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New Product

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

I’m excited to tell you about a new product we just started stocking. It’s a colorful, kid-friendly mattress overlay. This washable, waterproof overlay lies on top of the sheets, making it easy to do morning or middle-of-the-night clean up. Up until now, we just carried the basic white waterproof overlay. The new product looks great! It is patterned- a sky blue color with clouds on it. It could work for either a boy’s or girl’s room and would make it a little less conspicuous for kids who need a little waterproof protection. Any other children (or adults) would not know this special colorful pad was anything other than a bright addition to the existing bedding.

This pad could be used for any situation that required a little waterproof protection. Providing a play pad for baby, a cover for the furniture or the seat in the car are a few ideas that come to my mind.

Good Nites and Rubber Pants

Friday, September 11th, 2009

RO writes to ask about her 6 year old son who wears a disposable diaper like Goodnites to bed every night. He wets so much that they leak so she has him wear rubber pants over the top. She wonders if the rubber pants and pull-ups are preventing him from getting to night time dryness.

I am frequently asked this question, especially by parents who have more than one child in Good nites or other disposable underwear. Keeping children dry and sheets clean can be frustrating for parents so using disposable pull ups and plastic pants can certainly help with this. Until a child and their family are ready to move to the next step, this can be a huge time saver. Wearing Good Nites and other waterproof protection is certainly important in situations where laundry facilities are not handy or sleepover/ camp situations where being discreet is of utmost importance. It’s a great advantage to have these products available.

If you begin to notice that your child is waking up with a dry pull-up more often, trying a challenge of a couple of weeks without protection is recommended. During this time, using a mattress overlay, which is a waterproof pad that lies on top of the sheet, is prudent. Overlays are a fabulous product for decreasing laundry load and keeping children comfortable. If wetting occurs, you simply remove the overlay, replace it with a clean one, and have your child go back to a dry bed.

When your family is ready to take the next step toward dryness, a great time to transition to cloth underwear is when you begin using a bedwetting alarm. The bedwetting alarm senses the moisture from the underwear, alerting parents and child that wetting is occurring. A bedwetting alarm is an effective tool to help your child’s body make a change in the way it responds to a full bladder. If your son persists in having nightly wetting with the pull ups over the next few months or year, he is a great candidate for using a bedwetting alarm to help him get to dryness.

Pager Alarms

Friday, August 28th, 2009

PLM writes that her 15 year old son is feeling hopeless about his nightly bedwetting. She bought him a vibrating pager alarm last year but he found it uncomfortable and refused to use it after the first couple weeks. It didn’t work for him because he must have taken it out of his underwear in his sleep. She reports that in the morning the pager bedwetting alarm would be on the floor and he was soaked. He also tried bedwetting medication and the maximum dose made no difference. He feels like he will be wetting forever. What can they do?

PLM, first of all, reassure your son that there are still effective options available. Because children and teens with bedwetting usually sleep very soundly through the bedwetting episode, it usually takes more than a discreet vibration to alert them that wetting is taking place. Parental assistance is important, even at this age. Pager alarms, which vibrate only, do not allow the parents to be alerted to provide the necessary assistance. The only way for a parent to know that the wetting is occurring is for them to hear a sound. Once you hear the sound, go to your son’s room and remind him what he should do next. Remind your son that he needs to get up and walk to the bathroom, especially if you notice he is trying to roll over and go back to sleep. Be persistent. Over time, his brain will make the association that he needs to respond to this sound and get up to go to the bathroom. He will become more independent and stop the flow of urine more quickly as time goes on. The average time it takes to get to dryness is 10-12 weeks so make sure he has realistic goals. Committing to using the alarm for this long is important to his success but the results are well worth the effort that it takes initially. I have personally seen hundreds of hopeless teens get to dryness using a bedwetting alarm that works well for them.

My alarm pick for this age group is the Rodger wireless, which sounds from a unit plugged into the wall. The user has to get out of bed and walk over to the wall to turn it off once it has sensed the moisture. Once he or she is out of bed, they should just head into the bathroom. The Malem wireless is another option. The receiver can be placed anywhere in the room since it is battery powered. It isn’t quite as loud as the Rodger alarm, however. The Selectable Malem Ultimate is a third option. This alarm provides sound and vibration both and allows the user to choose the ring tone that alerts them best.

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