SubscribeEmma has been struggling with bed wetting for quite some time. She has been day trained since she was 3. But, I honestly don’t think she had a single dry night until she first tried not wearing pull ups at about 4 years old. She tried to stop wearing pull ups for the first time almost 2 years ago. We put a waterproof pad on top of her sheets. She wanted to make a chart, because she loves charts, seriously! The first few nights she did pretty well. She was so proud of herself. Then I am not sure what happened, but after about a week of dry nights, she started wetting the bed again. She would just get up, change her pajamas, put a dry pad on her bed and go back to sleep. We kept trying for a few weeks, but after nightly wetting she and I decided to go back to pull ups.
We waited about 6 months and then tried again. But, the same thing happened–a few dry nights, then constant wetting. So, back to pull ups again. Sometimes I think it is counter productive to go back to pull ups, but I don’t know what else to do. She starts to get upset. She really wants to have a dry bed, and I don’t want her to be sad about it. I just tell her it is no big deal, and we can try again in the future. Wearing pull ups is no big deal. But the thing is, she wants to do it. I just don’t think she can. I think she is too heavy of a sleeper, and she just doesn’t wake up.
I read about a bed wetting alarm that seemed to have great success. I talked to Emma about it a while ago, and she really wanted me to order it. I decided to wait a bit, and try again, to see if she could do it on her own.
We tried one more time a few weeks ago, with the same results as before. By the end of our trip to NC she was wetting the bed every night. So, I went ahead and ordered the alarm.
Emma is trying it for the first time tonight. She seems excited about it. I don’t know if I am thrilled about it–it means that I have to get up with her whenever the alarm goes off 
Tonight might not be the best night to start, since I am exhausted from traveling home from North Carolina. But she was so excited that it came and she wanted to try it right away.
I am hoping that it works quickly, so I don’t have to get up too many nights. I am finally sleeping all night on a regular basis, I am not happy about having to get up again. No, seriously, I am totally willing to do whatever it takes to help her. I put a monitor in her room so that I can hear if the alarm goes off. They say that at first the alarm may not wake her up, and I will have to help her wake up and get her to walk to the bathroom. The good thing about the alarm is that with time it should wake her as soon as she pees a drop so that she can learn to wake on her own before she has to go.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that this helps her. I will be happy not to have to do so much laundry, and I know that it will make Emma feel better about herself, too.