I came across this product while searching for some unrelated stuff for Kayla, who is now 7 weeks old.
My first thought was, are you fucking kidding me? After all alarms are usually meant to alert us of things like break-ins where the appropriate response is to pounce on and arrest/beat the person who set off the alarm. Being completely ignorant to how this product is supposed to work, I have this image in my head of some poor kid wetting the bed in his sleep, the alarm going off and his parents bursting in saying, "Ah-HA! You just wet the bed! Shame on you!"
But research confirms that I'm an idiot, because this is how it really works:
Child wets the bed, and the alarm detects the wetness and goes off. This may be a sound but it can also be set to vibrate. You use whichever is more likely to wake the child up as quickly as possible. Child, upon waking, stops peeing and goes immediately to the bathroom to finish. Over time it trains the child to recognize his elimination cues in his sleep so that he stops wetting the bed sooner than he would have otherwise grown out of it.
Oh! That... actually sounds like a really good solution. Yay, I learned something!
2 comments:
It should be like when you train cats - instead of an alarm going off, it should automatically shoot the kid in the face with water, causing them to wake up and not want to pee. Cause that would work. Pavlovian conditioning, baby. Gotta love it. Like invisible electric fencing for dogs. I bet if the alarm went off in your room and you ran in there and smacked the kid, that would work, too.
What is the normal way to help stop wetting the bed?
Usually the first thing you'd try is decreasing the amount the kid drinks before bed, encouraging him to use the bathroom if he wakes up at night even if he doesn't feel like he has to go, etc. As he gets older the involuntary muscles that keep the bladder closed will work better & the bed wetting goes away on it's own.
If it doesn't, there are herbal remedies and prescription drugs. The bed wetting alarm is a drug-free alternative to try before doping your kid up.
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