be wetting the bed if we hadn’t tried the alarm.  Our journey to end bedwetting was years ago... I'm sure my son barely remembers. Please get my book, Prince Bravery and Grace - Attack of the Wet Knights, the parenting book, "Seven Steps to Nighttime Dryness" and a bedwetting alarm so that bedwetting will soon just be a distant memory for your child too. Are you considering using a bedwetting alarm? What are your biggest concerns about trying a bedwetting alarm?

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