DRYEASY Bedwetting Alarm with Volume Control, 6 Selectable Sounds and Vibration

I never write reviews. And I feel badly about it because I rely heavily on them when I make purchases. So this busy mama of four is taking the time to write this review because it has impacted my life in such a significant way that I have to share my story! My son is 5. I had him potty trained right before he turned 3. Mostly. He was NEVER able to keep dry at night. Everyone said it's a bladder maturity thing. Everyone said he will eventually grow out of it. Well 2+ years later and he is still peeing in his pants every single night while he sleeps and I am trying to be patient while praying and hoping he won't be 10 years old and still wetting the bed every night! So I did a little research. Turns out he wets the bed at night because he is a deep sleeper and he has not yet made the brain to bladder connection to wake up to go to the bathroom. So that is where this alarm comes into play. I admit I was quite skeptical. Or perhaps simply cautious in allowing myself any form of optimism? Anyway, this is how it works: you clip a sensor to their underwear, clip the alarm to the top of their shirt (or arm, with included arm band), and when they start to urinate while they sleep, the alarm not only rings, but vibrates as well. I chose this particular bed wetting alarm because it has customizable options. You can determine how loud you want the alarm to ring, which was important to me because my son shares a room with my 1 year old and I did NOT want my baby waking up. The unit never woke the baby on the lowest volume setting (I never tried it any louder). You can also choose to turn the ringer off completely and have it just vibrate, or turn the vibration off and have it just ring. So that was pretty cool. I chose to do both, volume set to lowest option. There is a cute little sticker chart that comes with the product, that for a 5 year old is super exciting. There are 3 sticker options: sunshine - for a dry night, partly cloudy - for a semi-wet night, and a stormy raincloud - for a wet night. A few days into week 1 and I wanted to give up already (LOL) because who wants to go back to newborn days of waking up in the middle of the night? Not me! But other reviewers said to be consistent, so consistent I was. It was hit or miss at first, in terms of how he did. The alarm went off every night for 9 nights, but some of those nights he had only barely started to urinate and he made it to the restroom! Exciting stuff! I still had to change his underwear because the sensor is super sensitive so any form of dampness and it'll go off. My husband thought it was ridiculous and borderline child abuse (exaggerating) putting this contraption on him every night, and it didn't help my resolve. Well then this happened: Day 10, 11, 12, ...seven days straight completely DRY ALL NIGHT!!! I am completely astounded at how well this thing worked. Last night my son and I were both so excited for him to go to bed without the alarm, and he did it again! He used it for a total of 15 days and we no longer need it. I do not think I can truly express how grateful I am to the creators of this alarm system, and to God for guiding me to purchase this! Its affordable, easy to use, and it really truly works! Here are a few tips/tricks: *As another reviewer recommended, I put underwear on first, clipped the sensor to that, and put a pull-up on over his underwear, so night time changes were a breeze and he could go right back to bed. Brilliant. *Also from another reviewer - if you are worried about your fingers getting too close to private areas, you can clip the sensor to the underwear before they put it on. It's actually easier this way so you don't accidentally clip something else by mistake. Ouch! *Some reviewers mentioned that they have sweaty kids and the sensor would go off from sensing perspiration. I do not necessarily have a sweaty kid, but what I did, that I think might work for those sweatier kids (those with boys), is I clipped the sensor to that extra flap of material in their underwear that boys have. I think it kept the sensor a little more away from his body, but still worked perfectly whenever he started to urinate. Just a thought. *Be positive and supportive with your child and dry nights are only a few weeks away! :-) I hope this review helps others not only choose this item (because it rocks), but also helps with application and just encouragement to power through! And my prayers that this works just as well for you!

I don't have any complaints about this alarm! It is very simple to use. A child trying to attach it themselves might have trouble, but I always do it for my 5 year old son, though he likes to help me attach the blue alarm box to his shirt. When I researched bedwetting alarms, the most common complaints on some of them were false alarms due to sweat, and not being able to reuse the alarm until it dried out well because it would continue to go off. This alarm has not had either problem! My son is hot natured, but his sweat has not caused a false alarm. The way this alarm works, he would have to soak his underwear with sweat to set it off. Also, once the sensor is detached from the wet underwear (which you have to do before you can turn off the alarm, so a child can't simply push the reset button and ignore the alarm), you can immediately reattach it to dry underwear and it's good to go! The sensor is very sensitive to wetness, though. So much so that my son has accidentally leaked a tiny bit in his underwear twice after he was awake but hadn't taken it off yet, and the alarm started going off. My son accidentally dropped the blue box in the toilet once. It went off incessantly until we took out the batteries, but after we let it dry out completely it has worked perfectly since then. When that happened I went ahead and replaced the batteries as a precaution, but that's the only time I've replaced them so far. We are on our 8th week using the alarm. I can't say that he is cured yet, but his bedwetting has greatly improved!! I was having to change the sheets multiple times a week before getting it, and that was with me taking him to the bathroom 2-3 times a night usually!! With him using the alarm I have rarely woken him to go to the bathroom, wanting to let it do it's job. There have been 6 times he has wet twice in one night, and I really expected that to happen more often, especially in the beginning. The alarm does not wake him up (it is very loud, and has the options of multiple sounds and a vibration, but he is just a very hard sleeper!), so I sleep in his room at least part of the night so I can wake him up immediately when the alarm goes off. The sensor is clipped to his underwear and then he wears a pull-up (we call them "special underwear" so he still feels like a big boy) over his underwear, so that helps contain the wetness most of the time. I haven't had to change his sheets near as often. He loves the sticker chart! If he wets, he gets a rainy cloud sticker. If he is dry, he gets a sunshine sticker. If he wets a little bit, but we catch it and he finishes mostly in the toilet, he gets a partly sunny sticker. We just took him out for ice cream because he now has more sunshine stickers on his whole chart than the other two stickers combined!! So far the most sunshine stickers in a row he's gotten is 5, but he's improving! I keep notes on the approximate time he goes to sleep and when he wets. That has helped me learn some things in this process too. Even if he is not completely cured of bedwetting by the time we reach the end of the 12 week chart, I feel we will still be far ahead of where we were when we started. I am so glad I bought this particular alarm! It has been well worth the money, and I don't see any need of a more expensive one when this one has done a superb job!! Update: It's been nearly a year since we stopped using the alarm. We went through the entire program, and he still had wet nights near the end, but something seemed to click after we finished the program and stopped using the alarm. When we stopped using it, I started taking him to the bathroom in the night only one time, about an hour after he went to bed (prior to using the alarm I would take him multiple times and he still wet the bed). Gradually I was able to expand the time before I took him, and he continued to stay dry. After 6 months of that I stopped taking him altogether. It has now been almost a year since the last time he wet the bed!! He can drink as much as he wants and no problems!! I really think the alarm helped us in this process greatly. I am thrilled I don't have to take him to the bathroom at night, or limit his drinks anymore!!! Be patient. Use the alarm for the entire program. Take notes along the way. It will help you!!

Update-8mos later: I think maybe we had 2-3 accidents in the first month or so after using them, and then.....NONE! Still 5 stars, highly recommend that you try it if you're in the fence. I'm sure it doesn't work for every kid, but it's worth trying if you're spending money every month on pullups and everything else I was. ****** I have not ever been much more satisfied with a product than I am with this. My son turned five yesterday. I ordered this a few weeks ago because he was leaking through a pull-up almost EVERY NIGHT! I was adding maxi pads to the top edge of the pullups to help contain the leaks, doubling up a size 7 diaper under the pullups, diaper booster pads inside the pullups, pretty much anything I could do to avoid changing pajamas and sheets. This is my third child. I knew that boys sometimes took longer to control their nighttime accidents, and could have survived having to continue using pullups for even a few years if necessary. But the nightly leaks were KILLING ME! He wasn't having occasional "accidents" at night, his bladder was an open faucet all night long. He never has more than a few sips of water after dinner time, and doesn't drink anything except water and milk on a regular basis. I was doing everything recommended to curb the bed wetting. I then came across the idea of a bed wetting alarm. I researched them pretty extensively. Had no intentions of paying for the $200+ varieties, but was willing to give this one a shot for less than $40. And I've got to tell you, it's about the best money I've ever spent. Now for the actual review... I did as another reviewer mentioned, and attached the sensor to cotton underwear, underneath a pull-up. On night one, he woke up to the alarm three times, had a small amount of pee in his underwear, but had definitely stopped the flow once the alarm woke him, and he finished each time in the toilet. He woke probably 2-3 times for the first 3 nights. Then on about night 4, I woke up at 530am and realized he hadn't been up. I assumed the alarm had become disconnected, and he was soaked in his bed. To my surprise, he was dry!!! I got him up to go to the bathroom so that at that early hour, he wouldn't wake up shortly and be up for the day. Same thing the next night. And for a few nights after. He then had a couple of nights in a row where the alarm woke him once during the night and he'd go to the bathroom to finish. And sometimes he'd wake up on his own and go without the alarm (meaning without an accident!) Then.....it stopped. No more alarm, no more waking during the night to go pee. Just all night sleeping, and NO WET BED! It's probably been almost two weeks now, and he's had a dry pullup every morning. I was leaving the alarm on him for the first week or so, because I wasn't sure if there was some psychological reason he would still need it for a while to continue staying dry, but then he got a stomach bug, and it was too much of a hassle to deal with while he was sick. So I stopped using it, and haven't needed to start again. I'm almost ready to forego the pullups and let him sleep in underwear already, it's been that drastic of a change. I didn't do a great job of tracking the progress every night, clearly. But I'd estimate a maximum of three weeks, and he is 100% dry. I'm sure there may be accidents in his future, but hopefully not a complete regression. And if there is, I'll update this review. And maybe will need to start the process over. But I am 100% pleased with this product. SOOOOOO wish I'd gotten it sooner, as he's been daytime potty trained for more than two years. So much money spent on pullups, diapers, maxi pads, booster pads. I absolutely recommend you give it a try. Life changing for our household.

I am writing this review in hopes it will help other families going through the same things I went through with my son. My son is 7 years old and I tried everything to help him stop using a diaper at night (no liquids after dinner, waking him up once a night to have him go pee, etc.) And nothing worked. So after reading the reviews for this alarm, and since it was an affordable price, I decided to give it a try, and I am so glad I did! It took longer than I expected (the full 12 weeks) and was a big commitment on my part to see it through, but my son has been dry now for over a month. I would help him put the alarm on every night, as it proved tricky for him to set up by himself. And I slept in his room all 12 weeks to help him through the process. Each night, I attached the cord to his underwear and then put a pull up diaper over top to keep from having to change sheets every day and also to hold the cord in place. He used the arm band for the unit and wore a shirt overtop to hold the cords and unit in place. The unit is loud when it goes off (I would jump up from a deep sleep when I heard it from across the room) but he never once woke up by himself from it. To turn it off in the night, I would unplug the end of the cord from the unit, hit reset, and then help him into the bathroom to help him change his underwear and diaper. The next morning, he would not remember anything from the night before. This went on every night for the first 6 weeks. Some nights he would continue peeing right through the alarm, and some nights he would stop peeing when the alarm went off even though he didn't wake up. There was no pattern or apparent progress to the lack of peeing, and I began to doubt whether the alarm was helping him and thought about quitting. But I went back to these reviews and re-read them. Plus I went on other alarm websites and learned that it was not necessary or important for him to wake up to the alarm, but that it was still subconsciously teaching my son. So I stayed with it. And around week 8 he started to consistently have dry nights. I would hear him get up and go to the bathroom all by himself without the alarm going off! It was amazing to see first hand how this worked. He still had a few wet nights when the alarm would go off, and he still slept through it and I would have get him up, but those nights were becoming fewer. Finally at week 11 he went the whole week without a wet diaper and he has been dry ever since for the last 30 days! He stopped using the alarm after week 13 and stopped the diapers after week 14. He now gets up all by himself in the night, sometimes twice a night, and goes to the bathroom. (Interestingly, even now, he doesn't remember getting up and using the bathroom from the night before.) My son is so proud of himself and so excited not to be wetting a diaper at night, it has completely changed his life. This specific alarm is good. The batteries have lasted and the unit still works great. My son also loved the progress stickers and putting them on the chart each night. Even now he wants to continue doing that. The alarm is a little tricky to set up and turnoff, so gave it 4 stars rather than 5 but would highly recommend to anyone looking for an affordable, well built alarm.

I will start this review by saying that the previous reviews were critical in helping us stick with the process and ultimately in making this experience a success which is why I wanted to add a review and share our experience. The child who underwent this treatment came to stay with us for awhile due to some challenges at home. When he arrived he had been wearing pull-ups at night for years and would only occasionally have dry nights. After doing some research we decided that an alarm would be the best support/intervention and I ordered this alarm based on the simplicity and positive reviews. While I had read the directions and personal anecdotes I was not fully prepared for how intense and iterative this experience was going to be. The alarm worked exactly as promised, when wet it goes off. The noise and the vibration work well. The variety of sounds was useful too, especially since one of the sounds didn't seem to effect him as much as the others. The problem we encountered was not the alarm but the child keeping the alarm on. The plus side of having an 11 year old do the intervention is that he could snap the alarm on and off on his own, which I could see being hard for little hands and fingers. However, he was also taking the alarm off at night because, well, he could. This lead to the treatment needing to go on for a longer amount of time. We tried to reason with him and celebrate when he would keep it on, but often in the middle of the night he would take it off for whatever reason and then would wet the bed. The plus side was that there were a good portion of nights when he kept the alarm on long enough for it to go off and stimulate his brain and body to get up. These nights led to him being able to get up and go pee when he needed to, before wetting the bed, and also staying dry longer through the night. The final and longest hurdle was staying dry through the final morning hours. Once he could make it through the night he was mostly wetting the bed early in the morning. Then it moved to him waking up at his normal hour while wetting the bed, which was accompanied by "the dream". The one where you think you're on the toilet but you're not actually. This last phase was hard because he would stay dry all night and then in the last moments of the morning it would happen, and he would have already taken off his alarm during the night. We tried adding an alarm clock to wake him up earlier, but that didn't seem to help. There was one point in week 9 when he had kept the alarm on all night and then he began to wet the bed, the alarm went off and he woke up quickly and finished in the bathroom. This was the last day he wet the bed. It seemed as though he just needed that final alarm to go off in the morning. Around week 6 we had 7 dry nights in a row and he was convinced he didn't need to wear his alarm. As we were working on him taking responsibility for his dryness we told him we supported him and let him make the choice. That night he wet the bed and felt really disappointed, like he had messed up the progress. We told him what was most important was that he believed in himself and that he kept working at it. The attitude and positive self talk was a huge part of the work. Initially he would say that he was broken and that there was just something wrong with him which was why he couldn't do it. We started saying some phrases every night before bed to help combat this and create new habits, "I can do this", "when I wake up in the morning I go to the bathroom" and "If I have that dream I need to tell myself I am not in the bathroom". We also started doing a meditation at night to calm down and stay positive. It took 10 weeks to stay dry. He has been dry for almost a month now. This was a lot of work, but totally worth it. There was a lot of sleepless nights for me waking up to make sure he woke up or make sure he was still wearing the alarm. There was still a lot of laundry and purchasing of pads to keep the mattress dry (we used a plastic sheet and the pads). We talked about pee A LOT. We didn't want to sweep anything under the rug or make him feel ashamed. We talked about how urine moves through the body, how our brain works when we need to go pee, and we celebrated every dry night or if it wasn't dry that he at least kept his alarm on. This alarm helped this kid achieve a goal that had seemed out of reach for so long. Once he made it through the 14 days he told him mom that his body just decided it was done wetting the bed. Sticker chart: We used it. He was motivated by seeing the progress and it was a useful tool for talking about the process and seeing the growth, especially on those days when he regressed. The stickers had different meaning throughout the process which helped us focus on what was important at different times. Rewards: We tried to motivate with rewards. While they kept him engaged at the beginning, they became less important later in the process. Waking with the child: our rooms are right next to each other so I didn't sleep in his room with him but I was able to hear the alarm if I kept our doors open so that I could go and wake him up when it started going off and get him to finish in the bathroom (very important part of the process) The right underwear and placement: Athletic material did not make for great underwear and the placement of the alarm was really important. He used cotton boxer briefs and it seemed best when it was placed on the front flap.

So I don't normally write reviews but I felt like I should because this has really changed our entire night time life! When I got this I was at my Wit's end and my five year old twin daughters were still wearing Pull-Ups at night. I talked to the pediatrician about it at their five year appointment and she explained that 15% of normal children with no biological issues will have bed wedding until age seven when they finally mature out of needing some sort of diaper at night. This seemed crazy to me and we have tried everything to encourage they're readiness to be pulled up free at night time and they also were saying that they didn't want to wear pull-ups anymore. Looking back they were potty trained during the day at 3:00 or 3 1/2 years old and they were pull ups at night. They were never dry in the morning and they were wild cards during the day for naps. I ended up reading a lot about the bladder brain connection during sleep and young children and I told myself maybe they're just sleeping so deeply that there bladder can't get through to their brain to wake up and go to the potty. Long story short and getting pregnant and I was determined to find a way for them to understand during sleep to wake up and go to the bathroom especially since when they would have accidents they were so upset I could tell that it was all very involuntary. Nonetheless the constant cleaning of dirty sheets was driving me crazy and the sleepless nights while I was pregnant and already having trouble sleeping was just killing me. Finally I bought two of these alarms and extra large dog pee pads. I taped the dog pee pads to the mattress underneath of the sheet where they sleep so that I didn't have to keep cleaning the mattress cover. I could peel the dirty sheet off and then throw away the pee pee pad and start over. We started with these pee alarms from day one with normal cotton underwear alone because I think that Pull-Ups give the child a sensation of a diaper and even subconsciously makes them think it's okay to release the urine so we got completely away from anything that felt like a diaper. I showed them what it would sound like and feel like we talked a lot about it all day long they were very excited to try them. I then slept with them for the first night so that they could experience it with me right there and it wouldn't be too disorienting the first time knowing that they would pee and it would sense it. The sensor is very very accurate and very sensitive do not be misled by the price these are very good. Actually I believe my husband said how much did you spend on this and I told him and he said oh well they're going to be junk there's more money wasted on Amazon! Boy was he wrong!it took my one daughter about a week to 10 days before she could get consistently into more than two or three days dry. My other daughter who was definitely having a harder time all around with this but had the emotional desire it took her more like two to three weeks to get into a rhythm. The sensor gets clipped to the outside crotch of the underpants and then we clipped the control box to the front chest of their shirt because if they were laying on their side or their back it seemed to be the most comfortable spot. We never put it on their wrist, I would then wrap up the rest of the cord which is a bit long but probably perfect for an older child and I would stuff the cord into their pajama pants so there wasn't any slack otherwise it's just kind of everywhere in the bed. You can set it to vibrate and make noise and I did this and it worked out well I was a little worried that if one kid was alarming the other one would like false alarm and wake up but this hasn't happened yet. And they sleep in the same bedroom. I have no other device to compare this to but for something that is temporary it seems to be a real deal of a price and it does function and work exactly as advertised. We've used the batteries that it came with since we got it probably 4 to 5 weeks ago haven't changed them since. Now that we've been at it for over a month and they've had sleepovers using them and no accidents for quite a while we will probably start to wean off of them. I'm getting ready to have a baby and prior to this I was waking up all night long waking them up so that they would go to the bathroom thinking that maybe it would help them to understand to wake up all night long to pee and I realized that it wasn't really teaching their brain or their bladder anything but these alarms do actually start to condition them to understand in a sleep state to wake up and go to the bathroom it's amazing. Don't hesitate, buy it!

We ordered this a few months ago for my 4.5 year old son who has been potty trained for 1.5 years but still wets at night. He either sleeps through it or doesn't care because he wakes up in the morning wet (we took pullups away a couple months before I ordered it) about half the time and it doesn't seem to mess with his sleep. We thought this would be good because we could get a sense of when he was peeing and also get him in the habit of getting up to use the potty. Right when we ordered this, he randomly had a stretch of dry days so we held off on using it. Then we were away. We finally started using it about 2 weeks ago (the dry days had been a fluke!). Some nights its woken him on first drops, and he's gotten up and used the potty. He's barely damp and feels good about getting up and using the potty. That's how its supposed to go. Other nights (its been about 50/50) it either doesn't wake him or it spooks him and he sits and cries in bed rather than getting up. By the time we get to him, he's soaked. Those nights suck. But its still early. The design is kind of flawed in my opinion. You can't make the horrible noise stop without disconnecting it from the damp/wet underwear, which isn't something a child can do. So even when the kid is doing the right thing, the machine keeps screaming till an adult can get there to disconnect it. There is a reset button that's easy to press (my 4 year old can do it), but as soon as the sensor gets wet again, the alarm immediately sounds again. Which is why you need to fully disconnect the sensor before hitting reset for the sound to really stop. Also, less than 2 weeks into using this (10 days), the batteries died and we didn't know it. This led to a night where no alarm went off not because he didn't wet, but because the alarm went off almost silently. I'm surprised that an item that had only gone off 8 times for less than a minute each time had drained 2 batteries already. That isn't very efficient. There isn't an off button so I don't know if its drawing power all the time while the sensor is waiting for moisture?? The sticker chart that comes with it is nice. So far no progress for us so its hard to give this too favorable a review but it may just be too early.

I purchased this product because I felt like other companies that were selling devices for $200+ that required a monthly subscription were taking advantage of me, and I felt like there had to be a more accessible solution for parents just wanting to help their kid stop wetting the bed. This option is affordable, not fancy, and did the job just fine even though my son is an extremely heavy sleeper. It can be a little hard to put on the first time, but my son and I got into a routine really fast. I recommend wearing two pairs of underwear, one to attach the device to and another pair over top to keep it in place. Then we would run the wire behind him, through the sleeve of his jammies, and attach the other part of the device to his arm. The wire was never an issue during sleep (we tucked the extra into the back of his undies). We also used the "code word" system. When the alarm went off at night and I took him to the bathroom to either empty his bladder the rest of the way or change into dry clothes, I would give him a code word to remember the next morning. This would help him get his brain involved in the wakeup, and he would get a prize for remembering enough code words. I also recommend practicing the wake-up a few times when first putting your kid to bed. I had my son pretend to be asleep and then I set off his alarm using a wet rag. Then we got up and did the whole routine, I gave him a code word, etc. That way he was familiar with the routine before an actual nighttime wakeup. I also love that with the alarm, I don't have to restrict water before bedtime. The whole point is to teach them to get up if they have to pee, not to prevent them from needing to pee. This device works best when you are close enough to respond fast. For me, a baby monitor in his room was enough to hear the alarm go off and respond and I didn't have to sleep in his room with him.