I have been asked to write a fun Dryly® guest blog, herewith my experiences with bedwetting. My son Pieter was potty trained from a very young age, both during the day, and at night. From one day to the next that stopped and he started bedwetting. We thought it would stop, we did nothing about it except changing his sheets every day. After six months I started to get worried. After visiting the doctor I was told it was a phase that many children go through. I had nothing to worry about.
Now 4 years later I regret that we did not take more action. I didn't know at all what the possibilities were and had complete faith in the doctor's advice. Of course it is true that in most children it passes so I do not blame him. But I do blame myself for not having searched better for bedwetting and solutions to it.
Bedwetting is oddly barely discussed among parents. It's a huge taboo. I knew little about it and didn't have the idea that I could come up with a solution myself.
When, after 1.5 years of muddling through, we were prescribed a bedwetting alarm, we thought it would bring immediate results. We bought the bedwetting alarm and were amazed at its simplicity.
The bedwetting alarm consists of a pair of pants with a transmitter attached. The transmitter sends a signal to the receiver the moment the child pees. The receiver consists of a large plastic thing that you have to plug into a wall socket. The moment the child pees, the receiver starts sending out an alarm. The child wakes up and has to go to the toilet by himself to pee out and put on new pants.
Pieter found it annoying at first because the bedwetting alarm was rather old-fashioned. The pee pants were white thick cotton and not really pleasant to put on. Once that hurdle was taken, Pieter had great difficulty with being woken up in the middle of his sleep to go pee. That's just part of the method, so it was nice that it worked. But Pieter found something on that....he unplugged the receiver at night and slept peacefully on in his warm, wet bed.
Back at the urologist with the story that it didn't work because Pieter sabotaged the peewecker. Then we learned the crux of potty training and support; that was the core of the bedwetting alarm method. We also had to get out at night to walk to the toilet with Pieter, change his bed immediately and put on new pee-pants. From the moment we started helping Pieter also at night things went much better. He was completely potty-trained within a few weeks.
I would have liked to have known that earlier. I would have liked to have been taken by the hand when I bought the bedwetting alarm. Would have liked to have had insight into what was going on with our Pieter at night. Fortunately, with 'learning by doing' we still had the desired result!
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