Malem Ultimate Selectable Bedwetting Alarm with Vibration - Magenta
|
List Price: Our Price: $122.95 You Save: $22.00 (15%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Health Care See more product details |
|---|
Product Reviews of Malem Ultimate Selectable Bedwetting Alarm with Vibration - Magenta
Product Review: We used this alarm for our four year old son.
Summary: 5 Stars
My two year old was dry over night by the time she was a couple of months old.
The older one, however, was almost four - and he was still wet at night, even when we'd wake him at 11 pm, cut off his liquids, 2 before sleep bathroom breaks, etc... I figured his wiring must be a bit off - especially since it is possible to stay dry at night before a year.
I went online and researched everything out there. I research for a living, so I feel pretty confident about what I find. And I found the nurse practitioner's site on bed wetting. I ordered this alarm and the book from Amazon and we did the program for one week.
**Keep in mind that many experts recommend starting this program at age 6. My boy was almost four, so that was on the really young side.**
We did the alarm for a week. It scared the BEJEEEEZUS out of him the first couple of nights. Nights 3-7 he would just come to my room, flashing, vibrating and beeping and stand next to me until I woke up. Very calmly, I would turn off the alarm and we would go to the bathroom.
At this point I didn't quite get him to just go straight to the bathroom - he was too young to figure the shut off sequence - and it is pretty tough in the middle of the night to negotiate the very loud, vibrating, flashing thing's off sequence - it is a two step process. So he came to me first - and then we would both go to the bathroom and get the alarm reset, take care of business, get him changed and put the alarm back on.
By night three - he was only one drop wet - the alarm had put an immediate end to the soaking wet drawers in the middle of the night.
At night number 7, he had HAD it with this program. He hated the alarm, wouldn't wear it and was very upset about the whole deal. Since he was really young, I caved. "Fine, we'll try again in a couple of years," I thought.
I had a case of pull-ups left from the last baby and just pulled them on him for nighttime. He didn't like THAT, either - but with working full time, I was wearing a little thin with the extra loads of bed linens on a daily basis!
I put the alarm away, thinking, "there goes $100..." and sighed.
Four days later - he had a dry diaper. THIS had never happened before. I thought it might be a fluke, but c'mmon - I WAS VERY EXCITED. The next few nights, wet again. And then, at the end of the second week - night after night - he was DRY! The third week after the alarm - he was dry five nights, one wet - and then has been dry ever since.
At this point, the pull-ups go back away. And he gets his batman briefs back!
AND - his self esteem and happiness with this outcome, have soared.
I am going to attribute his nighttime success to the one week we used the alarm. Since he was much younger than recommended, perhaps it only took this short amount of time to get his brain wired properly - and then a couple of weeks for the new neural pathways to form.
I do know that it worked because he got to associate the feelings of full bladder with waking up. And that's what you are spending the $$ for at the end of the day - that re-wiring session.
The device is brilliant, and it is brutal. People at work had told me about their children FINALLY getting over this problem at 11 or 12. I just kept thinking - that has to DESTROY a child's self esteem. WHY would you do that, when devices like this are available?? These parents also thought I was CRAZY to do this program with my four year old.
It's been a couple of months at this point, and I am going to say - WE ARE DONE!
One final note - my son really hated the PINK color - I probably should have purchased a blue one. Might want to keep that in mind, if you have a fussy boy ;-)
Product Review: Wish I would have ordered this sooner!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product worked very well! Our 7 yr old daughter is a very deep sleeper and consistently had accidents every night for years. We tried limiting fluid intake, waking her up before we went to bed, and anything else we could think of. I mentioned this product to her and, after mulling it over for a few months, she brought it back up to me and said she was ready to try it.
I let her choose the alarm sound and played it for her several times before bed the first night. It's quite loud and she was startled and confused but it was easy for me to hear on the other side of the house so I got to her quickly and helped her to the bathroom. After two nights she walked to the bathroom on her own and after five more nights she was able to stop her urine flow almost immediately when the alarm sounded.
It took less than two weeks - 6 wet nights, then three damp, then one mishap, and she's been dry ever since. It's been two months and she's doing perfectly.
Suggestions: attach the alarm to the panties where the urine will most likely occur so it will sound early in the peeing process and wake them sooner. For girls who sleep on their backs, attach it to the lined portion of the panties toward the back. Also, put on a pull-up over their underwear to cut down on clean up time in the middle of the night. I kept a stack of panties on the bathroom counter for quick changes in the middle of the night.
Be patient through the process and it will be SO WORTH IT!
Product Review: Wonderful Training Tool!
Summary: 5 Stars
We tried for three years to get my son to stop bed wetting and to no availe! We finally broke down and spent the money for this alarm and within two weeks he was getting up regularly himself to go tot the bathroom and by 5 weeks, we had complete success!
We now have five children and have used this on three of them and have found success with them all!
Great product and well worth the money in saved laundry bills and interrupted nights!
Product Review: Wonderful~!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't say enough about this alarm. My 9 year old son has always wet the bed at least 5 times a week. Sometimes more than once in a night. I finally bought the alarm and we started right after Christmas. He never soaked his bed once after starting to wear the alarm. The nights he did wet I usually didn't have to change his sheets because the alarm woke him and he was able to stop the flow of urine so quickly that only his underwear were slightly wet - this thing is so sensitive.
It took almost 6 weeks of wearing the alarm and wetting an average of once per week to get him to be completely dry. Now we are coming up on 6 weeks of no accidents at all. We are all so happy with this product. Try it - you won't regret it.
Product Review: Worked for us!
Summary: 4 Stars
My son is nearly six and we wanted to get his nighttime wetting stopped before he started sleep overs with his new kindergarten friends. We tried a less expensive alarm, but it wasn't loud enough to wake him (or me!) up. This one, although twice the price, worked from day one. After 2 weeks, he started to stay dry at night. He is even able to wake up and go to the bathroom on his own. The tone we choose is very loud, and the vibrating helps him wake up, too. The only draw back is the pin fastener - I did prefer the magnetic closing device on the other alarm. He's gone nearly 2 weeks with one accident. Such an improvement!