This is our second try with a bed wetting alarm. The first time my son was 7 & 9 months. Now he's 10 & 2 months. We bought the expensive alarm where your child has to wet through their clothes to the bed wetting pad. Several reasons I would highly recommend this as a better solution: 1)Less mess- The alarm clips to their underwear. As other parents have said, you can easily slip a pull-up over their underwear to help with any accidents. 2)Less expensive- At under $60 this alarm is worth a try. If it doesn't work right away, you can tuck it away and try again in 6 months to a year. It's not a huge investment for an effective product. 3)Durable & Easy to use- This alarm is very compact and pretty much indestructible. The clip is small and the attached battery pack can tuck into their pjs. It's not heavy or cumbersome. It takes very little time to unclip and change their clothes if they have an accident, which is ideal for the middle of the night.

For parents that are struggling with bed wetting, this isn't a dream solution, but it worked for us surprisingly well once my son's body was ready to cooperate. Here's a little of our story in hopes it may encourage another mom or dad. My son was potty trained during the day when he was 3, but continued wearing pull-ups at night. He never had a dry night. When he was almost 8, we decided to try a bed wetting alarm. We had heard success from others. We tried diligently for 10 weeks with very little improvement. My son would urinate 2-3 times every night and the alarm helped us have many 1 alarm nights and maybe 4-5 dry nights during those 10 weeks. It was exhausting for all of us. My son ended up pulling out the wires and destroying the $300 device after trying for 10 weeks. We had his annual physical shortly after trying the alarm and decided to put my son on medicine. He was getting yeast infections with the pull-ups and still wetting through to the bed. For over 2 years, we used the medicine and it worked great. No accidents. Unless we would forget to give him his pills.

I was skeptical trying an alarm again, thinking it would take a lot of time and may not be successful. I've been shocked at the results. My son and I slept in our guest bedroom with him on a blowup mattress. In 10 days, my son has had one accident. One benefit of sleeping in the same room with your child is you better understand their sleep pattern. My son goes to the bathroom before bed, but he needs to urinate again 2-3 hours after going to bed. His one accident was 1.5 hours after going to sleep. At first, he was getting up 2 additional times, but now it's down to one. So he's waking himself around 11pm and 4am every night. Like I said, I'm pretty shocked at how well this is working for us. We've moved back into our own rooms tonight and I'm going to keep using the alarm for another 2 weeks just to be on the safe side. I really think this is a great solution if your child's body is ready. Good luck!

My son wasn't a fan of the clip but overall the system works. I also purchased 2 waterproof mats to help with accidents. He hasn't had an accident in over a month. I highly recommend trying it out. Be patient it works.

This review is long over due, but I was afraid to jinx things. My 10 year old son has consistently wet the bed since he potty trained at 3.5 years, and I mean EVERY NIGHT. I accepted it because my brother and my husband's brother wet the bed as kids. My parents bought the alarm when my brother was probably around this age. It did nothing but wake the rest of the household up while my brother slept through it. He wet the bed until he was 12 and was able to take the prescription drug that was available. He took it until he was 16. We tried a lot of things for my son. No dairy in the evening, limited fluids at night, chiropractor, waking him up before we went to bed (most of the time he was already wet, or we would wake him, he'd go and then still be wet again sometime during the night). He wore a pull up every night, he would go through the pull up, through the pea pad mat on his bed and through the sheets and mattress protector. It was constant laundry for me but what was worse was that he was really starting to get embarrassed about it. I made an appointment with our family doctor to discuss it. I had heard there was a new Rx drug that they were giving to kids as young as five that didn't have the same side effects as the Rx drug that they typically make you wait until the child is 12 to prescribe. The doctor seemed receptive to the idea of trying the prescription but he said first he wanted to run a couple of blood tests to make sure that there wasn't an underlying issue. I got a call three days later from the nurse saying that all the blood tests were fine and that the doctor wanted us to try an alarm for 30 days and if that didn't help to contact him and we would discuss again. I was so frustrated. Not because I was in a rush to push some pills on my son, but because I wanted some relief for him. I knew from my brothers experience and the way my son slept that this alarm was NOT going to wake him up and retrain his behavior. I was 100% sure that I was just throwing money away. When the alarm came I explained it all to my son. He was not very receptive but I said we had to try it. He didn't like wearing it clipped to his waistband. He said it was uncomfortable. He happened to have one pair of pajama pants that had a pocket in them so he put it in the pocket instead. He said that was much more comfortable. I hopped on amazon the next day and ordered 6 pairs of pajama pants with pockets. I was shocked first time the alarm went off and I ran to his room to find he was awake and getting out of bed. This kid sleeps like the dead. In the past we would wake him up to go to the bathroom and he was an absolute zombie and wouldn't remember it the next day. That first night he got up, went to the bathroom, changed his underwear and went back to bed. The alarm didn't go off again that night. It was consistent that whole first week between 12:00-12:30. I figured we had at least pin pointed when the trigger was. After that it was all over the board. He was waking once a night, his underwear just barely damp, would go to the bathroom, change and back to bed. We had 2-3 nights in a six week span that he was actually wet and I know he was overly tired those nights. I will say that if your child sleeps hard like mine does you'll want to be close enough or be able to hear the alarm so you can get up to make sure they are awake and moving, also, my son needed help getting the receiver hooked to a new pair of underwear (it's kind of tricky). December 22nd was the last night the alarm went off. He's been dry ever since. I made him continue to wear the alarm through January and I left his pea pad mat on his bed until about 2 weeks ago just to be safe. This alarm worked for my son when I was certain it would not. I had no faith in this idea. It was worth every penny (and really it's a drop in the bucket when I consider what I have saved on pull ups and laundry). Try this! I wish I had done it years ago.

**Note: Be sure to share rinse the pee alarm sensor with water after it gets pee on it so it doesn't start to corrode.** Absolutely love alarm. We were hoping that our child would grow out of wetting the bed at night but after 5 years we decided to try something else. Trying to wake them up to go pee before we went to bed just resulted in everyone crying and their bed would still be wet in the morning. Within 2 weeks of using the alarm the bed wetting went from a nightly event to being far less frequent. It does take a full 12 weeks plus to be 99% accident free. We started in June and were dry at night by August. Our child did regress for a few days after starting school and then again in December after they got a cold and had night time cold medicine. After that happened they wore the alarm again for a few days and then it was all good again. The alarm travels wonderfully and there's a option for both plugging in the alarm or using batteries. The sensor is hooked to the child (that also uses batteries) and the alarm can be put across the room so they have to get up to turn it off. There's options for sound only, vibrate only, or sound and vibrate plus the ability to adjust volume and pitch/tone and up to 4 channels for multiple children. We practiced pretending to sleep and getting up to turn off the alarm which helped. Also allowing the child to put it on themselves gives them a sense of empowerment and there's less struggles to use the alarm. It comes with a sticker chart so there a visual for when they're wet, semi set, or a dry night. One suggestion is that after the alarm is clipped to the underwear (cotton is best. The nylon or silky underwear can cause false alarms), put on a pull-up over top the underwear and alarm so there's less of a mess to clean up. The pee sensor came with batteries and lasted longer than it took our child to learn how to start dry at night. The clip for the alarm can be a little tricky to put on (both the sensor clip that goes on the underwear and the one that clips the sensor to their clothes) so be sure to practice before it's bed time.

My son is 9.5. We've tried other alarms before with no success since my son HATED them. They were bulky, difficult to use, scared the life out of him with the alarm just inches from his ear, and had user error written all over it. He refused to try an alarm again for over a year so we were back to doing laundry every morning.

Until I showed him this one. He warmed up to the idea and so we started once school was out for the summer. And let me tell you... this. thing. WORKS. We're not completely dry... but in almost 3 weeks, we've had to wash bedding only TWICE. This is from a kid who was wet every single night, sometimes more than once per night. There are still some nights that the alarm goes off, but he is able to make it to the bathroom fast enough so no bedding gets soiled. Other nights he tells me he just got up and went to the bathroom whenever he found himself awake, and just today he told me he thinks he woke up before he started to wet. Hallelujah.

I agree with both reviewers here and the manufacturer recommendations: your child needs to be sleeping on the floor in your room (or you in theirs) for the first ~2 weeks. The first night the alarm went off, my son didn't even budge. The second night he woke up, but was so groggy and out of it that he still wet horribly since he had trouble stopping the flow of urine. By the 7th or 8th night, he was completely waking himself when the alarm went off. I can't imagine it working nearly as fast if I had to run down the hall to wake him.

The clip mechanism is very easy for my son to use with a little bit of practice, even in the middle of the night. Once on, it will not come off unless you manually release the clip. The clip on the transmitter that attaches to the underwear band isn't as strong, but we found it stuck better when attached to his shorts. My son said he doesn't find it uncomfortable, or at least it's WAY better than the system that attaches via a long wire to an alarm on his shirt or arm band.

The alarms themselves are good. There are 6 of them that vary between tolerable to horrible"¦ the way a good alarm should be to wake a child. There are 3 volume levels (I think), though there wasn't much variation between the levels. The alarms aren't deafeningly loud but truthfully, I think my initially being there as soon as the alarm went off was much more valuable in teaching him to wake up than the volume of the alarm itself.

To turn off the alarm, you just hit a button on the side of the receiver. (There's a small blinking red light that helps you find it in the dark.) The alarm does not continue to go off unless it senses wetness after a minute. This gives your child a little time to get to the bathroom, finish voiding in the toilet, and THEN take off the alarm to change underwear. This was a HUGE downfall to another alarm we used"¦ it would keep going off until the sensor was removed from the underwear which wasted valuable time when the child is supposed to go to the toilet ASAP.

We're still not 100% perfect, but never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd be this far in less than 3 weeks after 9.5 years of nightly wetting. My son is really proud of himself and even admits that using the alarm is far less work than changing bedding every night and doing laundry every day. We may need to use it longer than the summer we initially agreed upon to get fully dry every night, but this thing makes it so painless that I don't think he'll mind wearing it longer if needed. I'm SO happy I tried this product!

UPDATE: It has been 6.5 weeks since I wrote the above review and the alarm has gone off only once since then. Every other night my son has woken up before it has gone off. To say that this alarm has been a success is an understatement. School starts next week and we will officially retire this alarm and can say that we are now 100% dry. I couldn't be happier with this alarm and would highly recommend it, especially for the older child where nothing else has worked.