Leaking nappies disturbing sleep.

[Writerwannabe83]

I'm just after some advice if anyone else has suffered from this problem.

I have a 6.5 month old DS and at least 3-4 times a week he's waking up soaked in urine. I have tried using the next sized nappy up but it makes no difference.

I'm up with him now because he woke up as his vest, baby-gro and 2.5tog sleep suit were saturated with urine.

The usual nightly pattern is as follows:

His nappy is put on for bedtime at 7pm and then DS is fed. He is usually asleep for 7.30-8pm. He then usually wakes between 1-2am for a feed. I check his nappy at this point and it is usually slightly damp but certainly not wet as in needing to be changed.

On some occasions I have changed him anyway, even though he really doesn't need it, in order to put a bone dry nappy on him but it leads to a hysterical meltdown in the early hours of the morning and then it takes me ages to get him back to sleep.

After his 1-2am feed he then usually wakes up 3 hours later and is soaked through

He sleeps on his front, I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Even when I don't change his damp nappy there's know way that such a small amount of urine already present in the nappy is the reason for such a huge soaking a few hours down the line.

I just don't know what to do to address the problem. I'm sure DS's sleep would be much better if I could prevent this from happening.

I wouldn't go a size up - have you tried a different brand? DS was always fine in pampers, but huggies and tesco own brand would leak. He sleeps on his front too. Where is the leakage coming from, front, sides or back?

I can't tell where the leak comes from exactly because the entire nappy (before I take it off) is bulging and the front of it is rock hard because there's so much urine in it. I can't even describe how heavy the nappy is when I take it off, it's insane!!

What a nightmare.

My 8 month old tummy-sleeper leaked every night, too. We upped (Pampers) nappy size and it's not happened since.

Is your LO drinking too much water? Can you get some bed-wetting pads? I think Boots do them.

My DS was like this for a few months at that age. What I found worked were cloth night time inserts in a disposable nappy. The ones I used were the bamboo close parent boosters. There are lots of different ones on the market and you can buy them from ebay.

I found Bambo to be the best by far. You can buy them on Amazon. They dont bulge at all really abdicate a much better fit.

Pampers baby dry they won't leak on you provided you change within the 12 hours.

Pampers baby dry leak for me badly even though they claim 12 hours

Pampers baby dry + in a size up worked for us.

We had the same problem and have just bought about a year's supply of pampers baby dry (on offer!)
Luckily, first night in them last night, it worked! He stayed asleep (9mo) from 1-7 and woke up smiling.

Not sure what nappies you using....

Only ever used Pampers Baby dry and literally never had a night leak.

Definitely try a different brand (maybe borrow a few different types from friends to try out before investing?)

My kids were fine in pampers or Tescos own but Huggies or Sainburys were a disaster.

Thank you everyone for your advice.

We use ASDA's own brand and have since he was born and never had a problem. He's currently in size 3.

The size 4's we tried were just ones my friend leant me to try - they are another shop's own brand but I didn't even think to ask which store they are from.

Maybe I should try a size 4 in the brand I use?

I naively thought there wouldn't be any differences between brands and that sizes and the quality of the nappies were the same across the board.

Think there's a massive difference in quality to be honest....

Good luck and hoping you have a dry nite!!

DD is 14 now, but I always found Pampers to be the best nappy for her. It is false economy to buy cheap ones if they don't work for you. Why not use the Pampers just at night and keep supermarket own brand for daytime.

Which asda nappies do you use? We always used the baby dry/comfort dry rather than active fit version and never had a leak, same with Tescos nappies which we are using at the moment. Even in the daytime find them much better.

I started on a thread about this problem just the other day. I've found a solution. I stick another absorbant pad eg tena pad in the nappy to double up the absorbtion. It's worked a treat.

We happily used Asda nappies - in the day. But they leaked at night. So went to Pampers dry ones for night use only. Made a huge difference. Also, I hoick the nappy round to the front, and put knickers over the top (my DD is now 2!) to hold the maximum amount nappy at the front. She's a tummy sleeper too.

We have suddenly had this issue on DC3.

Premium brand nappies are very expensive. I'd think about trying bamboo washable inserts and nappy wrap (Little lamb are good for both). We've found a fully washable nappy (we use washables in the day anyway, but always had disposables at night previously) the easiest solution, but I think this would have worked too. We are going on holiday shortly and this is what we'll be doing.

Have you considered altering his night schedule? Feed him at say 7pm, then give bath and into pjs at 7.30pm. That way he has time to pee in bath/ in old nappy before new bedtime nappy.

I would also look at a bamboo washable nappy. If just used at night you would only need to buy a couple ( enough to wear/ wash/ dry etc)

I would also try and either stop, or reduce his night feed. At the same time increase his liquid intake in day ( milk feeds and water). A bladder regardless of age adapts to hold more liquid the more it receives. So if his bladder capacity increases from what he drinks in the day, he won't have to empty it as often in night

A lot of people use different nappies in night time to daytime.

I found pampers baby dry worked best. I bought them cheaper than tesco or sainsburys own brand, because I got them from amazon 'subscribe and save' which gives 20% off the already reduced price, making them about 10p each.

I used asda nappies until size 3 then they started leaking as well.
Switched to aldi nappies and they were fine, now on size 5s at 14 months.
I have used cloth nappies but even with 2 boosters in,ds is soaking after an hour and a half always out one leg no matter what I do. So gave up and use aldi ones.
I did a free trail with the pampers and they leaked.
Was given a packet of morrisons ones and they seem to be pretty good.
I would change brand and see. Also possibly size up on the vest as I found a tight vest caused more leaking.

Thank you so much for all these tips!!

My son is breast fed and actually feeds quite a lot during the day. He always has massive wees, most times that we change his nappy (3-4 hrly) they are bulging and very heavy.

We are going to ASDA tomorrow so I will pick up some pampers for overnight and some Tenna Lady

It's just such a pain because changing his nappy during the night is so disruptive for him, he gets upset and cries, makes him super awake, but I know that I have to do it

princessaternelon - what do you mean when you say you hoik the nappy so the maximum capacity is at the front?

My ds and nephew are both almost 2 but struggle with very very full nappies at night time

My sister investigated using 2 nappies at night time and cut a hole in the front of the first nappy so that the wee would soak into the 2nd one
We just cut the paper/material cover bit off and cover with another nappy
Guess it works in a similar way to people using other absorption things

Could try a waterproof wrap meant for washable nappies over the top of a disposable.
We have never had a problem with disposables leaking at night. We were using cloth at night (we do during the day) but she was waking up because she felt wet with a cloth nappy. Might try again now she has cut down her milk feeds (just turned 1)