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!

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.

I have been waiting for nearly three months to post this review, so here goes! I ordered two alarms for my boys at the end of July 2015. My youngest boy was 4 and 10 months while my older boy was 6 and 9 months. They had been wearing pull ups for several years when I ordered the alarms with basically no dry evenings. I was so tired of buying and smelling pullups. We used the alarms on the sound AND vibration mode. A few things that I wish I would have known earlier in the process: Be prepared. 1. Get one of those plastic fitted bed covers that zipper and encase the bed. Put this on ahead of time and let it air out! They really stink. (Although my boys thought they smelled great!) 2. Get several sets of sheets. In the beginning, my boys were wetting through 3 sets of sheets a piece/a night! Make sure each night that the sheets are cleaned, dry, and ready for replacement. 3. Have several changes of “jammies.” Same as above, each night they have to be cleaned, dry, and ready for replacement. 4. Get lots of laundry detergent! 5. A roll of painters tape. (I’ll explain later) 6. Baby wipes. 7. Batteries (I changed each alarm twice over the past three months). Be consistent. Each night we tried to make sure that we had everything in order before they went to bed. We eliminated the bed time drink. We completely eliminated “pull ups” from the house. I am not sure who the last sentence was more difficult for, me or the kids as this was easier said than done. We didn’t do this in the beginning. I got lazy a few nights (out drinking) and had them use the pull ups. The next few nights I found that any progress we made was lost. I stopped this after a few times. I am a slow leaner ;-). My oldest kid is a deep sleeper. I found that the alarm woke him up and then he just unplugged the cord, turned off the alarm, and went back to sleep! So gross. Either way, to fix this, I bought a roll of painters tape and taped the alarm cord to the alarm. This way it was easier to remove than regular tape and wouldn’t damage the cord. This also gave me enough time to wake up and make sure he got out of bed. When accidents happen (and they will!), I wake up, run into the room, make sure that they wake up, turn off the alarm, and have them go to the bathroom to try to pee. After this lovely experience, I have them put their clothes in the tub, wipe off, get dressed, help me pull their sheets from the bed, and wipe off the bed. They put their sheets in the tub and HELP me redress their bed. They can’t make their bed themselves so I do a majority of it while they get their sheets and hold a corner or something. This can take a considerable amount of time for each accident and this is probably the most difficult part. Forget that, this IS the most difficult part! If it seems that the kid(s) are not waking up as fast as they were in the beginning, check the batteries. Make sure they stay fresh to keep the alarm loud and vibration strong. Be committed. Make sure you and your kid(s) are completely onboard with this idea. You have to have their “buy in.” Once you start this process, DO NOT GIVE UP! You may find yourself getting up 3 -4 times a night and losing sleep. You might think that there is no way that they can do it. It is going to get worse before it gets better. This sounds difficult but let me tell you, that glimmer of hope that flashes after about a month of this when they only “pee a little” feels incredible! Once they make a night without an “accident,” it is an awesome feeling for both you and your little buddy. Be encouraging. My kids loved the calendar gold star / silver star reward system. We did this every night. Once they start getting consistent, their calendar looked pretty sweet with all those gold stars! I am running out of gold stars! No actual rewards were given out other than the stars. They really enjoyed getting the stickers. We approached this at multiple angles. In addition to the stars, we are dangling a “big prize” when they make an entire month dry (Not 30 days, but an entire month, start to finish. Any accident resets the clock). We do not “punish” them for accidents. The big prize can be whatever you kid wishes / you can actually obtain. Make it realistic and follow though. This is a big deal! In my case, it took about 2 months for my oldest to start making it without any accidents. He is currently on a really good streak. He has been dry since mid-September. I actually thought my youngest was going to be dry first as he was on a streak first. He ended up having a few accidents in between streaks but is dry way more than wet. At this point, he has about one accident every three weeks. WAY better than before. One final note. A friend of ours is trying the alarm now and is using pull ups over underwear. It kinda sounds like a good idea. I am not sure how that is working out yet, but if it works, I will update my review with it. I didn’t do that, so not sure of the effectiveness. I think that them getting soaked, waking up, and going through everything really did it. I think the whole process is tied to classical conditioning (Pavlov’s Dogs). Thanks Wet Stop!

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.

I had my doubts but this worked! The first two weeks were incredibly frustrating, this alarm is loud and annoying for entire household and definitely for child using. My son was an incredibly deep sleeper which led to bed wetting and doc kept saying he would grow out of it but my gut said to give this a try. With this alarm he has been dry for 10 days and is not a deep sleeper so is able to sense his body cues and wake on his own! What a blessing! Definitely recommend and push past the initial weeks of adjusting to this, it does get better!

I happened upon this and was a little skeptical, but decided to give it a try if it would help my son......soon to turn 6 stop peeing the bed. To date, he had never had a dry night....not once!! I was a child who, unfortunately, had this issue until I was 8 1/2, and would have loved this opportunity for myself and figured if it worked, it would be awesome 1st for my son, as he has complained for a quite a while he just wanted to wear underwear to bed and has been made fun of by a few cousins his age, and 2nd, it would be night to finally be diaper free and not have to clean bedding so often. The 1st week was a little rough, as I was having to wake in the night 2-3 times a night while the alarm went off and I had to assist my son in cleaning up when he did pee. After about 2 nights though, he would barely pee and stop peeing once the alarm went off....get out of bed and finish in the bathroom. From that night on, his underwear were barely wet when the alarm went off. But by night 10, he had his 1st DRY NIGHT EVER! He went to bed at 7:30pm and woke himself at 6:10 and went straight to the bathroom and the alarm never went off. Last night, again.....no alarm. He woke around 1:00am himself and went to the bathroom and woke after 8:00 dry again. 2nd night in a row! I am absolutely amazed how fast and well this is working! Definitely worth the buy and my son is just elated!!! Update: We have successfully completed 5 dry nights and are heading into night 6 and believe we will get that Gold Star again! I was honestly a skeptic, but thought I would give it a try and see it through at least 3 months. Out of the 5 dry nights, 3 of them my son has held it the whole night and woke himself in the morning to head to the bathroom. 2 of the nights, I heard him get out of bed (without the alarm) and go to the bathroom. I got up to check on him and verified. So he is both holding his bladder all night and also waking as well. He will turn 6 in October and prior to this device he had NEVER had a dry night! I am truly sold that this works! 2nd Update: We have now finished 11 nights in a row dry. Since night 10, all 11 nights in a row after have been dry! So very pleased with this product, as prior to this I still had never had one dry night with my son. My son is elated! 11 Gold stars on his calendar this morning. 3RD & LAST UPDATE: My son has now had 25 nights dry in a row and hasn't wore the alarm for about a week and he is still either holding it all night or waking to go to the bathroom. We are now done with diapers or TruFit underwear and he is wearing his regular underwear all the time now to bed! I can't begin to express my gratitude for this product.....otherwise, I do not know how long it would have taken to have one dry night!! 11/21/18: This has been so effective, I thought I would give one more update. My son still does not pee the bed any longer after months. Night 9 with this device was the very last time we had to wake for pee, and I have since gotten rid of ALL diaper related items! If you are considering trying this device.....IT IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY!!!!!! 7/20/19: This will be my last update! In case you were wondering, never a wet night again after night 9! I honestly wasn’t sure it would work when I ordered it and I was proven wrong and GRATEFUL for it and so is my soon to be 7 year old who has been dry for over a year now!

I thought this was such a great deal, only $50 as opposed to so many of the other similar alarms being about a hundred bucks or more. Plus the kit includes a little paper chart and some silver and gold stickers to help track the kid's progress, as well as the Bedwetting Book on CD in PDF format. Great if you have plenty of time to stare at your computer and read it... But for all the bells and whistles, the big problem is the alarm just didn't work the way it was supposed to. Right out of the box we had trouble with it and never ended up actually using it because I couldn't trust it to work. I tested it in a cup of warm water so she could see what it would be like when it went off, and after three measly beeps and one vibrate it quit. I knew off the bat that this was not going to wake her up as she is a pretty heavy sleeper, I doubt it would even wake me up. So I never used it on her because I didn't want to add the the feeling of failure/shame if she wet at night and didn't even wake up with the alarm. I fiddled with it myself while she was at school and found that I still could not get it to work right. As others have mentioned on here, there seems to be a faulty battery connection in the device. I put fresh batteries in and tested it with the battery cover off first. I found that if the red light flashed three times and stopped, then I could be reasonably sure the alarm would sound and continue to sound until reset. But a lot of the time the light would only flash once, or would just keep flickering randomly as if it were connecting and disconnecting rapidly and when this was the case the alarm would not sound. With the cover off I could then fiddle the batteries a little bit until I got the three clear flashes and then it would work that time. BUT! With the battery cover on, it was a lot harder to tell if was going to work or not. Sometimes it sounded, sometimes it didn't. Sometimes it flashed, sometimes it didn't. And when the cover is on I couldn't fiddle the batteries to make sure they were connecting. At this point I got fed up with the whole thing and stuck it back in the box to return it. But I am betting that even if you manage to fiddle the batteries into a connection so that it flashes that red light three times, and then put the cover on (which they SAY is supposed to hold the batteries "securely in place"...) then clip the device to the child and expect it to wake him/her up or a nearby parent, you have about a 50/50 chance that it will not go off at all, or will stop going off after two seconds because the vibration part of the alarm wiggles the battery connection back out. UGH! If you really want to get a bedwetting alarm, don't waste your money on this one. Go the whole nine yards and get a good one. As for me, I just waited it out and stuck with the "no water at bedtime and go potty right before bed" method, and she actually seems to be getting past the bedwetting on her own. So go figure :)