Sewing a pocket of material into the underwear
1. If you do not wish to use any of the above methods,
then a pocket of material can be sewn into the
crotch of the underwear near where the urine will
first escape and the
Urosensor
™
can be inserted
into the pocket. The pocket must fit the
Urosensor
™
tightly to hold it in place and must be made of a
material that allows the urine to pass thought it onto
the
Urosensor
™
.
‘Priming’: preparing your child to use the alarm
To help your child use the alarm it is recommended you practise what to do when
the alarm triggers during the night. This is called ‘Priming’.
Priming is based on a strategy called Prospective Memory which is setting
something up in the brain that has to be remembered in the future. In order
to prime your child’s brain to wake to the sound of the alarm, it is a matter of
practising what she or he needs to do when the alarm sounds.
Before your child settles down to go to sleep have him or her lie in bed
pretending to be asleep. Plug in the
Urosensor
™
and trigger the alarm by putting
something metal across the
Urosensor
™
. Ask your child to get up, unplug the
alarm and go to the bathroom.
Practise this three or four times so that your child’s brain is more ready to
respond when she or he hears the alarm.
At the outset you may also need to get up when the alarm sounds in the night to
ensure your child follows this procedure. Also, depending on your child’s age,
you may need to assist him or her prepare the
Urosensor
™
for re-use.
We recommend that parents do this every night until the child is successfully
responding to the feeling of a full bladder and waking to go to the bathroom
before the alarm sounds. This may take a week or two, but in the end it will be
worth it.
