I never write reviews, but felt the need to do so on this. My 7-1/2 year old is such a sound sleeper and would wet himself often 2 to 3 times per night. We tried just about everything... limiting liquids, waking him several times during the night, etc. He's never gone more than 1 or 2 nights in a row staying dry. He'd wear two pull-ups and most nights that wouldn't even contain his urine output and his bedding would be soaked... usually he'd still not wake up. Our doctor wasn't yet concerned, but it really started to bother our son. I started looking around at these alarms and the range of costs. Figured middle of the road was a good place to start and we could use our HSA card, which was nice.
I will tell you that this takes time, patience & a fair amount of finagling... His room is one the 2nd floor and ours is on the first, so we moved him to an air mattress in my office, adjacent to our room so we could hear the alarm and help out right away. We also purchased reusable water proof pads to cover the bedding. The first couple of weeks were rough... everything kept coming undone, unplugged and when the alarm went off, he'd be laying in a puddle of urine and we'd be changing bedding and his clothes in the middle of the nigh. We remained determined and tried to stay positive so he didn't get frustrated. We tried all sorts of things and here are some tips: Don't use the tape that comes with it... doesn't stay all that well and leave a horrible residue on everything. We found that hockey tape worked best. We'd use several pieces to tape on the sensor and then also had to put a piece over the plug into the alarm (or it would come unplugged). Put a pull-up on over everything else. It helps hold the sensor in place and helps with messes. We had some false alarms and found that if the sensor was at all touching skin (through the little opening in his underwear) or if he wore dri-fit material underwear, it would go off falsely. Also, occasionally cleaning the sensor with rubbing alcohol helps.
At about the 2-week mark, when the alarm would go off, he'd be dry and say that he was holding his urine :). There would actually be just a little bit of urine that would set off the alarm and he would then stop it before wetting all over. This never happened before and was a huge milestone!! A week or two later, the alarm stopped going off and he'd wake in the morning, really needing to use the bathroom :) :) :). That's gone on for almost 2 weeks straight now and we're all thrilled! It's like a switch was flipped, literally. Last night he move back up to his loft bed on the 2nd floor and did great!! We'll slowly back off on wearing the pull-up (since he hasn't needed it at all) and then the alarm. He's so happy and so are we! We can't believe what a difference this has made and wish everyone else the same success! Just stick with it, don't expect overnight success & try a little tweaking ;). IT REALLY DOES WORK!

My 7.5 year old has wanted to get out of pull-ups for 2 years. We tried one year ago by just waking him up a couple of time in the middle of the night to empty his bladder. We did it for 2 weeks with multiple accidents a night. We tried it again over a month ago with the same results. I had my doubts about an alarm because he would urinate 2-3 times each night and a lot. The first night, it took him awhile to wake up from it and he peed through everything as usual, but from the 2nd night on, it DRASTICALLY got better. You may want to put a pull-up OVER the underwear and alarm to prevent washing tons of sheets, but in just a week, he didn't need the pull-up anymore because if he did have an accident, it was very little! Also, we did get 2 false alarms and I think it was due to sweat from the pull-up.

My husband and I are believers in this alarm. Now, you MUST be able to hear the alarm (at least the first few nights) because if you have a deep sleeper, you're going to need to go wake him/her. But after the first night, he was more and more aware of the alarm and would wake up before I even got there. (We moved him near us in our bedroom since he sleeps with his sibling and it absolutely would wake her up, too).

If you want to see his daily log, it's below. I hope it can help people see how quickly this works. The quick progress made my son very excited and confident that he could do this. I have no doubt that he will get to the 14 straight days without an accident so he can stop using this alarm system. Be prepared to lose some sleep because he/she may wake up many times out of nervousness of wetting himself, but after awhile, he'll start to trust himself.

My boy used to urinate 2-3 times a night. Now he gets through the whole night only peeing 1 time or no times at all. He's finally getting sleep and so are we. I could not be happier.

Night 1: Woke at 2:30am. Alarm going off for a bit. Wet through everything. Dry rest of night.

Night 2: Woke at 4:30am. Both of us woke immediately. When I got to him, he said, "I stopped myself from peeing." Wet only a little bit. Dry the rest of the night. He said he went to the bathroom by himself before he woke.

Night 3: Alarm went off at 8:30pm before he was even really asleep. He forgot about our system and I reminded myself to talk about his commitment to waking up before bed each night. Woke completely dry. He said he took himself to the bathroom 3 times.

Night 4: Alarm off at 10:30pm. Wet himself. He had melatonin which is why, I believe. Dry rest of the night. Note to self - no melatonin.

Night 5: Made it through the night! Went to the bathroom one time by himself.

Night 6: Alarm off at 12 midnight. Only wet himself a little bit. Dry rest of night.

Night 7: Dry! Made it through the night! Went to bathroom at 11pm when alarm went off accidentally.

Night 8: Alarm off at 4am. Wet just a little. Dry rest of the night.

Night 9: Dry

Night 10: Dry

Night 11: Dry

Night 12: Alarm off at 2am. A little wet, more than usual. Dry rest of night.

Night 13: Dry

Night 14: Dry

Night 15: Dry

Night 16: Dry

Night 17: Alarm off at 2am. A little wetness.

Night 18: Dry

Night 19: Dry

Night 20: Dry

Night 21: Dry.

First off, I was a bed-wetter myself as a kid. My grandma would make fun of me. My parents would yell at me. I could never sleep over at friends. I HATED life. My daughter is 6 and I talk to her about the problem and let her know how I can relate. She has NEVER had a dry night. She tells me about people making fun of her (like when we went camping and she had to wear a pull-up) and that it hurts her feelings. She gets angry and embarrassed when she has to put a pull-up on at night to go to bed when her little brother doesn't even have to anymore. So I asked her Dr. for advice and said I would like to try to avoid medication if possible. She recommend an alarm and just said to do a little research online.

I ALWAYS include my daughter in decisions that are for her as I think that it helps with her willingness to WANT to try. We showed her a few different highly reviewed products and she wanted to try the Chummie. One cool thing it comes with is a progress book that also has instructions. Progress book is broken down by weeks and has 7 pictures and 7 stars on each page. Color 1 picture for every night of use, but you only get to color a star for a dry night. Seems easy, but it gave my daughter a goal and she was looking forward to coloring stars every morning.

I was amazed how well this has worked. My daughters confidence is through the roof right now! Completely exceeded expectations. Kind of spendy for about $100, but we cancelled out auto delivery of pull ups. We will be passing this onto one of her cousins to see if it can help her, letting her decide if she wants to just clean the sensor or she can buy a new one for $20.

The 1 and only con I found was the included tape to keep the sensor in place. It did not hold at all and was a waste. We used band-aids at first and then realized if you layer undies, you don't need to use anything.

Her progress if you want to continue:

NIGHT 1- Layered underwear, sensor, pull up, pants. About an hour after falling asleep a very LOUD alarm was blaring from my daughters room. I had positioned it on her collar, so it was shooting right in her ear. This scared the heck out of her and she was saying she didn't want to use the alarm anymore. I calmed her down, and from then on we started placing the clip on the waistband of pants. The alarm did however work, she had a tiny drop of pee in her pants, not a huge puddle.

NIGHT 2- She was excited to try it again, but it woke her up 3 times and she was tired the next day

NIGHT 3-7 - Continued to use layered underwear, sensor, pull up, pants. She was now putting the alarm in herself. The alarm would go off once at night with the smallest of accidents. The she was removing it for the rest of the night.

NIGHT 8-10 - I was tell her to remember to put on her alarm, but she was saying she "forgot" and was trying not to use it. She was waking up at night 1 or 2 times to use the bathroom with no alarm, then waking up in the morning dry.

NIGHT 11+ - We decided to just use underwear and not use the alarm at all anymore. She has not had a dry night since and has ever come in to sleep with mommy and daddy.

Quick update I wanted to share. My daughter used to wake up in a bad mood when she was wet. Today, she woke up early and made the whole family breakfast (cereal). Since she has been dry it is crazy to see how much happier she is in the mornings. Now we just need to work on getting her some singing lessons... :)

UPDATE:
After a few weeks as non-use our daughter began to have accidents again unfortunately. We have started using the alarm again. It seems as if it is working once again. Perhaps we will use this for a few weeks after accident free nights begin. Hopefully this will work out much better.

Bear with me as my story may get long.... I want to say that I read so many of the reviews on this product before deciding to purchase it. I made a great decision and couldn't be happier that we went for it. Here is my review:

I have 4 kids. All about a year apart. My two girls were potty trained early and never had a problem at night. My two sons were potty trained around 3 years old. My youngest son never had an issue with nighttime wetting but my other son, Patrick, continued to wet each night so we always just kept him in a diaper. He is 5 1/2 now and recently became embarrassed that he had to wear diaper to bed. The Huggies size 6 diapers were getting very snug on him and I had tried the other nighttime options and he had soaked through all of them. Patrick was getting embarrassed when he would have a babysitter at night who would have to put him in a diaper before bed. He was embarrassed that his younger brother went to bed with underwear on and he was wearing a diaper. He started to refuse to wear diaper and when I tried him in underwear he would wet the bed every night multiple times a night. My husband and I started a system where we would put him in underwear at night and wake him several times. We did this for over a month every single night. I was exhausted, my husband was exhausted and so was my son. And he STILL wet the bed because we didn't always time it right and we would be too late in waking him many times. We were all frustrated. Which is when I found Chummie.

I was skeptical. As I am with everything. But I trust reviews and decided to go for it. After all, we couldn't continue to wake my son and there didn't seem to be a change in my sons wetting habits at night no matter how diligent we were about making sure he went to the bathroom multiple times before bed and limiting his after dinner liquids. So we bought Chummie and honestly, it was the best thing we could have done.

The first week or so Patrick wet the bed even with Chummie. The alarm would go off and I would meet him in his room or the bathroom and change him, change his sheets and wash the censor with warm water (after each and every wet.) Then put the Chummie back on and he would wet again even with the alarm going off. The directions do say this process takes weeks or months so I was prepared that is wasn't going to work overnight. Patrick didn't love the Chummie to be honest. He disliked the alarm. Which, by the way, he never slept through. He always heard it and woke up and got up even if he had already wet the bed. We always talked it up and told him it would take time. We really encouraged him and told him this was how we were going to get him out of diapers and wetting the bed for good. He seemed to understand more as each night went on but he would get frustrated that it wasn't an immediate fix. He never complained about it as far as comfort goes. The clip seemed fine and not to bother him. The wire didn't bother him either. We used one adhesive strip and two pairs of underwear as I read in the reviews which worked great and we never had a problem with it slipping off! My biggest complaint with this system, however, is that even with frequent wiping and rinsing with warm water, it would occasionally go off with out seemingly any, not even one drop, of urine in the underwear. Patrick would cry and say "but I didn't have an accident!!!" and he was right and I explained that sometimes even the best products make mistakes;) That was frustrating for him though.

That brings me to today. It's been about 4 weeks since using Chummie and Patrick almost never has accidents at night anymore. He still wears the chummie and will continue to wear it for a couple more weeks until I am sure he is free of accidents. Now, when the alarm goes off, he gets up and I meet him in the bathroom and he finishes urinating in the toilet. He hasn't wet the bed in weeks. He even sleeps through the night most nights now with out having accidents or having to go to the bathroom at all! He is so proud of himself and has so much more confidence when it's time to get pajamas on. I know that it takes some children much longer, and I know we are not completely out of the woods with Patrick just yet, but taking this step was the best thing we could have done for him! You will have interrupted sleep and long nights but it is worth it in the end! Oh and one more tip, I eventually found bed wetting pads that you can put on the bed so when accidents occur you don't have to change the sheets every single time. That was also HUGE for me as that took so much time multiple times a night and would frustrate Patrick because he was so tired and just wanted to go back to bed. We are very happy with this product and are so thankful for the outcome we are experiencing!

My 7 year old daughter has been potty trained since before she was 2 during the day but continued to struggle with overnight. She is such a sound sleeper that she just didn't wake up. We limited fluids and went to the bathroom multiple times before bed but nothing worked. We got this alarm at the beginning of August and already by the end of the month, she's been dry every night for over two weeks. She even tried it without the alarm the last two nights successfully.

I'm not going to lie, I was skeptical. The first week was rough. Definitely use two pair of underwear. We put one over the pair with the alarm and that helped keep it in place. Never had an issue after that. Also, buy waterproof pads so you're not changing the whole bed in the middle of the night. Doing those things made it much more bearable that first week to week and a half.

Definitely would recommend. My daughter is so happy and proud of herself.