About Havena
Havena is built around one problem, for one family.
She's a mom, and her son is somewhere between six and ten. He sleeps so deeply that thunder, the dog and her own voice don't reach him. Every night he goes to bed in a pull-up, and a lot of mornings there are still sheets to change. She has tried cutting off drinks after dinner. She has tried waking him before she goes to bed. She has tried charts, and pills. The doctor said he would grow out of it. Maybe he will. In the meantime he says no to the sleepover, and she's the one who has to come up with the excuse.
We started by listening
Before we sold anything, we read. More than 1,800 reviews of bedwetting alarms, plus forum threads and comments from parents describing exactly this, in their own words, not in the language of product pages.
Three things came up again and again.
The first was that she has already tried almost everything. Less water in the evening, a midnight wake-up, pull-ups, medication, stickers, "just wait." Most of it is about getting the family through the night. Not much of it teaches him anything.
The second was that she doesn't believe an alarm will work on her child. "He'll sleep right through it." She's right. A deep sleeper won't wake to an alarm at first, and plenty of parents who gave up wrote exactly that. What most of them were never told is how it is meant to go. For the first week or two the alarm is not there to wake him. It wakes you.
The third was that she isn't asking for much, and she isn't asking for it overnight. She wants him to go to a sleepover without a plan B. She wants to stop changing a bed at 2 a.m. And she wants someone to tell her honestly how long this takes.
What we decided not to promise
A lot of products in this category promise dry nights in a week, or a fix that lasts forever. We're not making that promise, because it isn't how this works.
DryRise is a dry nights program built around a small wireless sensor. The sensor clips onto his underwear and works with pull-ups. At the first drops, the alarm unit sounds and vibrates. In the first week or two he will sleep through it, and it wakes you. You take him to the bathroom. That's stage one. Over the following weeks his brain starts to link the signal with waking up, and from about week two or three he begins to wake on his own. That's stage two.
First dry nights usually show up in weeks two to four. A full course can take up to twelve weeks, and the finish line is fourteen dry nights in a row. DryRise does not work for every child. If by week four you see no sign of progress (a smaller wet spot, the signal coming later, him waking faster), stop and talk to your pediatrician. You will still be well inside your 60 days.
DryRise comes with the Dry Nights Guide: the first 14 nights step by step, what to say to him and what not to say, sleepovers and camp while he is still learning, and a sun chart he colors in himself. He colors a sun for what he does (gets up, walks to the bathroom, clips the sensor back on), not for a dry night, so he is never graded on something he can't control. We also send short emails on nights 1, 3, 7, 14 and 21.
What you won't find here
No invented experts. No stock before-and-afters. No made-up reviews. Every review on this site comes from a real order, and we keep the three- and four-star ones too. If DryRise isn't for you, you have 60 days from delivery to send it back. That is long enough for the whole 14-night plan and the check at week four.
Talk to us
We're a small operation, which means the person reading your email is close to the work. If something arrives damaged, if you can't work out where the alarm unit should sit, if a night went sideways and you're not sure what to change, or if you simply want to send it back, write to us at havenastore.help@gmail.com and put your order number in the subject line.
We answer within one to two business days, Monday to Friday.