I never remember having this problem with my daughter, but every morning I get my son out of bed he is SOAKED! I mean head to toe soaking wet! His diaper (mostly use Pampers) does not have a chance of containing the amount of pee that comes from this kid! I have been giving him his bottle/liquids earlier so I can change his diaper "one more time" before I put him to bed, but I swear he saves it all up for when he is sleeping! Any tricks of the trade to keep this kid dry at night? He does typically sleep for 12 hours straight... and NO, I am not going to wake him in the middle of the night to change him. We are a family of SLEEPERS... so I would like to keep it that way :-) Is there a "magic" diaper I'm not aware of? I do have some cloth diapering stuff as well as the Flip covers, but not sure if that is going to help or is any better in terms of wetness control? Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Thank you all very much for taking your time to respond to my question! I'm so glad this is a "common" problem as well. While I was out yesterday, I stopped at BRU and got the pads many of you referred to and tried it out yesterday... He had a full diaper, but did not leak at all! YEAH! This morning was so much nicer to not have to strip sheets, bathe son, then eat breakfast before shuffling off my daughter to school! THANK YOU!!
Both of my boys were soakers, we had really good luck with Huggies Night Diapers, no more leaks! I was getting tired of having to always change their bedding, night diapers fixed that problem. We have tried the Pampers overnight diapers and find that they don't work as well. Also, going up a size can help. Good luck!
Huggies Overnights worked well for my son! No more soaked jammies or sheets!
Go up a size of diaper at night if you can, and insert a sanitary pad (like stayfree super long). My son has the same problem and this really works!
he is 2 now and in size 6's, so we can't go up a size anymore, but the pads really help!
When my daughter started doing this it was before the time of overnights and stuff. I put an overnight sanitary pad inside her diaper.
With my grandson we put the largest diaper available on him that was for overnights. That did the trick on him.
I would also say perhaps putting his normal diaper on the adding a much larger one over it might work too.
But I really had minimal issues once we put the larger overnight diaper on the kiddo's.
I had to use overnight diapers with my boys. That was the only think at that age that would keep them from soaking through. Sometimes they still did but not as much. And if he is sleeping 12 hours you need something like that. If he soaks though that you might use those and then put a cloth diaper over it and the cover thing. The only other option you already said you didn't want to do which I don't blame you one bit. I would not wake my child up to change him either.
Good luck and God Bless!
What worked for us was a night-time diaper and a diaper doubler. We get the doublers from Babies R Us. Good luck!
Look for a night time diaper...I think we used a Huggies brand. My son did this too....it was like he peed a river every night. Once I found the special night time diapers it was solved...until someone forgot to put one on him before bed.
My son does this also, it started around 7 months (he is 14 months now). He did still take one bottle at night and I would try to change him, but if I messed to much with him he would wake up fully and be awake for hours. I would normally give him his 4 oz bottle and let him hold it, he wouldnt finish it all. By morning he would be wringing wet. Bath every morning, full change BLECK. I was using pampers as well, I even went up in size and tried all there varieties, none worked for the night. The day they were great. The only thing I found was 2 sizes up, Luvs. If you son can tolerate the paperyness, they are great for absorption. Also the Huggies over nights work pretty well if they fit. In my area I can only find them in size 5. So far for price and protection Luvs truly works, but some more sensitive kids cant handle them. He still wakes up wet on occasions but not soaked.. usually now its just his jammies around the leg and waist.
Try a bigger diaper for nighttime. We went to Pampers Baby Dry and have not had an issue since. She might have a full load, but not seeping out.
Definitely try to find diaper doublers. My son couldn't get through the night without them, even though I put him in super absorbency night time diapers.
Diaper doublers can be hard to find. I think they may actually be made for adult incontinence, so do some online searches for those types of products. I recommend a product without adhesive b/c you want the wetness that is not absorbed by the doubler to go through it and into the diaper.
I used to have to order mine online and I think the package had like 90 in them...I split it with my SIL whose daughter had the same problem!
check in the diaper section there is a thing called a diaper doubler. you put it in the middle of the diaper. (looks like a big old fashioned sanitary pad lol) it just gives a lot more absorbency. we used them for all of our kids. good luck
I would go up a size at night. I.e. my kids always wore a 3 at 1 year old, and at night they would wear a 4. Also, at that size there are overnight diapers that even more absorbent (huggies and fisher price would be my recommendations).
Disposables were fairly new and expensive when my daughter was little. We used two cloth diapers and a creation called a diaper doubler. When we couldn't find those I used a maternity or extra long pad. Those worked wonders.
