Night nappy help please!

[FlingonTheValiant]

DS is 21 weeks and a serious wetter. He has boosted ME Sandy's for the day, but we've had to abandon fuzzi bunz and other pockets.

Nights are hopeless. He was in boosted fluffles, but they stopped being able to cope a couple of months ago. So he's been in Huggies super dry, but this past week they've been leaking too. In fact he peed through last night's in 7 hours.

Can anyone recommend some super night nappies please?

I also have a few tots bots organic colours, which I haven't used yet, but I'm not sure they're more absorbent, and I have two Ella's House hemp nappies which I haven't used because they seem so thin and hard.

At this point if I'm buying some I'd like them to fit him for quite a while, but he's only 14lbs 4oz, so that might be tricky.

Thanks very much!

Pampers disposables are the best most absorbant nappies. So I would advise that you give up on 'saving the planet' and convert to the only really effective nappies....for your own sanity and baby's comfort. I started out with reusables and the best intentions but with twins it was totally impractical.....

My friend, who had a very WET baby, used to use two Tesco value nappies on top of one another for her baby! She reckoned that was the 'biz'!

Erm, thanks, but I do actually find reusables just as effective during the day, and much more effective when he poos. I'm not doing it to 'save the planet', and DS is comfy, it's just that his PJs are damp.

We tried pampers, but he could pee through them, so we swapped to huggies, but they aren't holding up either.

Oh well - p'raps try the two at once thing! Or, did you know, you can still buy the very old fashioned plastic/rubber nappy covering short-type things that my mum used on us as kids.

candle I found even the pampers leak... saving the planet or not

Fling: some ideas from my thread earlier:
I'm waiting for some nappies now I also ordered some hemp liners which my sister recommended to get. (she's sending me a few too)

The other thing we tried with varying degrees of success is putting on two disposables, but poking holes n the one closest to the skin so it could leach more easily into the second (as we found the over one was not getting wet... but you must be sure to tuck all the bits of the under one in otherwise it just does not work.

I have some PUL wraps for him, but maybe I do need more heavy duty waterproofs, candle, thanks!

Bebe, thanks for linking the thread, I'll have a peek. Hemp liners is not a bad idea though!

With my DS4 who was also a heavy wetter I used to use a Sandy boosted with a prefold and a couple of microfibre cloths (from Tescos cleaning aisle!) covered by a wool or fleece wrap.. He looked like a little sum wrestler but it worked. Dampness is sometime condensation rather than actual leaking too.

What about trying an adult heavy duty incontinence type pad inside the nappy as a liner - they should hold a lot of liquid shouldn't they?

Yes, I was going to say look at wool or fleece covers as they let some of the moisture evaporate. Wool will absorb quite a bit if moisture without feeling wet too.

Also bamboo jersey boosters are fab.

Yup, I would second the Tesco Microfibre booster.

Also, you know about boosting a boy, um, strategically? It's mainly in front which makes a huge difference.

Don't give up 'saving the planet!'

I would definitely try wool - DS2 uses that or fleece) at night, over bamboo nappies. Tots Bots stretchies are birth to potty so would be adjustable enough to last until potty trained. I also add anther booster - either bamboo or hemp works very well.

DS2 also has a hemp nappy which can take a lot of wee before it gives in!

Have you thought of toddler size Terries and plastic pants? We used them with DS1 till he was nearly 7 and DD1 till she was nearly 5. Younger two (5 and 3) still have them at night and we rarely have wet beds - if we do it's normally my fault because I haven't tucked things in well enough. We do stuff them with an ordinary Terry nappy as they get older but it really does work. HTH

Ok, sounds good thanks! I'm looking at Night Notions as a possibility (he'd be about the right weight when they arrived, so he'd get a full size worth of use iyswim)

Can anyone please recommend a good place to look for wool covers? I tried fleece before and wasn't that impressed.

Ilovemydog - yes, I've been boosting strategically. It's one of the reasons I abandoned pockets, they were ridiculous at the front!

Off to sort out my booster collection!

Night Notions work well, Holden's Landing Bedbugs are much nicer (and more expensive), Baby Beehinds Bamboo nappies work well as do TotsBots Stretchy Bamboozles - I superboost mine with a P'Tits Dessous insert - nothing gets through that!

For wool, Twinkle sells Disana wool pants. They are well priced and much cuter than they look in the pictures. The high rise means they cover night nappies really well.

It is worth sizing up with them. My DS was in large from around six months and XL from about a year. XL is still a nice fit at two years old.

I can second Disana Wool pants - we have used them with DS2 for 2 years and they are really good. They look quite cute on so don't worry about them looking odd in the pictures! In summer we use them without needing PJ bottoms as they keep him nice and cool - and there has NEVER been a leak with them (unlike fleece which leaks occasionally).

They are also very economical on the old washing front too, as I think I have only washed his current pair twice and we have had them over 6 months but then they are used in rotation with fleece, maybe every 2 nights or so....

Are the Ella's house nappies bumhuggers or just the plain ones? I have found the bumhuggers to be very successful at night. You can put them in the tumble drier and that will soften them up a bit for you if you are finding them hard.
The bumhuggers are lovely as they are fleece lined and you can stuff more in the pocket and put a PUL wrap or fleece soaker or wool on top.
Ella's also make hemp boosters or hemp inserts that fit in nicely too.
They are a lot cheaper than most of the specialist night nappies.

Flingon Have you heard of luslious little somethings they do super duper heavy wetter night nappies, also baby bots do night nappies by Monkey Snuggles, Puddlekins also do bamboo/zorb prefolds which are supposed to be quite absorbant.

Thanks everyone.

I've ordered two night notions. But I think I'm going to try a couple of others - we don't have a tumble dryer, so I think I'll need more than two anyway, I'm assuming they'll take ages to dry!

I'm also going to grab a wool wrap - will one be enough?

Smac - they're just plain nappies, not bumhuggers, so I think they're probably not good enough for overnight anyway.

Thanks so much everyone!

I have one Disana wool wrap that I use all the time and a bunch of random lovely fleeces that I use when it is unavailable - Stacinators, Sugar Peas, and a pair of Pumpkin Pants (too low in the rise, really).

Also loads of wool longies but those tend to go on unlanolised in the day - fantastic in the crappy weather we've been having.

If you need to use a bumhugger overnight, boost inside but also boost outside the nappy. You can turn any nappy into a working night time option by boosting out the outside as well where too much on the inside would just make the legs gappy and leaky.

I am too shallow to do this except for in a dire emergency.

Ok, I'll just get the one, and supplement as needed with what I already have.

I'm a sucker for fluff, otherwise I'm sure DS would just have 3 Sandy's on.

Thanks!

We had the same problem, so use bamboo reusables in the day and one pampers baby dry at night. Never ever leaks, and huggies did when we tried those.

I figure one disposable a day is ok, if the rest of the nappies are "saving the planet" as it were.

I'm the opposite to you tigermummy, I don't mind using the odd disposable during the day when you are changing them frequently but the thought of those chemical-infused paper bandages next to my baby's bits all night long - ugh.

Having said that, DH took charge of DS2's night-time nappying when DS3 was born and promptly put him in Pull-ups. That was over two years ago now. I'm about to put him in SuperUndies at night, can't stand those horrible, horrible things any longer and he is showing zero signs of being dry at night. Ever.