size 6 nappies are too small for 12 month old

[SuperAmoo]

Feeling really really down. My DD2 is 2 stone 3 lbs and only 12 months old. She is really fat and she no longer fits into size 6 nappies. Where do i get bigger nappies???

My DS 12 months and is 2 stone and fits into Pampers Active Fit Size 4 no problem. They are rated up to 40lbs or something, don't have the pack in front of me at the moment.

Have you looked at washables? They are available in bigger sizes and would likely work out cheaper than disposables,

like these?

And is DD in good health? She does sound quite big for her age, my DD is 3.2 and a couple of kilos less?

Is your daughter in proportion, SuperAmoo? By which I mean is she as tall as she's heavy?

If not, and she is genuinely "really fat", I'd speak with your HV and/GP to try and get help with the issue. The HV may also have an idea about larger nappies, since she will have experience of older SN children using big sizes.

I hope I haven't spoken out of turn. Good luck.

I'm going to measure her when she wakes up - she looks pretty tall to me - she was 54cm when she was born at 37.5 weeks which was off the graph. The problem is she isn't crawling or walking or standning - probably due to her weight - she spends most of the day sitting, shuffling around on her bum - the bigger nappies are designed for babies that are standing I think. Her stomach is huge - I can do up the nappy when she's lying down but when she sits up it busts open . Similarly her legs are too big for the holes. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I may post separately about her weight.... I'll look into disposbles - I imagine it would still be worth it at 12 months old.

My 7mo DS is 2 stone and in size 5, they're pretty snug though - am also starting to worry about what happens after size 6. Everyone told me his weight gain would slow after about 5 months but he put a pound on this week
Im going to look into reusables I think. Failing that, an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for youngest potty trained child .

We can't be the only ones with this problem FionaSH surely! Maybe we should go into business making nappies for pudding babies! I too have been told weight gain will slow but my arms say it hasn't. I just weighed her and actually she weighs 2 stone and half a pound and is 78/79cm long (hard to measure) so that means she is on the 98th percentile for length and just above the 99.6th percentile for weight. Is this more or less in proportion?

Well I think so, perfect proportion DS is on about the 120th centile for weight [gulp] and 105 for height. He was recently seen by a paediatrician who said he was perfect - just big all over, height and weight. It would be a worry if he was 50th centile for height, plus he's breastfed and they say you can't overfeed a breastfed baby (!!!)
There definitely needs to be a range for the bigger baby!!!

On the plus side, I've no bingo wings I do have backache tho...

Yes my DD2 is breastfed too - my health visitor said that she is the exception to the rule that 'you can't overfeed a breastfed baby' - which I found really cruel and confusing because one minute they're saying 'breast is best' and 'a baby knows how much they need' and the next minute they're suggesting that I'm forcing my boob on my baby and making her fat. Which I'm not - she just asks for it all the time. She also has great great difficulty falling asleep and comfort-nurses in the evening.

Yeah I was told that, and felt similar confusion... I decided to ignore them

I'm a little as to why size 6's won't fit on your baby.

My DS3 (just turned 3), weighs over 15kg (cant' remember exact figures) and is about 1 metre tall, and he still comfortably into the size 6's

Pampers size 6 is for babies over 16kg.
At 2stone 3lbs, your baby is only 14kg, so in theory she should fit in size 6.
In fact, she should still fit in size 4 (for 7-18kg) or size 5 (for 11-25kg).

Perhaps if you could give us more information about why/how the nappies are too small, we might be able to suggest alternative styles or brands to tackle that particular issue.

Well for my DS, technically he should be in size 4, but he has thunder thighs so even the 5's are now cutting in. I guess it's like me being a 10 on top but and 14 bottom half!!

My DD is exactly the same weight as yours (she's 2.4) and fits perfectly into pampers size 5s.......what brand nappies are you using? can't see why they wouldn't fit.......

My dd was the same weight at the same age. Luckily as big nappies were getting too small she became more and more active and slimmed down. She was tall then and tall now but not being mobile was very chubby, had rolls on rolls. She's 3 now and slim and strong. Still top of the centiles but like a whippet.

I do find it a bit odd that the nappies don't fit at all though.

have you tried cranial osteopathy to see if there's a reason why she needs to suckle so much?

Would pull ups be any better? They have a lot of stretch.

My eldest was also bf until 9 months and was off the top of the page by her first birthday. She is now a very tall (head and shoulders bigger than her friends) slim 6 year old. She sounds similar to your little ones in that she has always been "heavy" on the graphs, but also very tall. She wears age 9 clothes at the moment. I am expecting her to keep me in middle age when Storm spot her!

Actually that's a good point. DD was in pull ups as soon as she could walk and then potty trained at 17 months. Have you tried pull ups?

Seconding some of the other posters - pull-ups may just work. I think it's the Pampers ones that have tearable sides, so there would be no velcro fastening to pop open. I think they are also that bit stretchier to allow for more movement, so that might help too.

Why don't Huggies, Pampers etc produce nappy extenders? They would be papery strips with that velcro stuff, so you could extend the waistband of the nappy to fit. Or maybe someone could design reusable extenders to fit onto disposable nappies. A bit like bra extenders, or those things that fit on to your flies when you're pregnant.

I bet they'd be helpful for some children with SN too, rather than having to use expensive specialist nappies, although obviously the absorbancy of standard nappies wouldn't be sufficient for much older children. We're already struggling with leakage issues at night with a 2 year old in size 6!

It may be the brand rather than the size tbh.

I am a bit that your 12 month old is 2 stone 3 already. DS2 is only a stone or so heavier and he is 5.

Tesco's own size 6 pull ups fit my 7 year old.

Must add my 7 year old is 25 kg, so not a skimpy featherweight.

colditz - I've had my 9yr old wearing a size 5 Morrisons own pull-up (they don't do a size 6 own brand for some reason)

I don't think there's any need to be that a 12 month old weighs 2st3, especially when the OP has said they are worrying. Its just going to make OP feel worse.
There's nothing wrong with having a big, bouncing baby!! OP should be proud!