Musical Diapers for Toilet Training?
June 7, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Children, Cute Rx
Having trouble toilet training the toddler?
Then check out this interesting idea – a musical diaper that triggers a ‘wetting alarm’.
Seriously.
In a study recently published in Neurology and Urodynamics, the participants (young healthy children between 18 and 30 months) in a daycare center were observed for the effectiveness of wearing a diaper with an ‘alarm’ system. Some wore the actual diapers with the actual wetting alarm and others wore diapers with a placebo alarm.
The results – those wearing the ‘wetting alarm’ diapers achieved independent bladder control almost 60% of the time as compared to the placebo alarm group that achieved independent bladder control only 8.3% of the time.
Makes sense really. The ‘wetting alarm’ training method offers both the child and the caregiver immediate information of any leakage which allows the caretaker to take the child to the bathroom at that particular moment. This offers the child awareness of bladder behavoir and more quickly helps the child make a connection between feeling the need to urinate and the need to get to the toilet.
Will this make the musical diaper the next big thing on the supermarket shelf?
