I was carrying him (no easy feat, he weighs 65 pounds
My son is a 10.5 year old boy with Down’s Syndrome. My son has been daytime toilet trained for years already. We just finished 10 weeks of this program, and my son has been dry the last 8 weeks of it. He has been sleeping in underwear for a year before purchasing this program. Before starting this program, I was carrying him (no easy feat, he weighs 65 pounds!) to the bathroom at least 4 times a night and he would make in the toilet in his sleep. He had no recollection of being taken to the bathroom, even if I held his hand and “walked” him to the bathroom while talking to him. If I missed taking him to the bathroom one of the many times a night he would make in his bed. But he didn’t want to wear a pull up as he felt like a baby.
What led me to buy this program? During the last month leading up to this purchase he wet the bed multiple times a night for a month straight! This was a drastic decline. I began searching the Internet for a program and method out there that did not give medication and worked on waking up a very deep sleeper to cognitively make the connection during sleep between feeling the need to make and keeping the bed dry.
My son just felt big doing this program. If I connected the wire into the machine he would pull it out and do it himself. I think he felt happy that he was doing something concrete to help himself succeed. He loved the charts and couldn’t wait for a gold star to finally appear as one of the options to choose. He also wanted the man to talk to him every day, so I would replay a past session if needed. His look of success when the man in the video wished him “congratulations” was beautiful. Part of this program was also to train myself and my husband not to ask him if he needs to make if he wakes up in middle of the night. He currently doesn’t wake up to make at all during the nighttime. He makes before he goes to sleep and then when he wakes up in the morning to start his day.
I feel very lucky that G-d led us to this program, and it worked after the first 2 weeks!
Thank you Dr. Sagie.