Bedwetting Alarms: Night Fiveby Nicki Bradley | More from this Blogger 07 Mar 2006 06:49 PM Last night was night five of our on-going experiment with "curing" the nighttime bedwetting our six year old has had every night of his life. I admit the results, so far, are curious. This is not the first time we've tried the "mind over matter" approach to nighttime bedwetting. We've tried every motivator in the book - stickers, goals, encouragement, and positive self-talk - the whole she-bang. Nothing ever worked. Our older son who still occasionally wets the bed is 12 and the only thing that ever worked with him was a new environment. He would often stay dry for the first few nights away from home. I believe this is because he was not "resting easy". As many of us know, an unfamiliar bed often disrupts our sleep. It never really surprised me that he could go without wetting when he went to sleepovers or relatives' houses for short periods of time. But anything longer than a few days and he'd start wetting again - my theory is he got used to his new sleeping environment and started sleeping deeper and stopped rousing at night. We expected the same pattern for his younger brother - our experimenter. But he has never even stayed dry in a new environment! We figured the road would be much longer for him! I guess this is why we aren't the nocturnal enuresis experts! Night five looked a lot like nights 1, 2 and 4. We woke him up two hours after we went to sleep, just like the instructions suggest. He went to the bathroom and returned to bed, just as the instructions suggest. And then, like every other night, we wait. With baby monitor on, we wait for the alarm to trigger so we can help him wake up (if needed) and finish going potty in the bathroom. And like nights 1, 2 and 4, he never awoke and he never urinated. This is great! Weird, but great! In two more nights we are going to remove the two-hour waking, per the instructions, and see where that leads us. I'm still extremely skeptical but every new day makes me more and more hopeful. If this alarm works, it will be the best $40 we've ever spent, even if it never once went off!!! Score to date: Alarm: 4 - Wet Sheets: 1 Learn more about Nicki Bradley  I live in the suburbs of Detroit and I'm happily re-married with six children (3 his, 2 mine, 1 ours) ranging in age from 3.5 to 12. Relevantparenting tags User Comments suelapointe (7) 02 Apr 2007 11:59 AMHi Nicki - Great posts... but now you've left me hanging in suspense!! How did it go after Night #5? We've seen the same magic happen with the 'unfamiliar bed' factor - guess we could just move every few days... problem solved?! Enuresis Treatment Center (20) 04 Feb 2008 09:18 AMWe read your blog posting, and would like to help. Studies indicate that deep sleepers rarely hear smoke detectors, and can sleep through fire/burglar alarms. Alarms sold to treat bedwetting are ineffective in correcting a sleep disorder. For 32 years, the Enuresis Treatment Center has successfully treated thousands of people from around the world by establishing a new and healthy pattern of sleep, which permanently resolves the bedwetting. The Enuresis Treatment Center has put together an informative guide to understanding and treating bedwetting. This free bedwetting guide is available to download at www.freebedwettingguide.com. Community Tags alarm, bedwetting, bedwettinghelpformoms.com, eneursis, parenting, suelapointe.wordpress.com Discuss this article
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