TheraPee worked for 9 year old boy
I have a 9 year old boy. This worked. He potty trained quickly as a toddler, but never could stay dry at night. He only had one dry night when he was about 3. Ever since then, we bought pull ups for him to wear at night. My husband wet the bed as a boy, so we were just waiting for him to outgrow it. Once a year, or so, I would send him to bed in underwear with the plan that we’d get him up to pee before we went to sleep; only to find that he had already wet before we could wake him. I figured that as long as he was in a pull-up everyone could get their sleep.
After his 9th birthday, I started scouring the internet for confirmation that my son’s problem was normal. I came across the bed alarms and what I liked about this one was that he could wear his regular boxers to bed without anything in his pants (no batteries or lumps for him to complain about). The other reason I bought this one was that I liked the idea of the online calendar and feedback videos. We started the program and we had to write down what time he wet, how big the spot was, and whether the alarms woke him up or not. He was wetting at almost the exact same time, three times a night. weird. and was not waking up to the alarm. (Through research, I found out, that he didn’t have to wake to the alarm, the alarm works subconsciously, so as long as we sent him in to the bathroom – his brain remembered). By the 4th night he didn’t wet at all, and woke himself up to go to the bathroom. We had a few on and off nights, but after 8 or so weeks he was dry consistently. The first night we were sure we waited too long and it wouldn’t work. But it did! We got it in August and it’s November now. No pad, no pee at night! loving it. Why did I wait so long?
pros: no batteries in underwear, large enough pad to save the bed (most of the time), has batteries, no wall plug, good interactive website with dr videos, loud alarm to be heard from parents’ room.
cons: pad gets hot for sweaty sleeper. (but I bet they all do)