Wet-Stop 3 Blue Bedwetting Enuresis Alarm with Loud Sound and Strong Vibration for Boys or Girls, Proven Solution for Bedwetters

This "Wet-Stop3 Pink Bedwetting Enuresis Alarm with Loud Sound and Strong Vibration for Bedwetters" has been an excellent option for helping my five-year-old daughter stop wetting the bed at night. Although she has been 90% potty trained since she was 3 years old, we have had to keep her in pull-ups because she sleeps so deeply that she cannot wake herself to use the bathroom at night. This alarm has almost entirely alleviated that problem after only one month of nightly use because the loud alarm and substantial vibration has essentially trained her to sleep more lightly and respond to stimuli, including the "urge to pee" at night. Before this product, she was wetting her pull up every night. By the second week of use of this alarm, she went an entire week (6 consecutive nights) without a single accident. Thereafter, she has had an accident every 4-7 nights, but this is a huge improvement and the frequency of accidents has continued to slow. I am fairly confident that with another few weeks of use, she will be able to sleep without the alarm or a pull up and able to wake herself when she needs to pee. There are mixed reviews of this product (and others like it), but after using it, I wanted to share a few secrets that I suspect account for the widely varying comments about whether these alarms are effective. I am almost positive that most negative reviews come from parents who did not follow through with consistent, disciplined use of this alarm. That's because, initially at least, it can be exhausting. Because of hearing safety standards, the audible alarm has to be limited to a permissible decibel level that some people consider too quiet. Frankly, this alarm is plenty loud, but you do need to leave your child's door and your door open at night (hopefully, your bedroom is in close proximity to your child's, as our is) so that you can hear the alarm. When the alarm goes off, the parent MUST go to the child immediately and EVEN IF AN ACCIDENT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED (whether a minor dribble or a full emptying of the child's bladder), MUST IMMEDIATELY MAKE THE CHILD WAKE UP AND WALK TO THE POTTY, AND THEN SIT ON THE POTTY. This is how you "train" the child to wake him/herself and take appropriate action. If you simply change the bedding/clothes and/or carry the child to the potty instead of making your child respond appropriate for his/herself, you will not be reinforcing the proper "lesson." The whole point is that your child needs to learn to wake up. Over time, if you stick with this routine for several nights, your child will actually begin to anticipate the alarm and wake up BEFORE an accident; that is how his/her body learns the "feeling" of the "urge to pee" and habituates itself to wake and use the bathroom. This is critically important, and I'm guessing that many parents are mis-using this product by, instead, silencing the alarm, cleaning up the mess, and never really addressing the child's behavior (or perhaps not even making sure the child wakes fully). Second, you must make a big deal out of each night's successes, whether the child has an accident or not. The unit comes with a star chart that marks the child's success each evening. In the morning, a silver star means there was an accident (but still complement your child for wearing the alarm and waking up to use the potty!), and a gold star means there was no accident. If you engage in the routine of putting up a star each morning, it mentally reinforces the fact that you and your child are working together to develop a skill (waking to pee at night) that he/she can be proud of. Don't shortchange this or it will be easy for your child (and you) to start to see the alarm as an undesirable chore that you occasionally "skip" using because you don't like the hassle. (Believe me, you will lose some sleep at first--kind of like having a new baby in the house--but stick with it!) Third, you must ALWAYS use the alarm when the child sleeps. Do NOT allow "naps" without the alarm if your child is prone to having accidents during a nap. Our rule was that EVERY TIME OUR DAUGHTER SLEEPS, whether for a nap or for the night, she wears the alarm. That way, the body is being trained consistently to respond to the stimulus of the alarm and, eventually, to recognize the bodily feeling that PRECEDES the need to pee (setting off the alarm). Fourth, you must make sure to position the wetness sensor in the deepest, central part of the pull-up/underwear. This is probably easier with girls than boys since the pee comes out in a predictable and consistent place for girls, but can change for boys depending on the position of their, um, "equipment." The sensor only detects moisture within about 1" diameter, and I would guess that careless placement of the sensor is the main reason for reports that this sensor "failed to go off." We found that, if we placed it carefully in the lowest part of the pull-up, it worked very reliably; however, a few times, my wife got up in the night to help our daughter go pee and, when she reattached the sensor, she placed it a little too high up (nearer the belly button). Predictably, in the morning, that often resulted in my daughter having a wet pull up that did not trigger the alarm. Fifth, you must not yell at or otherwise show frustration/anger to your child on the (potentially many) nights when he/she wakes up with an accident and seeks your help. If your child expects you to be angry, it's pretty much a guarantee that he/she will instead learn to silence the alarm his/herself and go back to sleep. Who wants to go face an angry mommy or daddy in the middle of the night while they're sleepy? So keep it positive and THANK your child for waking you for help, or tell him/her it's okay when he/she has an accident because you are PROUD of him/her for wearing the alarm and "being a good sport about it." We told that to our daughter a lot, and she came to see it as a positive experience, even though many nights she has woken up crying because the abruptness of the alarm and vibration scared/startled her. (It is a rude awakening, but that's the point--and that's exactly why your child's body WILL learn to anticipate and correct the problem BEFORE accidents occur.) If you follow those tips and stick to the plan diligently, I suspect your experience will be as positive as ours has been. In retrospect, I'm so glad we didn't spend considerably more on a higher priced bedwetting alarm. I don't think spending more would have gotten us a more reliable unit (this one has been great). My belief is that the efficacy of the alarm really depends on how well the parents manage the experience and follow through on the disciplined habits they're trying to instill. I'll try to report back here after another month to let you know how our experience wraps up, but we're already delighted by how effective this product has been in eliminating over 80% of the nightly accidents our daughter was having. And it has been good for her self-esteem too. [UPDATE 9-19-2017: I'm not sure why my previous update disappeared, but I wanted to note that, after four weeks of increasing success using this product, our daughter started to "back slide" into having accidents again as she grew accustomed (i.e. less responsive) to the alarm. Nevertheless, we stuck with it and just got more proactive about making her stand up and ensuring she was awake before walking her to the potty after an accident. After about 3 weeks of sporadic accidents, she was almost 100% potty trained and no more accidents. The only limitation now seems to be the size of her bladder, but as long as we put her on the potty right before she falls asleep, she now sleeps through the night regularly without accidents. In short, this product was a success. It definitely made a difference, and the only challenge involved in using it, I believe, is sticking with the routine in a disciplined way until you adequately habituate/train your child's body to the feeling of the urge to pee, and to wake themselves before they have an accident.]

We purchased this alarm to help night train my 5-year-old. She is a VERY heavy sleeper, and although she potty trained during the day before she was 2 years old, now almost 4 years later, she still wets the bed at night. We were using Goodnights brand pull ups at night, because they have the biggest capacity for pee, but sometimes she was still soaking through them. We've had great success using this alarm for the last three weeks, and are so happy to finally be out of diapers with her. The alarm comes with a chart for tracking dry nights with your child, and some links to more information online. We did the following to get started: 1. Set up the chart and talked about staying dry through the night. We let my daughter know once she made it a month, she would get a reward of her choosing. 2. Purchased Disposable Underpads (available on Amazon - the name of the product we purchased is "Premium Disposable Chucks Underpads 25 Pack, 30" x 36" - Highly Absorbent Bed Pads for Incontinence and Senior Care - Peach Color - Leak Proof Protection") 3. Layered her mattress with the following: disposable underpad, waterproof mattress cover, 2nd disposable underpad, sheet. 4. Had my daughter pee right before going to bed. Also, stopped giving her liquids after dinner. 5. Got rid of the pull-ups and had her sleep in her underwear moving forward with the alarm attached. That way if she pees, she is uncomfortable, rather than sleeping in it. 6. For the first night, we woke her every hour to pee. Bed at 7. 7. For the second night, we woke her 4 hours after going to sleep. Bed at 7, woke up at 11 pm. 8. For the third night we woke her 2 hours after going to sleep. Bed at 7, woke up at 9. She had an accident later in the night and the alarm went off. 9. Tried again on the 4th night to wake her 2 hours after after going to sleep. She had another accident, so we determined she can't go quite that long. We have been consistently waking her up at 11 pm (unless we forget) and she has been doing great. 10. On nights we do forget to wake her up, she will still have an accident. And about 70% of the time, the alarm goes off early enough to stop her from fully wetting the bed, it just gets on her underwear, so we just change her underwear and put her back to bed. 11. About 2 of 14 days, she woke herself up to go pee. This is HUGE for us. She's never done that before, and we're hoping that with time, she will consistently do this. All in all, this alarm isn't a complete and total fix for bed wetting, I think she is just such a deep sleeper it will take more time for her to consistently wake up. But I think it is moving us on the way to fully being night trained. I do think you'll have to make a concentrated effort to wake them up, while also using the alarm. I don't think we would have had so much success if we had just put her to bed in the alarm. Some detail on the alarm: - The alarm is pretty loud, but I think it has to be or she would sleep through it. It does wake up my 2.5 year old (they share a room), and she says every time that "it scared me!". - To disable the alarm, you have to push the button and unplug the cord both. This is helpful so that she won't turn it off herself when it goes off. - The metal wetness detector is really sensitive. It detects pee, as soon as moisture gets near, and has been effective at going off before there is enough pee to get onto her sheets. - The cord is long enough to go inside clothes or outside. It hooks to her underwear, and then the little box/alarm portion clips to her shirt. It doesn't seem to bother her much, but there were a couple nights where she moved it up to the top of her underwear and it did not detect the pee. - I think if you are trying to train a child aged 3 years or under, this would be too much. I think the alarm would scare them to much and it would be a traumatic experience for them. My daughter is old enough she wants to be trained at night, and understands the alarm is meant to help her, and that makes it less scary. All in all, we are very happy with this product, and I would recommend to anyone else in our situation!

We've been trying to curb bed wetting in my 7 year old, he's still in diapers and enough is enough. We bought Wet-Stop3 based on the reviews, as it seemed like the best product to help transition him from bed wetting to waking up and using the potty. Well, it certainly does wake him up: it vibrates, a small light flashes, and it makes a helluva lot of noise. The problem is getting it to turn off. Want to see a small child having a panic attack at 1:30 in the morning as this alarm just won't shut up? Want to make going to bed each night a traumatic experience? How about preparing yourself for that upcoming sleep-deprivation experiment you always wanted to enroll yourself in? If you've answered yes to the preceding questions, then the Wet-Stop3 alarm is just the thing for you. You would think that turning off a small blue screaming banshee beeper would be easy, right? After all it only has one button (it's the one that flashes). Nope. Press and hold it down steady or frantically push it repeatedly while telling your crying son it's okay... and listen to the sweet sounds of a screaming alarm reinforce the notion that something went wrong years ago when you missed the chance while potty training. Thinking about an off switch? Would be nice, but no dice. I know you're thinking exactly what the general in War Games was thinking when "The WOPR" was threatening nuclear war: just unplug the damn thing. Well, it turns out that your only option: the little sensor is attached to the scream box by a cable, unplug the cable and the damn thing does shut off. Only problem is that even if you clean off the sensor you can't reattach it without resuming nuclear countdown. So either go the rest of the night without, or play Russian roulette in the middle of the night while your wife looks at you angrily and your son looks at you with terror. Have fun. What would be really nice is a product that has some sort of volume control. In our case a simple vibration would suffice. It's not like our son is in a coma. He needs just a nudge to wake up, not a sledge hammer. But, if you like the idea of combining shock therapy reminiscent to the torture scenes in Lost, by all means purchase the Wet-Stop3.

We have two daughters, 5 and 7 years old. The 5 year old has been sleeping through the night without a pull-up for a year or two. Our 7 year old daughter was really starting to get upset since she still had to use a pull-up but her little sister did not. This came to a head when our 5 year old told her sister's friend that she was still wearing "diapers." She wasn't trying to be mean, but it was quite embarrassing to our 7 year old daughter. We had tried waking her up late at night to go to the bathroom, no liquids after dinner, and no dairy after lunch, with limited success. I found the "Wet-Stop3" while searching for other bedwetting solutions and I'm glad I did. We started by clipping the sensor inside of her pull-up. This takes some practice since you need the metal portion pointing _away_ from the skin (sweaty skin will set it off) and you need to locate it in the right spot. It helps to do one wrap of the cord through the leg hole to make it harder for the sensor to get accidentally readjusted or pulled out. The first two nights, the sensor went off, but, unbelievably, it didn't wake her up. I heard it and went into her bedroom and woke her up and took her to the bathroom. I was disappointed, but considering how loud the alarm is and that it also vibrates, I couldn't see how anyone could possibly sleep through it. The next night, I also had to help her; but by the third night it was waking her up without my help. She wore it almost every day for a month and then started waking up before the alarm went off. She wore it for a couple more weeks until she was ready to try sleeping in panties. That was 3 months ago and since then she's only had one small accident. I wish I had purchased this two years ago! Pros: - It really works if you stick with it. - By design, it's not easy to turn the alarm off. This prevents the child from pushing a button and falling back to sleep. - It's a loud, almost piercing alarm, with vibrations. Very tough to sleep through (even from the next room) Cons: - The first few days, it did not wake her up, but it was loud enough to wake me up so that I could take her to the bathroom. - As you'd expect, it's not going to be comfortable to wear, but your child will get used to it. - Once your child knows how to shut it off (disconnect the wire & push the button) they may occasionally do this in bed and drop off to sleep again. I had to have a couple "discussions" with my daughter about not going back to sleep. It requires some dedication. Don't Give Up! Notes: When using Wet-Stop3 you should _not_ wake up the child (without the alarm going off) and take them to the bathroom late at night. The alarm works by associating a "wake up" signal to their body with the initial flow of urine (Pavlov’s dog, anyone?). So, if _you_ wake the child up on your own and take her to the bathroom (like we did for months before getting this alarm.) it defeats the purpose of having the alarm.

I'm changing my review to reflect 3 stars instead of 5 because of durability. We used it for a few months, then set it aside once his school figured things out but just got it out again to try nighttime wetting. The problem now is that it won't shut off. We unclip the wet item and press the button on the side and it just keeps going and going. I finally took out the batteries. We tried it five more times in the sink but every time it wouldn't shut off. I guess the button is broken or something. That's too much money to have it cut out so quickly. It was very effective though when it was working. I sent him with this and underwear to school (in functional skills) because we really needed to work on potty training consistently, not just at home, and I thought the pull ups were giving him an excuse to not pay attention to leaks. It totally worked. We put it on vibrate (the top pager thing by his shoulder) and clipped the wetness sensor to the undies. Then, at school and home we went potty every hour. The first few days it went off at school when he was still in the pull ups but, once we got to the undies stage and made sure the teachers knew he was in undies (and sent a bunch of change clothes just in case) they took him on time and no more wet! We called it his potty pager and said that if the kids asked, just tell them he's needed in the hallway. I'm beyond thrilled that he's made the connection about when he's peeing because of the instant vibration on his shoulder. We're going to give it a month or two at least and then think about using it at night as well to see if he can start to wake up when he needs to go. I would imagine that will be a longer process for him but who knows because we thought this would be too and it was very short. He's 12 and a half years old.

My 9YO wet the bed 6 out of 7 nights. I was skeptical, but it works! Just BE PATIENT. She is a deep sleeper - it was not a medical issue so I cannot speak to the efficacy in that situation. She is so happy to finally stay dry at night that she's been checking on me to see if I "gave it 5 stars yet". I should have tried this a LONG time ago! Things to know: It took about 2 months, trial and error, and lots of reinforcing to go potty right before bed even if she just went 10 minutes before, and any time she woke up on her own in the night - take responsibility to do everything she can to help train herself. Use this in combination with easy to change waterproof mattress pads (get at least 2). Placement is important! Be patient with figuring out how and where to place it, this was frustrating for both of us. Put a pair of tight fitting shorts or pants over the alarm to help keep it in place, it will come off if your child moves at night or has thicker thighs if you don't have something over it. It is uncomfortable for them to have something clipped on "down there", a wire running under their shirt, and this bulky box clipped on their collar...but it's worth it! It is difficult for them to manage in the night when it wakes them up to go potty, sometimes they have to get middle of the night help. It does occassionally malfunction and go off even when we couldn't find any wetness, this only happened a couple of times. We unplugged the wire, popped out the batteries, made sure the sensor was extra dry, and it worked fine when we got it back together. In the beginning there were a few nights it didn't wake her up. I don't know if it didn't go off, or if she just didn't hear it. I read complaints that it's so loud it woke up everyone in the house, which concerned me being so close to her ear - that was not our experience; it woke her up, but noone else (she does not share a room). In summary, she got frustrated, we got frustrated, but we stuck it out, and it worked. We are so happy for her, she is so happy for herself, and I no longer have to buy over night pull ups! I gave 4 starts due to the occasional malfunction, if it weren't for that I would have given 5 stars! If you're frustrated, if they're embarrassed, if you've thought about this at all...just do it! And be patient.

Our 7 yo had never had a dry night and was wetting the bed every single night, and our pediatrician recommended we try this device. We started this 2.5 weeks ago, and we are now on 4 nights in a row completely dry. I was so happy that this thing worked that I had to get on here to write a review so it might help someone else. Before we started, I read reviews on here to get prepared. We also tested the device with my son before the first night, so he’d recognize the sound and vibration. In his room, we put absorbant pads over his bottom sheet. We had wipes, extra bed pads, underwear, pjs, and a plastic bag for wet things next to his bed. I had clean sheets and blanket handy, too. We did not use a pull-up—just underwear. The first night we tried just the vibrate mode, but it didn’t wake my son. After, we just used the alarm sound, and it woke him every time but did not scare him. The first week, we were up twice a night, and the first couple of nights he was completely wetting the bed. Each time we had to change clothes, pads, and even the comforter once. I just put all of this in bags and washed it all the next morning. I got up with him each time the first two weeks and helped him turn off the alarm, try to use the restroom, and get back in bed. After a few nights, he started just going a little in his underwear and then finished in the restroom. After a week and a half, he started having a dry time here and there. And now, he’s waking up and going to the restroom by himself and has been dry for 4 nights in a row. We are both so happy and relieved. We’re still going to use the device for at least the recommend 2 weeks once dry. My son said it gives him confidence. And just some more advice: both my son and I hated this thing by the end of week one. I was considering giving up. We were tired and over it. But I read on these reviews that consistency is key and reading that it actually helped others made me stick with it, and I’m so glad I did. Also, the alarm has a button you can push to silence it, but it won’t silence until the sensor is dry. So we had to unclip the sensor from his underwear and then push the button before it would be quiet. I also worried about it waking up our toddler who sleeps in the room next to my older son, but we used a sound machine in the toddler’s room, and he only heard the beeping the first night. After that, no issues. So, if you’re struggling with night wetting, give this a try. I’m so impressed!

The cord to the alarm came unhooked multiple times we attempted to use this. It worked great as long as the cord stayed connected, but because my kiddo moves around so much in his sleep this product was not for us.

Je voulais attendre plusieurs jours avant d’écrire mon commentaire. Au début j’étais un peu septique mais étant à cours de solutions pourquoi pas ! Alors la première fois une de mes filles a eu très peur de la sonnerie (elle est très forte, en pleine nuit ça surprend !) mais on lui a bien expliqué que ce n’était rien de plus qu’un réveil et qu’on viendrait toujours avec elle. La peur étant passée très vite elle se lève seule, va aux toilettes et l’éteint seule désormais. A vrai dire il ne sonne même plus car elle se réveille pour aller faire pipi depuis une semaine sans accident. Sa sœur elle, parfois il sonne mais elle va tout de suite aux toilettes donc finalement plus rien dans les lits. Et le matin elle y va sans avoir besoin qu’il sonne. Ce n’était pas gagné car on avait tout essayé, les réveiller dans la nuit, ne pas le faire, contrôler l’eau, ne pas le faire, chemises de nuit pour faciliter le passage aux toilettes, veilleuses sur le chemin, couches, pas de couches, récompenses ect ... Seul cette alarme nous a aidé à régler ce soucis. Avant cela elles ne remarquaient pas qu’elles faisaient pipi, à vrai dire elles ne se réveillaient même pas quand le lit était trempé, on le remarquait au réveil le matin. C’était un vrai casse-tête et ma plus grande de 6 ans commençait à être un peu gêné de la situation car toutes ses copines sont propres la nuit. (Je ne voulais pas donner de traitements à 5 et 6 ans et tout soucis « graves » psy et/ou physiques avaient été écartés, consultez un pédiatre avant on ne sait jamais) Ensuite, l’appareil est assez petit, fonctionne à piles (non fournies), la livraison était rapide. Il existe en plusieurs couleurs et est vendu avec un petit tableau de récompenses à gommettes bienveillantes car il ne pénalise pas l’enfant mais félicite ses efforts et ses réussites.

Llego muy rápido y me encanta que trae su calendario para calificar con estrellas el avance. Funciona súper bien, con un poco de tacto al agua ya empieza a sonar y vibrar. A mi hijo le ha funcionado muy bien.

Funktioniert super

Nos ha funcionado de maravilla. Después de 3 noches, ¡adiós pañal de la peque!

Estamos mto felizes com a compra. Meu filho de 5 anos fazia xixi todas as noites na cama. Eu e meu marido tínhamos que acordar e levá-lo antecipadamente no banheiro. Nos 2 primeiros dias de uso ele molhou em volta do sensor, mas após o alarme acordamos e levamos ele. No terceiro e quarto dia não fez xixi na cama indo apenas de manhã ao banheiro. No fim de semana que dormiu por mais tempo ele começou a fazer xixi denovo mas ao apitar o alarme acordou e foi ao banheiro. Agora faz uma semana que não tem molhado mais a cama. Acredito que já esteja fazendo a relação de alarme x despertar. Pretendo tirar o aparelho em breve. As estrelinhas são um ótimo incentivo também, ele adora receber uma toda manhã. O resultado tem sido rápido. Se soubesse teria pedido antes. Chegou antes do esperado, tudo certinho.